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You've pretty much just sold me on getting LEDs with that video lol
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My fathers '14 F10 has xenons/brother in laws has LED. The the only difference I can see is the color temperature.
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I'd rather buy another watch with that money............................sarcasm.... Seriously though, I rather just have Xenons. Xenon is huge upgrade over halogen, but LED is not much of an upgrade over xenon. |
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I already got a watch..... Let's have those LED then !!
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Since the E46, BMW has been giving us halogen bulbs ine the taillights pre facelift, and then LEDs for the facelift.
3 generations later, they're still doing this, while manufacturers from Toyota to Mercedes all offer LEDs in their tail lights from the start of production. I don't get it. Come on BMW.
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Like I've stated many times..... ...I'd rather have an easily replaceable incandescent bulb. Burnt out LED's in tail lamps are an eyesore. I've seen countless E46's with them, and even my old G35 experienced burnt out diodes (..as have many other Infiniti cars). |
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I have a F10 LCI with LED headlight. Honestly the new LED does not provide significantly more illumination than HID Xenons I have on my M3. The LED is also bluer which could get a little uncomfortable. If the pavement is new (really black), the bluer LED will illuminate less than regular Xenon.
You can justify your $1900 option all you want, but it just does not offer significant advantage over standard HID.
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Basically the car keeps the high beams on all the time, but it can "black out" the area around a car in front of you! Therefor not blinding that car. And the LED lights can do this with on coming and traffic traveling the same direction, multiple targets. Its quite cool, to see in action. On the seven series you can also get the "pencil spot light" for pedestrians. Basically the car uses its infrarot(heat sensing) camera to talk to the headlights pc, then the 7er has what looks like fog lights but are actually pencil strobe lights to light up anything that tries to cross in front of the car from the side of the road. Its truly a life saver. See my post #15 for more videos on this technology... http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=847496# Quote:
I believe ALL F3x cars have LED front turn signals. At least every F3x, I have seen has front LED's. The tail lights still use a regular bulb though. The tail lamps are what everyone is what everyone has been complaining about. BMW knows they made a mistake on this topic - and I hear they will be correcting it soon.
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This is our North American F30 headlamp. There is clearly and orange bulb there. Last edited by Sedan_Clan; 02-10-2014 at 06:49 PM.. |
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I am not convinced that the technology presented in the video can be fully replicated with xenon projectors. My understanding is that a LED projector headlight is composed of multiple arrays of LEDs that each have their own reflector lens. By turning on and off these arrays of LED in different combinations you can project different light patterns. This is simply not possible with a xenon projector. This later feature combined with pivoting up/down/left/right of the four individual LED projectors is what allows the light patterns to be precisely controlled.
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See post #17 of that thread (...and start reading from post #11 onward; we have the capability with the xenons). The video posted is of a coded car in Seattle. You can see how active the Xenon bulb is and how it dynamically readjusts the light pattern. Here's a quote from one of the guys who coded their cars..... Quote:
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I meant standard xenons by regulation for all cars....or at least all cars over 30k....
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Perhaps I am thinking of LED equipped cars. Although I though even on Xenon cars you got front LED turn signals. I'm gonna have to look into this. Its late over here and I am tired. Sorry, I can't be of any more help on this topic. Dack PS: Here are some LED lights that DO have front LED turn signals... These were taken at the 4er press intro in Lisbon this summer.
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Yes, the 4 has an LED option, thus an LED turn signal. The F30 does not. |
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Msybe the next M3 should also come with a spotlight as a $1,900 option. |
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