These Ebay Headlights gotta go!

The headlights that came with this 328i when I bought it are, eBay specials. The manufacture on the lights is a company called: SunYan. Helena needs an eye transplant.

Cons:

• They are not DOT approved at all.
• The low beams are in protectors but, they are terrible. The fog lights are brighter than they are. 
• The plastic is faded and sun beat. Not really to any fault of the manufacturer, they just aren't glass.
• The front of the lights are starting to separate from the back of the lights on one of them. 
• The fitment is not good. Especially around the corner light area.
• The wiring adapters are pretty cheap and look rather flimsy.

Pros:

• The High Beams are bright. Non Projection helps with this I believe.
• They were probably super cost effective.
• They did come with wiring adapters. Thank God for this. No hacked wiring.
• They have H1 high and low beam bulbs.
• They have dual fluorescent halo rings, if you are into that kinda thing.

They honestly don't look that bad but, I'd like to get these off the car before they catch fire. I'm trying to cut costs and fix what really needs attention but, these lights are eating at me.

  There are several light options available for this car. The go to are Depo ZKW style headlights. These are replicas of the ZKW Euro M3 lights. They have a clear front housing and projectors in the low beams. Depo offers halos with these as well. They are glass front.

  The other option are actual ZKW Bosch Headlights. These have no halos but, do have city lights. The also have a low beam projector and glass fronts. More robust and sturdy than any of the copies.

  One of the members of the car club I'm apart of said to look into DDM Tuning. So, I did. The lights are DJ Auto style? and  are glass front. Look very similar to the Depos. They offer HID kits packaged with the headlights, halos (if that's your thing), and Lamin-X films.

  Straight from their site:

Features

• Direct replacement headlight with HIDs, optional Angel Eyes and clear Lamin-X protector
• High quality headlight housing, glass lens and wiring
• Plug-and-play adapters allow for a direct and easy installation
• Includes halogen bulbs for the high beam function at no charge
• Comes in the pair

  Pretty cool stuff. I did some looking on Yelp to see if the garage had any reviews. They are in fact on there. The reviews, at the time of this write up, were a mixture of good and bad. 63 people rating them a 2.5 star. It seems mostly because of the customer service is poor. :/ Not so good in a tough market already. So before going that route I'd like to see if I can find some locally.

     My buddy Jeremy let me know just this morning that there are two sets locally. I'm going to look in to that first.

    The tabs were indeed broken. The two on top where the head lights mount and the one had missing plastic where the track for the corner light slides in. Jeremy recommended I steer away from these as his had the same problem. He was quite unsatisfied with his.

  He then, reminded me of the stock headlights that he himself removed from his car. All he needed to do was get them from where they were stored, and I could have them. Like free? Yeah. Sweet! So...What are you waiting for? Go get them man!