Hi All,

I'm sure this may have been discussed in the past, but does anyone recommend upgrading the CLK 350 headlights using a HID conversion kit? I've heard from the dealer that this upgrade may burn out the housing and/ or produce a lighting fault error message with car. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Off topic, but does anyone know a good customization shop in the Maryland/ Washington DC area?

Thanks!

 

Many people have swapped their bulbs for a HID kit. You need a special relay/capacitor to avoid the dash errors. Do a search on "HID" and you will find a bunch of threads. Also check out the Group Buy section for a a few sponsors that sell the kits.

 

I have a M-tec HID kit for sale if you're interested....just plug and play, no errors

 

I have a 06 350 and have upgarded to HID's. Head light and Fogliht as well.

Dealers are very ignorant wen it comes to upgrades i learned that the hard way. As far as errors it is true. You can bypass that with an error canceler. Most of the HID's now come with it but make sure it does or than you have to buy a pair on your own. $15-20.

Install carefully and aim them low so you dont blind people and you will be fine

Good luck

 

Just with a relay if your car came with halogens, you will have this problem. Computer will pulse the lights, not detecting anything
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5FxdkW0AwU

To get around this, use a resistor in parallel in the wires that you connect to the stock h7 connector from the relay harness, I used a 2.49 ohm 50W resistor, make sure its the larger "dale" resistor though and it doesn't need to be exactly 2.49 ohms or 50watts, higher wattage would be good too.
I did a retrofit a few months ago using projectors from a lexus

 

Still waiting on those headlight pics. Have you installed them?

 

 

Nice Work! What temp bulbs you have in there?

 

Lol thanks, a lot of headache and sleepless nights though. Bulbs were 4300k in the pictures, I have 6000k now. What kind of bulbs are in your parking lights btw?

Edit: Just saw your list of mods and pics haha, answered my questions

 

lol. Respect for the one off

 

YOU DID WHAT????????? Do you understand thats gonna save everyone in here LOOOOTS of money. Man you need to get us a DIY ASAPPPP or we will come and find you.

Damn im so pumped now i cant wait to see this

 

LOL

I'll try and get a diy up by the end of this week, just have to organize all the photos I took. However you should check out a site called hidplanet.com for some ideas regarding choosing projectors, light output, choosing ballasts, looking how people did their retros.etc I got a lot of ideas from there.

Btw here is my table at 4am... hehe

 

OK so you peeked my interest badly on the retro. Casn you provide details on which Lexus projectors you bought and how you went about it?

I am assuming this is a cheaper option then going with Xenons directly from MB.

Greate work!!!

 

Try to see the videos he posted the link of.
I know i cant pull that off for sure. Too many think i wont be able to accomplish and too many tools i dont own unfortunately...

 

The flashing you were experiencing was because your car is coded for halogens not xenons. That could have been solved with a trip to an Indie shop. All it takes is 10 min on star to code xenons=present. You didn't have to do all that extra work.

 

Nice work dude..

 

I must be missing it, I dont see the video's link. Where are they? I have an interest in this mod and feel confident I can do this.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5FxdkW0AwU