Put spare HID kit in Sisters 530!

[Booster]

Jon.......you don't happen to have a snapshot of ALL the stuff needed for the E39 HID swap do you ? I may attempt this instead of just doing the bulb change upgrade.
Cheers.........Vinny

[Jon K]

Booster-


Ballasts one per bulb, 2 D2S bulbs, 2 9006 bulbs.

Cut the **** out of the 9006 bulbs so that you can get the base off of it.... you literally dremel the hell out of the bulb, but keep the "ring" (plastic) that has the notches in it. Then, trim the D2S bulb so that the 9006 plastic ring will fit over, epoxy it so that the D2S bulb filament lines upw ith 9006 filament... you know have D2S bulbs rebased for 9006 sockets. Then just plug the OEM headlight connector into each ballast and each ballast into each bulb. Done and done.

[Jobi]

errr...any pics of steps of this upgrade? Cause 9006 or D2S doesn't ring any bell for me... I know they are bulbs, but I just don't visualise the job which has to be done...

[Booster]

Booster-


Ballasts one per bulb, 2 D2S bulbs, 2 9006 bulbs.

Cut the **** out of the 9006 bulbs so that you can get the base off of it.... you literally dremel the hell out of the bulb, but keep the "ring" (plastic) that has the notches in it. Then, trim the D2S bulb so that the 9006 plastic ring will fit over, epoxy it so that the D2S bulb filament lines upw ith 9006 filament... you know have D2S bulbs rebased for 9006 sockets. Then just plug the OEM headlight connector into each ballast and each ballast into each bulb. Done and done.

Jon.....Thats it ? Very cool. I can tweak a set per those fine instructions. Are their any years of HID ballasts that I should avoid in the E39's ??
Vincent

[jlcool007]

i was just wondering two things:

1. on past forum (other) hid-installations on e34's, there were many many many, splicing steps and re-wiring of the harnesses, adding transistors and what not...how did you do yours?

2. what i meant by the beam not working is: on forums installations, even if all the beams were working, there was a "low beam" message on the OBc display in the dash (because it had to do with somehting like the hid ballast didn't pull the same amount of current as the low beams did so there was an error message saying tht they wern't working.

it just seems that for 150 bux (a GREAT steal) you'd have to do more work than just plug and play....was it like that or more like a complex rewiring of harnesses and whatnot...

-jason

[Qube]

Well I've tried four different ballasts in my e34 for tests and not one time did the low beam come on. It DID come on once though went one of the ballasts failed and the bulb turned off.

Installing in most our e34s should just be plug and play. I believe that our wiring harnesses are enough to handle the load. Of course there are others that say otherwise.

[Jon K]

It's really simple. If I were home I'd show you the comparison pics of my setup vs my sisters setup.

My setup: H1 bulb goes into my Euro projectors. They interface to the ballast via 2 connectors. The ballast interfaces to the car wiring in that the stock bulb plug goes right into the ballast. Easy as cake.



Sisters setup: Her bulbs are D2S bulbs that I rebased for 9006 sockets. They go in just like any other 9006 bulb would. Then they use the D2S style connector to the ballast, then I had to splice the input wires for the ballest from the stock headlight bulb connector ground and +12v since the ballast accepts a different type of input connector... again not hard.

[liquidtiger720]

I still get low beam errors when I light up the lights

[jlcool007]

I still get low beam errors when I light up the lights

yeha this is what i meant, there is some way, type in "e34 m5 forum" into google, and there is a dedicated forum for e34 m5's and this one guy did this hid install which i keep referring to- there were SO MANY steps rather than a plug and play that Jon keeps talking about. There is a threat "in search" that delas with this "low beam" error......

so jon, you're saying that you "don't" get a low beam error on your obc?

-thanks much

jason

[Jon K]

I do not get low beam error unless it is REALLY hot outside (like 90+) when the check control module is more prone to error due to resistance.

Also, if you turn on your parking lights iwthout igniting the HIDs you will get lowbeam... other than that, no.