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Old 02-21-2010, 03:42 PM
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I fitted Speedster sourced DEPOs today and used the wiring set up described above. They look fantastic, but I'm getting the "Check Park Light" error message on the OBC.

I still have left over a couple of what looks like fuses / relays that came with the headlights, but I'm not sure where to wire them in - I'm hoping / guessing that these will be what's needed to cancel the error message.

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I'm trying to do this now, but I don't have a white wire with brown stripe. The 4th wire down was green with brown and that didn't work.

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Let me get a better picture this afternoon.
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Any tips to getting rid of this gap? I can't seem to get it to sit any lower.
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Old 12-29-2010, 06:30 PM
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All,

I updated post #2 in this thread with better pics of the LCM.

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I'm trying to do this now, but I don't have a white wire with brown stripe. The 4th wire down was green with brown and that didn't work.

Any ideas?

tkasser, here is my top LCM plug:



1) Please disconnect your tap to the green/brown wire that is in the same physical position as my brown/white wire. (fourth wire down)

2) Your second wire down is brown/white. Please verify with a DMM on that position, +12V with running lights on.

3) If test in step #2 proves good, try taping the relay trigger wire there instead. If test is not good, I am unable to direct you further, as I do not have wiring schematics for the LCM, and do not know if pinout locations have changed between revisions, even though the connector is the same. When I installed my DEPO AE's, I swept the pins with my DMM to find the wire that I am using for my relay trigger tap.
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Thanks!
I can't tell if the wires are different colors then yours or not. I can't believe that we both have 03 4.6iS's and the wires would be different.
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Quick question.

I'm ordering DEPO headlights...... but was checking out what was new here first, and saw this post, so i'll hold off for a moment until I get an answer on this......

J.Belknap your thread was titled.. "
Lighting (Angel Eyes) wiring for factory switched operation. "

Does this mean I should only follow what your showing only if I already have a factory switch, dedicated just for the angel eyes??? LOL, i'm sure your rolling your eyes at my question, but I love my X5 (a little too much) and I dont wanna order the wrong type of DEPO headlights or wire them incorrectly.

Or is this a way to just turn the angel eyes on without any other part of the headlight on? (no low beam, no fog lights, just the halos) <---- I would like to wire mine up so I have the option to just have the Halo's on and nothing else.... for that slick day time look.


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Old 12-29-2010, 08:58 PM
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Thanks!
I can't tell if the wires are different colors then yours or not. I can't believe that we both have 03 4.6iS's and the wires would be different.
If we have exactly the same everything, my only explanation would be that when wiring harnesses are made in the factory, when a spool of wire with one color of jacket runs out on the reel, a different jacket color is used until the reel is replaced by a fresh spool of wire with the original jacket color. This goes for all wiring EXCEPT for ground wires in the harness, which are always brown. The Germans prefer production efficiency I guess.

Crazy huh?

But, if that were the case, you should have had +12VDC with running lights on, on the same pin as me, regardless of wire jacket color. Since you don't, I think that we have an inter-year difference going on with the LCM. Do you have the same exact LCM? I wish I could help further but my limited knowledge ends there. What were the results of the voltage test on the your LCM's pin with the brown/white wire ?

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Or is this a way to just turn the angel eyes on without any other part of the headlight on? (no low beam, no fog lights, just the halos)
Yes, exactly. By using this switch in this position:



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I would like to wire mine up so I have the option to just have the Halo's on and nothing else.... for that slick day time look.
Yes, IMHO running just the LED's looks very aggressive on an overcast day and near dawn/dusk.



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Old 12-29-2010, 09:17 PM
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Yes, exactly. By using this switch in this position:



Yes, IMHO running just the LED's looks very aggressive on an overcast day and near dawn/dusk.




Dude..... your my new hero!!!! Thanks!!!
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Old 12-29-2010, 09:31 PM
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No worries man, just trying to pay it forward. Good karma and all that.

If any of you guys reading this got this to work exactly as shown, could you post that you did?
If you ran into a wire with different jacket color on the top connector fourth pin down on the left, and could not get this to work, could you post up?

I'm curious now.

Oh, and tkasser, I know what you mean by the gap, but I think it was always there and I just didn't notice. I was frustrated with it too during install, but the change in gap before/after was not noticeable to others when I asked. Maybe it's due to the black paint. Sometimes when we see things so often we see details that very few others ever take notice of. They will notice those LED's however.
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