berti_00

has anyone attempted or have done HID conversion for those of you that have halogen bulbs. I will do it sooner or later, i just cant stand a halogen bulb on a mercedes.

AZN Optics

You'll want H7 HID conversion kit. Will need to be canbus variant. We've had lots of w212 customers do this upgrade. We have high end Morimoto HID kits if interested.

berti_00

yep defiantly canbus kit for sure and H7 i did my research just curious to know the difficulty of it. Since it looks pretty tight in there.

AZN Optics

I believe you can get in from the wheel well. Just turn the wheel.

armysoldier1073

They go thru wheel well. I put whole assembly inside oem housing to avoid drilling holes in it. I bought the 6500k kit and very bright, very sharp cutoff. No flicker or anything.

berti_00

Oh wow so you left the ballast all inside... Was the bulb twist easy to grab on housing. Did you remove wheel and wheel well plastic?? Thanks for this info.

AZN Optics

I will say it's not advisable to put the ballast and canbus component inside the housing due to potential heat damage. They rely on ambient cooling from engine air circulation and sealed up in the housing will restrict that function.

berti_00

That's my thought too... They'd be hot as hell inside

SoCal208

No hole to drill...the guys who install my H7 halogen conversion (from AZN) to HID, route the wiring each side to the engine compartment, tied wrap them as close to the light's housing. The light output is good, no error, no flicking...The hard part are grind (or cut) the OEM bulb's ring to fit the HID bulb (which is bigger) after that, everything are (almost) plug & play. Be sure that the location of the ballast must have air to cool it off. Thanks Mike (AZN), I have both ML & E class converse from H7 halogen to HID now.

berti_00

So the h7 bulb does not fit??

AZN Optics

They do. Latest shipment of Morimoto bulbs have thinner base.

Jabberwock

oh that sucks. i chopped the hell out of my retainers to fit.

i also have all the guts shoved inside the housing. been fine since january but i may relocate them before the summer.

berti_00

Do you have pictures of what you mean smaller base?

AZN Optics

We no longer have any of the wider base bulbs, but it's the plastic piece of the bulb at the base where the wires connect to. The previous generation of Morimoto units had the wider base that had issues fitting with some bulb holders. Morimoto has since issued out a new revision that has the plastic base thinner so that it would fit in euro bulb holders.

Jabberwock

do you have any replacement retainers for sale?

AZN Optics

Unfortunately no.

armysoldier1073

I did drill a larger hole in the cap to replace the bulbs. I installed the conversion roughly 6 months ago. After i drove straight 6 hrs in the dark I uncapped the housing to check the temp of the ballasts. They were a lil warm as can be expected but nothing I'd worry about.