This last update I spent 4 weeks on, more than I thought was needed, but the outcome is good.
Started by removing the rear seat...and it was filthy...
I can't help myself, so cleaned up.
Next up was to remove the side trim to reveal the cable paths from the front to the back of the car:
Needed to do the same in the boot:
And also below the steering wheel:
Side panel next to the accelerator pedal:
Which allows for another opportunity, I can never get to clean next to the pedal, so with this panel removed:
LCM removed:
More dirt that is rarely properly cleaned:
So cleaned up:
Removing a panel I didn't want to in the boot. This one is annoying, because there are these caps over the screws, which I managed to damage all of them. Will need new ones.
Then at this point I pulled through the wiring, I noticed I didn't take photos of it all, but I did after putting the things back together.
Next up, I spliced the wiring into the connecters at the LCM:
Not all of my work is out of experience, this was learning and I made some mistakes, but these pins all ended up working:
This, is the state of the lights I am working with.
This is my answer to it.
Solder:
Heatshrink tube. Using the wife's hairblower to make it shrink.
Finally this is how I connect it, making the lights removable.
Next up, was probably one of the harder things to figure out, how to pull wiring through into the boot, through the rubber piping. It is really annoying when the BMW cabling have something sticky, making nothing go through here, but I managed eventually.
Pre-facelift vs facelift boot lights on the left side for SA. So pre-facelift have the one red light blanked, which is why you can't have the rear foglight on both sides. Facelift can have it on both sides.
Anyways, so here is where things went sideways. Before putting everything back together, I test the lights, and the facelift lights do not work at all. Like nothing. I then put back on the pre-facelift lights, and even with the wiring changes, everything work, although slightly odd. The brakes were pressed here to ensure I have brake lights, but unfortunately it looked like I am driving with both rear fog lights on :rage: Well the car looked like this for 2 weeks while I was working on a solution to the facelift lights not working.
Turns out, this wiring harness I got, is many ways wrong. The left and right side of the wiring hardness was the wrong way around. The problem is, this cable was meant for LHD cars in the USA, and our RHD cars the lengths do not make sense. So I had to do some cutting, soldering and wrapping heatshrink tubes around, to get the left and right side swapped. Easier than doing than reversing the pins on both sides.
Anyways, this is the boot without trim:
Some ugly cabling:
Then in the end, I had to figure out the coding. This is not at 90% complete.
The rear lights, light up like the factory had the facelift cars, with the standing lights all on the bottom on dim, and the brake lights on the top and middle.
What is not done coding is:
1. The fog light is on the left side bottom two. Need to double check factory config here.
2. Walk me home lights, currently looks odd, shows two bright lights on the boot at the rear.
The end result:
This now finally mark the end of the facelift conversion of this car.
Hope you enjoyed reading my latest post
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