I just bought a 98 e320, love it. The headlight lenses are almost completely clear.The two outer headlights are super bright and white (maybe HID?). One of the two inner is yellowish (standard or oem incandescent?), and the other inner headlight is burned out.

I want all four to be the same color light. Any guidance, questions and/or wisdom would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Mike

 

you'll find yourself chasing clouds with this project. presuming your set up is as you say
(HID lower beam, H7 high beam, and W6W city/running light...ie OEM set up) the only
way you're going to have matching light/color temperature is to go with LED on city bulb,
and replace H7 with HID...almost cost/labor prohibitive.

even if you are success finding a LED bulb, invariably the bulb will trigger a bulb malfunction
warning light since the system believes the LED is a bulb outage. you'll will then chase
around having to splice into the wiring, a resistor to fool the system into working properly.

it is extremely rare that anyone has successfully retrofitted an HID into the high beam bucket.
you have the cheaper option of trying to source an H7 bulb with cool white temperature such
as those offered by PIAA or others but they also tend to have shorter life spans. you may
want to browse and read of other attempts at MB and BMW forums on the web.

much of this project will take time, trial, and error. your existing HIDs burn at slightly diff
color over time, e.g starting off whitish when new, then over months, shifting to higher
Kelvin temp cool white-to-tinge-blue during its lifetime.

so, as you can guess, trying to chase this 'color' and getting a match is a bit of a challenge.
i suppose you can try to buy a pair of brand new D2R HIDs, but that'll cost you <$100
right there.

my suggestion would be to llive with the high beam, as-is. it's infrequently used and no
one will see it much. try to get LED/resister combo to match your HIDs will be far cheaper
and run you (trial and error) perhaps $50-150 over a few months.

 

I believe on the E class, with the four lamps that the smaller inner lamps are yellow since they are the fog lights. Am i correct? pull out the light switch slightly as you turn on the headlamps and they should turn on, fog lights are yellow since yellow penetrates fog, if i'm right then i would keep them that way. What you do with the main headlamps is up to you though

 

You are correct. They are running/parking lights. I ordered some color corrected H6Ws and installed them yesterday. Very happy with the results. Now I jsut need to do a more complete clarifying job on the lenses and I'll be happy.

Thanks
Mike