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      03-03-2024, 10:50 AM   #106
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Originally Posted by RigaTony1982 View Post
Can 100% confirm they don't swivel.
Bummer. Thanks for the info here. Jeez even my 2011 135i headlights swivel, which is actually kind of nice at night through the neighborhood.

So, Z4 headlights... As I can gather:

1) They essentially have 1 (and only 1) actual projector, and 2 of what I'd want to refer to as "angel eyes" even they they are more half moon shaped.
2) It seems those latter lights, the angel eyes, light up as DRL's (daytime running lights)?
3) The single projector can do some interesting tricks regarding oncoming drivers and splitting the light, but this is only available in Europe. US laws haven't caught up to the tech and so we don't get these functions in the US. But they can potentially be coded in.
4) The Adaptive package gains you the black headlight interiors, if that's a goal for aesthetics.
5) Adaptive is somewhat mislabeled, since there's not really so much adaptive anything actually going on.
6) The adaptive package does however turn on something to illuminate to the sides? Do we know if this is some trickery out of the projector after all, or is it more like the DRL angel eyes are just given some extra brightness?
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