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DIY: F90 / G30 LCI Tail Lights Retrofit
Featured on BIMMERPOST.com Due to North American cars operating on 4 pins, you will NOT need to run 2 extra wires to the passenger footwell BDC, as that's what you might have seen in other guides out of Europe, or Asia. (Btw running to BDC is a proper OEM way, but you can just do a shortcut, by running a wire from the inner lights, and tapping to the outer lights). Let's Begin: Parts that you will need: I've bought all my parts from an eBay seller Euroactive. Shipping was fast and they replied to msgs almost instantly. Do recommend! - Outer Left tail light: 63218493813 - Outer Right tail light: 63218493814 - Inner Left tail light on the trunk: 63218493819 - Inner Right tail light on the trunk: 63218493820 - Trim panel water channel Drip rail Left: 63218493821 - Trim panel water channel Drip rail Right: 63218493822 - Tail light finisher, trunk lid, Left: 51499448943 - Tail light finisher, trunk lid, Right: 51499448944 Tools that you will need: - Tack Lifter screwdriver - Plastic panel removal tool - Ratchet with 10mm socket - 1.2mm flat head screwdriver Lets begin on inner trunk lid tail lights: With trunk open start by removing 8 Expanding rivets: Unlock the bracket for Warning Triangle. Remove the bracket by unlocking 2 clips: With the panel removal tool, unclip and then disconnect the trunk lid opening/closing controls: Remove the 2 hinge covers, they are held by 1 hidden clip, 1 visible Expanding rivet, and 2 locks: Pull the Felt liner towards you, and then there will be 4 more hidden clips towards the edge of the trunk: Remove the 2 covers on the side of the trunk (they cover the side of the lights. Start from the bottom, and work your way up to the clip: Unplug the inner tail lights, and remove the 3 10mm Hex nuts on each. Carefully replace with LCI tail lights: Now we need to re-arrange the pins on the inner tail light connectors. Unlock the clip on the side of the connector: To release each one of the wires from the connector, insert the small screwdriver into the smaller hole to release the pin lock: Here is the way the connectors should look like: Original Left connector: Pin 1: Blue/red stripe Pin2: Empty Pin3: Brown Pin4: Yellow/Black stripe Pin5: Empty Pin6: Yellow/Brown Stripe Original Right connector: Pin1: Blue/White stripe Pin2: Empty Pin3: Brown Pin4: Yellow Pin5: Empty Pin6: Blue/Black Stripe Re-arranged Left connector for LCI tail lights: Pin 1: Empty Pin2: Yellow/Brown Stripe Pin3: Yellow/Black stripe Pin4: Empty Pin5: Blue/red stripe Pin6: Brown Re-arranged Right connector for LCI tail lights: Pin1: Empty Pin2: Blue/Black Stripe Pin3: Yellow Pin4: Empty Pin5: Blue/White stripe Pin6: Brown Now let's get to the outer tail lights. Pull back the weather stripping, and remove the drip rails on both sides. Start from the windshield and work your way down. The drip rails are held on 2 clips: Lift up the carpet and remove from the car: Remove 4 Expandable rivet clips from the Loading Sill cover: Pull back the weather stripping around the Sill cover and lift it up. It has another 4 hidden metal clips holding it: On each side of the trunk, remove 3 Expandable rivet clips: On each side, release the round clip around the hinges and lift it up and away: Now you can carefully move the trunk trim to the side on both sides, to get to the outer tail light 10mm Hex nut and the connector. Remove the nut and unplug the connector: Remove 2 more 10mm Hex nuts on both outer tail lights: Now you can install LCI outer tail lights instead, and secure them with the same 10mm Hex nuts. On outer tail lights, you do not need to do any rearrangements of the pins. They are plug-and-play. CODING: I didn't do coding myself. I used Vick from fb.com/bimmercoder or www.bimmercoder.com . His whatsup: +60 12-396 9654 I highly recommend him. From my understanding nobody has reported on getting these USA red lights to work properly on USA cars before me. We spent hours and hours with different variations. My lights finally work 100% function wise, and no errors: Turn signals, brakes, running lights, hazards, LED reverse lights, all work. What is NOT working, are the Welcome Lights (the lights that go ON for the first 15 seconds when you unlock your car). Those i had to turn off in my iDrive settings, otherwise they can cause issues if you start your car before they go off. Hopefully somebody will figure out the Welcome Lights, and I will update this guide. So far from what I've seen, installers/coders in USA are all struggling to get those to work. Here are the final results: Here is also a video of how they are functioning: I hope this guide will be helpful to others! Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you. Last edited by euro*; 03-03-2021 at 01:21 PM.. |
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03-03-2021, 02:26 AM | #2 |
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Spot on instructions as I completed the retrofit with wiring help from Euro and achieved the same results with coder. Excellent work with the write up.
So the coder has some ideas and would like to confirm the wiring on North American cars at the BDC. Could someone open theirs up and confirm the following? Open connector 5B and check for wire colors at pin 41 and 33? and also at connector 3B for wire colors at pin 50 and 38? Last edited by CarFreak; 03-03-2021 at 06:48 AM.. |
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i know in uk we have the slim yellow indicator on ours rather than flashing brake light for turn signal, dunno if that is why i dont get any issues?? ps they dont pulse, its just video speed on bad camera
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Damn! Like leeadam I was intimidated to tackle the possible wiring complications, but now with your wonderfully detailed instructions I’ve found a way to spend more money on the car! Thanks for the posting. The new lights add a nice touch I think.
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With European lights there will be no welcome light issues. |
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Awesome write up! This is like a M3 forum now with a proper DIY!
Question about Euro vs American lights. If we used the euro lights would wiring and coding be the same? Would be nice to know the differences if anyone here knows them. My car is green so yellow/amber blinker lights are more appealing to me. |
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To answer your question. The coder I linked above, had a customer in USA who used Euro lights. Wiring was almost identical, they just needed to run an extra wire on each side from inner tail lights, and tap to the outer ones. Once coded they functioned properly, including welcome lights. |
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Thank you for the great writeup. Please post info on the welcome lights when you or others have it. Also, any links to DIY for the software coding portion?
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Yes I will for sure update the guide once the WL function is figured out and is working. Also, if somebody will send me a solid DIY coding guide that was proven and fully functioning, I will add it also |
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