Successfully retrofitted LCI headlights (with LED coronas) in to my E70 X5

[physguy]

Originally Posted by Seabright76

Hi All,

After reading all the threads I am yet to find anyone that successfully did the 2011 oem headlight upgrade to an older halogen fitted car.

If anyone know what it entails to install the new xenon lights outside of whats listed on this thread I would be eternally grateful.

Best,

Pete

I "successfully" upgraded my 2010 some time back (see threads) but never got the high beams to work properly. I suspect the others are in the same boat. If you look through the thread, you want see much talk about re-wiring.

[blue dragon]

It can't be harder than repining the connector to the FRM and the headlight, and then coding the FRM with FA #1104

[physguy]

Evidently for me, the high beams work fine when I select active for "xenon low beams installed". May be apparent to some but I learned via trial and error. Also, you can remove the adaptive light error on your dash if you disable the adaptive lights via coding. On my E70, the adaptive light option is directly above the option to select xenon low beams installed. Just a thought.

[rh7]

After a long search why the dimming with my retrofitted headlights does not work, I found the solution here

You wrote in the first post : "If you want them to Dimm you can hook pin #7(empty at the moment) to pin #3 (HID low bean power) and your LEDs will Dimm when the headlights come on..."

So the plug assignment is different at the LCI cars and the only way to get it working is to hook pin #7 and #3 - right ?

[delviacv2]

Originally Posted by rh7

After a long search why the dimming with my retrofitted headlights does not work, I found the solution here

You wrote in the first post : "If you want them to Dimm you can hook pin #7(empty at the moment) to pin #3 (HID low bean power) and your LEDs will Dimm when the headlights come on..."

So the plug assignment is different at the LCI cars and the only way to get it working is to hook pin #7 and #3 - right ?

It has been a long time since I did this but that was my quick solution instead of going back to figure out what pin location on the FRM correspond to the 2 missing wires. So basically you apply power to those pins at the plug and they will dim.

[rh7]

Ok, thanks, I will do it next year. Now it is too cold here in Germany to do it

[delviacv2]

Originally Posted by rh7

Ok, thanks, I will do it next year. Now it is too cold here in Germany to do it

You welcome!

[blue dragon]

Physguy, I know you sold your X5, what are you rolling in now?

[rdd]

Originally Posted by delviacv2

It has been a long time since I did this but that was my quick solution instead of going back to figure out what pin location on the FRM correspond to the 2 missing wires. So basically you apply power to those pins at the plug and they will dim.

Hi,

Did someone figure out to which pins on FRM3 we have to connect these two wires to get dimming working?

Thaks.

[binbin93]

Hi ALL,

I'm interesting to retrofit on my car 2007 BMW X5 3.0si with adaptive headlight and bi-xenon.
the P/N is 7 158 929 (driver side) and 7 158 938 (passenger side).

everyone can help and advise me all necessary items in details (headlight, ballast, module ...) that I can complete the retrofit, (of course, I need to code and re-wire).