[Russkey]

Hello everyone,

I want to retrofit OEM LCI headlights. Are they hard to install? Anyone from Florida that can do it? Thanks

[cipher5]

The actual installation of the headlights themselves is not very hard, but there's a lot of wiring involved and then intense coding which I think in the US not many have accomplished successfully outside of flying in someone from Europe.

This may sound silly but its easier to trade in your car for one that has LED than it is to do this swap.

[550Reasons]

i've only seen this successfully done once in a 13 M5.
you will need a few modules and then coding specially for it, Archie in the forums has not been able to do it from what I know, if you ask him he never responds about it.

I was thinking of sending the headlights out to a shop and have them replicate the LED headlight look. Would be cheaper and less of a pain in the ass.

[Stück]

Just LCI headlights, or LED LCI headlights? Quite a bit different animal.

LCI headlights would require not much work I'd think. The LED control functions were moved from the FRM to inboard headlight driver modules in each lamp. At a minimum you would need both headlights, complete, along with an LCI FRM. The wiring from the headlight to the FRM is going to need some work as well.

You'll need ISTA-D to pull the wiring diagrams from, and all of the modules involved will need to be encoded to the car they are installed in which ISTA-P probably won't like as the year model is wrong. It will need to be overridden.

[remmib]

Originally Posted by Stück

Just LCI headlights, or LED LCI headlights? Quite a bit different animal.

LCI headlights would require not much work I'd think. The LED control functions were moved from the FRM to inboard headlight driver modules in each lamp. At a minimum you would need both headlights, complete, along with an LCI FRM. The wiring from the headlight to the FRM is going to need some work as well.

You'll need ISTA-D to pull the wiring diagrams from, and all of the modules involved will need to be encoded to the car they are installed in which ISTA-P probably won't like as the year model is wrong. It will need to be overridden.

I assume LED LCi headlights, no point changing to Xenon LCI headlights, and the pics shows the LED ones.

[Stück]

Originally Posted by remmib

I assume LED LCi headlights, no point changing to Xenon LCI headlights, and the pics shows the LED ones.

The photo also shows EU market LCI lamp assemblies without the US market internal side lamps. I'm just working on the assumption the OP might not have known what he was actually picturing...

I myself think the LCI lamp assemblies look much better than the pre-LCI which looked pretty cheesy with the hexagonal LED array turn signal... and would gladly retrofit a pre-LCI car if it wasn't too hard to do.

[Russkey]

Yes, I mean full LCI LED headlights. I'm happy with the round blue angel eyes, but the LCI LEDs are on another level. It sounds like too much work to do though. I'm wondering how many people did this retrofit without facing any issues?

[lsturbointeg]

Originally Posted by Russkey

Yes, I mean full LCI LED headlights. I'm happy with the round blue angel eyes, but the LCI LEDs are on another level. It sounds like too much work to do though. I'm wondering how many people did this retrofit without facing any issues?

A fellow member did it...whether it worked or not I don't know...he had them for sale awhile back

For sale:
http://f10.5post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1213349

His build post:
http://f10.5post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1194727

[BlackWidow]

Originally Posted by lsturbointeg

A fellow member did it...whether it worked or not I don't know...he had them for sale awhile back

For sale:
http://f10.5post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1213349

His build post:
http://f10.5post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1194727

He did not get these to work.

As stated above, this has not been done in the US without outside help. In fact the only place I know of it done was in Singapore

[remmib]

Originally Posted by Stück

The photo also shows EU market LCI lamp assemblies without the US market internal side lamps. I'm just working on the assumption the OP might not have known what he was actually picturing...

I myself think the LCI lamp assemblies look much better than the pre-LCI which looked pretty cheesy with the hexagonal LED array turn signal... and would gladly retrofit a pre-LCI car if it wasn't too hard to do.

Well, the LCI lamp has halogen turn signals, so that's a no go for me.

[Stück]

Why? You actually use them?

:rofl

[cipher5]

Originally Posted by Stück

Why? You actually use them?

:rofl

If you're not a shitty driver you use your turn signals.

[Stück]

Originally Posted by cipher5

If you're not a shitty driver you use your turn signals.

I habitually signal, unless I'm pushing through traffic so fast it could be considered lane splitting... at which point I don't worry about it.

I was poking fun at the stereotype of BMW drivers not knowing their cars have turn signals.