LED Tail lights

[X5Ghost]

Originally Posted by PhilUK

I have just ordered these, will post some pics once fitted.

Note the 4 columns of LED's instead of the usual 3.

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Phil, can't read German but can't find these tail lights for face lifted E53? Why wouldn't these fit 1999 to 2006?? Did the tails change?

[PhilUK]

Originally Posted by X5Ghost

Phil, can't read German but can't find these tail lights for face lifted E53? Why wouldn't these fit 1999 to 2006?? Did the tails change?

If you go in via the homepage you can choose to view the site in English (well kind of!).

Carparts-Online GmbH

[Ricky Bobby]

Lemans,

Are you having trouble with the running lights and/or brake lights? If so, you may need to swap 2 of the pins around in the tail light harness on your car, I found that when I installed mine that the brake lights lit up just fine but the actual running LED's when my headlight switch was on were off.

After swapping 2 of the pins around in the harness, it works fine now. If you do a search of my threads you'll find my details about it.


As far as the "strobing" on startup, its something I live with and doesnt affect performance or life of the tail lights. If I find someone who can turn off the cold monitoring of the tail lights for me that would be great, but in the meantime the lights work as they should, and no flickering during normal operation.


Hope that helps you to enjoy the lights better, they really upgrade the truck!

[tmv]

All LED taillights are pretty much from the same manufacture, except the new one posted above. I'm happy with LED taillights on my E53, no more brake/taillights problem plus the updated look.

PhilUK, I'd love to see the pics of those installed, lid and not.

[Rado]

Before and After pics of my smoked LED....

[TerminatorX5]

looking good... are they throwing any codes? any flickering?

[Rado]

Originally Posted by TerminatorX5

looking good... are they throwing any codes? any flickering?

No error codes, no flickering, the easiest plug and play ever...I was actually surprised too.

[Bayerische E53]

Originally Posted by Rado

No error codes, no flickering, the easiest plug and play ever...I was actually surprised too.

I think I saw you on 90/94 earlier this week heading up towards Waukegan. If it was you, you had your euro rear fogs on. Car looks nice. Although the LED taillights aren't really my "bag," they do look much better on black cars than on anything else. That's actually the first thing I thought of when I saw your car (i.e. "Hrm, those actually don't look bad on black - surprising because they look pretty crapy on the other colors.").

The other thing I thought after noticing the bright AEs and euro fogs was: "this chap's gotta be on XOutpost..."

Cheers.

[tmv]

^^ Not likely to have any flicker on pre-facelift. Most of flicker complaints are on the facelift models.

[dkl]

Those should physically fit up to 2006. I'm guessing that 2004-2006 isn't listed as being compatible due to adaptive brake lights. So, I think it should work as long as you don't mind giving up your adaptive brake lights.

These stock look upgrade are actually very nice.