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Halogen to ils

Old Aug 9, 2018 | 11:29 PM
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Halogen to ils

Hi, i have a 2012 ML 350 with halogen headlights and I want to upgrade

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to the ils headlights. I was wondering if anyone has experience with this and if it possible.
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Old Aug 10, 2018 | 06:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Abhay Walia
Hi, i have a 2012 ML 350 with halogen headlights and I want to upgrade

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to the ils headlights. I was wondering if anyone has experience with this and if it possible.
another routine question, to answer your question, anything is possible, there was a thread about someone converting their halogens from Halogen to Bi-Xenon in the GLK thread. You can do it, given that you had bought the assembly, the housing is easy fit in, but the big issue is making sure you connecting it and make sure the lights and active illuminated curve works (meaning on turns/curves you see the lights move as you move the wheel) and the automatic high beams (meaning the high beams turn on at very dark places), you have to have someone who previously installed it and had no errors after do it, good luck, it might cost you too
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Old Aug 10, 2018 | 07:04 PM
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Thank you ill try to find the thread.
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Old Aug 10, 2018 | 09:04 PM
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hello i did it on my 2015 ml400 and it works great will take photos later and upload them on here, there are 2 methods of doing the conversion first option: is by buying the original mercedes ILS Headlights and installing them with conversion connectors and couple of modules and height sensors. option 2 is by buying a chinese kit and you install it yourself but they will program the headlights to your car after you do the installation. from the picture that you have on here i believe those are the chinese version headlights and they are LEDs but do work after they program them. you would just need a mercedes scanner to recode the headlight intelligent module to work with the new headlights. both options cost money, first option is basically doing it the factory way =, and the second option is the after market way.
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hello i did it on my 2015 ml400 and it works great will take photos later and upload them on here, there are 2 methods of doing the conversion first option: is by buying the original mercedes ILS Headlights and installing them with conversion connectors and couple of modules and height sensors. option 2 is by buying a chinese kit and you install it yourself but they will program the headlights to your car after you do the installation. from the picture that you have on here i believe those are the chinese version headlights and they are LEDs but do work after they program them. you would just need a mercedes scanner to recode the headlight intelligent module to work with the new headlights. both options cost money, first option is basically doing it the factory way =, and the second option is the after market way.
please send pictures, you got the curve and the high beams/auto high-beams to work correctly?
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Old Aug 22, 2018 | 09:46 PM
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Old Mar 25, 2019 | 02:10 PM
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any updates on this? Want to add these to my 2012 ml350 blue tech. don't care too much about the cornering and auto high beams but I can't see crap with the OEM projectors
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any updates on this? Want to add these to my 2012 ml350 blue tech. don't care too much about the cornering and auto high beams but I can't see crap with the OEM projectors



this was posted from:

https://mbworld.org/forums/m-class-w...completed.html

This user went from Xenons to LED, so with this set, your welcome to change whatever you want, but your going to engage in a process thats a PITA more than anything else, including the money you will be spending.

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