Help wanted - LCI headlights to PRE-LCI headlights

[Trai Krebs]

Hello,

I am wanting to swap out my LCI headlights with the light-up eyebrow for the pre-LCI headlights without the eyebrow. I've always disliked the eyebrow, plus the orange signal light housings are such an eye sore. I know there is a pin that the eyebrow uses, would there be a problem if this circuit is not completed on the eyebrowless headlights?

My headlights are also the adaptive ones, which I don't believe the pre-LCI ones are. Would this be an issue? And could I even swap the module/ballast and xenon bulbs over to keep the adaptive feature or does this just not work like this?

Any help would be much appreciated!

[Angry3]

Originally Posted by Trai Krebs

Hello,

I am wanting to swap out my LCI headlights with the light-up eyebrow for the pre-LCI headlights without the eyebrow. I've always disliked the eyebrow, plus the orange signal light housings are such an eye sore. I know there is a pin that the eyebrow uses, would there be a problem if this circuit is not completed on the eyebrowless headlights?

My headlights are also the adaptive ones, which I don't believe the pre-LCI ones are. Would this be an issue? And could I even swap the module/ballast and xenon bulbs over to keep the adaptive feature or does this just not work like this?

Any help would be much appreciated!

Not much I can offer, except to say that the pre-lci headlights are indeed adaptive, or at least can be. In the United States all 135i sold have adaptive bi-xenons as standard equipment from the very first car sold in 2008.

I think most people like the eyebrow, so you shouldn't have any problems swapping a pair of original assemblies. I had to replace both assemblies on my 2008 model, and went for the LCI assemblies. Same price, why not. Would I have paid more than a little bit extra to do so? Probably not, but I'm fine with the decision, other than the headache of trying to get the materials needed to modify the female part of the harness to power up the brow. The brow hope you had something worked out earlier, late post on my part but figured I'd share what I knew.