Full LED Headlight upgrade

(13-05-2016 01:08am)Diegom2 Wrote:  Hi everyone,

Fresh news. I went to an official land rover shop and they can not solve the problem because they can only modify a minor amount things into our ECU.

They are going to ask LR for a permission to make the LED signature work but don't want to get my hopes up.

I really don't know what else to do

cartronics ?

(05-05-2016 09:38pm)PhilSkill Wrote:  I think and I cant be 100% certain from info I've seen, but from the research I did with Nickj, the new 2016 Lights have a LIN controller bus internally and earlier models do not have a LIN bus controlling the headlights. Not impossible but will require a conversion kit from someone that can modify the lights or add a module that generates a compatible LIN command set. But if someone finds a way... please let us know!

Don't think LR will be solving this for you. As Phil said above it will need a conversion kit and LR are not going to producing this.

(13-05-2016 08:49pm)Nickj Wrote:  Don't think LR will be solving this for you. As Phil said above it will need a conversion kit and LR are not going to producing this.

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(13-05-2016 01:08am)Diegom2 Wrote:  Hi everyone,

Fresh news. I went to an official land rover shop and they can not solve the problem because they can only modify a minor amount things into our ECU.

They are going to ask LR for a permission to make the LED signature work but don't want to get my hopes up.

I really don't know what else to do

Any further updates towards this? Digging the new lights...

I have an electrician who is talking me into get an arduino and use it as sub-ECU.

Do you guys think i ll work?

(12-06-2016 06:32pm)Diegom2 Wrote:  I have an electrician who is talking me into get an arduino and use it as sub-ECU.

Do you guys think i ll work?

If you can work out the LIN bus protocol and emulate it, then this could be a workable solution, Not sure if you could do this without a working 2016 Set lights to monitor a working LIN bus though to know what to do.

Has this been worked out. I brought the headlights hoping they
would go straight on.

(17-06-2016 01:03pm)PhilSkill Wrote:  If you can work out the LIN bus protocol and emulate it, then this could be a workable solution, Not sure if you could do this without a working 2016 Set lights to monitor a working LIN bus though to know what to do.

I bought the Full LED Headlights in UK and they are now being modded in Italy to work with my Pre-Facelift Evoque. Will keep you posted once i receive them as they said they need a week or two to do the modding, and i will have to get them DHL'd out to me in Malawi, Africa, to test them...

(22-01-2017 08:13pm)mavo Wrote:  Has this been worked out. I brought the headlights hoping they
would go straight on.

(12-04-2017 10:24pm)owencardew Wrote:  I bought the Full LED Headlights in UK and they are now being modded in Italy to work with my Pre-Facelift Evoque. Will keep you posted once i receive them as they said they need a week or two to do the modding, and i will have to get them DHL'd out to me in Malawi, Africa, to test them...

Hi, who is doing this for you and what cost?

(16-04-2017 07:33pm)Nickj Wrote:  Hi, who is doing this for you and what cost?

Hi Nick,

RD Custom in Italy. I paid £700 for the Pair of Full LED Headlights on Ebay and then paid €420 to RD Custom for them to adapt them. They have already adapted the Facelift Xenons, but hadnt done the Full LEDs as they hadn't had a pair to test on, so i guess mine are the guinea pigs... If you search for RD Custom on Youtube you'll see a short video of their working facelift lights with the Linbus Controller they have made...

Owen