BMW Z3 Exterior LED Light Upgrade Guide - How to do Headlights, fog lights, brake lights etc.
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- Опубликовано: 3 янв 2021
- For this install I chose all white leds but there are color choices for most of these.
Amazon links
Headlights: Low beam 9006, High beam 9005 Sealight Xeros amzn.to/3hHaKkp
Fog Lights (not the ones I used but these should fit well), H7 amzn.to/39gKtWr
Parking light, 5007 (1156 compatible)
Front turn signal, 5007 (1156 compatible)
Rear turn signal, 7506 (1156 compatible)
Stop light, 7506 (1156 compatible)
Back up light, 7506 (1156 compatible)
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Tail light 5007 (1156 compatible)
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Trunk lid stop light bar, 2825 (194 compatible)
License plate, 2825 (194 compatible)
Front side marker (194 compatible)
Rear side marker, (194 compatible)
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Dome light and trunk 6411 (41mm)
Battery should be disconnected of fuse pulled under hood before installation. The fuse will blow if you try to install while light is on.
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I did the headlight and fog light upgrade several years ago, huge improvement over the stock bulbs. I also did the interior light, I'm no longer in the dark with the light on...
This is so concise and well edited, thanks for uploading
This video was absolutely mint! Serious, well done, and thank you for the links; most of them work 2 years later!
Davin, And another comment. I just installed LED bulbs in the tail lights as you did. They appear to work fine. BUT, a WORD OF CAUTION for anyone doing this tail light work! I spent considerable time testing the lights as I was installing them. In doing so, reinstalling the plastic tail light bulb housing / cover inside the trunk could be somewhat challenging in getting all of the bulbs to insert back into the holes in the tail light housing --- in which case it is possible, as I found several times, when jockeying the bulb housing to fit and screw back in, that a bulb can pop out and drop into the light housing. The only ways to retrieve the bulb are to either remove the light housing from the car (which I did not do) or use a flexible magnetic pick-up tool, which I just happened to have --- it REALLY saved me getting the work done without removing the entire tail light housing from the car. It was a bit tricky, but it is possible to retrieve a loose bulb with the magnetic tool.
Thanks again for your excellent video. Based on your video, I just replaced the headlights and fog lights on my '97 BMW Z3 and they appear to be working beautifully. Now thinking about some of the rear-end lights.
thank you my friend. You are a wealth of information👍👍
Tip for the alignment; put your car in front of a white wall or board and mark the postion before removing the old bulbs. Then install the new bulb and you can verify by means of the markings.That is if you haven't moved the car or the board :-)
for anyone with the facelift model (2000+-1?): the rear tail lights use like micro bulbs or something, each bulb is in a little plastic cartridge that u just twist 90 degrees to unlock/lock. take them out and look at them for a part number before getting replacements
Super, I have a ‘99 Z3. Looks like I’ll be going LED. 👍👍
thanks for sharing the links brother just ordered it for M roadster
Thanks for the recommendation of the AUTOGINE H7 foglight bulbs. A must upgrade at only $16.19 for the pair.
Decided to "upgrade" to LED lighting on my 98 2.8 Z3. Started simple with trunk and interior lights, brake, turn signal and reverse lights. And the fun begins. Turn signals rapid flash, cruise control stops working and interior light glows when turned off. Seems that these are all common problems when installing LED bulbs. Switched back to original bulbs on brakes, turn signals. Rapid flash gone, cruise control works. Left reverse lights interior and trunk lights with LED. Did an OBD scan and now have an interior light fault. Can live with this since interior light is so much brighter than original. Found brightness gain was minimal for turn signal and brake lights and not prepared to fart around with resistors to make things work right.
Quality mate thanks
Excellent video. Thanks for sharing. I switched to LEDs, but now my high beams are coming on when the fog lights are on. I'm guessing it's due to the low voltage necessary to power them coupled with the the way the relay to cut the fogs when the high beams are on is wired.
This video is lit!!
In fog lights just take the black bracket out of the inside pops out no problem with needle nose
Great video. What year is your Z3 used for this light replacement project? I have a 1997 1.9L and presume (hope) that your video and bulbs would also apply. How has your experience been so far with your LED bulb selections? Thank you.
Hello anyone know what type of headlight bulb uses Z3 2000-2001 model? For low and high beam.
One more comment: With your new LED headlights, and when your low beams are on, when you change to high beam, does low beam remain operating with the high beam adding to the lighting so both low and high beams are operating at the same time?
Nice video Dav, much appreciated. One problem I had with my 96 Z3 was on the six light trunk brake bar. Every time I put put the new (from amazon ... looks like the ones you bought with the siver painted bases) in to the socket and turned them ... it blew the 5A fuse in the engine compartment! I had to put the old ones back in. Months later I still havent solved the problem. I went through 5 fuses and gave up! Any ideas??????? I have used these leds on all my cars and am using them in other spots on the Z3 and they work great. Love to have a few ideas to fix.
Sound like you have corroded ground wires. Either that or the positive wire is ground out somewhere. Check both ends of the wires. If that doesn't work then add new ground wires from the frame to the lights.
Spot on! Planning on doing this in the Spring. The trunk light really heats up as well. What do you recommend replacing with?
The link is in the description. There is a fuse under the hood that needs to be pulled first or just disconnect the battery to avoid blowing a fuse.
Thank you for the AWESOMEST video. And to those for the helpful comments. Thanks you tube for pulling this video up for me, clever buggers lol. Count Dracula ahahaha
Excellent video, upgraded brake lights, back turn signals and reverse light, no problems, install is easier removing the DVD six pack. Trunk and interior light made a high difference, pull the fuse before replacing, blew one fuse with interior light replacement. Problem with the 7 trunk brake lights, they have a dim glow when the ignition is on, no glow when ignition is turned off so they should not cause a battery drain.Is there a simple solution? Interior light also glows slightly when switched to the on with the door open position. Simple fix for this?
Thanks.
I think its a ground issue if they are dim. Mine are just on or off.
@@davinsrandom3142 Nice and bright when I step on brake pedal, have a dim glow when pedal not depressed, do I need a resistor for each bulb or can I place one resistor for the series?
Do you know if this set of bolts would work with the 2000 BMW Z3 2.8i headlights and tail lights?
I have a 2000 Z3 roaster I change every light on the vehicle in-and-out to LED's now I have hyper Flash on my blinkers How do I stop hyper Flash
Davin - great vid! Thanks for posting. I do have one problem from this set up - the 1156 bulbs don't seem to work in my front turn signals. Work great for rear lights, but I get no light at all with the front turn signals. No flicker or flash with any of the others. I'll be exploring other LEDs for the front turn signals - not sure why mine would be different from yours. The Sealight Xeros set is not currently available on Amazon so I ordered another set with fans built in from Auxito because I've never had issues with fan'd LEDs on my other vehicles (in fact I prefer them). Thanks much!
Just checking the comments because those are still unavailable. Did you find something similiar to use?
Yes - I bought the
AUXITO 9005 9006 kit on Amazon. I would imagine any manufacturer will work - just look for those led bulb numbers. Plug and play, zero flicker, immensely brighter at night and so far no angry drivers flashing high beams at me. Still not sure about the front turn signals though.
@@CitizenDrew thanks, I'll try them out
Random but you and me have the exact same tires
I used the same turn-signal LEDs and got hyper-flashing. Is there a plan B product for that? Thanks, sh
You may need to change the flash relay to an led friendly one. Did you do the side markers on the front fenders? I left those alone on mine.
What about the front courtesy light? How can we disarm them?
Not sure which light you are talking about.
Bumper light wire is it that long, or did you make an extension?
It's that long. from the factory.
@@davinsrandom3142 Thank you 😊
No warnings on dash and no need for resistors?
No warnings. I may need a resistor though. For some reason the cruise control is tied into the rear tail lights. Mine CC didn't work before but now that I am ready to fix it I may have to add some. Not sure yet. I will address it in future video.