BMW K 1600 GTL headlight LED conversion
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Well done, your English is excellent….1 million times better than my Finnish!
Thank you a lot, Alberto. Have a safe rides😀👍
@@MYMOTOLIFE you can see how powerful the new LEDs are….they melted the snow!😂
That is a great, informative video. I had no idea on what to expect when replacing the high beam bulbs on my 2015 K1600 GTL-E. But, your English was great and I could understand you quite well. Your step-by-step install was just what I needed. I have the new LED's ready. I just need to jump in and install them. Thanks again for a great help.
Scott
Hello mate. It’s easy install for sure. Thanks for the comment and safe rides.
Just finished installing my LED high beams. Made simple after watching your video. Thank you!! Great job!
Thanks mate. And congrats for a new lights and a job well done. Ride safe.
Your English is just fine, I can easily understand you. Thanks for the help
Thanks Dyson. I’ll try my best👍
Thanks for the great video(s). Very helpful for working on my recently purchased GTL. Your English is great.
Thanks mate, you are welcome. Ride safe.
Thanks for your very well detailed video, easy to follow the steps. Removing and replacing the plastic covers properly is often the difficult part of a job on the K1600s. I’ve subscribed to your channel. The K bikes are a fantastic machine, but not always easy to work on without information such as you provide.
Thank you and safe riding from Australia.
Thanks mate. I’ll try to make more K1600 related material. Safe rides.
Thanks for the informative video, will order the same right away and install.
Thanks and have a nice rides (when the season starts again)!
Good job!
Great video, very helpful. Thank you!
Thank you, safe rides👍
Just upgraded my 2018 GTL K1600 high beam lights(H7) with LEDs. Thanks for your time sharing this video; was a great help.
Took me an over an hour just because one of the speaker screws dropped and had to take the bottom panels off to find it. If I took the bike to a Motorrad dealer for this job they would’ve raped me with the price like they do to everyone not willing to DIY.
I have said many times the bike likes to eat screws😁👍
Thanks great English speaking and very informative. Safe riding from Scotland
Probably not so great, but I’ll try. Cheers.
I've been looking for a video showing how to do this for a long time. Thank you!
Be my guest. Safe rides.
Thanks for speaking English too. Like the channel and always looking for upgrades for my 2014 k1600 exclusive. Keep the videos coming and thanks. Ron in Virginia (US)
Thanks Ron. K1600 is a great motorcycle, I like it a lot. Not to say that my previous BMW boxers were bad either. Keep a rubbery side down, have a good rides👍
Thank you for this great video. You are a good teacher with the easy to follow instructions and great video shots. I have subscribed to your channel and look forward to viewing your other videos. Columbia, Missouri, USA
Greetings Mark. Thank you a lot. Have a safe rides👍
Hello from the United States (Tennessee). Excellent video. Just bought a 2015 K1600GTL Exclusive and have been wanting to put in LED lights. Had LEDs put in on my 1998 Suzuki Maruader and loved them..
Hello and thanks. Led-lights are certainly powerful. At least when comparing to original bulbs.
hello from South Africa 🇿🇦. your English is very good, and I am glad I came across your channel. Very helpful indeed. Thank you sir, and keep the videos coming. subscribed.
Thank you very much. Certainly I will make more videos. Have a safe rides.
Good video. Hello from Texas!
Hello and thank you.
This is the first time that I see a LED conversion that actually seems to work! Maybe because there are Xenon lights fitted as standard. I tried a LED conversion bulb in my previous bike, a 1200GSA and while it gave very good and bright light, I was also annoying people in front of me. The headlight was properly adjusted, but the problem as stray light that I was spreading as a madman. During the day it was not too bad, but when dark it was not nice to ride in front of me and look in your mirror. I read an article once, written by an expert in lighting, and he said that every type of bulb (Halogen, Xenon, LED) has it's own dispersion pattern and a glass/lens to match that. If you fit a Xenon or LED bulb in a fixture for Halogen, you have the wrong glass in front of the bulb, so you may get much stray light. I've also seen much converted bikes with irritating stray light. When you're approaching them from the opposite direction, all you see is a big blob of light. Cars too for that matter.
But judging from your video, this seems nice enough. Good, sharp 'borders' and no stray light. On my GSA, I was illuminating the overhead signs over the road... This looks great, I might buy some too. Thanks for the video!
I think the conversion led should be so called 360 led where the led diodes are around the tip. I have also had half success with the different types. I f you have ever watch the halogen bulb there is very short coil which radiates the light 360 degrees. Thanks for the comments and subscription and safe rides.
yo ur english is super good, and explanation are awsome. dont consider those critics about your finnish accent. From a guy living in a northern country like you. Canada. Thanks for those quality vid.
Thanks mate. Have a safe rides!
Thanks for sharing
Hello mate. Thank you. Have a safe rides.
Excellent 🤙😎
Thanks Eddie B👍
Muy bueno
GT 👍💪🏼
Merci 👍🏻
Merci beaucoup
Greta video, will do this on my GTL shortly! PS you speak better English than some English people I know 😎😁
Thanks mate. Have a safe rides!
Hello fro Canada. Great video, very nice that you go through each step instead of cutting stuff out. 👍👍 Good information on how to add stuff to an awesome bike. If you change the air filter can you do a video? Had my k1600gt for just over a year, the manual and shop manual I have is not clear on taking the plastics off around fuel the fuel tank. Need to change it in the spring... subscribed to your channel. Looking forward to more.
Hi Don. Yes I am going to do more maintenance videos. Thanks for the comment and subsciption👍
Don, strongly suggest you visit your local BMW dealer and purchase the K1600 Maintenance DVD. The DVD has detailed instructions and photos for most tasks. Cost is about $100 (USA). Be advised it doesn't run on Apple computers; requires Windows operating system.
I have a question. Did you use led bulbs with can bus or normal led? Does the motorcycle recognize the led bulbs without problems? thanks excellent video.
Great video! Hello from Sweden! You didn’t get any error codes? Thanks for posting! 👏🏻☺️🇸🇪
Hello stlee74. No error codes at all. I guess as long as you have direct H1 replacement it’s ok. Thanks mate.
Great video. Undoing the spring clip to remove old lamp is relatively easy. Replacing the clip to secure new lamp isn't for the faint at heart. It's not hard, it's tedious. Just be patient and you'll get it. I suggest practicing installing the clip without lamp installed few times to get the hang of it. With your hand in the way your blind and can't see the clip.
Hello sir, and thank you. You are absolutely right, good tip practicing with the clip. Have a safe rides.
Thank you for the video, your English is perfect to us here in Australia, we have a few Finish friends and have a great time with them, we have a 2015 R1200rt and have been thinking of changing to LED High Beam light but everyone keeps telling us you will get an error message on the Dash board display ??? , did you get this at all , Stay Safe and upright .
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John & Tanina in Australia
Hi John and thanks. All My BMWs have not have any error messages when changing the H1 or H7 bulbs to led. Maybe you can test with one cheaper led bulb first before buying the expensive ones? BR and have a safe rides.
Hi. First of all, and like everyone said, your english is just perfect!
I'm a portuguese K1600 rider, and I'm very interest in your headlight LED conversion.
But, in the end of the video, when you present the 2 H7 solutions (old and new) it seams that the old H7 halogen has better light than the new one........
Hello Paulo. I haven’t done any comparative tests with the lights. Sorry about that. We have currently almost 24 hrs sun here in Finland. I still believe that the led units are a little better than halogen units. At least the color of light is different, I like more white light. In my previous conversion to my GSA the led bulb was definitely better. Thanks for the comments.
Thank you for the video. I appreciate the effort. But the hot air the fan takes away has to go somewhere. Don't you think the bulb cover needed to have holes in it to vent the heat out? Thanks
Hello Faisal. I believe there is enough room for a small amount of hot air. I wouldn’t make any holes cause moisture can get in and ruin the reflector surface etc,.
I understand. Thats true.
Thanks for the video, so ilustrating. As I see you have a lot of followers that owned a K1600 and I want to ask you all if you, when riding in hard traffic have had issues with the temperature of the bike and if you have a practical solution to this matter due to that the concesionary doesn't have one.
Thanks Romero. I personally haven’t had any problem with the heat. Hopefully you get some answers. Ride safe.
My 1600b does run hot in traffic, but the fan is working, so it must be normal
Need to clean radiator extend the front fender replace the air filter
So I’m told I getting ready to do this
Oh also use a/c coil cleaner the dirt will ooze out
Hello great video where can i order these led lamps? Greetings Hans
Hello Hans and thank you. I bought it from the Aliexpress. I think led bulbs are available also from the normal automotive shops.
Which style bulb is the correct one, they list - H1, H3, H11, H7, 9005/HB3. and 9006/HB4. I ordered them for my 16 GTL but just traded for a 21 K1600 B Grand America. Can't remember which one I ordered. Thank you for any help.
Doug Smith
Hello mate. In my bike the main lights are H7 halogen bulbs. So I bought the H7 LED bulbs and installed them.
@@MYMOTOLIFE Thank you for your reply. I watched the video again and determined that they are H7's
Hi from neighboring Estonia! Also want to install brighter light to my GTL
Could there be a problem with more heat that is ventilated from the bulb and has no way to go?
And what do You think about 60W instead of original 55W? Could this be a problem?
Have You used the new light and can comment that?
Hello Vadim. When converting from halogen to led, there is usually less heat. The small fan at the end of the led bulb is for the led electronics and I believe that heat will dissipate inside the light unit. Unfortunately I haven’t test the lights yet. I am not sure about the 55->60 W. Do you mean normal halogen bulb? Safe rides.
@@MYMOTOLIFE 55->60 W I meant, that the original H7 bulb is only 55W. So there will be extra 10w
@@Vadikene1 ok I got it. Seems like small increment. But if you change be careful because the unit itself is really expensive.
Hai, greetings from the Netherlands. I bought a K1600GT from 2020 with only 4000 km. I hate the halogeen lamps. After searching the internet I found your great video. But, I have a question, where did you put the driver module? Regards, Arnold.
I mean the ballast witch comes with the most LED lampes
@@arnoldheemskerk5920 hello Arnold. It really depends the size of driver. Sometimes it fits inside the light assembly and then some are so big that you have to leave it outside. I believe that all drivers are generally waterproof, so there is no danger if it gets some moisture if it is outside.
@@MYMOTOLIFE Thank you for your reaction. If the driver is outside you have to make holes in the dirt cover of the lamp. i am not sure if I want to do that.
@@arnoldheemskerk5920 yes you have to route the cable somehow. But as you can see from my installation video, everything goes inside the dust cover, so no need to make holes.
@@arnoldheemskerk5920 I believe a ballast comes with a Xenon bulb, not an LED. I replaced the main light halogen on my k1200lt with a xenon (because an led requires a cooling fan, which did not fit). I did have to cut a hole in the dust cover to run wires out to the ballast. I used silicone to plug the hole.
How did you get the clip on?
It’s a little tricky, but trying to put it without bulb first as a rehearsal. It will go eventually.
Hi Dear, have you got Error Code on your motorcycle when you switch from halogen lob light to led light. My bmw dealer said that, if I M doing so , ill get those default codes. ??
Dear, haha. Well, no error code with the leds I use. I guess they are made for the can bus.
The Led light needs to be can bus error free?
Thank you
Yes. But I think most of the leds are can bus compatible nowdays.
witch leds dit you use
I can’t recall anymore. But if you search h7 led from the internet you will find proper ones.
Me gustaría saber cómo cambiar lámpara de xenón.
Hello. I have no experience for changing the xenon bulb, unfortunately. But if I ever change it, I will make a video. Safe rides.
I have recently bought a 2021 BMW K1600, I’m experiencing a knocking noise coming from the engine at 1500 revs at 20/25mph in 3rd gear and at 2000 res in 4th & 5th gear. As anyone experienced this ?
Hello Neil. I hope it’s nothing serious. I don’t have similar sounds/noise. Although there’s factory recall for older transmissions.
What socket type did you use S1, S11, etc??
Hello Jerry. I am not sure where you refer to? At the led light there is a direct connector to original bike light connector. And the led unit fits directly to the light housing h7 socket. Does this help?
@@MYMOTOLIFE hello, I followed your link to the site for the LED upgrades. I found the bulbs, but when you scroll down, you see the part on socket type, then you have three choices S1, S11 and 9005/HB3
Hello. Now I understand. I selected the H7. It was there when I bought the light. Now theres only S1, S11 etc. I guess you have to search other brand which has the H7 in a stock available.
Hi! 2 years later, how are those bulbs doing? Any issues? Thank you!
Hi Lenny. No problem at all.
@@MYMOTOLIFE Thank you for your reply! Your link to the lights points to H11. Is that the one? (There is also H1)
@@icing777 no it should be H7. They have changed the website to show h1 and h11 which are wrong.
@@MYMOTOLIFE Thank you! I thought the same :)
Do you just do the exact same thing on the other side for the high beam?
Yes I did. Sorry if it’s not obvious on the video.
@@MYMOTOLIFE so I have a 2014 1600gtl. It has a low beam out. To be clear this video only covers the replacement of the (2) H7 high beam bulbs right? Not the low beam. I hear the low beam replacement takes about 3.5 hours and I cannot find any videos on that.
@@agentx4315 yes it’s true. Only the h7 bulbs. I can believe that it will take a lot of time to replace the low beam, and it won’t be cheap.
Go to k1600 forum there is a step by step on how to change
Also it does NOT take that long. Just remove handle bars
Mucha diferencia de luz, es un buen cambio, aparentemente fácil, por lo menos muy bien explicado, muchas gracias por compartir el video, aunque no entiendo el Idioma, con lo que he visto es suficiente para intentarlo, si hiciese falta. Ni mucho menos tengo esa gran moto, pero me encantan las BMW. Un Abrazo desde España. www.lacruzadadeunpadre.es
Muchas gracias. Ese trabajo es fácil de hacer. Conduce con cuidado.
Please turn music down!
Is it too loud or disturbing or what?
@@MYMOTOLIFE it is to loud. Thank you.
@@eddamico7449 I will check that. My normal setting is -6dB which is the recommendation for the yt videos.
I agree with the others your English is pretty good. I am looking for a decent phone mount, I got one from Pirates lair and its covering most of my dash. pirateslair.net/BikePenR-16GT.htm.
By the way can I like your phone mount. Who is the manufacturer? Thank you.
Hello mate. Thanks. I’m not sure what mount you mean. My phone is usually in my pocket and it’s connected to the navigator (and to helmet comms). The navigator mount is Garmin. Ride safe.