Do your own HID retrofit. It is not that hard! The projector of that headlight is placed at the bad position. It is not supposed to place at the bottom, you lose fore ground light because of it. If you do research on HID retrofit, you know what I'm talking about. That is why factory place the low beam on top so it has fore ground and distance, and hi beam at the bottom. Don't waste your money on those aftermarket ones. And never ever slap those aftermarket HID into the stock halogen lenses that not designed for HID. You will blind other people! Why? Halogen lenses are designed to scatter a lot of light to due to the weak halogen bulbs, so what happen if you slap HID in? There will be a ton of glares. HIDs are designed to use with HID lenses because the lenses have the light cutoff. It limits where the light go. They are either D2R or D2S. D2R is used without the projector like IS300, Nissan Maxima,...but their lenses are designed to operate with HID with the cutoff. The others use projector like BMW, Audi....If you want to know more, google and read more about HID retrofit. I'm not trying to piss anybody off or anything, I just want to share these information with you guys. I just don't understand why people want 8000k, 12000k or higher K light. The higher the K, the more color of the light BUT less light output. There is a formula to determine this if I could find it. You can't see shits with those bulbs. Either they don't know or they know and still want to do it.
'03 BMW M3 projectors
'03 BMW M3 Bosch ballasts and ignitors
4100k Philips D2S hid (the higher the K, the more color but the lower the light output)
No aftermarket gay shit here
Done it in 2004 and still running
The cutoff is not that great but here it is:
The color you see from the luxury car like BMW, Mercedes, Lexus is not from the light, it is from the cutoff line. You achieve the color through the cutoff, not the light output. That is why factory use 4100 or 4200K, natural sunlight to get the most amount of light.
Fore ground light output