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Post Thu Mar 07, 2013 1:09 pm

Hi everyone, im new to this forum and also owning an e30.
just wondering whats the best way of tinting my fullbeam lights race yellow like the pic below
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Post Thu Mar 07, 2013 1:11 pm

Lamin-X or a similar type of film
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Post Thu Mar 07, 2013 1:21 pm

Not really race yellow, more peasant French yellow.

As stated lamin-x or there are spray on paints you can use as well
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Post Thu Mar 07, 2013 1:23 pm

yeah the Germans made the french have yellow lights, so they could tell them apart during world war.

admittedly i had them on a calypso e30 and thought they looked :cool:
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Post Thu Mar 07, 2013 1:25 pm

Rich320I wrote:yeah the Germans made the french have yellow lights, so they could tell them apart during world war.

admittedly i had them on a calypso e30 and thought they looked :cool:
winkeye that made me giggle

They look good on alpines too
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Post Thu Mar 07, 2013 1:25 pm

Those aren't necessarily tinted lights, since yellow headlamps were compulsory in some markets where the E30 was sold, notably France. A few years ago (few in my terms is probably more than a lot of you have been alive) virtually every car in France had yellow lights, and 'beam converters', sold for adapting UK lights to driving on the LH side of the road, were yellow tinted as well as correcting the beam pattern.
Still available new from BMW AFAIK, or they turn up on French ebay from time to time.
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Post Thu Mar 07, 2013 1:28 pm

But wouldn't French headlights be for LHD so wrong beam pattern?
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Post Thu Mar 07, 2013 1:45 pm

thanks guys!
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Post Thu Mar 07, 2013 3:05 pm

ross_jsy wrote:But wouldn't French headlights be for LHD so wrong beam pattern?
not if theyre facelift because all e30 headlights are the same, theyre just set for rhd or lhd at the factory (or supplying dealer) before delivery, which takes about 5 minutes.
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