For those of us with BMW E36 headlights your savior is here. If you are still not satisfied with the amount of light being put out upgrade your bulbs. This is specifically for those of us with the H1 Equipped Euro Ellipsoids, and also the H7 equipped Parabolic-Freeform headlights.

There is a seller on Ebay named " GlobalPremier " he sells the bulb brand "FX" , & "HD5". I just purchased a little over a week ago the HD5 Super white 5100k 100watt bulbs for my low beams for $24.99 + $8.00 shipping and they are hands down the best bulbs I have ever seen in my life. They produce the same if not more power then the HID kits that most retailers are making. I have had not problem with over heating, or mealting of my BMW wiring harness either and the stock wires where they were spliced are in perfect shape even after a 100+ mile trip to Louisville, Ky and back at night and more importantly after cruising around last weekend for over 4 hours here locally.

I highly recommend this bulb upgrade for those of us 3rd gen Maxima owners who have the Euro Ellipsoids or Parabolic-Free Form Headlights to upgrade.

If you have any questions at all please feel free to email me, respond here or contact me via phone at (859) 224-9551.

Jared Seymour
Owner - The Edge Productions
(859) 224-9551

 

If you are running higher wattage then what your stock socket/wires were designed for then you WILL burn them up. It is not something that happens over night or after a long trip it may take months or longer but it will slowly degrade. I dont think you should be advocating that people throw in higher wattage bulbs thinking that the lighting will be any different. A halogen bulb is a halogen bulb, there really is no technology to seperate them and make one stand out more then another other then cheap paint to turn them blue or "hyperwhite". Halogens are also the leat efficent light blub, to say that its going to be brighter then true HID is crazy...

 

These are HID style 100watt lights not the 55 watt bulbs but I have reinforced the wiring so it is all good, and I also fully understand where you are coming from as the Nokya 9004 bulbs I had with my stock Nissan Maxima headlights blew up the wiring harness three times!

Believe me I did my research and have tested it, remember I have BMW e36 headlights and not the US spec or Euro Ellipsoids with H1 bulbs!


Jared

 

Any pics

 

Jon I will snap some shots of the difference between the high beams Stock H7 55watt bulbs and the low beam HD5 h7 100watt bulbs in just a minute and put them on either later tonight or definately tomorrow depending on how much the phone rings off the hook when I get off here!

Jared

 

The harnesses need to be upgraded from stock....simple as that. a high wattage bulb is going to fry it in time. 1 weekend or trip won't prove that.

nothing beats a HID bulb than a HID bulb...

 

Well true on a maxima wire harness it would but mine is upgarded with thicker gauge BMW e36 harness wires that can take the added wattage and power throughput!

Over a Month and still no trouble at all! I still highly recoomend this setup for those of you with the BMW Euro Ellipsoids, or the BMW Parabolic-free form style headlights, it is a big difference!

Thanks!

The Edge Productions
Jared Seymour - OWNER
3449 Lannette Lane
Lexington, KY 40503
USA
Phone: (859) 224-9551
Email: TheEdgeProductions@yahoo.com
Website: http://Geocities.com/TheEdgeProductions/

 

I have the 9004 FX bulbs with the upgraded harness and they are have been the bst bulbs i've ever used. They've lasted me 9 months so far and don't have a ricey blue look to them, just a bright white light (even though the bulbs are blue). I believe i got mine from the same person on EBay too. I recommend these to everyone, not just the Bimmer conversion guys.

 

Jared, do you have an item # from Ebay, so I can look at 'em? You can just send that to me here, if it's easier for you. You've piqued my curiosity.

 

Thanks for the chime in, was the guy down in Georgia near Atlanta that you bought them from?

Jared

 

on the harness note, i've had APC xenon white bulbs on my stock harness for about 9 monthes, then i changed the ground (they actually got a little brighter)a few monthes ago, they're rated at 80w low and 100w high. i havent had a problem in over a year with the harness..

on the bulb note, my friend has an altima and ordered these bulbs, he says they're incredible. my APCs suck in wet weather and i depend on my fogs and just have to drive slower than i could. i'm planning to upgrade to the FX bulbs as soon as i find a corner light that will match, any suggestions?

 

I would recommend going with the new xd5 bulds over the FX as they are a tiny bit brighter, and I recommend the APC Superwhite bulbs they look great especially with the corner light rewire done!

Jared

 

I looked these up on Ebay, and this was under the FAQ:

Well.... there you have it!

 

Of course you have the Lumen brightness test to verify they are "nearly" as bright as real HIDs?

 

i have APCs(in the corners)..i had to replace one and when i did, the new one was a different color than the old. any other ideas outside of APC?
also, i'm looking at the 5100K bulbs, whatver they are (HD5 XD5, FX..whatever)

 

Polarg, or Catz is the others I recommend!

JAred

 

Polarg, or Catz is the others I recommend!

JAred

 

any one use cuzo?

 

That's what I've got (headlights AND corner lights). Once I switched to Nokya's was when I had my "burning wire" problems. I wouldn't recommend those darned Nokya bulbs to my worst enemy!

Good thing I'm putting my BMW lights in soon!!!

 

True dat man I had Nokya 9004 headlights in my Maxima Heeadlamps before I switched to BMW headlights and they always fried the Ground wire and harness went through 3 which is what made me say I needed the BMW headlights cause even the Nokya's SUCKEd!!!

Jared

 

gay.. get real HID??

 

Question:

-Do you know where these bulbs are manufactured? Japan, Taiwan, China? (Do they have an origin of manufacture stamped on the base or something?) I wasn't able to locate this information on the distributor's website: http://www.eatools.com/~luke/XD5bulbs.html

-Does anyone have any input on the quality of these bulbs? (You read so much about a company's new bulbs, then a few months down the road, every other post is: "mine burned out in 3,6,9 months, etc.")

Thanks - other than my concerns on quality, I like what I hear. I have a '95 Maxima, so I would be getting the 9004

 

Well, I put the XD5's in when I put in my BMW headlight conversion a couple of weeks ago. I'll look at the box and see where they're manufactured at. And as soon as I can get to it, I'll post pics (I've got quite a few) on my website, as they ARE brighter IMHO than the Nokya's I had (definitely brighter than the CuZo's), but probably not as bright as Sylvania's.

I also think that they show up a bit better in inclement weather (snowing/sleet with snow) than my other bulbs.

But then again, WTF do I know...

 

Thanks.

Just to clarify, are you talking about the Sylvania SilverStars? ("not as bright as Sylvania. . . " ")

XD5's are overwattage bulbs, correct? (80/100w?) -& they're not as bright as the 50/70w Sylvania Silverstars??? Have you seen the Silverstars? -or are you guessing? - (I noticed you said "probably not as bright.")

Also, when you're talking about "bright" do you mean looking at the lights from outside the car, or looking at the light cast on the road?
(I'm more concerned with the latter of the two).

Sorry 4 all the Q's. . .


TIA,
Dazed & Confused by the Lights

 

The sylviana silverstars are rated at 4200K so I think the other bulbs being talked about here are higher than 5100K. However I think that for the BMW conversions the bulbs to go for are the ones at www.bmwxwnon.com they are made in germany and are really good. Check them out. They also cost like $95 or something and the seller insists that THEY WILL NOT BURN THE WIRING HARNESS.

Sohaib

 

The XD5 Headlight bulbs are considerably brighter then the 4200k Sylvania Silverstars, and at $32.99 after shipping from GlobalPremier on Ebay they are well worth it. Just a shame my car got badly wrecked and may be totalled out depending. If so my ZKW E36 Racing, Parabolic-Freeform, H7 style headlights will be for sale as I will take them out!

These are extremly rare even more so then Euro Ellipsoids and produce a wider spectrum of light then the Euro Ellipsoids.

Jared

As for the XD5 bulbs I have had no problem out of mine and have had them for several months already!

 

Sorry 'bout your car - thanks for the feedback!

-K-

 

ah It is all good, I just actually hope the insurance company totals it out. I realize my insurance will go up but not to an insane level because I am going to get something that is not in a luxury class like the maxima.

Jared

 

I Have Cuzo lights in my car. I like them a lot they are much briter than the stock bulbs. One funny thing about my lighting is on my corner lights I didnt have to rewire them for them to stay on they just do, becuasethe bulbs that are in them only have one terminal on the bottom. I dont like it im afraid it might burn out my sockets but well'll see. Plan to get different ones in the future and do it the right way.

 

http://www.gaontrading.com/index.htm

1) Company is based in Korea.
2) Company's claim:

"We produce our lamps in compliance with international quality standard of E-mark, DOT, and U-mark.We also apply QS-9000 quality control system (based on and including ISO 9002) to our products."

(http://www.gopio.net/wboard/messages/2469.html)

 

Well, I've had the Silvania SilverStars (4100k), the Nokya Xenon Purples (don't remember the lumen rating - and frankly don't care), the CuZo Hyper Whites (4500k), and now have the XD5's (5100k), and they definately show up better on the road than the first two.

 

Cool!

I think I'm gonna try the XD5's.

Where did you buy them from? Good experience w/ seller?

TIA!!

-K-

 

Ordered a set of the 9004 XD5's 2day - will report back when I get them in. . .

Ordered from: http://www.globalpremier.com/XD5bulbs.html#

-K-

 

Oh boy, here goes. Well, I finally got my 9004 XD5's and installed them the other day. Let me say a couple things:

1) This was my first experience with a "blue" tinted bulb of any kind.
2) I was really looking for a pure white output on the road.
3) I got the impression based on the pics at the site & the lumen rating that expectation #2 was not unreasonable.
4) My comments relate specifically to the 9004/HB1 bulb. I can't comment on the performance of other applications.

A) First thing I noticed when I inspected the bulbs was that on one, the bulb & metal base were not perfectly straight relative to the plastic plug base housing. Layman's terms: placed on a level table, upright, the bulb appeared to lean in one direction (off center) by about 5-6 degrees. (Think "Leaning Tower of Pisa")

Obviously, this affects how the bulb is aligned relative to the reflector when installed & it did cause some odd, uneven lighting effects, particularly on one side. (Maybe I just got a bad bulb).

B) These lights are BLUE on the road! No two ways about it. Maybe they're not as blue as all the other crappy bulbs you guys have bravely tried, but dammit, they're blue, if you ask me. I'd even say they're blue enough to call the photos on the website at the very least "inaccurate," if not misleading.

Disclaimer: This is only my experience, of course. I think I had high expectations, but based on the positive feedback here & info. at the seller's site, I thought they were reasonable.

I've seen blue-er bulbs before, & the XD5's may be the best damn blue-tinted bulb out there - but they didn't pass my test, & they're outta there!

Bottom line: blue tint yields blue light. Period.

Oh well, back to square 1. . . Not ready to $pend $$$$$ on HID's, but sounds like that's the only thing that would do it for me.

 

ive got the fx 9006 they rock. i should have gotten the xd5's or what ever they call them

 

Where could I find some of these bulbs, and what are they? Blue tint or actually brighter regluar tint bulbs?

 

Search the web for "APC bulbs," or start a new thread with your question. You're probably interested in the clearance light, but I don't know.