HEADLIGHT QUESTION
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HEADLIGHT QUESTION
I am new to the forums and a new fairly new Mercedes owner. I got my 2011 C63 in November. I have never been happier with any car. But I have noticed that my headlights are different than most other C63s (08-11) that I have seen. Here are two picture that I have attached the first (black) is my car. If you look closely the headlight housing has a chrome type look. The second picture's (white) headlight has a much darker grey tint. I want to know were the grey headlights an option or did they all come with that headlight. Also if I wanted to find the grey headlights where could I? Would they fit or need any kind of modification?
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I almost didn't get my car because it doesn't have bi-xenons. But it has everything else I wanted and was a good deal, so I held my nose and bought it.
Before I signed I looked into retrofitting bi-xenons. My SA is great and has been with me though at least six cars. He actually dug into it. When he got to $7,000 he gave up. The factory xenons require so much new hardware that it's essentially not doable. It takes a different front SAM (not just coding) because the factory HIDs are active.
The only practical path is to a third-party system that isn't active, and that typically involves cutting and splicing some wires. That, plus the fact that the third-party lights don't look exactly like the factory units, leaves me cold. Of course, at that point either the SAM has to be recoded or a device that spoofs the old lights has to be installed as well.
It would be great if someone like Steve from the Netherlands could put together a kit of older, pre-active, HIDs that would fit. But as far as I know, nothing like that is available now.
Before I signed I looked into retrofitting bi-xenons. My SA is great and has been with me though at least six cars. He actually dug into it. When he got to $7,000 he gave up. The factory xenons require so much new hardware that it's essentially not doable. It takes a different front SAM (not just coding) because the factory HIDs are active.
The only practical path is to a third-party system that isn't active, and that typically involves cutting and splicing some wires. That, plus the fact that the third-party lights don't look exactly like the factory units, leaves me cold. Of course, at that point either the SAM has to be recoded or a device that spoofs the old lights has to be installed as well.
It would be great if someone like Steve from the Netherlands could put together a kit of older, pre-active, HIDs that would fit. But as far as I know, nothing like that is available now.
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Building these cars without xenons (or full COMAND for that matter) makes no sense. I hear the 2015s will have xenons standard, finally.
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Have you considered HIDs or something like that? I'm not sure how the programming works and what not but I'd like to believe that would work and be a decent substitute that doesn't cost you a teste per light.
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Still looking. Nothing so far seems perfect. I do hate the idea of having to hack up the wiring yoke, but I haven't given up.
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I almost didn't get my car because it doesn't have bi-xenons. But it has everything else I wanted and was a good deal, so I held my nose and bought it.
Before I signed I looked into retrofitting bi-xenons. My SA is great and has been with me though at least six cars. He actually dug into it. When he got to $7,000 he gave up. The factory xenons require so much new hardware that it's essentially not doable. It takes a different front SAM (not just coding) because the factory HIDs are active.
The only practical path is to a third-party system that isn't active, and that typically involves cutting and splicing some wires. That, plus the fact that the third-party lights don't look exactly like the factory units, leaves me cold. Of course, at that point either the SAM has to be recoded or a device that spoofs the old lights has to be installed as well.
It would be great if someone like Steve from the Netherlands could put together a kit of older, pre-active, HIDs that would fit. But as far as I know, nothing like that is available now.
Before I signed I looked into retrofitting bi-xenons. My SA is great and has been with me though at least six cars. He actually dug into it. When he got to $7,000 he gave up. The factory xenons require so much new hardware that it's essentially not doable. It takes a different front SAM (not just coding) because the factory HIDs are active.
The only practical path is to a third-party system that isn't active, and that typically involves cutting and splicing some wires. That, plus the fact that the third-party lights don't look exactly like the factory units, leaves me cold. Of course, at that point either the SAM has to be recoded or a device that spoofs the old lights has to be installed as well.
It would be great if someone like Steve from the Netherlands could put together a kit of older, pre-active, HIDs that would fit. But as far as I know, nothing like that is available now.
Have you seen these yet? Regular w204 owners already started doing this upgrade and I recently installed one on my younger sister's car.
Looks and works like oem except no adaptive lighting.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/DEPO-2012-2014-MERCEDES-BENZ-W204-C-CLASS-C63-AMG-STYLE-PROJECTOR-LED-HEADLIGHT-/121360848199?pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&hash=item1c41ab9547&vxp=mtr
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Have you seen these yet? Regular w204 owners already started doing this upgrade and I recently installed one on my younger sister's car.
Looks and works like oem except no adaptive lighting.
Depo 2012 2014 Mercedes Benz W204 C Class C63 AMG Style Projector LED Headlight | eBay
Looks and works like oem except no adaptive lighting.
Depo 2012 2014 Mercedes Benz W204 C Class C63 AMG Style Projector LED Headlight | eBay
Are those really xenon? I don't see any confirmation of that. Where are the ballasts? It talks about lenses but not much else.
Last edited by whoover; Jun 11, 2014 at 08:04 PM.
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Install is straightforward and takes around 2 hours if you take your time.
Last edited by Naloc63; Jun 13, 2014 at 01:27 AM. Reason: Don't quote me on the ballast part, I need to doublecheck.
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for these LED headlights
if I have a prefacelift with Xenon, thinking about retrofiting the facelift kit, would these LED ones work because it says not compatible with Original Xenon
is there some coding to be done?
if I have a prefacelift with Xenon, thinking about retrofiting the facelift kit, would these LED ones work because it says not compatible with Original Xenon
is there some coding to be done?
