I have a 2011 R56 and we added projector lights with halo rings and now we are getting the symbol indicating the high beam headlight has failed. Otherwise lights are working fine. Anyone have a fix for this?

 

It is prob because of amp draw, the light indicators expect to see a certain current flow when a lamp is active. Most likely you will have to add a resistor across the ballast to up the high beam amperage until it falls into the expected range. Does the warning extinguish when the highs are on?

 

More relevant question is what headlights did you have before. If they were Xenons you should not be having this problem. if you up graded from Halogens to Xenons then Clubman S Turbo is partially correct. You will need to do something but adding a resistor is not always the best solution. Reprograming the car to realize it no has Xenons would be a better choice.

 

Schatzy, if the vehicle is reporgrammable and the owner has access to the parts or has the cable and laptop software, I would def agree, its better not to have to try to "fool" the car into what it thinks its seeing. If not, the resistor solution should be a fairly simple and permanent fix ............. maybe.
That may depend, if the car is doing a start-up continuity test and is looking across what it believes are both "filaments" (high n low), and is seeing the very high resistance associated with the business end of a solid-state ballast module, then this solution may or may not work. If its only looking at current flow on an operational lamp, like my 92 GP does, this sleight-of-hand should work fine.

 

6 ohm 50 watt will do the trick if you are using a harness to power lights from the battery (and have basically unplugged the H13 sockets). It works on 2009 and the more sensitive 2010, I can at least vouch for that. It costs about 20.00 to do and 1/2 hour of work and mine have been trouble free for over 2 years so far. It is not a pretty mod but is easy and reliable. Many of the HID problems published on NAM are made in the pursuit of finding plug and play solutions. If you are not afraid to splice a couple of wires this works guaranteed.

If you are powering the lights off the headlight sockets then the resistors could pull the voltage down and cause some unwanted flickering. Reprogramming is probably the best option there.