Carsten Crooks

Hi everyone

Well I am excited to pick up my new to me 2007 SL55 AMG and I have already ordered SmartTop module and Rear Shelf Bag

One thing I did not like when test driving was how dim the lights were as my daily driver is 2014 Audi A8 and LED lights are great

I did a lot of searching on this forum, and most posts are a couple years old, and as technology changes daily, I was wondering if there is a LED kit for our cars

I see some bulbs that say Plug and Play, some have canbus adapters.

There are soooooo many people making LED bulbs that I am at a loss to which works with our cars without throwing codes.

I want to stay away from the old HID conversion kits as they have bulky adapters when I converted my Boxster.

I read one post which lists the bulbs we have in our cars and I believe there are LED equivalents for all of them

The one I read most people are changing to LED are the Fog lights, but what about the Headlights

Thanks for any info or advise you can give

Frederick NL

Don’t you have xenons in there?

Carsten Crooks

I thought I did, but when I ran my VIN it did not show as an option and from what I can see you needed to add it as an option

I could be wrong as I only pick up the car tomorrow

Can't wait...

BlownV8

Just don't. LED conversions are not ideal for the projectors. Go with a HID conversion if you have H7's. Contact a vendor who sells both. They will tell you, for your application, a HID kit is best.

Ghostty

I thought they all come with xenon headlights? Because mine do look lie ones, but never looked up the VIN to confirm and i have the base 2005 SL500 model. Does it depend where it was sold?

Carsten Crooks

So I took a screen shot of options list I found for my car and Bi-Xenon Headlamps (614) were a $790 option

Don't understand how someone spends 128K$ for a car and wont spend an extra 790$ for headlights?

OK just checked further and maybe someone can shed some light (excuse the PUN) as another section say
High Intensity Discharge Headlights are standard equipment?


So I will search for difference between Bi-Xeon and HID Headlights and here is what I found

"Xenon headlights use four bulbs, while Bi-Xenon headlights only use two. 3. Xenon headlights switch between two sets of bulbs for high and low beams, while Bi-Xenon uses a mechanical system to set the beam of light."

So if I read correctly 2007 SL55 AMG does come with HID headlight, but there are 2 sets one for high and one for low beams!

Carsten Crooks

You should have HID headlights just not Bi-Xenon headlights, check out the link for your year and standard equipment

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/merc...500/sd-AAbM0gH

AZN Optics

Real simple way to find out is to check your owner manual for bulb replacement type. You can also pull out the bulb and see if it's a halogen or xenon bulb. If you can't tell the difference, take a picture and post and we can identify for you.

acmw

I have a 2003 sl500 that has been facelifted and has 2012 headlights. I need to buy an HID kid for the low and high beam , what are the bulb sizes? I cannot find a d1s KIT only bulbs.

BlownV8

Plenty available on Ebay. Here's one. No affiliation.https://www.ebay.com/itm/D1S-D1-HID-...AAAOSwo8hToda9