Att: shogun and anyone else interested in LKM

[Incantation]

so dude.. i went to my mechanic and he had a spare lkm sitting around so i plugged it in .. and yea it turns out to be the lkm that is causing my light to not function..

he wanted 220 CAN for it.. what a joke. a new one is something close to that..

anyway.. so i thought i had re-soldered it all properly but i guess what i will have to do is strip all the re-soldered stuff off ( i had done the intermittent lkm fix last year) and just re-do it all.. hopefully that will work


one question.. is it plausible that using a higher wattage bulb could burn out the lkm?

anyway.. so to anyone who suffers one low-beam not working (as opposed to the common intermittent symptom) it would be worth it to check the lkm out ..

[Torque]

Higher wattage bulb would likely burn the wiring. I haven't heard of anyone that burned out the LKM with a higher wattage bulb, but there's always a chance.

[GS535i]

In addition to soldering ( or stripping & resoldering) the LKMs PC, check for continuity through the closed points position of the mini-relays ( whose PC contacts are ~ 90% of the problem anyway). When I first did one, the fog light relay had a burned contact that required careful cleaning to restore the circuit path.

[Incantation]

you know what's interesting.. i was looking at the lkm relative to the picture in bmwe34.net:



and i don't have the second relay from the left. i have the far left one and the two on the right side..

?!?

i am pretty stumped.. i did a solid soldering job.. oh well here goes

[uscharalph]

so dude.. i went to my mechanic and he had a spare lkm sitting around so i plugged it in .. and yea it turns out to be the lkm that is causing my light to not function..

he wanted 220 CAN for it.. what a joke. a new one is something close to that..

anyway.. so i thought i had re-soldered it all properly but i guess what i will have to do is strip all the re-soldered stuff off ( i had done the intermittent lkm fix last year) and just re-do it all.. hopefully that will work


one question.. is it plausible that using a higher wattage bulb could burn out the lkm?

anyway.. so to anyone who suffers one low-beam not working (as opposed to the common intermittent symptom) it would be worth it to check the lkm out ..

The LKM soldering job plus a new bulb solved my problem.

[liquidtiger720]

OT: but is there anywhere i can read up on soldering stuff correctly?

[Gayle]

OT: but is there anywhere i can read up on soldering stuff correctly?

Second that question.

[Bill R.]

well documented...alot of the guys that were running high wattage bulbs were torching the lkm's

so dude.. i went to my mechanic and he had a spare lkm sitting around so i plugged it in .. and yea it turns out to be the lkm that is causing my light to not function..

he wanted 220 CAN for it.. what a joke. a new one is something close to that..

anyway.. so i thought i had re-soldered it all properly but i guess what i will have to do is strip all the re-soldered stuff off ( i had done the intermittent lkm fix last year) and just re-do it all.. hopefully that will work


one question.. is it plausible that using a higher wattage bulb could burn out the lkm?

anyway.. so to anyone who suffers one low-beam not working (as opposed to the common intermittent symptom) it would be worth it to check the lkm out ..

[Bill R.]

sweatshop jobs in electronic assembly.

OT: but is there anywhere i can read up on soldering stuff correctly?

[ryan roopnarine]

well documented...alot of the guys that were running high wattage bulbs were torching the lkm's

bill, when you say "high wattage", do you mean 9005 (65w) bulbs or significantly higher? i've never heard of such a problem, but if it is, ill just substitute xtravisions in for my 55 watt lights.