Boosting Angel Eye Voltage

CarAbuser · 10-28-2011, 09:17 AM

I was browsing the coding forum and notice a few mentions of people boosting the voltage of their angel eye bulbs during their dimmed state to get them to appear brighter/whiter while the main beams are on.

From what I gathered it's fairly easy with a coding cable but I couldn't find much about it other than brief mentions of the parameter that has to be modded.
For such a straight-forward mod it seems a great way of getting LCI style angel eyes without going down the LED ring route.

Has anyone here in the UK done this modification and where would I be able to buy the cable from over here?

m1bjr · 10-28-2011, 12:30 PM

Coding is anything buy simple to learn

I tried it and its a PITA, the cables run to about £70.

You may as well pay an 'expert' to do this for you - its far safer.
You can end up with a car that wont operate properly unless you are competent, so be warned mate

neil@JuicedUpTuning · 10-28-2011, 04:45 PM

You can achieve the same effect by splicing the wires. I will dig out the link later

CarAbuser · 10-28-2011, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by m1bjr

Coding is anything buy simple to learn

I tried it and its a PITA, the cables run to about £70.

You may as well pay an 'expert' to do this for you - its far safer.
You can end up with a car that wont operate properly unless you are competent, so be warned mate

I spend a lot of time working with code so I've always wanted to give it a go but if an expert can do the same thing for less than the price of the cable then I would go with that route.

The wire splicing thing that Neil mentioned sounds much less risky and cheaper!

Chrisw100 · 10-29-2011, 05:45 AM

id also be really intrested in this

CarAbuser · 10-29-2011, 02:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by neil@JuicedUpTuning

You can achieve the same effect by splicing the wires. I will dig out the link later

Any luck yet?
I tried searching myself but couldn't find a method that didn't require a specialised harness.

neil@JuicedUpTuning · 10-29-2011, 02:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CarAbuser

Any luck yet?
I tried searching myself but couldn't find a method that didn't require a specialised harness.

The original thread has been removed.

I'm waiting on an email to confirm if thread was taken down because its no longer the recommend way.

It simply involved using one quick splice connector

http://www.nelcoproducts.com/shoppin...t_Conn_big.jpg

I'll update shortly

neil@JuicedUpTuning · 10-31-2011, 05:42 PM

Sadly the wire splice was not 100% and cause lighting codes. Some it worked and some it didnt

CarAbuser · 11-01-2011, 02:49 AM

Thanks for taking the time to look into it. Looks like coding is the way forward.

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CarAbuser Lieutenant Colonel 468 Rep 1,535 Posts Drives: Z4 35i DCT / E92 335i DCT Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: United Kingdom iTrader: (0)	Boosting Angel Eye Voltage I was browsing the coding forum and notice a few mentions of people boosting the voltage of their angel eye bulbs during their dimmed state to get them to appear brighter/whiter while the main beams are on. From what I gathered it's fairly easy with a coding cable but I couldn't find much about it other than brief mentions of the parameter that has to be modded. For such a straight-forward mod it seems a great way of getting LCI style angel eyes without going down the LED ring route. Has anyone here in the UK done this modification and where would I be able to buy the cable from over here?
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CarAbuser Lieutenant Colonel 468 Rep 1,535 Posts Drives: Z4 35i DCT / E92 335i DCT Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: United Kingdom iTrader: (0)	Thanks for taking the time to look into it. Looks like coding is the way forward.
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