knasman

It's partly the angles in the shots, I think. Only the last one shows a bit of hip. It definitely looks more "hippy" in real life. But no, I don't think there is a huge difference between the two.

knasman

I finally made good on my promise to check out the LED lights. These days my wife usually doesn't blink twice when I casually mention that I better take the car out a little. Though doing so at 9PM struck her as a little odd. "You're testing what exactly?!". But that's what I did! Keep in mind that my reference is the M3 xenon, since I have never tried the Porsche xenon.

The hue of the light seems completely neutral. It's surgically clean, without any blueish tint. It lights up the road very nicely, no strains on the eyes at all. kitwetzler mentioned that the lights swivel more than they do in the E9x M3, and that is definitely true. It lights up the destination perfectly on turn in. I engaged the auto high beam and took it into more remote mountain regions, and boy, when the high beam first fired up I was blown away. Much better than the M3 xenon high.

The auto on/off works fairly well. It seemed to err on the side of caution, which works better than on the M3 where it often waited too long to dim down. In the M3, I often found myself reaching for the stalk to avoid blinding ongoing traffic on. Need more mileage at night to fully render an opinion on that, however.

So is it worth the $3K? For me, certainly, I wanted to see what pure LED lights could do. And they work absolutely great. Look pretty damn sweet, too. Do they offer much better performance than the xenon and is PDLS+ better than PDLS? I don't know. The extra safety bits of PDLS+ are definitely nice to have, but functionally I don't have a real baseline to compare to.

JJ Cleghorne

Is that color Agate? Enjoy it in good health!

knasman

It is indeed. And thanks!