Headlight Upgrade

[dave45056]

I am going to buy a set of headlights this year. I am also going to buy them from DDM Tuning. I am leaning towards Depos with Angel eyes installed, too. My question is... what kind to get. There are 4 options:
MyCarr CCFL
MyCarr 30 LED
DDE Plus/Thinlines
DDE Ultra HD

Sounds like LOTS of people here have bought from DDM and I want to get an idea of what these all look like. Sure I have seen some of them on other threads, but not all of them. So if you have bough some, post a picture.

Also I've heard about cold problems and reliability problems but I want to hear about your personal experiences, not hearsay.

[Ken]

The cold weather issues are mainly a problem with the CCFL halos, meaning the MyCarr CCFL, DDE Plus/Thinlines will all suffer from the same issues. they take awhile to start up and get to full brightness, and it takes longer in cold weather.

The LED ones are much more reliable, but they're thicker than the thinline ones.

The 30 LED ones you're able to actually see the individual LED's around the ring, so it's not one solid ring of light.

If I was going to get them I'd go with the 60+ LED ones, I think DDM calls them the "Ultra HD" .. no cold weather issues, no inverters going bad, and they look pretty similar to the CCFL ones.

[spidertri]

DDM announced that they are replacing the 60 LED ones with 82 LED ones in another month or so, just FYI.

http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum....php?t=1114745

In my personal opinion, the angel eyes on the E36 don't look right, yet. Don't get me wrong, I love angel eyes but I want circles of light against a black background. Currently it seems that all the angel eyes on the market give off so much light, that it reflects off the glass and lights up the entire inside of the headlight. Just my $.02 though.

[sokat1989]

I ended up getting the Apexcone Ellipsoids because they were cheaper and they do work and fit fine however if i had to do it again it go with DEPOs. When I bought mine i didn't have any of the AE options that you do. I just had the Predator Chromiums and Orions to choose from and i ended up getting the Chromiums and i couldn't be happier.

[Ken]

I think the 60 look good enough honestly, especially if they drop the price point on those to maybe 50 bucks down from the $100 they are now...