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just a quick note....
The "lighting package" added after has/will have a few ADDED COMPLICATIONS IMHO...
There are "sensors" etc the HID / Xenon work on different trigger /sensors etc so if you want to add this later (as advised by my dealer @order time) it be non-justifiable costs involved. However I believe you can add just do the Xenon 'inserts' with a bit of 'trickery' and not the CEL/ODBC Error codes etc - think someone has posted that here or in ML forums.
We have a GLK250BT- 2014 model with ALL THE FACTORY OPTIONS including LATHER to tow etc etc ....going for trade (4200Miles-yip sick of MB's-BT BS!!!) for a NEW Q5TDi > del- july 3rd!
Hope this is helpful
Cheers and Happy Motoring!
I am also frustrated with the stock halogen headlights, I tried fitting a aftermarket HID kit on the housings but the horrible bulb locking mechanism makes it almost impossible. That compared with the headlight locking shield, it's not a quick fix. I'll have to cut a hole in that shield to get the bulb through, not sure how that would work on a leased car.
LOADED 08' C350 & 14' GLK-350 Diamond White (P1, MM, AMG Pkg, Ln Trkng, Htd Sts, Keylss Go)
Originally Posted by raudiace4
I am also frustrated with the stock halogen headlights, I tried fitting a aftermarket HID kit on the housings but the horrible bulb locking mechanism makes it almost impossible. That compared with the headlight locking shield, it's not a quick fix. I'll have to cut a hole in that shield to get the bulb through, not sure how that would work on a leased car.
ya its ridiculous how there were only like 5 cars out of the litterally 100 I looked at that had the lighting package
There has to be a way... I willing to spend $1k and hopefully sell the stockies for a hundred bucks or so on eBay
Thinking about buying these parts and installing - don't care about having the intelligent lighting part actually function... I just want the xenon headlights, white LED DRL curve, and the amber LED blinker curve
Anybody know how hard it would be to just get the lights and blinkers to function? Plug and Play? (w/out the intelligent function of course)
LOADED 08' C350 & 14' GLK-350 Diamond White (P1, MM, AMG Pkg, Ln Trkng, Htd Sts, Keylss Go)
has anybdy tried these from eBay?
Seems like they look good and if they are plug and play and I dont need to buy any extra parts, that would be awesome... just concerned with the fitment
Is that $1268.00 each? I know that the lighting system of my 2014 glk350 4matic is more than plug and play. I volt tested all the wires and there is a small amount of voltage probably from sensors to detect a non-functioning bulb when I installed my aftermarket parktronic sensors.
We have checked with DEPO. Theirs is under development, not yet available. They also did not disclose when it will be available.
As for the eBay one, it says the manufacturing place is in China and ship out from China. For that kind of price, it's bit worry to be honest along with the seller did not have outstanding feedback. And from it, it also did not disclose which brand it is, so I honestly can't tell you my opinion on its quality.
Seems like they look good and if they are plug and play and I dont need to buy any extra parts, that would be awesome... just concerned with the fitment
I bought the Xenon + LED lights from the same manufacturer as these eBay lights (WinPower) for my previous Tiguan. The lights looked OEM and the fitment was very good, but the quality of the light was just so-so. Honestly, the light quality of the stock halogens on my GLK is much better.
Do you mean that You are not happy with the output, or is it just that the design is not to your liking and You would prefer more modern (LED) looks ?
If output is an issue, there are possibly HID conversion kits available for existing units, or maybe start with good high quality bulbs? Anyone tried these (or similar) for example :
Hit up Daniel stern lighting and order the 80W bulbs, made a big difference for not a lot of cash or hassle.
Here is side by side with my GLK250 with 85w and my friends exactly the same GLK with stock bulbs. Needless to say we upgraded his bulbs shortly after!
Last edited by twinturba; 01-27-2015 at 09:20 PM.
Reason: Picture added, 80w not 85w
Dang, I didn't know there were 85W bulbs available. I just put in Osram 65W bulbs and quite happy with the upgrade.
Originally Posted by twinturba
Hit up Daniel stern lighting and order the 85W bulbs, made a big difference for not a lot of cash or hassle.
Here is side by side with my GLK250 with 85w and my friends exactly the same GLK with stock bulbs. Needless to say we upgraded his bulbs shortly after!
The Flösser and Osram bulbs are electrically, optically, functionally, and qualitatively identical, but they are labelled differently. They are both built in Germany to exactly the same specification: an H9 burner on an H7 base, 65w at 12.0v, 2100 lumens at 13.2v. Flösser's box says "80w" while Osram's says "65w". This is not an actual power difference, it is a test voltage difference. Flösser power-rates their bulb at 13.5v rather than 12.0v. For any/all filament bulbs, the wattage rises exponentially to the power 1.6 with voltage increase. So a bulb rated 65w at 12.0v will be rated 78.5w (printed as 80w) at 13.5v. It's not two different bulbs, just two different test protocols. On the test bench, the Osram "65w" bulbs and the Flösser "80w" bulbs all test out at between 63.8 and 65.4 watts at a constant 13.2 volts.
06-26-2014, 03:47 AM
Replace Stock Headlights with Lighting Package
