Halogen to Xenon Conversion

[jmrapa]

Btw re modifications coming from harness, i changed pin 6 to 5 to make the shutter work.

[CentralPA E82]

Ground: Fender---Negative from Error Canceller---Pin 2
Power: Harness---Positive from Error Canceller---Pin 3

There should not be a short with the rings if the harness wire for pin 1 and pin 4 is not altered. Do the turn signals operate correctly?

[CentralPA E82]

One other thing, did you alter the canceller? If you are using the same one I have, it has two sets of wires (in/out). The ground from the fender and power from the harness should use one side. The second set should run to the pins on the light assembly.

[jmrapa]

Yes signal do work. So when you say harness...from which pin does the power come out please? Is it pin 1 ?

[CentralPA E82]

The power for the rings comes from pin 1, the turn signals use pin 12 I believe. Both share the same ground (pin 4). The xenons require a dedicated ground (pin 2).

[jmrapa]

Did the wiring exactly as you told me as i didn't have that wiring. But still same thing. As soon as i switch on the car, few seconds/minute later, angle eyes switch them selves off. Really don't know.

So here is what i did:

Harness(+) - error canceler- pin3
Fender - error canceler - pin2

[jmrapa]

Another thing that might help is that as soon as i turn off the car when angel eyes are switch off, all car light are completely off when xenon lights switch is on position while car still turned off.

I will then remove the key and put it back in and everything is fine again until car is turned on.

[jmrapa]

Hi CentralPA,

While testing i noticed something else. After some time, i tied turning on the car again and as i was telling everything works. While everything was still working (even angle eyes) i tried the side blinkers and something strange happened. Blinkers started to blink fast and angle eyes went off.

I think that i have something wrong in voltage or i am missing something. But i did everything how you told me.

On a side note, can it be that all this is happening because i am only connecting only one xenon headlamp for testing and leaving the other side with the normal halogen once?

[CentralPA E82]

It is possible that the 'one sided' installation is causing the issue. Is the halogen side operating normally?

[jmrapa]

yep normally and working. i really don't now what's the issue.

[CentralPA E82]

Out of ideas. I have had my car wired as described for close to a year, no issues. What errors are you getting on the dash? I have the high beam error on startup (shutter works fine though).

[jmrapa]

Have for the high beam and side lamps once they are switch off.

[jmrapa]

Hi centralipa,

I was just thing on this, when you meant harness, what do you mean please? I think you meant the positive (+) that goes into ballast right?

[jmrapa]

today i removed the Footwell module to check the version, here is an image of the footwell module.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/196/img1273n.jpg



Is this the same module that you have? also, since i am getting more then one error on the dash, could it be that the car is going in safe mode, thus i have to purchase a cade and code these error not to come up on the dash??

If yes, what cable do you recommend please?

I appreciate if you can help get his headlights to work and not spend 800 euro for nothing

[CentralPA E82]

Originally Posted by jmrapa

Hi centralipa,

I was just thing on this, when you meant harness, what do you mean please? I think you meant the positive (+) that goes into ballast right?

Harness is referring to the wires that run to the headlight assembly. I never checked the frm in my car, but build date was 2/09. Would imagine bmw kept the same wiring order across the 1-series lineup. If you have wired the car up as described everything should work correctly.

[CentralPA E82]

Originally Posted by jmrapa

today i removed the Footwell module to check the version, here is an image of the footwell module.

Is this the same module that you have? also, since i am getting more then one error on the dash, could it be that the car is going in safe mode, thus i have to purchase a cade and code these error not to come up on the dash??

If yes, what cable do you recommend please?

I appreciate if you can help get his headlights to work and not spend 800 euro for nothing

It is very likely that the frm is locked as mine was. I went to a shop to have the bulb checks disabled w/NCS Expert however the module would not accept them. The error cancellers were the next best option to fix the xenons. I would not recommend messing around with coding yourself, if you 'brick' the module you are out even more money (new module runs $300 USD).

[jmrapa]

thanks for your help. I think the difference is the module then. By car is of 2006 and module is older and so it's it works different. I think next step is to purchase a footwell module. (FRM3)