To be fair, the last post didn't bash any other providers - just said the dealer probably wouldn't be helpful which from my experience is probably true.

So let's recognize good behavior and hope for the best.

 

I had my lights recoded on my 2021 E63S wagon by rjautomotive.net months ago without any issues. I do not truly understand the issue with the side-marker lights or why the enhanced recoding would trigger faults. Obviously, those LEDs cannot be used for side illumination, but I've seen no issues when driving and the turn signals still work properly. The physical aiming of the lights (if needed) is performed via a tool to account for leveling (there's a covered port indicating where the tools would be used), but I would think that is to address replacement or body repair. Perhaps I'm missing something from the previous posts on the needed "extra" corrections.

 

Yeah, it's because this is not a problem.

It's a fabricated "issue" by a sponsor here with no morals to be used as fuel for fearmongering in a slimy attempt at self-promotion.

"Use me or you won't get the "real" thing and look at all the problems you will have! Only I can save you. Good luck... good luck."

Nothing but fear-based self-promotion.

Pfft.

 

Thread cleaned. Let’s get back to the topic…

 

hey guys who have unlocked us multibeam lights, did you get the blue welcome led when unlocking the car? I didn't

 

I never noticed it. Do you have a photo or URL for comaparrison? Keep in mind, that the U.S. version is not exactly the same as the headlights installed in Europe.

 

Blue welcome lights did not appear to be available for me. The unlocked intelligent beams are awesome, though.

 

Same here, I didn't get the blue DRL welcome light (got my ILS+ activated through RJ Automotive).

I think the North American headlights don't have the hardware to support the blue light AFAIK.

 

For those that may not understand what we're talking about, it can be seen at the beginning of this video:

 

Am I understanding correctly that members on this thread have taken their car to a local MB dealer Service dept and gotten their ILS updated?

If so, how exactly was it phrased to the service writer, or did they already know what to do?

 

The opposite, a MB dealer cannot/will not do this.

 

In spite of the new legislation from about a year ago they still won't do it.........shocking; completely impossible to understand.

 

Yeah. The lights will need to be re-certified and hence, mb USA will not allow dealers to do such work.

My guess .. wait another 3 yrs before they will actually have it enabled right from the factory … but do note the US/Canadian version will still do not have 100% functionality when compared to the European version.

 

Even with OBD II flash?

Re-certify!?!?!? Really!?!?! UFB!!!!

From what I've experienced, my lights function nearly identical to the embedded video from a previous post here.

 

If you do this aftermarket, then the dealers & MB USA are not held liable for this safety function of the car. Any safety related functionality may mean the vehicle will need to be re-certified for road uses.

 

Excellent point but still ridiculous given the probability that ILS could be a cause factor for an accident; no disrespect intended.

 

But from the government point of view, they probably have many parameters that they must test & measure to ensure the lights are up to their standards and then put a stamp approval on it.

 

New 2020 E63S owner here in Toronto, Canada. I have ILS coded on my 2016 E550 and I rarely see the ILS activate anywhere in the city. I recall ILS working maybe once every couple of months when I'm in a darker part of the city and even then only briefly. It was hardly worth the cost and effort to activate in the W212.

I wonder for those folks in larger cities does the W213 ILS+ activate more frequently? As much as I hate having an un-activated feature as awesome as ILS+, I would only want it if I can actually notice the difference. Thanks in advance!

EDIT: Found another thread with very specific experience here. In well-lit city driving, apparently not a large difference vs. darker roads which makes sense.

 

The lighting system between the two are totally different. The new one operates all the time on streets and highways.

 

The manual separately describes the ILS functionality and the Adaptive Highbeam Plus functionality. The AHA+ is described as the masking of other cars while high beams stay on, this is what I notice after I got mine activated and it works very well and adds a whole new dimension to driving at night.

For ILS, the other following functions are described:

• Active headlamps (already there on US stock cars)
• Cornering lights (already there on US stock cars)

Here is where the Canada/Euro specific functions are outlined and I have questions for those of you who enabled Multibeam in the US:

• Traffic circle and intersection function: supposed to turn on both cornering lights at a traffic circle or intersection
• Highway mode function: Supposed to increase the range and brightness of the cone of light on highways
• Enhanced fog light function: Supposed to increase edge illumination when the rear fog light is turned on
• Bad weather light: reduces dazzling reflections in rainy conditions by selectively dimming individual LEDs
• City lighting function: Uses broad distribution of light to improve lighting in lit up urban areas and at low speeds

Do those of you who have gotten Multibeam enabled in the US and now have ILS enabled in the Light settings notice those additional 5 functions above? I just got mine activated a couple days ago but I haven't noticed the cornering lights turning on in intersections, and when I turn on the rear foglight the headlights don't seem to move and the light pattern stays the same. I can't say I've noticed the highway mode or city lighting modes either, and we haven't gotten enough rain to test out the bad weather lighting.

The active curve lights are also supposedly able to start curving the lights in advance of a curve depending on what equipment the car has, I have Driver's Assistance Package so I would assume the camera system would be able to see that. Has anyone noticed this?

Might just need to drive it for a longer time to notice those if they did get activated but wanted to check with folks here first.

Also wanted to chime in with another positive experience and recommendation for RJAutomotive: the dongle got here fast, and the coding was on time, convenient, and efficient. Professional and responsive to questions as well.

 

Mine activate regularly when driving around town near my house. On roads in town with a lot of street lamps lit they don't activate as much, but as soon as the lighting from the street lamps drops down a bit they start turning on more.

You can very clearly see the light curtain notching out the car in front while the rest of the roadway is nicely lit up.

I do see the lights brighten up when I activate the turn signal to the right. It might do it to the left too, but can't say I recall.

 

To clarify, "Adaptive Highbeam Assist Plus" and "Intelligent Light System" are two different functions.

"Adaptive Highbeam Assist Plus" is the functionality where you can leave your high beams on all the time and the light curtain notches out cars and overly glaring signs in front of you while keeping the rest of the road lit up. This is what we enabled through remote coding in the US and it works beautifully, I notice it working pretty frequently.

"Intelligent Light System" is the suite of light features that I mentioned above, where the shape of the cone of light and brightness and such adapt to wherever you're driving, motorway, city, bad weather, etc. After the coding we have the toggle for it in the Settings -> Light menu. In the US, with the Lighting Package, by default we already get active curve illumination as well as the cornering lamps that turn on when you indicate at low speeds or turn the wheel either direction. It's the other modes that I'm wondering if we also got enabled when we did our remote codings or if that requires further coding.

I was able to confirm this via testing. I turned off ILS in the settings and kept the highbeams on and the notching out was still working, so AHA+ and ILS are separate functions. I then kept the highbeams turned off and went on a drive tonight and toggled the ILS setting on and off at various times and didn't see a difference in the light cone in the city and on the highways. I also didn't see the cornering lights both turning on through intersections and traffic circles and I didn't see any difference in light with the rear fog light turned on. And lastly, I didn't see the headlights "pre-curving" as I approached curves in the road. So I'm wondering what's going on there. RJA did say that all the features get enabled, so not sure if I'm not noticing or looking in the right places, if it needs further coding, it just doesn't work on US roads, etc. The two features working in conjunction would be headlight heaven.

 

Bumping this as I am desperately trying to figure out if european / rest of world multibeam (with blue stripe) housings can be installed into a US spec car. The specific issue revolves around whether or not we are able to utilize and re-code the factory US spec modules that came with the headlights versus having to purchase european modules with the european housings. Through extensive research and discussions with various sources here and overseas, I have found that there *might* be different wire PIN outs from the module to the internal headlight wiring, but have yet to confirm 100%. It seems the select few who may have done this conversion also possibly ordered the european modules with the european headlights.

 

I bought one of the ILS enablers and it worked perfectly. I have a stock US spec 2018. Are you trying to go beyond that?

 

My question has nothing to do with ILS+ functionality. Its a hardware question as it pertains to retrofitting European spec headlights (no orange corners and blue stripe LED strip) into a US spec car.