Swapped back to the Factory Bixenon headlights with a few mods
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Swapped back to the Factory Bixenon headlights with a few mods
I love the the way the aftermarket lights looked but I found a lot of reasons not to keep them. First thing I found that o don't like, was the wiring nightmare behind these lights
not to mention the factory ballast where exposed and positioned in a way to take on water. I'm not trying to pound on the last owners job, but wiring on a MB, needs to be at a certain level, or one can only utilize their vehicle when it's not raining.
well anyways you get the picture, my level of wiring expertise borders on Mil Spec, I'm that way because I imagine that what I'm installing is going to see the rigors of everyday life and weather.
so I opted to order some factory headlights from MB and fix the Eyebrows and that halogen hi beam.
12" LED strip for the Eyebrows
70mm LED hi beam from profile
custom made brackets for the hi beams, and all wiring done internally on the headlights
and some new ethed lenses
and after 4 days of 6 hours each of fabricating, wiring, and coding finally its complete
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This is awesome because you've literally done both of my cars retrofits but in one set of headlights instead of two Does the housing interfere with the light output of the high beams at all?
Last edited by Funkwagen; 12-09-2018 at 06:36 PM.
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Thanks man, I actually took inspiration from one of your retrofits, and Jptaylor, plus when I made the brackets I accounted for the auto level feature, so no interference, and no shroud interference, was trial to get the brackets made with the proper Alignment.
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Those high beams should be called lasers, the focal point is literally a spot.
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They look great!!!! Got a couple of questques though...I see you made a bracket for the Hi Lens, could you not have mounted the Hi Lens in the OEM hi beam by trimming it down to very little bowl and using the H7 mount so that alignment and aim were dead on??? Also, how is the output of these once installed and 2 plastic lenses between the LEDs and the road? I sent Lightwerks a spare hi beam reflector from one of my mock up lights and asked them to test the hi lense vs a quality LED bulb. They used an SL-1(at the time I was using Opt7) and said that the SL-1 put dramatically more lumens down field than the Hi Lens. But they were also testing without a lens covering the beams. I have been on the fence about picking up a set of Hi Lens(you can get them from Alibaba now for around $45) as I really like the concept and the look but do NOT want to lose output. Again, GREAT job!!!
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Nice job, didn't know those headlights had so much wiring behind them...
I was also gonna say you literally did funks setup but you figured that out lol
you have the eyelids as signals?
Are they bright enough to be DRL's now?
Possible to do with oem headlights without baking?
I was also gonna say you literally did funks setup but you figured that out lol
you have the eyelids as signals?
Are they bright enough to be DRL's now?
Possible to do with oem headlights without baking?
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They look great!!!! Got a couple of questques though...I see you made a bracket for the Hi Lens, could you not have mounted the Hi Lens in the OEM hi beam by trimming it down to very little bowl and using the H7 mount so that alignment and aim were dead on??? Also, how is the output of these once installed and 2 plastic lenses between the LEDs and the road? I sent Lightwerks a spare hi beam reflector from one of my mock up lights and asked them to test the hi lense vs a quality LED bulb. They used an SL-1(at the time I was using Opt7) and said that the SL-1 put dramatically more lumens down field than the Hi Lens. But they were also testing without a lens covering the beams. I have been on the fence about picking up a set of Hi Lens(you can get them from Alibaba now for around $45) as I really like the concept and the look but do NOT want to lose output. Again, GREAT job!!!
Also the brackets are necessary for the auto level fuction, I needed about 1/4" of clearance to allow for the full sweep of the lenses.
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Nice job, didn't know those headlights had so much wiring behind them...
I was also gonna say you literally did funks setup but you figured that out lol
you have the eyelids as signals?
Are they bright enough to be DRL's now?
Possible to do with oem headlights without baking?
I was also gonna say you literally did funks setup but you figured that out lol
you have the eyelids as signals?
Are they bright enough to be DRL's now?
Possible to do with oem headlights without baking?
I purchased all the headlight mods from theretrofitsource.com
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Really glad the post I made helped/gave you some ideas! I like how clean/simple the mount you made for the hi-lens is. I like them a lot on my C250 and if I don't end up doing quad bi-xenon on the C63 this winter, I'll be replacing the high beam projectors with them. I'm glad the autolevel design in these headlights is fairly easy to work with
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How is the wiring for it?
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it was easy, I used a T10 connection from theretrofitsource.com for 2 of the wires, and spliced the 3rd to the blinker in the headlight internal wiring. Mainly just wanted to have the option of disconnecting the strip if I wanted to, without have to pull the headlights apart.