04-29-2012, 04:24 AM | #25 |
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Learnt the hard way after buying my wife an Audi Q5 without Xenons. After pricing up the new headlights, wire-harness, and recoding it just wasn't worth it. That didn't even include the washer system and self-leveling system required to make it legal in Aust!
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04-29-2012, 08:22 AM | #26 |
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I am sure they will. There are countless people regretting not getting xenons, that's why BMW probably came up with the retrofit kit.
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04-29-2012, 10:01 AM | #27 |
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11-28-2012, 09:11 PM | #31 |
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just got my car, (imo) got a killer deal for a demo.. so couldnt be picky.
I asked the sales guy to give me a quote on xenons retrofit, and he quoted me $6000au... the retrofit couldnt come faster |
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09-09-2013, 10:34 PM | #32 | |
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If you have sourced all your parts, congratulations you have some work ahead of you, after completing this project I have to say it was fun making it work and sitting in the drives seat knowing that for about 1K, bidding for what I need online, and even the dealer helping me out because they couldn't believe one of their customers is trying to do this them self, armed with the power of Google it was hard to accomplish. Anyways, I have left over parts for sale stuff to get you started. FRM3 LED basis, I have yet to confirm if I can make the shutter work with out having to tap wires, like some others have, I actually want to keep this and see if I can help people out. I went and bought a Max Brose FRM3 HW Ver 12. The above listed FRM3 supports (LED), Xenon, and I have not confirmed addaptive or shutter. It is for sale and I will most likely use it to test unless it is sold, make an offer. I have a pair of Adaptive Xenon (Left and Right) Head Lamps, prior cracks on tabs, repaired, no leaks, lens have some scratches, you can totally buff them out as I have, I own 2 sets and still have my original Halogen lights also for sale, make an offer. As for the electronics, sorry but I don't have them however, I do have the information. Ignitor, attached to blub, plug and play. Ballast, plug and play. LED Blinker, plug and play. SMC (required for controlling adaptive and or automatic leveling) Some interesting info, I bought one new online and one used, not a problem coding my vin to the used one. Again I practically got my whole setup for less than 1k and my time which I took to get it done right. One last thing, the Conversion Harness, if you're like me and you can do anything you want to do or worth doing you can make this harness and save yourself dealer cost, or, I can give back to the community by doing some slave labor and making you this conversion harness, you can source all your parts on ETK.cc, and price check on BMWPartsupply.com which is what I did, I bought all my pins for it to be plug and play, there is some moving around of pins, before you start installing anything set it up to test, gather your parts and pull your wire first. My back seat doesn't go down, you need to remove it to get the rear level sensor installed, there is a front one and rear one. Old E46 Level sensors work, but I bought new ones because I wanted new on my E90, I will upgrade my entire car at some point as in 5 series, I need more room. Feel free to PM me or reply here, I will help with what I can. |
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09-10-2013, 10:07 AM | #33 | |
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Or I can work with you and get mine replaced and do the write-up as well. I am from North jersey.
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09-14-2013, 10:32 PM | #34 |
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Yeah,
I think the write up is pretty straight forward, in fact BMW made a Retrofit PDF which I pretty much followed and it worked (I believe they stopped doing this with the new (F-Body) because of the DIY info being a loss of revenue, the grey area was the coding which I had zero experience with but I am a tech and now I feel like a master with this now. On a side note I bought used modules except for my FRM and coded everything accordingly, certain modules you can write the VIN x number of times before you cannot write anymore from what I understand, I have even learned a little German from all this experience and enjoy it all. Just coded mirrors, and windows to close with FOB, love it, next I want to figure out how to enable the rain sensor to close everything if it starts to rain. |
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09-14-2013, 10:57 PM | #35 |
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09-14-2013, 11:14 PM | #37 |
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I cannot imagine that everytime the headlights come on automatically once could not code to make auto high beam also automatically come on without pressing the button manually, but I am told this is not possible either.
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09-15-2013, 01:29 AM | #38 |
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The headlights could be brighter, and I remember hearing something about a sensor that detects on coming light and shuts the high beams off and turns them back on after the source of light passes.
Two good references. http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=847496 |
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I was stating that I would think there is a code to be able to bring that on as default and not to have to manually activate it every time, which apparently there is not. |
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09-15-2013, 12:58 PM | #40 | |
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01-23-2014, 09:27 AM | #41 |
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Pulling up an old thread. I would be really interested in doing this to my 320 as the halogens suck balls.
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