MORI3L

Well, today was my lucky day as I got quite the gift in the mail today

As the title states.. I will be going through with the retrofit as soon as I can get someone to help me do a little coding

This is what this thread is about:

Retrofitting LCI Halogen to Euro Spec LCI Non-AHL Bi-Xenon on an 08 528i.

This is what I have so far for bulbs:

Umnitza ICE LITE H8 AE (Will look into HID Angels in the future depending on the brightness of these)
Generic 6000K D1S bulbs (will try to get something better when I get some more mula)

I noticed that the side marker bulbs had a chrome coating (Saves me the upgrade).

Going to attempt this with a simple VO change (Plus any other needed coding). If anyone has any suggestions im all ears

HERES THE PIX!!!!!



Sexiness.



As you can see the headlight plug is missing 1 pin. In theory..if these are the same as the Halogen lights... The VO change should be enough.



My bulbsssss



Stay tuned.......

patrickdsg

Hi,

I want to do the same retrofit. I have LCI Halogens as well on my '07 530i. I want to change to Xenons as well. Where did you get the Non AHL Xenons from?? Please post your progress.

Thanks.


Patrick

MORI3L

Is your car LCI? I'm asking because my car is and this thread is built around the LCI platform.

I got these used from Germany. I contacted someone that was selling them and had em shipped to me via DHL.


That being said....

Update #1 The pins are in completely different locations. This means I'll have to wire up new connectors and possibly run some wires. I'll post some pics soon to show what I mean.

patrickdsg

Yep, mine is LCI.

Looking forward to picks and update.

Good Luck!!

MORI3L

What I did here was I tried to plug the lights in without any coding. As stated above the pins are in different locations so naturally this was not going to work..

Heres the pics that shows what i mean...

ERROR!



Shot of the pins...notice that they are different then the ones on the xenons (pic is above).



Two shots of the connector...






Standby.....

BlaSTiWi

At least you'll need an additional ground wire into pin #2 for the Xenon ballast.
I think pin #5 is the Bi-Xenon hi-beam shutter that you have to add too.

You'll need to re-configure some pins on the LM and do coding.

GL!

MORI3L

Small update: I've got the Lo beams to turn on (with errors/flickering) By interally grouping the wires on pins 2 and 4. Going to try swapping pins 5 and 6 on the harness for the high beams and the pins on the LM for the AE/highbeams. Will have some more info hopefully by the end of today/tomorrow.

MORI3L

Thoughts so far on this project... I did 90% of the retrofit in less than an hour with minor coding and no cutting of wires.

I haven't swapped pins 5 and 6 for the high beam shutter yet nor any pins on the LCM but I got everything else working just by internally combining the wires for pins 2 and 4 (with a wire tap) and adding xenon to the VO + disable AE bulb check (BIG thanks to Chase AKA Sublime for the help!). The only two things that arent working is the high beam shutter and also the AE is operating at 10W (which doesn't matter because I have ICE LITE 10W AE but it'll matter if I ever wanna go HID or stock). Heres some pics....will write a DIY as soon as this is 100% done.

Enjoy the pix!!!!

wtlb

Looks good.

Luxurytax

Nice man. You are almost done it appears.