Higher wattage bulb would likely burn the wiring. I haven't heard of anyone that burned out the LKM with a higher wattage bulb, but there's always a chance.
so dude.. i went to my mechanic and he had a spare lkm sitting around so i plugged it in .. and yea it turns out to be the lkm that is causing my light to not function..
he wanted 220 CAN for it.. what a joke. a new one is something close to that..
anyway.. so i thought i had re-soldered it all properly but i guess what i will have to do is strip all the re-soldered stuff off ( i had done the intermittent lkm fix last year) and just re-do it all.. hopefully that will work
one question.. is it plausible that using a higher wattage bulb could burn out the lkm?
anyway.. so to anyone who suffers one low-beam not working (as opposed to the common intermittent symptom) it would be worth it to check the lkm out ..
-inc
'91 e31 850
'90 e34 535
'02 CBR F4i stunt/track bike
'07 gsxr 750 stunt bike
Higher wattage bulb would likely burn the wiring. I haven't heard of anyone that burned out the LKM with a higher wattage bulb, but there's always a chance.
In addition to soldering ( or stripping & resoldering) the LKMs PC, check for continuity through the closed points position of the mini-relays ( whose PC contacts are ~ 90% of the problem anyway). When I first did one, the fog light relay had a burned contact that required careful cleaning to restore the circuit path.
you know what's interesting.. i was looking at the lkm relative to the picture in bmwe34.net:
and i don't have the second relay from the left. i have the far left one and the two on the right side..
?!?
i am pretty stumped.. i did a solid soldering job.. oh well here goes
-inc
'91 e31 850
'90 e34 535
'02 CBR F4i stunt/track bike
'07 gsxr 750 stunt bike
The LKM soldering job plus a new bulb solved my problem.Originally Posted by Incantation
Ralph Mendoza Jr. - Long Beach, CA
OT: but is there anywhere i can read up on soldering stuff correctly?
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Originally Posted by liquidtiger720
Second that question.
Dinan chip, Bilstein sports w H&R, RD sways, RD strut brace, 750 bushings, Zimmermans/MetalMasters, O.E. M Pars, Eisenmann muffler
well documented...alot of the guys that were running high wattage bulbs were torching the lkm's
Originally Posted by Incantation
sweatshop jobs in electronic assembly.
Originally Posted by liquidtiger720
Originally Posted by Bill R.
bill, when you say "high wattage", do you mean 9005 (65w) bulbs or significantly higher? i've never heard of such a problem, but if it is, ill just substitute xtravisions in for my 55 watt lights.