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      01-19-2021, 06:21 AM   #67
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Thanks! Indeed they are super bright lol. I may have to delink them from the dash lights and turn them down a bit but will have to do some night driving and see how it goes.

That's great news that Benzinfabrik is going to offer the radio trim replacement LED board soon. Yeah I should just wait to order from them. That's right around the corner too! They definitely offers a great product. Sure beats the Chinese junk you see on Alibaba!
Agree, when upgrading to benzinfabrik LEDs the ambient lights are way too bright in comparison with the rest of the lights in the car. I did a quick test with the cupholder LED yesterday, and it's BRIGHT! But luckily we can disconnect the ambient lights from the rest of the lights, so it is separately controllable. Otherwise it would be too much indeed. It is well worth the money definitely!
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Thanks! Indeed they are super bright lol. I may have to delink them from the dash lights and turn them down a bit but will have to do some night driving and see how it goes.

That's great news that Benzinfabrik is going to offer the radio trim replacement LED board soon. Yeah I should just wait to order from them. That's right around the corner too! They definitely offers a great product. Sure beats the Chinese junk you see on Alibaba!
Agree, when upgrading to benzinfabrik LEDs the ambient lights are way too bright in comparison with the rest of the lights in the car. I did a quick test with the cupholder LED yesterday, and it's BRIGHT! But luckily we can disconnect the ambient lights from the rest of the lights, so it is separately controllable. Otherwise it would be too much indeed. It is well worth the money definitely!
Can you explain this a little further? Wich models can do this and how? Separate the lights i mean
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      01-21-2021, 04:02 PM   #69
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This is a very good creativity. Try it out. It should work. I'm so going to try this out too. Love this
Not sure if your on about my idea of the strip along the dash, turns out won't really work, you'd have to cut the trim and even then the bare led would show as there's no room for an led to fit.

A lot of great ideas in here will be upgrading my door cards soon, haven't looked yet but on the pre lci is it still the one led that feeds and optic light tube?
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A lot of great ideas in here will be upgrading my door cards soon, haven't looked yet but on the pre lci is it still the one led that feeds and optic light tube?
Yeah, same as at LCI models, located at the rear of the fairing into a small grey cage.
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A lot of great ideas in here will be upgrading my door cards soon, haven't looked yet but on the pre lci is it still the one led that feeds and optic light tube?
Yeah, same as at LCI models, located at the rear of the fairing into a small grey cage.
Ah so stock can be upgraded then, cheers for that
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Ah so stock can be upgraded then, cheers for that
Right, search for my DIY how to remove and install the new SMD into the door fairings if you want.
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For all those who want their buttons led colour different from the horrible BMW orange, this guy changed all mine in one day, took him 13 hours but he did an amazing job and at my home.

All he needs is a table and chair to work with.

£300 for the complete job including travel expenses, he even changed all the leds in the air con surround from blue/orange to blue/white, not bad at all!

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Images of my F32 can be seen on his facebook site.

Great guy and excellent workmanship!
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Holy balls these 0805 LED's are super tiny! Does a regular soldering iron work with these things? I've soldered things before and I'm comfortable doing so, but I've never work with such small components lol.
You should try soldering 402s... 603s and 805 are enormous by comparison, lol.
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For all those who want their buttons led colour different from the horrible BMW orange, this guy changed all mine in one day, took him 13 hours but he did an amazing job and at my home.

All he needs is a table and chair to work with.

£300 for the complete job including travel expenses, he even changed all the leds in the air con surround from blue/orange to blue/white, not bad at all!

http://www.facebook.com/skautoled

Email: s.k.led@hotmail.com

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Great guy and excellent workmanship!
If I was in the UK I'd pay him to change mine out. I tried with the radio trim and failed lol.
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You should try soldering 402s... 603s and 805 are enormous by comparison, lol.
I can't imagine trying to solder something smaller lol.
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Sorry to bring up this thread.

Does anyone know the specs for the led's in the ambient lightning? (My car is an early 2014).
I'm in the process changing the resistors to get some more light and I would be greatfull to know how low I can go with the resistors without burning the led's out.
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Anyone know what type of led is in the armrest compartment?
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Agreed.

It’s called ambient illumination and not accent lighting for a reason, but to each their own.
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Benzinfabrik was supposed to get replacement LED modules for the LCI radio trim but so far no dice. I noticed the module was a little smaller than the door ambient lighting module.

I ordered 2 more door ambient lighting modules (blue/white) and going to try and sand down the sides of the PCB a bit to see if a retrofit so to speak may work. Will be nice to have the radio trim have blue LED's too! Hopefully my order doesn't get lost this time and they come in soon lol. Will let you know how things go!
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Benzinfabrik was supposed to get replacement LED modules for the LCI radio trim but so far no dice. I noticed the module was a little smaller than the door ambient lighting module.

I ordered 2 more door ambient lighting modules (blue/white) and going to try and sand down the sides of the PCB a bit to see if a retrofit so to speak may work. Will be nice to have the radio trim have blue LED's too! Hopefully my order doesn't get lost this time and they come in soon lol. Will let you know how things go!
Please keep updating about this! I mailed benzinfabrik last week, but they said maybe a couple of months before ready. It's now already been a couple of months since I mailed, so it might take a while before they have it. In the meantime I just let it go for now, but if your method works, I'll do the same
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Im also waiting impatiently for the small SMDs for the panel to release and to install them. But so far no news feed from them.
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I was also waiting on the small dash modules from benzinfabrik, but then I realised it will cost around $100 to replace all led modules(doors, footwell and dash). All this for basically one usable color since I don't really like the white on ambient lights..

So instead, I went all out and built a small module using a digispark and replaced the door and dash modules with custom ones using ws2812 leds from a strip. The module is controlled by switching between classic/sport in the idrive, no hidden switches in the doors, no replacement of optical conductors with whole rgb strips

I'll create a separate thread here on bimmerpost with more details and photos, maybe a video using the thing, hopefully tomorrow. In a few days I hope to finish a diy as well, for anyone with the time and patience for this sort of stuff
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I was also waiting on the small dash modules from benzinfabrik, but then I realised it will cost around $100 to replace all led modules(doors, footwell and dash). All this for basically one usable color since I don't really like the white on ambient lights..

So instead, I went all out and built a small module using a digispark and replaced the door and dash modules with custom ones using ws2812 leds from a strip. The module is controlled by switching between classic/sport in the idrive, no hidden switches in the doors, no replacement of optical conductors with whole rgb strips

I'll create a separate thread here on bimmerpost with more details and photos, maybe a video using the thing, hopefully tomorrow. In a few days I hope to finish a diy as well, for anyone with the time and patience for this sort of stuff
That looks pretty cool. Would be interested to see how you did that especially without replacing the OEM light tubes with RGB strips.

Did it involve using one of these in some shape or form?

http://digistump.com/products/118
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That looks pretty cool. Would be interested to see how you did that especially without replacing the OEM light tubes with RGB strips.

Did it involve using one of these in some shape or form?

http://digistump.com/products/118
I used a ws2812 led strip, like this, specifically this version(60 leds/meter, non-waterproof), except mine is white and labeled ip65 waterproof..which by the looks of it I'm pretty sure means non-waterproof.

For each led module I used a piece of strip containing only one led, stuck that to a small piece of circuit board(it's self adhesive) basically creating similar modules to the original ones. Unfortunately I didn't think of taking a picture with the finished module side by side with the original, but here is how a piece of strip looks like next to a dash led module(left).
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I used a ws2812 led strip, like this, specifically this version(60 leds/meter, non-waterproof), except mine is white and labeled ip65 waterproof..which by the looks of it I'm pretty sure means non-waterproof.

For each led module I used a piece of strip containing only one led, stuck that to a small piece of circuit board(it's self adhesive) basically creating similar modules to the original ones. Unfortunately I didn't think of taking a picture with the finished module side by side with the original, but here is how a piece of strip looks like next to a dash led module(left).
That's pretty nifty. I look forward to seeing your detailed post.
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That's pretty nifty. I look forward to seeing your detailed post.
Made a new thread here, no new photos really, due to covid curfew in the weekends, but I'll have some more soon enough.

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