Ehssan

thank you sir ,, appreciate your kind comment ( completely true )

my530i

Ehssan,
Hope you get some rest from your business trip. I'm very interested, too!

545ier

Nicely done Ehssan. Can't wait for a write-up.

I'm not going to bash anyone's business here, Bruce, but Vendors should not try to dispute working alternatives. :thumbsdown:

jas_r_1

Please confirm if coding will be required to reinstall the pre-LCI taillights (for example if selling the car) and if error msgs will come up should one of the bulbs blow

Ehssan

545ier :

jas_r_1 : Once you do the swap , you don't need your pre-lci taillights anymore , if you are planing to sell the car with the LCI's then get rid of the old ones as soon as you have the new ones installed/coded , no error for sure .

I will start one more test session tomorrow night to confirm the gadget, looks like when it comes to coding the LM1 , there are 3 different versions , so I'm working on something standard which gives the same affect on all the cars ..

to make things worse , I end up having a first degree sun burn because of the beach on Thursday .. so wish me luck guys .. I can't even put a t-shirt on ,,,

TheRacerBoss

All I can say is


Ehssan, Awesome job man. Your inovative & heading the right direction -- Good luck to you

jas_r_1

Thanks for your response but If I sell my car I don't believe I would get the money the lights are worth on top of the car as most likely car will be purchased by someone who doesn't know how much these lights are worth.

So if I wanted to refit the pre-LCI lights, will coding need to be put back?

You said no errors so does that mean we will get no warning if one of the bulbs blow - as Bruce is stating

Thanks

nomis_nehc

Yes.

bruce_miranda

Serves me right from commenting on a topic even though I've never done so in the past on any other solution.

But I think my response was completely mis-understood. I will tell you why there are shortcomings with this design and how to solve them.

1. In the LM1 (may-be some versions) when you connect both Brake lines in parallel you will get an error on the idrive when you hit the brakes. The reason for this is that the resistance is halved on the bulbs and the car detects this as a Brake light failure. To get around this, I would keep the Brake and Tail bulbs as the same but coded them in such a way that both brakes become the normal brakes.

2. It is absolutely True that the LED bars in this solution are the brightest they will ever get. Connect the LED bars in parallel with the fog and turn off the Warm and Cold monitoring. Connecting them to the fog will make them very dim. But to get around this, all you need to do is to put a diode between the fog and the LED bars and then a Capacitor between the LED bar lines. That will take the LED bars to full brightness all the time.

3. In any case I would switch the Check Control back on for the Turn and the LED bars. So that even though the car doesn't continously monitor the bulbs it will check it atleast at start-up. This is how BMW does this for all LEDs, e.g. See the Middle Brake light that has always been LED.

This will be my last comment on this thread.

Ehssan

Appreciate it Sir , I'm one of your orions setup fans , I'm doing the same next weekend

if you are planning to run both brake bulbs as brake lights , then you will have to disable the warning , 99% who's using several LCI's solutions are running single brake bulb ( Euro sepcs cars ) , so if you want to keep it the same , then you don't need to disable the warning , and when the bulb is broken / damaged whatever we call it ,, you will get notification ,,,