[BM57]

DOT headlights were always worse than the E-Code and that's why people always converted them; one example is E30 owners went from sealed beam to ellipsoid/ellipsoidal. Mercedes that were sold in the US in the 80s with their cheap plastic DOT headlights were much weaker than the Euro lights and would yellow and fade. They would get to be so bad that driving with your headlights on or off was almost the same and genuinely unsafe, just ask any W124, W126, W201 owners.

Anyone familiar with the Q45 Gatling gun headlights (made in Germany) from the third generation Infiniti Q45 (F50)? Many people have used them for conversions in the past:






Here's one person's conversion:
http://novajeepers.net/index.php?topic=10106.0



Here's another on a 1993 Jaguar XJ220:




And yet another TWR Jaguar XJ220 S :