Smoked LED tail lights

[SlickGT1]

Persona, how about a write-up on getting the inners to light up.

[PersonaNonGrata]

Originally Posted by SlickGT1

Persona, how about a write-up on getting the inners to light up.

I wish I could! Those skills belong to mrbmwx5, Mod Master himself.

Come on Tom! Share! Share!

[dkl]

Liking the LED look Just wished someone would come out with a set that's able to accommodate the '04+ adaptive brake lights

[SlickGT1]

Originally Posted by dkl

Liking the LED look Just wished someone would come out with a set that's able to accommodate the '04+ adaptive brake lights

Ok, what? I didn't know we had adaptive brake lights. So no LEDs.

[Ricky Bobby]

Originally Posted by dkl

Liking the LED look Just wished someone would come out with a set that's able to accommodate the '04+ adaptive brake lights

Get the Lightwerkz capacitors for 25 bucks and you should be set! 04+ guys have used them on the forums before

email [email protected] and plug them into the wiring of the LED tails

[dkl]

The capacitors would only fix the flickering issue. The adaptive brake light still won't work unless the taillight was designed for it.

[mrbmwx5]

Originally Posted by dkl

The capacitors would only fix the flickering issue. The adaptive brake light still won't work unless the taillight was designed for it.

You're 100% correct.

[Ricky Bobby]

OK SO I NEED HELP:

I installed my tails last night, hooked everything up, used the capacitors from Lightwerkz, and when I turned on the tails tonight, they don't light up! The running lights on the LED's anyway, the blinkers both work and when I hit the brakes all the LED's light up!


Maybe I should take off the capacitors?


Please help, they look so good on my truck and of course I'm the guy who has a problem with an install!

All connections are fine, everything plugged in as it should. My X is a 2003 model, pre-facelift. Thanks!

[SlickGT1]

Yea maybe take the caps off. Maybe they have the capacitors built in.

[Ricky Bobby]

Did that and nothing!


Now I unplugged the tails, and find that there are 4 wires from the stock tail light harness and 4 pins on the LED tails, the only problem is that these "pins" on the LED tails don't line up with all 4 wire contacts on the stock tail light harness. I've tried bending them to one side with no success, should I try to move the 2 wires over on the stock tail light harness?


It looks like this on the socket for the tail:

[- - - - ]

And this on the LED socket:

[ - - - - ]



FIXED! UPDATE 9:20 PM (1 HOUR LATER)



All I did was move the blue/green wire from pin 6 to pin 4, kept my capactitors plugged in, and success! Everything works!!!!



BMW, I hate to say it. But you guys are friggin stupid, how many different ways can you wire tail lights for a car that was only made 6 years? I have found at least a half dozen other threads of guys trying to switch halogen tails and have had to move pins around in their wiring harness too!



Either way, all is working and I am happy, and now my X's ass looks phenomenal!