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Old Jan 5, 2024 | 08:42 AM
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Upgrading halogen headlights to pre-lci?

Hi all. I'm absolutely sick of the garbage stock halogen headlights. I tried LED bulbs in the stock housings for all of 5min and they made it even worse. I found a vendor willing to sell me a set of pre-LCI LED headlights from a wrecked car but I've seen a lot of conflicting information online about if they'll work. Will they work? Will I need to re-pin the connector? Will they need to be coded? Will I need a headlight level sensor? There's GOT to be someone who's done this already.
 
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Old Jan 5, 2024 | 02:12 PM
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Yep got to get these: https://www.ecstuning.com/b-vinstar-...minif56hl~vin/





or https://www.ecstuning.com/b-vinstar-...ini14hl-c~vin/




Reviews on the Bentley lights from us from one of our customers.

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...ssemblies.html





They are much better. Plug and play and projectors.
 
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Old Jan 5, 2024 | 02:17 PM
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Yea i saw those on your site and that was gonna be my next move. But if I could spend $350 for two OEM pre-LCI headlights, I would much prefer to do that instead of over $1k on a brand I've never heard of.
 
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Old Jan 12, 2024 | 09:38 AM
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Ok, let me know as i just updated a older review above with them installed.
 
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QUOTE=veteran011;4668777]Yea i saw those on your site and that was gonna be my next move. But if I could spend $350 for two OEM pre-LCI headlights, I would much prefer to do that instead of over $1k on a brand I've never heard of.[/QUOTE]

@veteran011 did you ever do the pre lci conversion, curious to see if it worked our for you?
 
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Old Mar 27, 2024 | 10:30 AM
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QUOTE=veteran011;4668777]Yea i saw those on your site and that was gonna be my next move. But if I could spend $350 for two OEM pre-LCI headlights, I would much prefer to do that instead of over $1k on a brand I've never heard of.
@veteran011 did you ever do the pre lci conversion, curious to see if it worked our for you?[/QUOTE]
No I didn't. I watched this YouTube video about what it takes and holy hell is it complicated.


I may still get the aftermarket ones from ECS but that's on the back burner for now (at least until they do a sale. lol).
 
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Old Mar 27, 2024 | 10:55 AM
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We just started a sale on our Ziza lighting. https://www.ecstuning.com/b-ziza-par...ng-headlights/
 
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Old Mar 27, 2024 | 01:03 PM
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We just started a sale on our Ziza lighting. https://www.ecstuning.com/b-ziza-par...ng-headlights/
Thanks for the notice. What's the reason for the change in brand name? The previous ones were Vinstar. How does that work with the Lifetime Replacement guarantee? I.e. what if I had bought the Vinstars but now you don't sell them.
 
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Old Mar 27, 2024 | 01:17 PM
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We just has a name change. Same great product. Also we can have them fall into lifetime replacement under one of our key brands.

If it was in that brand we would support it but now to new buyers it shows its covered. So it reassures them.
 
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Old Mar 27, 2024 | 02:19 PM
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@veteran011 wow thats crazy yea pass on that lol and im with you on waiting for a sale lol thanks for the info
 
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Originally Posted by ECSTuning
Yep got to get these: https://www.ecstuning.com/b-vinstar-...minif56hl~vin/





or https://www.ecstuning.com/b-vinstar-...ini14hl-c~vin/




Reviews on the Bentley lights from us from one of our customers.

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...ssemblies.html





They are much better. Plug and play and projectors.
Since these are all LED are there canbus or error issues with 2013 R56? Thanks. Jay
 
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Old Jun 24, 2024 | 05:45 AM
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These are F56+ ^^

If you are talking about R56 you are looking at these and no error codes. I have them, they have built ins. https://www.ecstuning.com/b-ziza-par...minir56hl~vin/
 
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Thanks. How would these compare to the 25w xenon conversion set you have?

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Old Jun 24, 2024 | 10:34 AM
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I have the ziza LEDs now and i have the 35w normal xenons (blackline). The Ziza are huge leap.
 
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@ECSTuning Any sales coming up on the Ziza headlights? I want to purchase those for my Mini but hoping to save a couple bucks.
 
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Old Sep 3, 2024 | 08:38 AM
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Not right now on now on those lights but we have a sale on select ziza. https://www.ecstuning.com/b-ziza-parts/v-mini/

The next big sale will not be till the thanksgiving.

We are doing spin to win right now also.

https://spintowin.ecstuning.com/
 
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