peppernick

After 1 month, she is finally home !

Getting the parts was the easiest bit, the coding and calculations ........ damn ! Took my technician 3 weeks to get it right. But many thanks to Exoticmods in Kuala Lumpur, a job well done

BEFORE






AFTER

gottspd

Looks awesome! Enjoy!!

Caker

I'm jealous

flizzardo

congratulations!

your car is so beautiful! saw it on exoticmods facebook page. wow didt know that its actually an e500 thats like 20k annually on roadtax if private registered and if its company registered that would be 40k ?

tw8715

man looks good... how much did this cost you total?

peppernick

Thanks ..... the facelift really made it feel like a new car all over again ... Yup, it's privately registered. Not cheap but she's what I want


It's around 10K Euro after conversion

tw8715

wow sounds like a lot of work. is it possilbe to just change just the rear bumper? without touching anything else like the lights, trunk, or rear quarter panels?

nauticalx

your old grill is distronic plus but new one isnt.
did you previously have distronic and still have it or was it removed and why?

peppernick

You can but you need to modify the cut out around the rear lamps. The facelifted rear lamps are thinner than the pre facelifted ones, so if you mount the new rear bumper onto your pre-facelifted car, you need to trim away some of the plastic around the openings. The trunk and rear quarter panels did not change.

tw8715

i see awesome man thanks. for the rear lights is it just plug and play or did you guys have to do some programing?

peppernick

Distronic will be rendered non-functional after the conversion. So is cruise control. Sacrifices I supposed. But I've never used either since I bought the car.

The other function found on facelifted cars, the intelligent xenon that moves with the steering wheel, also cannot be made to function as the circuit is not found on the new SAM and will require several more components and reprogramming which is too complicated to crack. But the rest of the auto headlamp functions like normal.

peppernick

The rear lamps are not plug and play. They need to be coded and calculations made to make the illuination of the LEDS lights equal on both the main rear lamp and the portion that attaches onto the trunk.

You can see the difference in this photo. Calculating the signal input from the rear SAM.

peppernick

Refitted my C63 exhaust. Decided to take the plunge and amputated the AMG tips .... Exhaust shop joined the twin stinger to a custom single tail pipe on each side that fits inside the facelift exhaust trim.

Test fitting before chopping the tips ....




After ....




Sounds frikin' awesome but totally concealed



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zahunter

hi peppernick, how did you do that man? that looks awsome. could you please help me. i have a e500 coupe 2010 model. i want to convert it like yours. pls help. thank you.

beejAMG

distronic and cruise control gone. for me, thats a big red light.
though i reckon it can be fixed, try to get in touch with Chris the Swede as hes an expert when it comes to conversions.

also, did you not have the illuminated and active curve light before you did the facelift or did you lose that too?

any plans for your wheels?

terripr77

Car looks awesome. Can you share the part number for the front bumper?