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Here are some photos of how mine was build, just in case it could help. Sorry for the quality, but I discovered this post before installing them.
Ballast are inside the housing (below the low-casewhere the original ballast sits). Then, on the outside there are the canbus cancellers, and on my case the resistor for the high beam. You could skip this with some canbus ballast, and high beam bulb (as the OP here did, and I am planning to do) so there would be instead nothing on outside. ![]() ![]() Re-pined to match Halogen pinout. ![]()
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Thanks for this guide. I have a few quick questions in preparation of my doing this later this summer:
1) Will this work on adaptive headlights (AHL)? Or will it only work on non-adaptive? 2) Similarly, since there is no coding, does it matter if I get a Euro-spec bi-xenon headlight set that technically is intended for "right-hand" driving? 3) Can you point me to a good quality can-bus canceller? |
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If you het RHD headlight, light beam pattern will be slighty different... I wouldn't recommend RHD headlights for LHD countries ![]() Canbus Canceller / Ballasts: https://aliexpress.com/store/product...821683871.html https://aliexpress.com/store/product...767432881.html https://aliexpress.com/store/product...807451759.html
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01-30-2018, 11:48 AM | #26 |
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Thanks! Didn't think about beam pattern, and was just focused on the re-coding issue. I'll have to find a LHD set then.
Are you running the rear blacklines? Know of any compatibility issues with the ones that are supposedly plug and play regardless of whether you run halogens or xenon up front? |
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Provided final edit on post #2.
Take your high beam bulb from halogen lights and swap with the cornering light inside the xenon equipped lights. Cornering light isn't able to handle the high beam voltage and will melt the plastic surround used to lock it in place. Thus making it hard to remove without a dremel. The only reason I can come up with is the cornering lights usually only stay on for a few seconds. High beams can stay on until another car is coming down the road, and that corner light housing traps the heat and melts the plastic. Sucks, but better to know and warn you all than to have everyone find out on their own. I didn't try using a canbus LED, someone can experiment with that and if that works then I would run that all the way!!
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![]() Finished up my LCI Xenon conversion recently, using this guide. ![]() |
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Looking real sharp! Glad my guide was useful to you
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If you get euro spec ones there should be two adjustments screws on the top of the headlights so you can adjust the beam pattern to comply with us beam pattern. I believe left headlamp is angled slightly down and right one slightly higher. (Opposite from RHD countries) I adjusted mine mine when I brought my car back to the US as to not be an asshole and blind on coming traffic. But with that being said it's shocking to me how many people in the US have clearly illegal lights or aftermarket lights which are definitely blinding oncoming traffic. |
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Thanks for the info. I recently did the upgrade with a few change.
D2S hid kit, connected high beam shutter and keep the H3 cornering light on the same circuit. Have not coded the drl off yet. But the cornering light(inner circle) now work as drl and high Beam flash, and the shutter does not activate with the drl power. Wired it this way for the day time flash to pass. |
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Hi Gray_Panther
I am new to this site and I am following your post on halogen to Xenon retrofit on a BMW E82. I am from South Africa and I recently bought this car for my everyday runner, however I am not satisfied with the standard halogen headlights There are several posts on the conversion from halogen to Xenons. Your post seems to be the easiest, but the only thing I don't understand is the part where you did the mod for the canbus canceler and the ballast wiring. Sorry if I sound a bit confused, but did you remove the ballast completely? I have tried something else, maybe you can help me. On the plug side, I added pin 2 and bridged it with pin 4, which is the negative. I added pin 5 and bridged with pin 6 for the shutter, and I added pin 7 and bridged with pin 1 for the eyebrow LED So, the angel eyes and eyebrows light up, and the shutter opens and closes when you switch the brights. The only thing is that the low beam is not coming on. Do I have to make another wire change, or will the low beam only work after coding? Your help will be much appreciated. Thanx |
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