The xenon (HID) lamp is a single bulb in a housing -- the housing contains the apparatus that focuses for low or high beam, and the bulb just burns constantly. If your low beams work, your xenon bulbs aren't your problem. If you just have a regular flash-to-pass bulb out, it should be a cheaper repair. Cheers, John.
Now let's see how they actually work. Even though a common name for most HID lights is “Xenon headlamps”, most of them are actually metal halide lamps that contain Xenon gas, which is only
2) HIDs have extra components - like a ballast. Those components are not present on halogen cars. So the HIDs are not just different bulbs. 3) In the Z4, like many other modern cars, the high and low beam bulbs on halogen cars are the same. They simply have different reflective sheilding around them. . 6 243 3 35 359 66 291 208 292