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Looks great and happy to help. Hopefully Vic hooks you up soon. I still drool over them when I walk up from behind. Such a huge impact.
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"The inner brake lights do not come on with the outer brake lights, but the signals work in both directions both inner and outer, and the outer brake lights work. When I turn on the parking lights or the headlights the inner and outer come in in parking light mode. The reverse lights work correctly. Hazards work properly. There is a warning on the dash for the right and left brake light." Edit - Just heard back from Vic, and I have to run from pin 4 of the outer to pin 1 on the inner still... operation do over tomorrow hahaha!
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Howzit guys! Getting things ready for the retrofit and was wondering if anyone here had the part number for the extra bmw wire. I like to use oem as much as possible. I have the part number for the pins already, just need the wire itself.
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61.12.6.946.211 - Cable Gray You need 12 metres according to the retrofit kit instructions but i’d go for 15 if I were you. |
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All done and coded thanks to Vic and to Euro and Joe-BMW33 for the write up and help along the way. Vic did the coding tonight and all is well now. So sexy!!!
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Nice, glad it's all squared away. What was the correct jump pin assignments inner to outer?
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There must be a splice from pin 1 on the outer lights and that run to pin 4 of the inner lights. If you have the 5th wire in your inners from the factory, that wire is not used. On my car that was the black/white and black/yellow.
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EDIT: 5th WIRE FROM BDC DOES GO TO PIN LOCATION 4, NOT 1, SO THE JUMP INSTRUCTIONS ALL MAKE SENSE. APOLOGIES. PIN 4 IS THE LOCATION FOR THE 5th WIRE OR THE JUMP.
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I just talked to Vic and good news. You can definitely move the fog light wire over at the BDC and then use it for pin 1 inner, done!!
My shop ran a new 5th wire from the BDC. I will get back to you all on where on the BDC this comes from. Much easier than running a new wire or jumping. Most US cars have the fog wire sitting there doing nothing. Sure the Euro's have fogs and you can have rear fogs with the Euro lights if you want to utilize this wire for that and get a new switch, but I am guessing most of us could care less and would rather have the ease of installation.
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More info on the fog lights. The euro switch has an extra provision for rear fog lights. So I'm guessing you just grab one of these and plug in the rear wire and you might pick out.
I'm not gonna lie I want this switch now 😂😂🥰
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If you have the fog light wire available and want to utilize it for the 5th wire on a Euro install on a US car:
At BDC move the following wire Black/Yellow: 5B [pin 20] ➡️ 3B [pin 50] Black/White: 5B [pin 12] ➡️ 3B [pin 28] On the inner connector this wire goes into Pin 4 location which is empty after rearrangement. I thought the 5th wire went to pin location 1 which is also empty. Vic corrected me. I made a few references to pin 1, disregard, it's pin 4.
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Does anyone know what gauge the wire is? Looks like super thin like 18 or even smaller. I have some stranded wire that I can use but want to make sure it will be ok.
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You can use whatever wire you want as long as the connecters fit on the end. I ordered too little and joined it to some stranded wire I had lying around to get the job done.
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