Arlen777

Finally got my headlight installed. Got the facelift harness from Chris yesterday, installed it myself right away, pretty easy installation. Now i am 100% facelifted.
Here are pics before and after. Pics are taken on a phone so they arent best quality, will take better pics later.
Also i was going to make installation video but my slr failed at the last moment.

Thanks goes to:
Chris The Swede - for answering hundreds of my questions and for the harness kit
J.T.S550 - for helping me find headlights for a good price

EDIT:

Some info for those who want to do the same upgrade:

Things needed for new headlights:
1x Harness Kit
6x ECUs/Ballasts for Headlights
2x Headlights

Headlights part#:
My car has Active-Cornering and No Night-Vision, so i used these part#s
These are suppressed part#s
221 820 57 59
221 820 58 59
The new part#s
221 820 13 59
221 820 14 59



BEFORE:



AFTER:





Just to give you an idea of how the car looks during installation

RT2010

Awesomeness....

How much did the headlight project cost in total?

carboxy

I wanna do it too but I'm afraid bc I'm not so mechanically inclined

walt2810

very nice.

James Peach

Real nice!
Im looking to do the same thing.

BenzV12

Great job
Only one thing to do , update your signature with the new mirrors installed , do not change the angle of the shot

hyperion667

can we have a close up of the babe in the passenger seat

why is the car sitting like that in the first pic....


looks good though

phatisfy

Looking good!

Chris The Swede

Glad to help.....Looks fantastic.

jadeethan

looking good!

Did you have to get a new updated SAMS?

Did you hook up your LED's to the new harness as well?

Thanks.

Arlen777

Thanks, 2600$ before i sell my old headlights

I was thinking the same thing, just need to fix my camera and take a pics

Hehehe, its my wife btw. Maybe i ll post it later

No need for sam.
No, i just left it connected to my old sidemarkers, i want to connect them to the harness later, just to see if there is a difference in color/brightness

Chris The Swede

If you have dimmable DRLs the harnes will dim them when they are suposed to be dimmed. NO SAM needed for this kit. No programming eighter for the modules.

jadeethan

Chris, arlen

Are your headlight leds good enough for night driving....looks awesome man..i am jealous

carboxy

Me too! Wish I was more DIY kinda guy

dbvolz

You mean instead of having your headlights on? I wouldn't think so. They might be bright, but good luck explaining that to the police why you decided to leave your headlights off when you get pulled over.

TDwayne69

What was your final cost for the headlight upgrade, I notice that you didn't mention a SAM upgrade?

Thanks,
Tony

Chris The Swede

No new SAM needed...

TDwayne69

I read a lot, but not all. I was under impression that, that everyone that have done the facelift headlights upgrade, has also upgraded the SAM. It's a definite plus if that's not the case, because my conversion should be 90% complete this week (not to include the facelift headlights and the big brake kit).

Regards,
Tony

Arlen777

How do i know if they are dimmable or not? Mine are original from MB

They are visible during daytime and night time very well, but definately not enough for night time, i mean you cant really see the road very well during driving

Its not that hard, just bunch of unscrewing, just follow instructions and double check everything

Total headlights 800$ with bulbs.

I heard that some people who did sam upgrade have issues. Logically thinking this kit should be better for car because you dont program anything and dont and leave all the lightning control systems original, only harness is changed.

phatisfy

How are the resistor on that harness? When I tired them exact resistor with my led drl lights, it got so hot. It could probably melt things around it? After a good night/day of driving with the lights on. Can you tell me if the resistor are extremely hot? I'm looking to do the lights. But I'm affraid of that reason. Thanks

Arlen777

Well yeah resistors do get hot, but first they are mounted to a car frame and there are a lot of room around it. What i did in addition to that is, after i put everything in place, i took flashlight and looked underneath the headlights to see which wires might get close to resistors and strapped each of them away from resistors with these things


and also wrapped the "magic box" on the harness in plastic wrap to make it waterproof.

phatisfy

You should use them thermal wrap. The ones people use to wrap up there intake manifolds on them turboed cars. I was thinking that if I were to do the conversion in the future. Good job on the car!

Arlen777

Thanks, i am gonna remove the bumper again this weekend to triple check everything again. Will take some pic of how it looks from within

phatisfy

Sounds good!

jadeethan

What about installing a small fan?



that should keep the heat down..thoughts?