triangletom
Active member
Before allowing my kids to ride on the back of my BMW CE 04, I wanted to drastically improve its visibility. It turns out that there is a company that specializes in doing just that: skenelights.com
The lights they sell have a unique conspicuity filter, which uses the motion-detecting characteristics of human vision to enhance visibility. It's difficult to accurately capture the appearance with a cell phone camera due to the rolling shutter, but this is what it looks like before sunset and at night:
These lights can also work as an extra set of blinkers, and in the case of the rear lights, they will also light up if I hit the brakes or through deceleration if I even just let off the throttle.
The biggest problem with installing 3rd party lights is knowing how and where to plug them in. As BMW has chosen not to publish an electrical diagram, it took me a full day to figure it out. This was my first time using Posi-Tap connectors, which was easier than I thought: after watching a Posi-Tap install video, I only had one wire that required multiple taps: the 12V+ lead on the license plate light.
This guide is meant to capitalize on my misery and for your use as a time-saving CE-04-specific supplement to the official Skene installation guides. Now, let’s go take things apart!
The lights they sell have a unique conspicuity filter, which uses the motion-detecting characteristics of human vision to enhance visibility. It's difficult to accurately capture the appearance with a cell phone camera due to the rolling shutter, but this is what it looks like before sunset and at night:
These lights can also work as an extra set of blinkers, and in the case of the rear lights, they will also light up if I hit the brakes or through deceleration if I even just let off the throttle.
The biggest problem with installing 3rd party lights is knowing how and where to plug them in. As BMW has chosen not to publish an electrical diagram, it took me a full day to figure it out. This was my first time using Posi-Tap connectors, which was easier than I thought: after watching a Posi-Tap install video, I only had one wire that required multiple taps: the 12V+ lead on the license plate light.
This guide is meant to capitalize on my misery and for your use as a time-saving CE-04-specific supplement to the official Skene installation guides. Now, let’s go take things apart!