BMW Custom Shadow Headlights DIY Tutorial | E92 335i 328i | LED Halos | RGB Projectors | CF Eyelids
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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2024
- Upgrade your car by decades with the most influential single mod you can do. This is a complete step-by-step DIY guide with full custom diagrams, wiring tutorials, and installation tips. This build is affordable, fun, and the results are a game changer. I definitely modernized my car with these new headlights.
I chose to do RGB bluetooth controlled projector lights to get the infamous "BMW demon eyes." I used 2 stage LED halos that flash orange when signaling. I deleted various OEM components, fully painted all retro chrome housings, and I used real carbon fiber eyelids to create an aggressive look that offset my new halos. I installed new projector lenses which dramatically improved the cutoff, clarity, and throw distance. I also demonstrate how to sand, buff, reinforce, and UV protect your headlights for the ultimate new car look.
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I don’t get anything for making these videos, but I like helping people out. These links below may pay me a TINY commission 🤣, but no cost to you. These are the things I used, or should’ve used, and I did my best to find comparable, decent angel eyes. Good luck on yours!
TOOLS AND MATERIALS USED:
Multi-color 18 gauge wire kit: amzn.to/3Mk2MOD
Long roll of heat shrink to fix all the wiring: amzn.to/3QdOlwK
High-temp electrical tape: amzn.to/3FGQBrf
Wiring cap kit (multi-sized): amzn.to/3MjyknG
Butyl tape to seal headlights: amzn.to/3tQT1kA
My Torx bit set (it has held up great): amzn.to/3Qg54iV
Microfiber (scratch free) cleaning cloth: amzn.to/3MiZtr5
Tiny screwdriver set: amzn.to/45OLdNB
PARTS FOR BUILD:
Hexagonal Angel Eyes (2 stage signal): amzn.to/3QJonlJ
Horseshoe Angel Eyes: amzn.to/3seUzEs
Round Angel Eyes (x2): amzn.to/3FyeOzY
Asymmetrical Horseshoe Angel Eyes (like mine): amzn.to/3ShGrVx
RGB Projector LED (demon eyes): amzn.to/3Qx3QkC
Real Carbon Fiber eyelids for E92: amzn.to/499asgv
New headlight covers (used to be $50 each lol): amzn.to/45OSbC3
Upgraded projector lenses E90: www.bavgruppedesign.com/produ...
PAINTING AND SANDING:
Oil-Based Spar Urethane: amzn.to/40fufXx
1 Quart of Mineral Spirits: amzn.to/3sj3O6B
Multi-sized sand paper I used: amzn.to/49c0sCX
Matte black spray paint (for all other parts): amzn.to/493Zetw
Matte clear spray paint (I should’ve used): amzn.to/3FAGYug
High temp enamel paint (for bracket and shield): amzn.to/40b34gx
High temp primer paint: amzn.to/40dsNVu
Regular primer paint: amzn.to/475Nrt1
Painter’s tape: amzn.to/46OUSVD
CHAPTERS:
0:00 Before and After Example
0:32 Step 1 - Remove headlight adjustment brace
0:54 Step 2 & 3 - How to wet sand and buff the covers (optional)
3:04 Step 4 - Remove the headlight lens covers
4:21 Step 5 - Remove the OEM projector halo ring
4:55 Step 6 - Remove the projector shroud
5:16 Step 7 - Remove the adaptive headlight housing
6:28 Step 8 & 9 - Remove the rear cover and projector light housing
8:37 Step 10 - Dismantle the adaptive headlight housing
9:47 Step 11 - Prep the adaptive headlight bezel for paint
10:15 Step 12 - Dismantle the projector housing
11:49 Step 13 - Remove the lens bracket and cutoff shield plate
12:34 Step 14 - Remove the lens from the bracket
13:34 Step 15 & 16 - Remove the bezel and signal light housing
14:35 Step 17 & 18 - Remove extra OEM parts and repeat for other headlight
14:52 Overview of all the parts and a visual log of it
16:21 Step 19 - Prep and paint the parts (list of parts)
17:24 Step 20 - Clean the old sealant from the headlight
18:07 Step 21 - Assemble the projector, adaptive, and new lens units
19:55 Step 22 - How to fix the brittle BMW wiring (optional)
22:25 Step 23 - Create your “demon eyes” or RGB LED install
23:17 Step 24 - Cut the base for new halo rings and align
25:23 Step 25 - Mount the new halo rings with tape
26:22 Step 26 & 27 - Reinforce the halo rings with silicone and wire
30:19 Step 28 - Wire and splice inside the headlight
31:24 Colton’s custom headlight wiring DIAGRAM
32:04 Step 29 - Reinstall the projector and adaptive units in the headlight
34:00 Step 30 - Drill a place for the halo wire
34:36 Step 31 & 32 - How to wire the relay for the RGB projector and test it
36:53 Step 33 - How to wire the new halo rings (angel eyes)
37:13 Colton’s OEM Wiring diagram pinout of the headlight
37:41 Step 34 - Test the new halos
38:27 Step 35 - Add custom eyelids (optional)
39:45 Step 36 - How to clear coat and UV protect the lights (optional)
41:18 Step 37 - Reassemble the headlight cover parts
42:40 Step 38 - How to seal the headlight housing with butyl tape
44:08 Step 39 - Reinstall the brace and run harness through (optional)
44:50 Step 40 - Adjust the headlight angle and tips
45:54 Before and after (final results) footage and photos
47:41 Difficulty Scale - Auta a dopravní prostředky
I’ve been looking for this for a while now. Thanks for making this brother! Gonna start the project soon.
Ah, so glad to help you out! It's definitely a unique and complex undertaking. I wish you luck on your project. Let me know if I can help out with info. This is years old now, but most of my memory is still there with it 🤣 Cheers
Terrific job!
Thanks so much! I'm glad it helped 🙃
Great video!
I recently installed switchback Angel eyes and wired them to the original H8 bulb. There were two brown wires and one yellow going to the H8.
I wired in the positive to the yellow wire and the two brown wires to the negative of my Angel eye.
It worked for about an hour and then one Angel stopped working followed by the other.
Do you know if there is any reason this issue could have occurred ?
Thank you, I appreciate it.
I'm trying to remember, lol... I'll do my best.
There are 2 yellow wires. You may have wired the pin #3 to the angel eye positive. You want to wire pin #1 yellow to this (as it's the constant). The white pin #12 from the headlight wires is for the turn signal input on the angle eye. The brown pin #4 is the ground to the negative on the angel eye.
I also had to wire inline resistors because my angel eyes were flashing very quickly. If you didn't do that, maybe there's a problem there. These cars tend to sense low resistance as no bulb or burned out, and then shut off power. For example, swapping the interior dome light to an LED will allow it to work for 20 seconds, but then it will shut off because the car senses no resistance and thinks it's an error. I've even coded in the LED functions and used CANBUS bulbs, but it still persists 🤣
I'm assuming you left access to the wires from the top. I would pull the power wire and bench test it on a 12V battery. I'll bet they function fine because it's unlikely both burned out, unless you shorted something or pinched a wire, or have an open wire that happened to rub on something while moving.
One other thing, these headlights have overheated brittle wiring where the sheaths may crumble over time. It's possible that by working in there, you opened a wire up to shorting. You can use a multimeter or test light to try and trace continuity and voltage back through the wires involved.
Additionally, I'd check the fuses for the headlights. If you popped a fuse (assuming there's a direct one for the halos) then it's likely you have an open wire somewhere. Good luck
I once watched your video, did everything with my headlights months after but remembered you UV protected them and no one from ytb I saw did that, spent weeks finding your video again, finally I can finish the process completely and ensure thy gon still be well for years to come, thanks man, great video, detailed.
P.D. how are they still holding up? cheers man
Hey, thanks for the support. The lights themselves are good inside. I would note to REALLY solidify the eyelids, if you do them inside. I had one slightly shift because I didn't use enough sealant. It's not enough to bother me yet. This video is actually a few years old, so they held up well in general. The UV coat deteriorates after 1-2 years, but you only need to recoat it. You could do something more permanent though. You could clear coat them with paint as well. I've recoated my headlights once in a few years. I do need to do it again soon though. I can see spots where it's coming off. Hope that helps you, cheers
@@fixitcolton thanks man! much appreciated
Why these M3 47:01 bumper for pre lci have that big gap between headlight everyone i see have it including mine too
I wonder the same thing. It actually pulls itself down and puts stress at the fender, lol. I bought a new fender bracket to pull it up, but I have never it on. The good news is that I hardly notice it anymore.
@@fixitcolton What is that ?
It's the black odd shaped bracket that holds the bumper to the fender on the sides of the car, near the tire. This is the left (driver's side US): amzn.to/3uWrH5d and this is the right (passenger side US): amzn.to/3SNwBJG
Where’s the red from?
The red in the lights is from the RGB LED behind the projector lens. I installed it in the video.
Hello friend, I sent you a message on Instagram to see if you could help me with some things about the video. I have little experience and I'm doing this job in my car but I have days stuck in the wires
If you have some questions, just post them up here. I don't know how much direct help I can be since this video is years old. I will try to remember what I can.
@@fixitcolton What happens is that I connect the cables as they are in the video and the LED turns on but after a few seconds it turns off and so all the time
What LED? You have to be more specific. Also, what kind of specs or functions do the LED's installed have?
@@fixitcolton It's the rgb demon's eye led that you put in the description of the video
I don't know about the functions
@@fixitcolton Angel's eyes I had to buy some different ones since the ones you put in the description no longer sold them, which have a relay where they have the connections for angel's eyes and angel's eyes and their relay I connected it to the rl45 relay, with rs40 socket that you used in the video, the directional ones I did not modify them I will leave them as they are
And my other question is once I connect everything in this light (I'm doing the left light, on the pilot's side),I'll have to remove the light from angel oem's eye and put the new