HID lights on a P38

And melt the earth connector at the back of the bulb! Badger.

Of course the P38 is well known for the reliability of its suspension.

Not once I have had a problem. The main things with P38's are lack of maintenance due to some fool buying a car they expect to run forever for peanuts. How many BMW's run forever without servicing?

FFS, my wifes VW EOS needs a new gearbox at 7000m & the automatic Touareg she had needed a new gearbox every 300 miles. That got binned, very quickly.

I have sussed the P38 bugs, they tend to be silly sensor orientated things, once replaced they tend to be fine.

Watch this space ;)

writes: >> >> I had a set of dual HIDs on mine which worked with no problem.

These had one element with a solenoid that moved a reflector, but took the power from whichever input was active, so fooled the BECM. I got them from hids4u...

Andy

It may be worth checking your lights out carefully. The light output of our P38 is excellent, more than adequate for anything it could possibly be used for.

Are you sure it's not your eyes ;)

Nope, my eyes are fine.

On or around Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:24:46 +0000, AndyC the WB enlightened us thusly:

ah, I was looking for genuine 2-element ones, they seem not to be cheap though.

On or around Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:35:05 -0000, "Badger" enlightened us thusly:

got away with it so far, on everything I've done it on. The idea came from a Mk II granny, which had its headlamps wired like that from new. Took me some careful study of the wiring diagram to work out that it wasn't a fault, when I first noticed what it was doing.

Are they possible? The light source - ie the discharge area, is rather larger than a filament.

The EAS is well known to be very unreliable, if you haven't had a problem yet, you soon will. Maintenance has nothing to do with it, there are no parts on the EAS that you would expect to change at a service, with the exception of the inlet filter on the compressor perhaps. How many BMW's need recovery to the dealer for a fault reset every time they have a minor electrical niggle?

On or around Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:41:26 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)" enlightened us thusly:

I gather they are made, but not at the sort of price that lets the cheapo-ebay-sellers sell them cheap, especailly as to run both elements you need 4 igniters.