Angel eyes as running lights?

[ukrcan]

Originally Posted by TerminatorX5

these are in the US... i had OE euro headlight assemblies on my E39, and there was not a provision for a sidemarker light shining to the side - if you look at the US facelifted E39s, you will see yellow LED shining to the side of the road from the headlight... on euro version, there was not even a place to install yellow, blue or green anything...

i did not mess with the headlights of E53, as that car had to be back to the US and the Customs and border would not let the car back in with clear corners and no yellow in the front quaters of the car...


once i get the XP machine fixed (waiting on new hard drive, and a set of XP Pro disks, as my back up turned to be Vista), i will try to see if the side turn signal markers can be programmed to be lit at all the times, thus, satisfying the law man!!!

Yeah we have the same laws up here in Canada as well... i actually don't mind the amber when i am running parking lights... but i think i also turn on the tail lights when i flip the switch as well, correct?

[Clockwork]

hmmm, I've seen a lot of Bimmers driving at night with no corner lamps lit up with their lowbeams at night, so I assumed it was the new style of BMW to just have headlights and AE's illuminated. Must have been wrong.

[ukrcan]

Originally Posted by TwinsPoppa

I have the discontinued AngeliBrights and they are not that bright. With those 25w I will reserve my opinion until others chime in.

From my experience, any AE replacement bulbs always look super bright in pics but not in real life. Look at my avatar. Does that look super bright to you?

Guess what, in real life they are NOT even close to being that bright.

I am not getting my hopes up with those 25w ones, either...
I agree with you that simple light bulb swap is not going to cut it with the current offerings... that's why i am getting a set of 2500K bulbs to ran as DRLs until i see someone with a proven retrofit of AEs in our cars

[Sweep_the_Leg]

Originally Posted by TwinsPoppa

Its actually pretty simple but I probably made it look harder than it is.

Basically there's a positive & negative on each side. You keep the negative stock wiring. Just add wiring from the positive of the angel eyes to a power source - in my case to the ECU box under the hood.

That's pretty much it!

I think what is most intimidating and nerve-wracking to me is opening up and messing with that spaghetti box of an ECU. Which also happens to be fairly important to everything else on the car.

I actually wired up the angel eyes on my E90 using the Daeos harness. Did exactly what your DIY shows, but came in a convenient, pre-made harness. If I get ambitious and brave enough, I'll have to make a trip to Radio Shack once spring finally arrives.

[TwinsPoppa]

Originally Posted by Sweep_the_Leg

I think what is most intimidating and nerve-wracking to me is opening up and messing with that spaghetti box of an ECU. Which also happens to be fairly important to everything else on the car.

I actually wired up the angel eyes on my E90 using the Daeos harness. Did exactly what your DIY shows, but came in a convenient, pre-made harness. If I get ambitious and brave enough, I'll have to make a trip to Radio Shack once spring finally arrives.

Was intimidating when I didn't know which one to tap into. Once I found out no biggie. BTW. I didn't splice into anything in that ECU box. I actually just shoved my connector/wire end into the existing connector. So, no cut wires or anything in there - just wedged in by friction.

[X5only]

Originally Posted by TwinsPoppa

Was intimidating when I didn't know which one to tap into. Once I found out no biggie. BTW. I didn't splice into anything in that ECU box. I actually just shoved my connector/wire end into the existing connector. So, no cut wires or anything in there - just wedged in by friction.

Where E-X-A-C-T-L-Y did you tap into? Can you please show us a picture? I got the umnitza harness and been putting this off for more than a year.

[TwinsPoppa]

Originally Posted by X5only

Where E-X-A-C-T-L-Y did you tap into? Can you please show us a picture? I got the umnitza harness and been putting this off for more than a year.

See this link and see the pic at Step II. This is for the 4.8. Its probably a little different for the 4.4 & 3.0.

http://www.xoutpost.com/bmw-sav-foru...eyes-drls.html

Regardless, it will be a red & white striped wire that will supply power only when the key is in the ignition. How do you find the right one? Do what I did.

Since I did not have a probe I made a homemade one (Thanks to Mrbmwx5 ). You take small light bulb and connect a wire at the negative and a wire to the positive of the bulb. It doesn't need to be soldered because I just taped mine.

You connect the negative wire as the ground on the X. You use the end of the positive wire as a probe. Stick it in the connector/clip where there is a red/white wire. Turn the key in the ignition. If the bulb lights then you know its only hot when ignition is on. Tap this wire for the angel eyes.

If the bulb comes on without turning the key then, obviously, you got the wrong red & white wire.

Simple. Taa daa!

[Cadesto]

I wonder if the Daeos Vista DRL relay harness works as well on the E53 as it does on the E90? Heres a link to the unit Daeos Vista BMW DRL Relay Harness - DistantXtremes
I wouldnt think there would be much difference in the same E models lighting and circuitry of around the same year model....
If any other opinions on this please chime in.
If so I think it would be worth 40 bucks to have a nice displayable harness rather than a ghetto rigged speaker wire running around your engine compartment jammed into your ECU lol! No offense just sayin!

Also I asked the seller if this was compatable and they stated "Thanks for the question.
We have had customers say that it does.
But we have not tested it on the X5."

It would be nice to have a concrete answer before pulling the trigger.

[TerminatorX5]

they are using T-taps... for $40!!! i can use T-taps... for $0.50...

the beauty of a harness, that everything should be prewired - you pull the original plug, you plug-in aftermarket harness that is already TAPPED, and take it from there... this way there is NO modification to the original car wiring...

all you need to do, is to find HOT-ON-IGNITION wire anywhere in the car, run it to a relay, and supply power to the Angel Eyes through that relay that is controlled by the hot-on-ignition line...

my $0.02

[dpbayly]

I carried out this mod to my rings a few weeks back and doing it the way I've done it you can also very easily add the feature of the rings coming on when unlocking the car, my rings are an after market ring I've fitted which are weird to the side lights so should be the same procedure to the stock rings here's a link to were I've written it up:

Few electrical mods DRL's and auto lights on/off with central locking

in that post i had just fitted ccfl rings but I've just swapped them out for smd rings which look great as drl's