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How to change Xenon headlights to auto-leveling

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Old Sep 6, 2011 | 09:46 AM
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How to change Xenon headlights to auto-leveling

I have US model RX-8 2004 with xenon headlights which don't have the auto-leveling feature. I would need to replace these lights to the ones that has it. Does someone has experience on this?

I need:
Headlights that has the leveling motors
Front and rear auto leveling sensors
New ecu??
Wiring??
Lot's of time...
What else?

Would be great if I could find some help from this forum.

Edit: Actually my whole topic is a bit misleading. Point is that xenon's don't really need to be self leveling, those just needs to be leveled somehow from the cabin. It can be manual as well.

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Old Sep 6, 2011 | 11:33 AM
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Wow, that's going to be pricey! Do an "Advanced" search on self leveling headlights to get some ideas.
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Old Sep 6, 2011 | 11:44 AM
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Originally Posted by EDZRIDE
Wow, that's going to be pricey! Do an "Advanced" search on self leveling headlights to get some ideas.
I'll do that. Actually my whole topic is a bit misleading. Point is that xenon's don't really need to be self leveling, those just needs to be leveled somehow from the cabin. It can be manual as well.

Alex has done nice post on his blog: http://alex.mordue.co.uk/blog/?p=46
This could be the easiest solution(?)

So I would only need to have the headlights with the leveling motors, ecu and wires + Alex's solution. I guess there's no ECU for the non-leveling xenon's and the wires are different as well?
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Old Sep 6, 2011 | 05:24 PM
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Just out of curiousity... Why are you looking to do this? It seems like an awful lot of expense (and work.) Do you do anything that would change the headlight aiming often?
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Old Sep 6, 2011 | 11:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Wingznut
Just out of curiousity... Why are you looking to do this? It seems like an awful lot of expense (and work.) Do you do anything that would change the headlight aiming often?
By the law in Europe we need to have the leveling system on xenox headlights. For me it would be just fine without.
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