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LED Bulb swap for NON-LCI Tails
I really like some of the LCI changes, but I really like the non-LCI tails. However I am totally frustrated with BMW and the absence of LED's on a 2017. That's whole another discussion!
I decided to swap my incandescent #1156 bulbs for SiriusLED replacements. I have been using the replacement LED's on the front of the car for the turn signals for awhile now and they perform perfectly. See this thread for the front turn signals: http://f87.bimmerpost.com/forums/sho...&highlight=LED Here are some videos and images. The LED's look great, and are much brighter. I have the bulb check coded out, so I do not see and flicker of course. There are a total of 10 bulbs that need to be swapped in each rear tail assembly. Here is what you need: 8 x SiriusLED # 1156 (Red) - Used for the brake lights (x6) and the Turn signals (x2) 2 x SiriusLED # 1156 (White) - Used for the reverse lights (x2) Link to purchase the LED's: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0..._st_dp_summary See above - LED is installed on the right side for comparison. See above - LED's are installed in both reverse bulb sockets. See above - LED's are installed in both turn signal sockets. See above - LED installed in turn signal socket. Close-up
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Awesome thread, thank you for the info - looks great
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I keep coming back to this thread. I'm thinking I really like this.
When I was searching for my E46 M3, I made sure to start looking @ 2004 as that's when they added LED tails to those cars (yeah, actually 2003.5, I know). So this looks like a $100 update more or less? If you don't code out the bulb check do you get a warning i take it? I have bimmercode. Would you know what to actually code out using that? And what the heck does that rear fog do beyond the emergency brake thing? AFIK this car doesn't have any fog lights? Do the rears ever come on outside of braking? I may ask that on another thread.
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I just ordered the LEDs and they'll be here Tuesday, apparently.
Do you have the bimmercode values that have to be updated? i also found a thread on getting the fogs to work. The switch needs to be added and of course, more coding. I may give that a shot as well. http://f30.bimmerpost.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=877278 Thanks......
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Rear Electronic Module > Reversing light left lamp > LED Rear Electronic Module > Reversing right left lamp > LED Rear Electronic Module > Tail light lamp > LED Rear Electronic Module > Tail light inner lamp > LED Rear Electronic Module > Brake light lamp > LED I think the "monitoring" of each light needs to be set "Not Active".
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Well, this worked great.
4 nuts, 10 lamp replacements, 3 minutes of coding and I have my LED tails. I changed one additional coding, an indicator one to LED. Pretty much everything that said bulb is now saying LED, except for the rear fogs, which now work thanks to the other mod I noted above. With bimmercode, I didn't even have to get into advanced. I coded the car with the lights disconnected and got a warning. That went away when I hooked everything back up. It's so nice when things work the first time. Thanks again on doing the homework for the lamps and the coding. If anyone is on the fence, do it up. It's too cheap and easy not to. Here's a question. When you separate the lens from the housing, there's a ground plug that disconnects between the two. Any idea what that's for? There's no power running that way, so what's the ground for. That had me scratching my head.
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Wow, this looks great and great feedback ChrisK.
So once coded, any flicker and start up light tests are removed? What coding app do you guys recommend? |
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I use Bimmercode which is only available for apple devices. It needs an OBDII dongle which costs about $20 and to activate the software is another $29. I used credits in the apple store and it only cost me $4. Check the stereo forum on this M2 board for more details on that. There are a LOT of pages on that thread.
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Never understood why BMW fitted LED lights for the tail lights but still used regular bulbs for signals and brakes
I wonder if anyone in Brisbane can do this |
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I am tired of BMW doing this LCI led crap. Same thing they did with the e92 M3. Etc etc. just use LED?s out of the gate.
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Got my LEDs today (ordered double by accident, didn't realize it was a set for each lol).
VERY pleased! The tailights and front turn signals now look proper for the pre-LCI M2. The deep redness of the red LEDs for the brake and rear turn signal look MUCH better than the incandescents. I feel like the reverse LED is a bit on the bright side (but it does remind me of new Mercedes' reverse light LEDs, which are also very bright from what I've witnessed). Overall a 10/10 DYI mod. Definitely worth the $100 in LEDs. Will post pictures and a video tomorrow. |
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The reverse LED's being brighter - fine by me
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I upgraded my '17 M2 tail lights to LED's too.
I used 4 pairs of Philips 1156 Bright White Vision Led ($21/pair) and one pair of cheap 1156 LED's for the reverse light ($9). I went cheap on the reverse light as I figure the reverse lights are not so important. I was surprised that I do not have to code to disable the bulb check. They are great.
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So far been running them the last couple of days without any issue. I just got my Carly adapter yesterday, but surprisingly I haven't got any codes or flicker or light tests going on with these LEDs since I installed them. Is the light test only being done by the ECU while in motion? Had the car parked and all the lights switched on and didn't see anything after 10-15 minutes of waiting.
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Hey guys/gals. I went ahead and made the change today and it looks outstanding. I'm waiting for my wifi dongle to do the coding.
On start up I do get two error messages. They are right and left taillights as expected. For anyone else doing this retrofit, the tool in the toolkit really doesn't do the job of removing the fasteners. It's a 10mm and I used a ratchet with an extension. |
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