Can i install xenon headlights to my w204 2012 facelift?

 

 

Yes, its called a projector retrofit, you open up your head light with a heat gun and install an after market projector housing,lots of people have done it.

 

 

It all depends what options your car has, it gets complicated when you already have OEM xenons and adaptive lights which include ballists and all sort of wiring, if you car doesn't have those options, which It looks like you just have the base halogen light, retrofiting some projectors in the housing and wiring some after market HID's to them would be very doable and error free, they just need 12v supply and shouldn't mess with the computer since the resistance should be the same, unless you go LED bulbs, then you would need some resistors to fool the computer. It's a pretty time consuming job, opening the headlights and retrofiting projectors so I would maybe jsut look into quality aftermarket options, you would still need to get an HID kit and wire it.

 

Since you seem to have the halogen lights you can do one of two things.

1. You can buy an HID kit for those. They will be terrible and will be blinding to anyone or thing in front of you. Your light output will be better but it will throw it all over the place. Not the way to go but doable. You would just buy an HID kit for the factory halogen low beam bulb size. dont recall off hand what that is but im sure you can find it with a quick search of pop the cover off. The retrofit of the HID bulb and ballast is quite easy. You will have to drill a hole in the low beam cover or housing somewhere to run the wires to the bulb. The ballast stays external as I doubt there is enough room in the housing to house it. The hid ballast gets power from your low beam plug (2 pin) inside the housing. Simple your done.

2. The correct way would be to buy depo projector style headlights. I just did this. You would run those. Besides the better look you will have a much flatter cutoff and focused beam. People will argue the focal length is different since the depos are still technically a halogen housing, but its a miniscule difference. You wont notice it at all unless your extremely **** about it and seen them side by side. It wont blind people and will be much better. Hookup of the hid bulb and ballast is the same. I mounted my ballasts to my aluminum bumper absorbing beams. Made it nice and clean and tight without stuff rattling around. Hope that helps you out.

 

 

 

 

I installed the depo version. The ones you posted pictures of are the oem ones. Mine look the same. I will post some pictures tomorrow for you. No codes, plug and play.

 

Can you post a link to these please

 

https://www.alibaba.com/product-deta...577b2fc2qMTJ0n

 

Oh boy!
Why I didn't see this 2 days ago.
I just paid 350+shipping for the same headlights for my 2013 w204

 

They are not $30, they are still $350