Successfully retrofitted to Bi-Xenon Headlights
07-03-2006, 09:08 AM
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Originally Posted by M3 SMGII' post='306139' date='Jul 2 2006, 11:43 AM
great job!!
was it plug-and-play?
Because i want xenon too, but i let them install by my garage, but i dont know if he is able to install it.
I have now halogens
was it plug-and-play?
Because i want xenon too, but i let them install by my garage, but i dont know if he is able to install it.
I have now halogens
It was not a plug and play job thats for sure, I ran into several issues. The major problem is the strobing effect caused by the LCM which in a halogen setup its designed to pulse the required voltage thus causing the strobing effect with xenon's. I fixed the LCM issue by using caps to stream out a steady voltage to the headlights. The other major issue I had was the wiring harness, it has to be modified to work with a xenon headlights. The headlights themselves have to be modified aswell. I can be more detailed if needed..let me know
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' date='Jul 2 2006, 01:16 AM' post='306002']Is it possible to retrofit an adaptive xenon light for car with non-adaptive halogen sets 
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Sorry for reopening this thread but I'm about to undertake the Xenon swap as well and was wondering whether there's a write up by someone?
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Originally Posted by Busta' post='306528' date='Jul 3 2006, 12:08 PM
It was not a plug and play job thats for sure, I ran into several issues. The major problem is the strobing effect caused by the LCM which in a halogen setup its designed to pulse the required voltage thus causing the strobing effect with xenon's. I fixed the LCM issue by using caps to stream out a steady voltage to the headlights. The other major issue I had was the wiring harness, it has to be modified to work with a xenon headlights. The headlights themselves have to be modified aswell. I can be more detailed if needed..let me know
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Originally Posted by drbytes' post='515043' date='Jan 8 2008, 05:43 AM
Sorry for reopening this thread but I'm about to undertake the Xenon swap as well and was wondering whether there's a write up by someone?
Good luck with your install.
01-12-2008, 10:02 AM
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Originally Posted by drbytes' post='515043' date='Jan 8 2008, 05:43 AM
Sorry for reopening this thread but I'm about to undertake the Xenon swap as well and was wondering whether there's a write up by someone?
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02-01-2008, 02:19 PM
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Could you write it down for me? and please write it slowly :-) I have H7 halogen lights... have 35W D2r xenon "kit" that I am able to work until stating the car up... than strobo effect and game over... so.. you used same 35w xenon kit + capacitor (which one?) for "+ yellow wire" only? or for both (- brown wire also)? have you just "ground it" to body? have you used any resitor (which one?) to simulate 55w of original H7 bulb drain? thx for your time answering my silly Q?s :-)
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Put a 4700uF 35v capacitor to the fat yellow (xenon feed) and brown wire (xenon earth), make sure you connect the capacitor right way around (+/-). This will cure the strobing and warning light. If you do not have xenon earth just earth to the chasis.
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so I have done "H7-xenon d2r oem" swap last week (with use of 4700uF 35V capacitor to get rid of BC massage :-) ), no problems at all, works just perfect... thx a lot, man, U saved me a lot of money and time...