LED Puddle Lights & LED Interior MOD
 

With the LED Angel Eyes out of the way I decided to go for the Puddle lights next.

I wanted something really bright that would illuminate the area around the X when approaching the vehicle at night.

I went with a 3W Cree T10 Wedge with a nice heat sink.

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The larger design of the high output LED didn't want to seat in the bulb housing correctly So I used the Dremel to take off a few mm's of plastic to accommodate the larger bulb head. The bulb socket has a rubber O ring that still allows the bulb holder to seat correctly and make a nice watertight seal.

The instructions for removal of the mirror cover and access to the bulb to do this retrofit have been covered here before so I didn't document this part. It's very easy to pull the cover off.

Here's a link http://www.xoutpost.com/610136-post10.html

And on to the before and after.

Before
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After

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The light output looks 10X Brighter to me "It was hard to capture on my camera" It washes the ground and side of my X5 in a nice bright LED glow.

I am very happy with the result.

Now for the interior.

I swapped the Door/Courtesy lights, Footwell, Front Mirrors, Rear Headliner, and Glovebox With these 3 SMD 39MM Festoons

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Some before and after shots

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While I was at it I did the License Plate bulbs as well.

Before
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All LED

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The next to be swapped will be the interior tailgate bulbs that are a T10 wedge that needs to be a different orientation than the ones I used in the Puddle lights "Down firing only"

I ordered these
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And the Maplights are super low profile T10's that won't fit my T10 3W Crees either so I've ordered these. Hopefully they will be low profile enought to fit in that little holder.

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I really enjoy the crisp white look the LED's put out on the black leather!

Cool, are you getting license plate light out errors with those festoon bulbs? If not, where did you get them?

Looks good. If you get SMD bulbs for exterior lights, it shouldn't cause errors, but they will flicker at startup. To kill the startup flicker, you need to do some coding.

Lexicon, did you notice yours flicker at night at startup? Mine did till I coded off the cold monitoring. Same for the driver side angel eyes. It actually abused my driver side AE to the point I had to send it out for replacement. Glad Umnitza has lifetime waranty.

Oh, interior lights are not monitored at all, so no need for interior SMD LEDs, any led that fit will do.

Thanks man. No Errors. I coded the LCM for Check Control and Cold monitoring off on the lic. plate circuit.

Hi Slick, No Flicker for me man. I remembered your warning about your A.E. Bulb turning green or failing because of the cold monitoring on the LCM for that circuit. I used my homemade ibus interface and coded the LCM with a program called Navcoder. It's a nice little piece of software I have used for years to code navi units/ radios/TV modules ect. On my E38 & E39 It also has LCM support and adjustments for DRL, Follow Me Home Settings, Double Blink Euro Flashers, GPS Clock Sync. Ect.

I was going to do a thread on it this evening actually. Thanks again for the reminder. Those A.E. LED's did strobe quite a bit in key pos. 2 prior to start up before I coded the Cold monitoring off.

-Lex

Cool so you are on the right track. You convinced me to replace some of my interior bulbs with LEDs. Def brighter.

I like them. Waiting for the bulbs to arrive.

The low profile T10 wedges arrived yesterday. I had to disassemble the dome light housing to accommodate them but boy do they look great!

I'll post pic's later after the sun goes down.

Are those bulbs capable of the fade in/out when opening or closing a door?

Yes Sir! Just like stock.

Niice!! Where'd ya get 'em from?

They are made from rare earth elements and highly classified alloys. therefore they are only obtainable through undergrounds sources. That being said I may be able to source you full set. After you send my your X6M Wheels of Course :bustingup

J/K I got them on Ebay Bro...

Yup. Get 20 of the Frestone ones for $18.99
Still need about 8 more for both of my bimmers though

They Are Alot Brighter fro stock to LED's....good to see more people switching.....

If you search 5 years back...our old gangs had done this :D

5yrs i was just getting into the Euro Scene...lol...

here was my life with cars....

from the great
Acura Integra b20 vtec (aka Fast and the Furious inspiration)
Camry lowred HnR & Eichach sway bar,system and Tv inside,HID
MB E320 from beige Color to Xtra Pearl Black Fresh Paint.
Mb Clk 500 purple HID to 6k Hid and brabus Rims
to
BMW...lol

Highly classified eh? ....soooo unobtanium? :rofl:

LED interior bulbs for some x6m's? DONE!

Is it from a specific seller? I tend to not venture on ebay much...Usually grab my LED stuffs from autolumination.com.

to this..
X5 and X6
and hopefully keep both and save for the X5M...soon...hopefully next year...

Twinspoppa has them too......i wanted those wheels...they look so aggressive...!!!:thumbup::thumbup:

Yeah man! The fact Im the only X in my city rockin 'em makes it even better! lol

your X is one of a Kind......its like 4.8MNSTR's X...we just installed a Cut out Switch for exhaust....let me get the youtube....

bottum of the thread...

http://www.xoutpost.com/bmw-sav-foru...5-exhaust.html

Thanks man! Sounds sick! Lets try and keep this thread on topic. :thumbup:

hahah..true...im veering off..lol...

:) Ya can't blame a guy for tryin. That sig. pic looks nice man. love the stance and angle.

Here is a link to the ebay seller for you X5SND.

items in kunkunh2009 store on eBay!

I bought the 39mm festoons and 3W T10 wedges for the puddles from him.

Let me know if you need anymore links I'm always happy to help!

-Alex

Thanks dude!

Correct me if i'm wrong but the puddle lights on the mirrors if a feature for the face lifted X models right?

i think you have them too....if you look under your side mirrors ..you should see a little circle clear lens

I used to have a 95 Civic SI with B22 in that baseball cap shell.1/4 mile run just low 9s at 148mph.

BTW I love the E38 you have there Lexicon.

yours is faster than mine...i think mine ran like in the 12sec range.......all sound but no HP compared to German engineering.
lol

Sure it is a lot of sound and no....any way ... but no class when compare to GER,

I know now..no matter how much you spend on the Tuner Scene.....once you step up to Euro ..its a whole different breed of animals.......



honda is honda :gun::gun::gun::jealous::jealous:


.....bmw is like incomparable...:hawt::hawt::yourock::yourock:

Thanks Man! I've put alot of work into her.

It looks like you have a nice low mileage 750 there ready to me modded....

I have yet to own a V12 but had the chance to drive an Alpina B12 with a 6.0L V12 in Germany. That thing had some crazy power. I'd like to have something with a 12CYL one day.

Lexicon..I ordered 3w t10 Crees from ddm tuning to put in my mirrors....I don't have a Dremel so hopefully I can make them fit !