How to change rear plate light?

[karbonkid]

Anyone had to change a rear number plate light. How do you get to it?

[karbonkid]

Sorted.

[sailorbaz]

Good stuff mate, you have to quite brutal with it. There's instructions in the handbook for it too, just for anyone else.

I changed mine for wee LED jobs, pretty funky and cheap enough.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/LED-REAR-NUMBE...634.m333.l1262
Straight swap.

Only thing was, I ordered resistors to go with them (couple of quid for 100) as apparently they can throw up an 'Bulb out' warning on the dash.

I changed mine without the resistors and no warning, so I didn't bother with them. However, as they need VERY, VERY little current to work they glow for a wee while after you've switched them off. Maybe 20 mins or so. Lighting up your rear plate just a tiny little bit for that time.

Freshens up the rear a wee bit, for a fiver what can you say? Then again, if you score the boot with the screwdriver you're using to removed the casings in the 1st place it could prove a costly little mod.

[karbonkid]

Originally Posted by sailorbaz

Good stuff mate, you have to quite brutal with it. There's instructions in the handbook for it too, just for anyone else.

I changed mine for wee LED jobs, pretty funky and cheap enough.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/LED-REAR-NUMBE...634.m333.l1262
Straight swap.

Only thing was, I ordered resistors to go with them (couple of quid for 100) as apparently they can throw up an 'Bulb out' warning on the dash.

I changed mine without the resistors and no warning, so I didn't bother with them. However, as they need VERY, VERY little current to work they glow for a wee while after you've switched them off. Maybe 20 mins or so. Lighting up your rear plate just a tiny little bit for that time.

Freshens up the rear a wee bit, for a fiver what can you say? Then again, if you score the boot with the screwdriver you're using to removed the casings in the 1st place it could prove a costly little mod.

I had to check the bulb type as Ive just ordered some of those xenon LEDs after seeing my mates E92 M3 with bright white xenon as standard on an alpine white. Looks clean and crisp. Cheap mod, cant go wrong, unless like you say you screwdriver the boot. I did manage to screwdriver the thumb thou.

[sailorbaz]

Aye, my Dad has an E92 330d in White, and it has the wee LED's to light up the number plate. As you say, nice and crisp. I do worry about how much easier it is to read my number plate now though...not good in certain circumstances.

[karbonkid]

Originally Posted by sailorbaz

Aye, my Dad has an E92 330d in White, and it has the wee LED's to light up the number plate. As you say, nice and crisp. I do worry about how much easier it is to read my number plate now though...not good in certain circumstances.

Yeah it certainly isn't

[Roland]

Why do you guys make it so compilcated?
Just take the OEM from E92/93, a adapter-cable and its done.
Just did it a week ago.

[sailorbaz]

'cause that would have been too easy mate.

Seriously though, was it that easy! doh! I had posted the question up on a couple of other board but had nowhere near as simple an answer as that, never mind. People were talking about soldering resistors inline and hea shrink etc, there you go.

Cheers,
Baz

[karbonkid]

surely its easier to just change the bulb than to rewire the car.

[Roland]

Originally Posted by karbonkid

surely its easier to just change the bulb than to rewire the car.

anyway, if you call it "rewire the car", i call it adapter-cable.