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Thread: Can you swap e30 lamps with e34 lamps?

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    Default Can you swap e30 lamps with e34 lamps?

    Trying to figure out if I can swap the lights out of an e30 and put them in e34 housings?

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Regards,
    -Trevor Ely

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    different mounting **** on the back
    all america wants is cold beer warm cat and a place to take a poop with a door on it

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    Quote Originally Posted by winfred
    different mounting **** on the back
    I'm talking ellipsoid/ellipsoid.

    Not sealed beam/ellipsoid
    -Trevor Ely

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    that's what i was talking about

    Quote Originally Posted by MTechnik540i
    I'm talking ellipsoid/ellipsoid.

    Not sealed beam/ellipsoid
    all america wants is cold beer warm cat and a place to take a poop with a door on it

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    What Winfred said. They do not fit. The E30 guys seem to ask this alot too- maybe someone needs to start an E30/E34 ellipsoid headlight clearinghouse!!

    I've got some spare E34 lights, both ellip + non-ellip- which one(s) do you need???

    Bret.

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    The dimensions are the same, but as Winfred says, the **** at the back......

    E32 and E34 headlights are identical.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shogun
    The dimensions are the same, but as Winfred says, the **** at the back......

    E32 and E34 headlights are identical.
    Ah, oh well....thanks for the info. Explains why they're like $100 more new that the e30s.
    -Trevor Ely

    '88 535is
    '95 M Sport 540i (1 of 200)
    '91 M5

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