medik13

I have a set I have retroffited that I have been using. The drivers side is good cond., but the lens could use a polished. The passenger side is cracked on the housing but has been repaired with epoxy also has the bottom bracket tabs cracked but it fits fine. It also has an OEM repair top tab. The lens, however, is perfect. Once mounted no one would ever know and the fit is perfect. The OEM Xenon lights are plug and play for halogen and includes all the OEM ballasts, igniters, and 6000k bulbs. I am going to move up to LCI lights, so I will sell these if you want for $700 shipped.

theXman

Thanks for chiming in.

I have a question related the angel eyes of the retroffited headlights. I have a similar setup, but after I changed the AE with aftermarket LEDs. I keep getting an iDrive error about the parking lights being out. To alleviate the issue, I have to move the headlight dial to "Auto". With that, if the lights turn on at start, no errors. But if the lights are off at start, an error comes out once with no reminder after. So my question is, do you have non-OEM AE bulbs installed in yours? If so, do you have any errors and how do you fix it?

medik13

This can be fixed in two ways.

1) Install resistors to the AE wiring. (Brown and Grey Wire)
2) Install a new LCM, one that supports the OEM Xenon headlights.

Which AE bulbs do you have?

To the OP... If you are willing to buy the retroffited lights I have, I will substitute the above mentioned passenger light with one that is in as good cond as the drivers side with just an OEM repair kit top tab for $850 shipped... This is a great price!

mark_hk

i had halogen lights and upgraded to HID. Similar to what forum member Brabusw209amg sells! Works great and is super bright!

Also upgraded my AE bulbs to bright, white LED bulbs... again brabus can help you out with that!

medik13

The difference is Brabus's kit is not as nice as the OEM look of the factory projector Xenon headlight. His kit is much cheaper though.

theXman

Simply putting HID in a halogen headlight housing is the easy and less expensive way to go HID. It's bright but the beam pattern is all wrong. You're basically driving with the hi-beam on all the time.

theXman

I have the RDash AE. I thought about using resistors but they are too bulky and get hot quickly. There isn't much space in the housing, I don't want anything melted in there. Thanks for the advice.

medik13

A 25W 25ohm resistor works and is quite small. Wrap it in foil and secure it with electrical tape. Works like a charm, but I would still recommend upgrading the LCM.

BTW, Xman...Thanks for the plug!

theXman

You got it.

I might try that. Thanks.

E60ROCKS

Thnx guys for chiming in i'm doing a bunch of other mods right now that have higher priority over the lights so i just wanted to do an inexpensive upgrade for now but i will most def go the route of the retrofiting later. Mark_hk do you remember which HID kit u went with?