'06 e60 sucessful halogen to oem bi-xenon swap
10-26-2009, 06:07 PM
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Originally Posted by mtrinh1' post='751895' date='Dec 24 2008, 03:17 AM
After reading many forums I've finally completed putting in oem bi-xenons into my e60 which came with stock halogen lamps (no adaptive headlights). Many of the steps were scattered throughout the many posts so I've put together the complete steps to save you guys time. First off, if you have the time and money, it was well worth the swap, total costs including parts and supplies were around $875, could've been less but i got kinda ripped off from the guy that sold me the lights. (told me it was complete with ballasts, bulbs and igniters, false! didnt come with anything) 
1) cut the green wire coming from the socket in half (xenon light beam adjust feed), splice the end from the socket to the gray wire (angel eye wire, to get rid of error message) cause theres only one angel eye bulb.
2) connect the other end (the end going to ur xenon lights) of the green wire to the white wire (high beam feed) this would make your bi-xenon highbeams work.
3) splice the two fat brown wires coming from the socket together to give ur ballast ground
4) get a 4700uf 35v capacitor, connect the negative end to the brown wire and positive end to the yellow wire going to your ballast (gets rid of strobing effect and error messages)
if you dont want highbeams skip step 2, all this should take u nomore than an hour, took me two days to sort everything out lol...
hope this helps, well worth the trouble... also this is only for an e60 that came with no projector halogen lights.
seriously doubt i can make the adaptive feature work...
Last step....have fun adjusting the lights lol, took me awhile....
Hope this helps..
p.s. don't let the dealer see the inside of ur headlight capsule lol...bye bye waranty.....
1) cut the green wire coming from the socket in half (xenon light beam adjust feed), splice the end from the socket to the gray wire (angel eye wire, to get rid of error message) cause theres only one angel eye bulb.
2) connect the other end (the end going to ur xenon lights) of the green wire to the white wire (high beam feed) this would make your bi-xenon highbeams work.
3) splice the two fat brown wires coming from the socket together to give ur ballast ground
4) get a 4700uf 35v capacitor, connect the negative end to the brown wire and positive end to the yellow wire going to your ballast (gets rid of strobing effect and error messages)
if you dont want highbeams skip step 2, all this should take u nomore than an hour, took me two days to sort everything out lol...
hope this helps, well worth the trouble... also this is only for an e60 that came with no projector halogen lights.
seriously doubt i can make the adaptive feature work...
Last step....have fun adjusting the lights lol, took me awhile....
Hope this helps..
p.s. don't let the dealer see the inside of ur headlight capsule lol...bye bye waranty.....
10-26-2009, 09:39 PM
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My Ride: 2006 520d - 19" 172s- Remapped - LCI taillights V6 cables - LCI xenon headlights - Denison 500 with BTA1500 - led interior lights - OEM led number plate lights
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Originally Posted by machy' post='1040955' date='Oct 27 2009, 01:10 AM
Anyone have any suggestions where to get a retrofit kit to do this? You guys recommend replacing the existing lights with xenon projectors or should i just replace the whole headlight? Found tons of different ballasts and ignitors... any suggestion which works best?
Thanks...
Mike
Thanks...
Mike
11-05-2009, 09:44 AM
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Just did this today and it works!!!!!!!!!!!! 
only took me about a hour and a half
The only thing wrong is one of the beams is too high and one is too low but other than that it all good (anyone know how to adjust them?
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Thanks
only took me about a hour and a half
The only thing wrong is one of the beams is too high and one is too low but other than that it all good (anyone know how to adjust them?
)Thanks
11-05-2009, 10:28 AM
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My Ride: BMW E60 520d SE Saloon M47 2.0dTitanium Grey II, Grey−Dakota Leather, Visibility Package, Media Package, Through Load System, Lumbar support − fr seats, Automatic Air Conditioning−Advanced, High beam assistant, Hi−Fi Loudspeak
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If any one want plugs from the BMW OEM retrofit kit just contact me. I have some remaining from when I used to use the LCI conversion kits to get the rear plugs.
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My Ride: E60 Carbon Black 02/2006 Sport
Things I have done so far:
1. Installed LCI Bi-Xenon (non adaptive) headlights and LCI Tail Lights.
2. Used BMW Genuine Retrofit Cabling
3. I followed the same Wiring Diagram (Halogen to Xenon) as provided by "Milko75" in this thread.
4. Plus I installed LM2 (thats the extra bit), changed VO (added #0906 and $522) and programmed LM2 as per new VO.
5. Due to LM2 and coding, I didnt need capacitors and lights are stable, no flickering
6. High beam, low beam, eye brows and rear lights work fine
Current Issues:
1. Parking lights go off after 5-6 seconds
2. Indicators flah too fast
3. iDrive is full of errors, no single light is functional as per the iDrive
Do you guys have any clue how to get rid of these issues
Any
will be highly appreciated. Cheers!
