Ordering from FK Automotive?
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Sorry they are millenniums. gloss black with mirror cut lip and I went with 18's so that I wouth have a little more rubber to screw around with on the road. had 19" lorinsers for a while and thought those wrapped with dunlops totally blew, very dissapointed with the set up.
Here is a direct link to my wheels ( they are very affordable )
http://www.mandruswheels.com/millennium.html#
Here is a direct link to my wheels ( they are very affordable )
http://www.mandruswheels.com/millennium.html#
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Probably not the same product buddy. But even if they were I would still pay double the price for half the BS in the long run, any day. Along with great prices comes little positive resolve for the customer if something may happen that is not to his or her liking.
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Bro! I really like those wheels! I NEED to see them on your car!
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Alright man, I'll go run her through the car wash in a couple hours and take some pics to post for you tonight. I'm wondering if I should buy the wheel spacers to kick them out a bit so they are more noticable.
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Damn those look good bro. That flat emblem looks pretty sick, definately more sporty than the stand up one t'm running around with. I started an album so you can take a look at the wheels. let me know if you still like them
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no those were already on but the right tail has a problem so I'm axing them both. Just got the headlights with bulbs pre installed delivered today! Damn fast if you ask me. Now it's just the new tails and side markers to be delivered.
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NICE! Can't wait to see them all installed! Whats wrong with the old right tail light? Something fixable? I'll be willing to take em....
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Not sure but I've already pawned them off to a local guy here. Sorry bro
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Guys, do not buy the JDM headlights that I talked about earlier in the thread unless you're willing to go through hell to modify them to accept HID bulbs. I bought them under the impression that they were for HID's, this isn't the case. They are halogen! So now I'm paying the mercedes techs to modify the housing to accept the new HID bulbs, cost of install will now be about $320 - $640. I wasn't expecting that much but oh well, I guess the old E55 deserves the best. Oh yeah, ordered 10000K bulbs and they shipped 12000K bulbs Car should be done tommorrow so I'll post the pics then.
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Guys, do not buy the JDM headlights that I talked about earlier in the thread unless you're willing to go through hell to modify them to accept HID bulbs. I bought them under the impression that they were for HID's, this isn't the case. They are halogen! So now I'm paying the mercedes techs to modify the housing to accept the new HID bulbs, cost of install will now be about $320 - $640. I wasn't expecting that much but oh well, I guess the old E55 deserves the best. Oh yeah, ordered 10000K bulbs and they shipped 12000K bulbs Car should be done tommorrow so I'll post the pics then.
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The jdm housing uses halogen bulbs(9007). I was under the impression that those housed HID such as the D2R's like my headlights that came stock on my car, I was wrong. I have no idea why they would even make a headlight that steps down from HID to halogen but they do. But no worries because I'm paying mercedes to modify the housing to accept the HID bulbs that I ordered along with the headlights. I'll post some pics asap
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The jdm housing uses halogen bulbs(9007). I was under the impression that those housed HID such as the D2R's like my headlights that came stock on my car, I was wrong. I have no idea why they would even make a headlight that steps down from HID to halogen but they do. But no worries because I'm paying mercedes to modify the housing to accept the HID bulbs that I ordered along with the headlights. I'll post some pics asap
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The jdm housing uses halogen bulbs(9007). I was under the impression that those housed HID such as the D2R's like my headlights that came stock on my car, I was wrong. I have no idea why they would even make a headlight that steps down from HID to halogen but they do. But no worries because I'm paying mercedes to modify the housing to accept the HID bulbs that I ordered along with the headlights. I'll post some pics asap
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I bought the stuff from woodview.com and they didn't offer them pre-installed. I just figured they were HID considering that it comes stock on my car ha ha. oh well, what's another couple hundred bucks to make her look alot better.
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This was you're mistake, no aftermarket housings come in D2R/D2S like the OEM, I got the ebay DEPOs, and they use H7 housing and I just got a H7 HID kit, you don't need to modify anything if you havn't started yet, you can just get a 9007 HID kit, (its the same HID but the bulb is in size 9007 so it fits) its not a step down like you think it is. And wait a second, what do you mean you ordered bulbs? do you have the HID ballasts to power those bulbs? lol you can't just plug in HID bulbs into the power socket and expect them to work.
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So you are just reusing your stock ballasts? these aftermarket headlights don't have space to mount the ballasts on the inside of the housing anyway.. (like the oem ones are). It's really easy to hookup a HID kit if it's the proper size bulbs matching to the housing, took me like 10 minutes to do both sides. Trial and error i guess
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So you are just reusing your stock ballasts? these aftermarket headlights don't have space to mount the ballasts on the inside of the housing anyway.. (like the oem ones are). It's really easy to hookup a HID kit if it's the proper size bulbs matching to the housing, took me like 10 minutes to do both sides. Trial and error i guess