The ZKW Burnt Bowls Thread

[az3579]

Sent copies of my preliminary DIY this morning to a few members on this forum for comments and feedback prior to posting this in the DIY section

Hopefully, we will get this up soon to help other's with this issue...stay tuned!

I think we should wait until we do my retrofit next weekend to post the DIY. I want to follow the DIY as we're doing it to make sure it makes sense to your average Joe (or BP).

[cakM3]

Sounds good to me...then there will be two ZHPs that have gone through this DIY

[iZHP]

subscribed.

[cakM3]

Assuming BP gets his solenoid circuits in the mail today, we will be doing his retrofit using my DIY to validate it tomorrow. Once the procedure has been "red-lined" I will be working on posting the DIY in the DIY section. Just a heads up for everyone...

Going on 3 weeks now since the retrofit. Lighting has been great, no issues. Driving over the Newport Bridge is almost like 4-wheel off road driving. It's that rough and I haven't had any issues with my "retrofitted" headlight assemblies. Everything is rock solid and the best part is that I have reliable lighting again! I will be driving my ZHP to Washington DC over the weekend after retrofitting BP's headlights. Looking forward to the trip...:D

I feel that the procedure I used to retrofit my ZKW headlights are permanent and, most importantly, reliable. Okay, with that said, give me a week and I should have a complete DIY post up for everyone, thanks to everyone who have been patient

[Rovert]

I was driving my dad's 540i last night and i so miss having lumens to the ground!!

[az3579]

Solenoids are in... we are goooood to goooooooo for tomorrow!

[iZHP]

I was driving my dad's 540i last night and i so miss having lumens to the ground!!

[Rovert]

^ Haha...the ironic thing is that I changed my bulbs to Philips Ultinon 6K and gave my stock Philips 4300K bulbs to his car. Can't beat his halogen highbeams to our bi-xenon highs. Halogen reigns king for penetrating long distance when you punch the 540's throttle at 60mph and the speedo sweeps to 100mph in a few seconds...every passenger loves that feel of speed, at speed.

[cakM3]

Today I helped BP retrofit Bosh projectors into his ZKW headlight assemblies using my DIY as reference.

Overall the DIY worked. Updates to my DIY need to be done however, but very minor. BP performed about 40% then I helped him with the rest since I was familiar with the process. The end result was excellent lighting using the Bosh projectors over the original ZKW projectors.

I will allow BP to post his experience with this DIY

[az3579]

Instant. Daylight.

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