I allready posted : http://forums.5serie...30#entry1415355

but there is true E61 forum so I think e61 owners spoted there :)




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Any advices how to connect these lights: enough coding? Need some add wires to tail ? for LED signal ? what about hatch part ?

Thank you.

You can get the necessary plug&play* cables from member Bruce_miranda (site).

Here's a nice DIY on installing those cables.

* No coding required whatsoever...

250 POUNDS???? FOR DIY ?????THANK YOU ....I MAKE SOLUTION MYSELF.

P.S Nothing personal ! Thank you for the links !

That's the spirit! :twoup:

Suit yourself, in that case however: be sure to re-pin the X329 and X328 pins to the K2 and L2 connectors, otherwise you'll get capitals only...

Interesting attitude... :whistle:

Ok ! One evening for understand who is who in schematics.Afternoon to solder new wires from older connectors to LCI taillights and evening to check out LMA 1 coding and do some tricks with NSCexpert.

Tomorrow I`ll go for hatch lights part(its not e60 its e61)-more work to do.Now the main tail lights working good.No errors no strobing.

Soldering hatch led taillights E61.

I'm guessing in NCS-Expert you disabled the check-control on the rear lights (Kaltuberwachung-Warmuberwachung) to avoid strobing? Is there anything else that need to be recoded? I guess not...

The led bars, do they take 12V or is a resistor needed in the wiring to lower the voltage on them?
Is a resistor needed over the turn indicators to make them blink in a normal fashion (not fast as if one is broken)?

I'm also thinking of retrofitting the LCI tails for a while now but the price of the lights and an additional module is a little over the budget I want to spend on it. So I was thinking of doing it in a similar way as you did. Nice to see it's working out for you.

I am also wondering about upgrade my "tail" til LCI
But i cant find anywhere to buy the taillights other that BMW, do any one
know a cheaper place ?