[quote="Shakey"]I'm a fan of replacing the side / parking / position light bulb with an LED equivalent because I think it stands out even against the headlight beam to make you very noticeable to other road users.
With Canbus, of course, the resistance of an LED is too high and is interpreted as a bulb failure so the supplier has free-issued a resistor to fit in parallel with the circuit.
Has anybody here got any experience of the best place to fit the resistor? the obvious place is at the in-line connector inside the headlamp unit but there's a warning that the 47 Ohm 5W resistor can get hot during operation and so to avoid plastic!
I'll also be fitting 2 x Xenon +50% white H11 bulbs so perhaps the above exercise is a bit superfluous.
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Sounds like you bought your gear already, but just to add, the BMW factory LED indicators plugged right in to my '12 r1200r (same harness connectors and all) and worked w/o any lamp error at all. In fact it was all of 30 min to install all 4. Very much brighter and more noticeable then the stock incandescent. The factory LED tail did require dealer coding, as it only used a single positive (as opposed to the bulb version, which has two filaments) - so brake/tail brightness was done by varying voltage, hence the recoding. It worked from the start, as the lamp controller has a safety feature in case a filament is burnt, but it throws a lamp warning until it's coded out.
I also installed a "oneoffmotorsport" hid kit (low only- wanted to retain flashing on high- hids take time to warm up- so not effective for flashing highs) that kit went in w/o issue and no error as well. 2500 or so miles (had a mild winter here) later and no prob. No flashing at me either, as I made very sure aim was spot-on. HID is very bright and very noticeable, I would do it again in a heartbeat.
So there you go...
