DRL's / Only Angel Eyes on during daylight.
 

I want the Angel Eyes to be on during the daylight, I own MY 2004. The X5 doesn’t have the DRL’s program on. If I do have the DRL’s program to be on; will the low beams be on too? I only want the Angel Eyes to be on and I do understand if I put on the parking lights, I would achieve this. However, I will most likely forget to turn them off (parking lights). It is probably illegal in California to drive with parking lights on. The newer Bimmers (E92…etc.) have this feature; that driving during daylight only the Angel Eyes are on.
Can you guy help me? Should I get the DRL’s program on, but will the low beams wash out the Angel Eyes? Is there a way to wire the Angel Eyes to be on during the daytime? The Angel Eyes only have two wires connected to them. There should be some way to hard wire the Angel Eyes to be on when the engine is on? Thanks!

Your Angel Eyes will get washed out by the sun (I can barely see them on a cloudy day). The rings system of the E53 is quite different from those in the newer bimmers, ie. E92, etc. (it's NOT as bright as the newer system). Unless you can get the E53 rings brighter, it would be a moot point to turn them on during daytime.

I agree with the newer Bimmers have a better Angel Eyes. That is why I need to know if DRL's will turn on the low beams and wash out the AE's?
I did purchase the Angel iBrights (plug n play) and they are white, nice and bright during the day. Probably not like the E92's.

Not if you convert to the LED upgrade. What you are doing should be very simple.

Are you talking about LED upgrade to the bulbs or the rings?

The rings can not be upgrade only the bulds.;)

The lightsources/bulbs. Since you're local, feel free to stop by and I can show you in person.

The DRL's are high beams on very low power.

Thanks!

I wonder if I get the my DRL's programed by the dealer and bypass the electric juice from the High Beams to the AE's? That would power my AE's during the day and just sacrifice my High Beams altogether.

Unless someone else tells me not to get the DRL's turned on. Hmmm...

The DRLs work at 50% power, you screw with these - you lose your high beams. :rofl:

bruinman.you can hardwire it to ignition 1 then you good 2go.

I am pretty handy and would attempt this. Ha! I have no clue on how to go about this. Can you tell me how and is it safe?

Is there anyone here on xoutpost.com that has done this or want to do this mod? That is to have your AE's running during the day?
This will be a great mod for everyone, as some current Bimmers have this done by the factory.

Hi all!
I still need help with this.

interesting mod, should be an easy job(just one wire I would guess. I did just get the DRL turned off in preparation for this mod. I hope to mess with it after I get my water stains out, maybe in a week or 2 when I have time.

anyone find anything out. I really want to do this mod. I'm even thinking of getting the angel i brights as well.

Did the exact thing on my e39. My e39 came with stock angel eyes, i upgraded the angel eye bulbs with MyCarr LED 7000k Bulbs, they were much brighter at night, however during the daytime they are more washed out then the oem yellow bulbs. Now to run the stock angel eyes as drl, i had to do some re-wiring, dunno about you guys but i noticed if i disconnect the angel eyes cable that it did not set off a bulb out warning, so it was perfect for what i was planning to do. I got a set of a LED Angel Eye Remote Wiring Harness, got my set from asptuning.com, paid i think $20CAD, much cheaper then other vendors, and i wired up the angel eyes as if i was wiring up aftermarket LED angel eyes. I tapped into the dome light for the remote trigger (fade on and off), used the positive terminal in the engine bay for power, and found a source in the fuse panel for secondary remote trigger which is used so the angel eyes stays on during daytime. I then removed my high beams so no more drl, and it didn't set off a light warning either. Planning to go in and get my drl's actually turned off one of these days.

No matter how cool you think that will be it won't be as cool as having high beams.

Tom is no joke either, we took a drive out to the shop and picked up the angelibrights, and smoked side markers :D and Tom did a lil sumn sumn with the ecu so that now the windows can roll down AND up via remote!!! Still gotta come out and get the E46 done!

But for Tom and EAS :thumbup: :thumbup:

Anyone ever find a way to get this done?

Its in the Articles section at the top of the website:

http://www.xoutpost.com/articles/x5/...-aes-drls.html

I don't think that would work on a 2004+. I know if I disconnect the wire, I get a "check side light" message. I though about doing this.

The best solution seems to get NCS Expert, and code the car to have the side lights off in parking light mode.

I'll have to see how I have mine currently connected. I re-did it several times and I can't remember what I finally ended up with but it was fairly simple.

However, I'm not 100% convinced that LED "upgrade" for AEs is safe - even though I have Angelibrights still on. LOL. Let me find the thread I'm thinking of.

Here is a heads-up about possible problems when using LED AE bulbs.

Not a very long read (only 2 pages)and you can skip most of the early posts and go straight to page 2.

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

I just purchased the VXX kit from Umnitza, and their description shows that they fixed that flickering issue, and all other errors. I am going to give it a try, especially since one of my AEs decided to die all of a sudden. Excellent timing I think.

Flickering is not the issue to worry about. Its the other possible detrimental effects of installing LED AE bulbs. Like getting that "SLS" message.

How you like the Umnitza VXX? They look about the same as the ibrights but they are supposedly (2) 5w vs only 3w for the ibrights. At least the VXX is less than 1/2 cost of the ibrights.

Yea, USPS is still delivering them. So I can't comment on looks yet.