Fitting blackline taillights with LED bar on 2013 halogen FMR3 E82

LilSmeagol · 01-28-2023, 05:28 PM

I have these 2 connectors in my taillights, my car is a E82 from 2013 and has standard halogen headlights with the FMR3 footwell module. Will the blackline taillights with the LED bar be plug and play?

Donkeyshins · 01-29-2023, 06:06 PM

They should just work. The LED bars take their power off of the outside bulb (there's a couple of wires that take power from that bulb socket, run to the LEDs, which are wired to the control circuit board behind the snap-in multi-bulb housing on the main taillight body). The below is a standard LCI taillight (not blackline) but you should be able to get the general gist:

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Donkeyshins Second Lieutenant 370 Rep 294 Posts Drives: 2010 128i ZSP 6MT Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Puget Sound Region iTrader: (0) Garage List 2010 BMW 128i [0.00]	They *should* just work. The LED bars take their power off of the outside bulb (there's a couple of wires that take power from that bulb socket, run to the LEDs, which are wired to the control circuit board behind the snap-in multi-bulb housing on the main taillight body). The below is a standard LCI taillight (not blackline) but you should be able to get the general gist: Last edited by Donkeyshins; 01-29-2023 at 06:12 PM..
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