I picked this up from a fire damaged 2011 328xi last week and everything was in absolute mint condition. I always wanted the LCI tails because I didn't like the white patch on my non-LED pre-LCI tails. This was the perfect opportunity for me to be fully content with the back of my car without paying more than $1200 (Yes, this is including the paint job).
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The trunk included the carpet, the lock cylinder, roundel and also the original wiring harness that was of course cut from the car. I was able to dismantle the LCI trunk and pull out the entire wiring harness - figuring out what plugs into what. After experimenting with the LCI trunk's wiring, I was able to get a good idea on how to install the trunk on my pre-LCI car.
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Here it is with just the outer tail light installed. I wouldn't recommend this because it will indeed make your car look weird.
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I finally installed the new trunk on the pre-LCI car and ran into a problem where I didn't know how to take the wires off the clip for the inner tail lights. I tried leaving the original pre-LCI order for the wires and my rear fogs would stay on and the horizontal lines would not light up.
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After playing comparing with the old wiring harness, I finally figured out the correct LCI wiring order and I managed to fix the problem. Now the horizontal lines light up just like the outer ones.
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This is how it looks now. Yes, I know it looks weird but I'm going to have to take it apart and put the old trunk back while I bring the white trunk to be re-painted.
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More pics coming soon!!!