07-10-2021, 02:25 PM | #46 |
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Not gonna lie, not feeling these at all. I think stock LCI are far better considering these aren’t true OLED along with the gaps.
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Is there a smoked version & a clear version? How come some sets I see are super red (not a fan) and then some have a little smoked look with some darker parts mixed with the red that looks really good. Can't tell if it's just lighting. Yours look smoked to me, which I really like and would get. Not referring to the black lines, those are just ghetto (imo) |
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07-15-2021, 04:47 PM | #49 |
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Some fitment tips:
- Trunk lights: cut off the middle stud, seems to not line up well with the trunk hole. Forcing this will simply not have the tail light sit flush. - Fender lights: Add a washer on each of the two studs on each side and tighten it back down, I added two per stud and now they fit a lot more like OEM. Without the washers it looks like the light is too far recessed in and causes a large gap between the two lights. |
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07-16-2021, 08:53 AM | #50 |
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for folks install on their PRE-LCI which inner signal won't flash. any suggestion what to do?
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07-19-2021, 09:23 AM | #51 |
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Received mine today after the tracking went rogue.. it finally got released from Leige Belgium and was stuck in the Netherlands for a week or so. They finally turned up this morning with no tracking updates.
Sellers are definitely reselling them from Vland, however it would appear the first thousand batches that were made had to be cut open to fix the start up animation.. so it does mean they've been resealed which might bug a few people if you look closely. I had to use rubber washers behind the outer lights and then use the adjuster on the nut so that it didn't wind in too far. This helped me get the inner and outer lights to sit flush.
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07-20-2021, 02:56 AM | #52 | |
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07-21-2021, 10:49 AM | #53 |
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I've been trying to finetune the fitment of these tail lights.
Driver side for some reason fits like a glove like OEM with just the single stem/guide removal. Passenger side, I cut the stem/guide on the trunk light and even had to add some washers to the fender light and the trunk light still sticks out ~2-3mm too much compared to OEM. Doesn't bother me too much but it seems like I'd have to cut the weather seal on the trunk light to make it fit since every time the 8mm nut gets tightened, the outer side (near fender) gets pulled upwards. This doesn't happen on the driver's side for whatever reason. |
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07-21-2021, 12:33 PM | #54 | |
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07-21-2021, 04:14 PM | #55 | |
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I also removed the stem for both the inner lights and fitment was noticeably better as others have mentioned, inner lights were protruding ~7mm or so and looked disgusting from the side and not to mention the unevenness of the OLEDs. After removing the stem, adding a thin sheet of plastic (just broke the extra pieces that came with the lights) to the underside of the "hook" part, the fitment is basically OEM. |
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07-21-2021, 06:21 PM | #56 | |
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07-22-2021, 10:34 AM | #57 |
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Finally got some better pics of the fitment plus official pics from VLAND to remove the stem if you have a M4 (it was made to guide the normal 4 series, not our carbon trunks).
What I did besides removing the stem: - added furniture rubber pads and stacked 2-4 of them per bolt on the outer lights - added very thin flat plastic under the "hook" on passenger side Last edited by notnow; 07-22-2021 at 11:26 PM.. |
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07-22-2021, 01:29 PM | #58 |
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Hmmm, I was excited about these initially but don't like the look now that i've seen a few of them installed.
Maybe i'm crazy but they just look off/very low quality and don't fit the look of the car compared to the LCI tails which I think are beautiful.
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07-22-2021, 01:52 PM | #59 | |
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Fitment as seen from my post above is OEM 10/10 if installed correctly. I came from pre-lci halogen lights so this upgrade was massive with lights on or off. Would I upgrade LCI to these? Might be fun to try it out to see, ~$680 is nothing for the visual differences. For me though, it was ~$680 for these vs $1000+ for LCI's, so these were a no-brainer. |
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07-22-2021, 02:11 PM | #60 | |
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Not bashing your purchase just saying I was initially excited, but now won't purchase.
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Anyone with the variant of smoked color replicas and pictures?
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The problem with the OEM LCI taillights are that they look very blah and just like every other BMW made in the last 5 years. The M4 needs to look special all around and the yes there are the 4 exhaust tips but these lights really change the rear appearance and make it look lot more aggressive. The OEM lights I guess were meant to look "formal" and "elegant" like every other 3/4 series. But these give the car a lot more of a sporty look, imho.
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08-03-2021, 12:02 AM | #63 |
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Any one install on a F83 convertible (or any F82/83 LCI) yet? Is wiring between the bumper and trunk taillights still required? The convertible trunk mechanism makes routing the communication wire a little more difficult.
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Also the lights have an instruction pamphlet and in it there is an insert for the convertible specific instructions. They say to remove some of the tabs but I only saw them after install. I might take it apart this weekend and make those changes to see if the fitment can get better. For some reason it lines up perfectly on passenger side but on driver side the fender portion sits a little deeper than the trunk portion leaving a bump in the transitions between them. |
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How did you guys that did install on F82s , route the yellow wire from the outer fender-tails to connect with yellow wire on the inner-trunk tails? Hoping for the best tip/method to avoid wires from being totally exposed.
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