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 Post subject: 1st Gen update : Lumen LED's and new headlights
PostPosted: Sun Dec 03, 2017 5:12 pm 
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Finally found my unobtanium round tuit (driving to Oklahoma Monday to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary) and got the new lighting installed, holy underwear what a difference... Now my "down the road" lighting is on par with my wife's BMW 328xi.

Lumen® 9004HLC-G7S - G7S LED Conversion Kit (9004)

Fairly nondescript replacement lights


2001 glass vice new glass, yeah, it's pretty bad!
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Amazingly easy process and didn't even break a single body clip
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All cleaned up and installed new glassware
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A little bit down the road:
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Close up <<<BLING>>>, and that's the low beam.
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Next up is the Lumen® H3XXHLC-G7 - G7 LED Conversion Kit (H3) for the fog lamps

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 Post subject: Re: 1st Gen update : Lumen LED's and new headlights
PostPosted: Fri Dec 22, 2017 11:06 pm 
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Was this just plug and play? Lighting on my X is horrible and need some better headlights.

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 Post subject: Re: 1st Gen update : Lumen LED's and new headlights
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Awesome !!

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 Post subject: Re: 1st Gen update : Lumen LED's and new headlights
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Rusty wrote:
Was this just plug and play?


From the electrical/wiring side, plug and play yes, didn't even need the included decoder.

BUT

The way the heat-synch sits inside the bulb locking collar, WOW, I went through a lot of gyrations to actually get it installed.

Really wish I took pictures of that process! But it made me have bad thoughts and use curse words, pictures were the last thing on my mind, now in hindsight however.

Some issues:
There is not enough room to work in there!
The old fixtures had a wire bail type retainer that would not fit around the heat-synch.
The new glass/fixture has an updated plastic twist-lock type retaining collar, which is a must have, IMO. Still in the end, the ONLY way to get things to fit was to remove the heat-syncs, install the bulbs in the new fixtures, then re-install the heat-synchs (which required drilling one very small and inconsequential small hole in the plastic ring to reinstall the grub screw that hold the heat-sybch to the bulb), then install the whole thing in the vehicle. \Luckily I had ordered new glass fixtures at the same time as the bulbs, so I was ale to troubleshoot all this on the bench and not in the parking-lot.

Oh, and side by-side it blows away the stock lighting of my wifes BMW. So much so she has directed me to order the LED's for her car....

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