BenAnd

Hi r9ndy

If your car is a 09/04 I asume you have the AHL + leveling control-box ( A214 ) under the glove compartment , just like in mine 12/03 , in cars after 03/05 the wirering for thees goes from the sensors and headligts directly to the LM according to the BMW WDS ( WDS =Wirering Diagam Systems ).

Have you re-directed 12 wires from the A214 control-box to the LM ???

We also tryed with the LM 9186 , and that also didden't work for us , we failed also to be abel to code it to the car ( so I now have on stock , price in DK 600 USD , just bad luck )

Yes you have to move the wire's in Pin 25 to Pin 63 and pin 40 to Pin 11 , to make the DRL ( Day Run Lights ) function proberly.

It should turn on with full brigthness in the Angel Eys when light-switc in postion "0" also in postion "Automatic" when full daylight , when light goes on ( automaticly or manually ) the brigthness goes down on 1/2 force , ( also in parking ligth mode ) , when parking-light is switc on over the turn-signal arm ( right or left ) , only the rings light op at the front , not the side ligths (LED's in/on the front/headlights).

I have dismounted the side light signal ( black/yellow wire ) from the LM , and then taken a wire from each tail-light and conectet directly to the side ligths ( left taillight to left front side-light & right taillight to right front sidelight ), now the the LED's also worke with the parking light R and l , find it look's cool'er

If you have maken the LED tail-light opgrade you can take the signal from the wire's white/red and white/blue by the LM , the two new wire's you then allready mounted when you performed the tail-light opgrade , elsway be awear to take the rigth wire thereto there is going to wire with signal to each tail-ligt , must be signal that goes to outer bulb in each tail-light.

Can it be becurse you don't have activatet it in the I-Drive men? ? , go over your I-Drive to the servic men? under settings and then thoss "light" , here you should have a toolbar called dayligth "on / off" , if not , then you car have to be coded for this option ( it is standard on EU cars like mine ).

NB: BMW part Nr. on the headlight's you can see on the label on top off each headligth directly when opening the hud.

Regards from Ben And / in DK

r9ndy

Yes all the 12 wires are connected to the LM.

How did you guys manage to figure out that those pins need to be switched? I believe in the US only 08 models are able to enable daytime running lights in idrive.

BenAnd

Hi r9ndy

Did you your-self re-direct the 12 wire's ? from A214 to LM ( A3 ), or have your car not the control-box A214 under the glovecompartment ? ( all E60/61 should have it there until 03/05 , not after !)

The Pin transfer you can find on page 14 in the Instal. instr. , did you get your DRL to worke ? , if you not have the men? option , it will be possible to code the function at your BMW dealership.

r9ndy

I did not do the install myself, I will check on the wires thanks!

According to the installation manual the LCM was moved from the glove compartment to underneath the driver side.

BenAnd

Hi r9ndy

I have made a diagram ( sorry on Danish ) for the wire's to be moved from the leveling-dynamic drive contrlo-box A214 under the glove compartment to the LM ( LCM=A3 ) underneath the the driver side.


I am pretty sure that the A214 box is in all E60/E61 until 03/05 , and that the LM ( A3 ) always have been mounted underneath in the driver's side , never under the glove compartment according to the BMW WDS ( shows back to the first E60/61 from 07/03 as the model came on marked in EU )

BenAnd

Hi All

I have now got confirmed that on pre 03/05 models the 12 wire have to be re-directed from the A214 ( AHL control box under glove compartment ) to the A3 ( light-modul (LM2-BMW part number : 154 944 ) underneat steering weehl) according to the preivus diagram I have oploaded , also the 2 ALC box'es underneath the LCI headligths have to be changed to BMW part number : 189 312.

I will now order and change the ALC box'es and make the re-direction of the wire's , this will take place in 1-2 weeks , and I will then get back here in the thread with the final result , and tell if re-coding the LM & ALC is nessesery.

I hope this will be of help for manny people , that might consiter a similar "opgrade" on pre 03/05 BMW E60/61.

Great THANKS to r9ndy , for help and information

Drive with your Head , not with your foot , and get well home

BenAnd

Hi All

Here just a littel situation report on the Bi-Xenon LCI AHL headlight retrofit

I have now got 2 ALC box'es 1 new + 1 used ( part no. 189-312 ), I have fitted them on my LCI headlight's with AHL , the right headlight ( with the used ALC ) woork's perfectly now , the left ( with the new ALC ) work's also but "revers" to the right one .

The flashing of the green LED on the lightswitc is also stoped

We will try to code ( PROGMAN ) sometime next week , I hope this then clear's the "reversing" of the left headlight ,so that both headlight's come's to work 100% as they was ment to work/function.

I have not re-directed the wire's from the A214 AHL box , to the LM yet ! , but we will perhaps have to do this in order to get the coding right , okay we will see

I will get back with the final result ( I hope ) some time next week

Cheer's to All

NobleForums

I had mine done as well. Royal pain, but I do like the way they look.

Howitzer

I'd use that for money down on a new or used BMW that had all that already installed.

NobleForums

I think it depends on ho much you got everything for. For instance, I bought my 08 xenon adaptive headlight lenses from a junkyard for $400 + ship, in practically brand new condition (just a bit of dust). I sold my 06 lights for $250. I got the LCM on a trade. The tail lights I bought used for very cheap too, and will probably sell my 06 tail lights sometime. The wiring, we called in some favors.

I think if I had to pay full new pricing on everything, it may be a more bitter pill to swallow.