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      06-12-2014, 05:12 PM   #55
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Originally Posted by Andrewcoja View Post
Well, I wish I had seen this before emailing them. No matter.

Re: LEDs. Changing the voltage seems to be way lower risk than going with LEDs. Even if you change the bulbs out. Switching to LED means cramming a lot of electronics into the headlight assembly. You have to secure everything in there to ensure it doesn't get loose and cause an adaptive headlight failure when it gets caught in the motor. Meanwhile changing the bulb only causes a problem if you don't put the back cover on properly. If you take your time and pay attention, this won't happen. I don't see how upping the voltage while remaining in specs is harmful.
This is why I have LED AE bulbs still sitting in their container on my shelf. Either the ballasts need to come down in size or condensed to one easy to install unit, or I'll just have to go with standard H8 bulbs.

I grabbed BMWhat to test out. It seems like adding voltage to the AE rings was the only thing I could do. I couldn't get the digital speedo nor get my mirrors to fold/unfold on lock. That's all I tried. It detected 6 modules, but was unable to program one of them due to my cheapo BT adapter. I'll probably end up recoding back to stock voltage and uninstalling the app. It just didn't work well enough for me to justify purchasing.
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