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So how does the outer connector to inner and how did you run say wires in between?
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There's one really thin long wire that connects the inners to the outers. I ziptied it to the trunk hinge before putting the hinge covers on. All the wires hide under the trunk liners.
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Very good, I appreciate it. Just trying to get a good picture of what I will need to do.
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My car is Canadian spec, I wonder if that has something to do with it. I took some videos this evening, here’s how it looks with the brakes on, which I think is expected.
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Joe that is a great observation. I'm curious now.... I have a 2018 M550i but have not check anything yet. Making sure I have everything figured out before I order the same set from ebay seller.
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Is the Amazon seller the same person as the eBay seller? The fact that the last person who ordered from the eBay seller supposedly out of China got theirs in less than a week and the final negotiated price of $689 is the same as the Amazon price almost makes me think they might have been drop shipped from Amazon (very common way to make $ selling on eBay).
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In terms of my wiring comment or theory. Some US cars have five inner tail wires and some have four. The 5th wire is for a rear fog light that is inoperable on US cars and US cars do not have the switch for it either.
On my OEM Euros, I installed the switch and had the rear fog coded, however, when the fogs are activated, only the outer tails illuminate when braking. I don't think this is by design but I also don't really care because I will never use rear fogs. So I am drawing a connection between the outer tails only working for you guys until you used the adapter or didn't use the adapter. I'd be curious if in the wire count of the inner tail connect for each car. I bet they are different. It's random whether BMW ran the fog wire for US cars or not. EDIT - if you have the fog 5th wire, it will be in pin location 1 of the inner tail connector and is black.
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From my research 2017 through early build 2019's have the best chance of having the 5th rear fog light wire installed from the factory.
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[QUOTE="HerkHealer;28545550"]I'm getting a headache trying to figure out how these are installed.
Lol!! It's pretty simple. We're making it sound much more complicated than it is. Even if we have the wire, it needs to be coded, right? Not sure when or what I'd use this foglight for...snowy or rainy weather, where it's somewhat hard to see for other drivers to see that you're there? I always see Audis with theirs on and it always looks so weird because it's lopsided, only on one side. |
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The rest is just pulling your trunk lining apart, removing the old tails and gaskets and installing new ones with new gaskets.
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I am sure they are the same item. I'm pretty sure there is only one knock-off manufacturer in China, probably an assembly line of 12-year olds!
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Yeah I'll buy the Amazon ones and report back I guess lol
Ok they'll deliver Saturday, I'll post photos of what I get so we can compare. If these are of awful quality I'll just return them. Last edited by RonronEG; 02-03-2022 at 06:32 PM.. |
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For anyone on the fence, def go for it. Very happy with the look, install process, and that it was plug and play. Really meshes well with the dark diffuser and the shape of it's profile just looks better than the flatter profile of the pre-LCI. Even my wife noticed, and she notices nothing when it comes to cars. When I got this car, she thought my G30 coming off the truck was the same car as my F10 that I had just sold lol.
I was finally able to find a LCI in a parking lot. Looks like they have the little dots as well. Joe confirmed this too. Wasn't able to park next to it, but it looked the same...to me it did at least. Will try and find one that I can park next to and sneak a couple pics in. One thing I found interesting though...when the LCI was pulling out, I noticed it's brake lights also lit up the turn signal areas (which are red of course, so not totally off looking to a normal eye). But to someone who knows that Euro spec uses that clear strip area for just the turn signal, it looked odd to me that the clear strip and the red led tube light up when braking. Never noticed that before. Not sure why US Spec is designed it that way. |
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