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Hello everyone, did anyone replace back up light bulbs to ELD bulbs? Bought eld bulbs from ebay and replaced them, they looked amazing but got error codes and they are blinking, any advise? Is it possible to get rid off ugly yellow halogen bulbs to ELD? My car is a 2010 s550 sedan, please help. Thank you in advance
Hello everyone, did anyone replace back up light bulbs to ELD bulbs? Bought eld bulbs from ebay and replaced them, they looked amazing but got error codes and they are blinking, any advise? Is it possible to get rid off ugly yellow halogen bulbs to ELD? My car is a 2010 s550 sedan, please help. Thank you in advance
Is that your surprised face?🤦
Buy decent LED bulbs as a starting point. They also need to be Canbus compatible. Cheap Chinesium shyte off eBay/Amazon will never work properly.
Better yet, fit good quality incandescent bulbs like it was designed for.
brighter reversing lights isn't totally stupid - any other rear bulbs likely very silly unless trying to get better rear camera view with the old clunky metal camera and trying other silly number plate lights - but fitting them is a right pain so never tried
Merc has a wonderful bulb error handling system compared to the utter garbage BMW pedal - so you should be able to get good ones that behave
budget junk and fun with bulb errors is par for the course with LEDs - on a BMW the only real fix is to pull the same current as the original bulbs - by adding a resistor.
brighter reversing lights isn't totally stupid - any other rear bulbs likely very silly unless trying to get better rear camera view with the old clunky metal camera and trying other silly number plate lights - but fitting them is a right pain so never tried
Merc has a wonderful bulb error handling system compared to the utter garbage BMW pedal - so you should be able to get good ones that behave
budget junk and fun with bulb errors is par for the course with LEDs - on a BMW the only real fix is to pull the same current as the original bulbs - by adding a resistor.
Just fitting new, quality incandescent bulbs would be an improvement tbh.
So there is no way to have beautifull hyper white bulbs in our cars, so it looks like new cars, as example my w222 and w223 cars that i own, even my g63 has amazing bright white back up bulbs. I thought maybe some of you guys did that mod
there is some coding changes for the facelift lights as they get LED - the bulbs do not come out of my non facelift 221 rear units - they appear to be soldered in place - and the parts document back me up
of course it should cope with quality LED conventional fitment lights - but as eluded too there are lots of different quality LED bulbs out there
LEDs flicker they have hardware to remove it (drivers) they often fail - canbus malarkey is more weird and I have no idea if it marketing or has some validity - they are covered in chips and the new stuff is no longer polarity sensitive (fit either way around)
it doesn't help BMWs cope - but my low watt LED front side lights work perfectly in my W221 they don't misbehave and they have never thrown anything on the dash cluster, nor show faults in diagnostics - the very same bulbs totally misbehave in a BMW - they are 5W5 aka T10 https://auxito.com/collections/car-i...-led-lights/2e
novsight / nighteye make some of the best LEDs I'm aware off
For the reverse bulbs, you should just need to replace the entire bulb unit, they're pretty cheap and the process is pretty straightforward, no need for any fancy adapters or anything. Just grab an H11 bulb, make sure it's from a reputable brand, and swap it out with the old one.
For the reverse bulbs, you should just need to replace the entire bulb unit, they're pretty cheap and the process is pretty straightforward, no need for any fancy adapters or anything. Just grab an H11 bulb, make sure it's from a reputable brand, and swap it out with the old one.
I'm so confused by these posts. Are we still talking about the reverse lights?
You cannot change the bulbs in these right?
I dont have a 221 so cant check. I looked up the 2008 S-Class operators manual to see what they say about bulb replacement. Looks like the reverse is a "HiP 16w". I never heard of it before. Found some bulbs on ebay that seem to match the bulb carrier posted above.
Would be nice to see a photo of the bulb carrier that is in that car.
I looked up the 2010 S550 Operators manual and it mentions the HiP bulbs. Then I looked thru the 221.171 parts diagrams and it shows two different bulb carriers that can be installed. One of the carriers does list a W16W / 921 bulb.
My knowledge with electronics is limited especially with understanding can-bus. Easy thing to do is just search on Amazon for 921 led bulbs and check out the specs of the bulbs, see how many watts each bulb is rated for. Other than finding replacement bulbs with the same watts I wouldnt know what would work or not as far as getting bulb warnings.
Looking at the actual bulb, the part that is clipped to the cluster is actually a bulb holder.
If you want to really upset the car, as per the OPs first post, buy the cheapest, crappiest.Chinesium tat LED from Amazon or, better yet, TEMU, jam it in an wonder why it doesn't work properly... 🤦
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