Has Anyone Retrofitted LCI Headlights?

[flpnout]

My Z4 is already paid off and have spent considerable amount of money on performance upgrades, suspension, wheels, wrap, etc. I've had the car for 5 years now and plan to keep it until I run it to the ground. Spending a little over a couple grand has a lot more value to me since I've customized it to my likings and don't plan to sell.

[livin]

Originally Posted by flpnout

My Z4 is already paid off and have spent considerable amount of money on performance upgrades, suspension, wheels, wrap, etc. I've had the car for 5 years now and plan to keep it until I run it to the ground. Spending a little over a couple grand has a lot more value to me since I've customized it to my likings and don't plan to sell.

Awesome, that is what I am doing now.

[ManiacGT]

I always say that and then later the same day look at other cars lol

[CedarZ4]

How did the install go, flpnout?

Mind sharing your experience as to if the dealership needed to order extra parts, or if everything old could just be transferred over.

How many labor hours they charged for an install (possibly something that is a DIY?)

[flpnout]

Originally Posted by ManiacGT

I always say that and then later the same day look at other cars lol

My Z4 has seen many cars come in and out of the garage, but she has always stayed. LOL
I'm content with 2014 R8 and 2010 Z4.

[flpnout]

Originally Posted by CedarZ4

How did the install go, flpnout?

Mind sharing your experience as to if the dealership needed to order extra parts, or if everything old could just be transferred over.

How many labor hours they charged for an install (possibly something that is a DIY?)

The headlights don't arrive until next Tuesday. The dealership will try to reprogram and if not they will order the foot module.

It should all work out. Excited to get my car refreshed again. I will drop it off sometime next week, unless I have to be out of the country for work.

[livin]

Originally Posted by flpnout

The headlights don't arrive until next Tuesday. The dealership will try to reprogram and if not they will order the foot module.

It should all work out. Excited to get my car refreshed again. I will drop it off sometime next week, unless I have to be out of the country for work.

Please let me know if you complete retrofit the LCI headlight without footwell module. I've heard that it is possible to work. I've no chance to try it. Thanks.

[Visionist]

I'd rather get the post-lift lights from the US as over here we don't have the orange LED sidelights incorporated. Feels like I'd be getting less for my money otherwise.

[audioi]

So what year in the USA did they change to the brighter halos from the factory?

[Seechun]

So after a bit of a wait my headlights have been custom fitted with OSS designs Raptors. Will be getting these back soon and upload some photos of them fitted

Heres some teaser photos

[flpnout]

^Nice!

[Desmo85]

Originally Posted by Seechun

So after a bit of a wait my headlights have been custom fitted with OSS designs Raptors. Will be getting these back soon and upload some photos of them fitted

Heres some teaser photos

Wow!
That looks incredible, how much do they charge for it?

Do they offer a "pure white" Lightdesign as well?
Those are LED Clusters as I see it? How long will they last untill the first one dies and leaves a "black spot" in the rings?

[Seechun]

Originally Posted by Desmo85

Wow!
That looks incredible, how much do they charge for it?

Do they offer a "pure white" Lightdesign as well?
Those are LED Clusters as I see it? How long will they last untill the first one dies and leaves a "black spot" in the rings?

Yep you can get it in white or also in RGB (you can change the colours via mobile app). I went for the 8000k colour since I already have 8000k xenons.

This is the very first Z4 e89 conversion theyve done, so you'll be happy to know they can do this for you too now. It'll prob be around $850-900 all up I assume, I had a discount only because I was the pilot. I asked about the warranties, I think it comes with 1 year but they havent had any issues with these before, given its a tight cluster (RGB is wider) you could probably go with 1 LED dieing anyway as its quite bright

For me I think this is way better than getting the LCI headlights retrofitted which I dont think look that great anyway. Square angel eyes FTW

[Seechun]

Some quick pics of the raptors installed, will take some better ones on the weekend...

Happy with the final result! Only had it 2 days but seem to always get a lot of looks from those going by

[ManiacGT]

They look mean. I like those a lot. I'd have to get a whiter bulb though as its a bit blue to get away with in the UK.

Given the lenses/rings look a bit deeper than OEM, do they cut into the Xenon main light pattern at all?

[flpnout]

Looks good! I get all the parts for my LCI headlights today. I plan to have them installed at the end of the week.

[Seechun]

Originally Posted by ManiacGT

They look mean. I like those a lot. I'd have to get a whiter bulb though as its a bit blue to get away with in the UK.

Given the lenses/rings look a bit deeper than OEM, do they cut into the Xenon main light pattern at all?

Yep they are a little bluer than I expected but I still prefer this over pure white. I drove home today and didnt notice any difference in lighting, if there was its prob because the rings are transparent that it doesnt affect much.

I'll be coding the lights soon to play around with the brightness to a level that works best.

[BMWZ4RIDER]

Looks great.
I love it. Nice design and Bright color.
8000K is always going to be very blue on the Kelvin scale.
6500K is daylight blue so going higher in temp will become a cooler (more blue) the color.
Higher the number the cooler (More blue) the color.
Transversley the lower the number 3500K, 3000K, 2700K the warmer (more yellow) the color.

[Drew@Sonic MS]

Just installed my LCI headlights. DRL works just fine when headlights aren't on but DRLs will flicker when headlights are turned on. In the process of updating my Daten files so I can program it to 2014 software. For those of you guys that did it successfully, did you guys experience the same thing before coding?

[Drew@Sonic MS]

Just figured out what's needed to do the swap.

My car is a early 09 build for reference.

You will just need the full headlight assembly, wiring is not necessary.

If your car was built before 09/09 (i think) then you have the FRM2 Footwell Module and you will need a new module to get it to work properly with the LEDs. However, if you have some version of the FRM3 (lots of variations) then you won't need to replace the footwell module. That should clear up who is "P&P".

Coding was done by Niv @ BMCoding (support@bmcoding.com). Highly recommended, he just spent a few hours trying to figure it out with the FRM2 and we concluded a FRM3 is needed. Niv knows the ins and outs of the E89 already so other options won't be a problem.

[flpnout]

Met a new friend and thanks for helping me out Drew@sonicMS and BM Coding! I'm happy to report LCI headlights are working properly! Highly recommended!

[flpnout]

Here are some pics of LCI headlights: