E60 pre-LCI Halogen to LCI Halogen Headlights

[OkkerB]

After an accident that damaged one of my headlights I decided to do a LCI Halogen head light upgrade.

I got the head lights and LCI electrical plug conversion kit from my BMW dealer. The conversion kit consists of the mail adapters, connecters and rubber waterproofing plugs. I simply cut of the original mail adapter and refitted the LCI adapter plug. The headlights were app R6800 per light and the conversion kit was only R470.

I used this site as reference.

http://www.bmw-driver.net/forum/showthread.php?t=34538

As can be seen I have joined the two 5W park light wires to feed the one 10W light of the LCI headlight.

All is looking good except that I intermittently get a bulb out warning on the right hand side park light. I understand that I can fit a resistor to sort out this problem. Does someone know what type and resistance to use?

 

[OkkerB]

Found a solution to my Angel Eye Error problem!

I had the same problem with the light out error codes after upgrading my 2007 530d halogen headlights to LCI halogen headlights. I live in South Africa so I think my car will be the European speck, but am not sure.

At first I connected the two 5W Angel Eye (AE) wires in parallel to the one 10W AE of the LCI headlight. In this configuration I got bulb out warnings on the right side only, the moment I switch on the lights. What was weird is that I only got the warnings on the right side.

After a lot of research I connected a 17W, reverse, light in parallel over the AE. This reduced the errors but they still came intermittently. I in am sure that in the mornings, when it was cold, the warnings came more often.

I then try the 10W MTECH v3 LED AE’s from the lighting wizard John@Motorcepts, a member of the form. He guaranteed me that he’s LED AE will not throw errors in my configuration. But guess what after installation I still got intermittent errors from the I-Drive but now from both sides.

I was now getting desperate and the f@*^n beeping was driving me nuts! So I decided to again check all the wiring of the headlights. While having the lights out I thought to myself let’s just try one last thing witch I then did and now it looks like I am error free.

What I did was to remove the parallel AE connection. I then wired in a 5W bulb on the one wire and connected the other one to the MTECH v3 LED AE’s and I do not have the dimness problem that was describe in this post.
So what solved my problem? I believe it was a combination of two things.

Firstly the LED AE that is rated as 10W must not be drawing 10W of current otherwise the I-Drive would not have been happy. But it must have some mechanism to cancel the I-Drive warnings.

Secondly wiring in the w5 bulb satisfies the one channel, as per speck, and obviously the I-drive is happy with that.

I use this as reference
http://forums.5series.net/e60-parts...re-lci-halogen-lci-halogen-conversion-103684/

 

[Peejay]

Well done. :thumbs:

Why don't you change those old angel eye bulbs to LED ones from rennzport :thumbs:

 

[Twinz]

Glad you got it sorted. What a mission. :thumbs:

 

[OkkerB]

Well done. :thumbs:

Why don't you change those old angel eye bulbs to LED ones from rennzport :thumbs:

Check my post! I did fit the 10W MTECH v3 LED AE’s.

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Glad you got it sorted. What a mission. :thumbs:

Yes what a mission. It has been irritating me sins November 2012.

I don't even know how much time I spend researching the problem.

I even had BMW to technical head working on it. I work for BMW in Midrand so he was willing to help me out.

 

[Peejay]

Well done. :thumbs:

Why don't you change those old angel eye bulbs to LED ones from rennzport :thumbs:

Check my post! I did fit the 10W MTECH v3 LED AE’s.

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Glad you got it sorted. What a mission. :thumbs:

Yes what a mission. It has been irritating me sins November 2012.

I don't even know how much time I spend researching the problem.

I even had BMW to technical head working on it. I work for BMW in Midrand so he was willing to help me out.

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:sorry: well done

 

[Marchell]

:smilebounce:

After an accident that damaged one of my headlights I decided to do a LCI Halogen head light upgrade.

I got the head lights and LCI electrical plug conversion kit from my BMW dealer. The conversion kit consists of the mail adapters, connecters and rubber waterproofing plugs. I simply cut of the original mail adapter and refitted the LCI adapter plug. The headlights were app R6800 per light and the conversion kit was only R470.

Okker Botes ek wil by jou hoor die Convertion kit het jy dalk n nommer op jou invoice vir die kit ek wil ook koop maar bmw weet nie wat ek soek nie asb dankie