Thanks Helmuth!
 

Fantastic! Just what I needed! Now off to the electronic store I go...:whistle:

Installed the 30ohm 5w resistor last night exactly how it looks on helmut's pix. The LEDs are now working perfectly!!! Thanks!

By the way, does the resistor really heat up? I noticed after a few tests, when I decided to finally tape the terminals of the resistor, it was HOT! I hope this is just normal :) thanks again!

I installed 2 LED's today in the side mirrors on a (face-lifted) 2005 4.4. No error codes. I bought the resistor just in case.

Weird...

I would like to install mirror lights on my 00. is there any way to do this?

Just did this upgrade. What a difference. First off, for those that have done this and stated that the light output is decreased, the wrong LED's may have been used. All the applications except the reading/dome lights need to have the 6 LED bulbs installed. The output is very nice and the LED's change the light from yellow to bright white. The interior looks great at night and gives you better illumination at your feet when the doors are opened. Highly recommend it.

appreciate the work you put into finding these bulbs, deff going to do this mod soon.you didn't need any resistors for these bulbs correct?also when you say "tailgates" are you implying that the lights for the trunk and license plate lights are the same?or is this just strictly for the trunk?(lights on the lift gate to be specific)

You won't get error codes from the interior lights. He's talking about the lights inside the tailgate, not the license plate lights.

subscribing to this post :)

Hi guys,

I did a search on this but couldn't really find anything definitive.

I installed some LED's from this ebay seller -> eBay My World - bmw_led and they were fine for a few months but now intermittently I get the "CHECK PARK LIGHT" warning, I have looked at all my globes and they are all ok even the license plate ones, the LED's are fine as well.

On the ebay sellers site they say "no codes" but something I did notice was the other LED's on the market (higher priced ones) are 3w versus these ones 5w.. could this be the difference? I don't mind buying expensive stuff if it works and I never have to buy it again.. its just annoying that these ones were fine and now they are not! I will swap in the filament bulbs over the weekend just to be 100% certain that its not something else.

Help appreciated!

Cheers

The error codes are caused because LED lights don't draw enough power like a regular bulb. So going from a 5w bulb to a 3w bulb would seem to be counter intuitive.

As romeokc10 pointed out on this thread, the interior LED bulbs will not trigger any error codes. However, the license plate lights and park lights will. Get the more expensive no error code LEDs.