Car-Systems W222 User manual

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Automotive
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W222 Multibeam LED Headlights
Retrot Adapter
Installation Guide
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Safety warning
This device is designed solely for use by properly trained and technically
qualied automotive electronics experts who are familiar with the dangers
related to handling electrical equipment and systems.
This manual intends to serve as a guide in the installation of an adapter,
failure to follow these instructions could result in a hazardous condition,
destruction of car equipment and the retrot adapter.
DISCONECT ANY CHARGING EQUIPMENT BEFORE INSTALATION AND
CODING: car battery charger, notebook charger, etc.
There are NO user serviceable parts contained in a retrot adapter.
Unscrewing or opening your adapter will render your warranty void. Should
your retrot adapter require repair, please contact us directly and we will
assist you.
The manufacturer shall not be legally responsible for any equipment
damage or personnel injury caused by incorrect installation by unqualied
technicians.
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WARNING
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Contents
Contents
Safety Warning...................................................................................................................2
Contents.............................................................................................................................3
Revision History.................................................................................................................4
Introdcuition.......................................................................................................................5
Preface.......................................................................................................................................5
Audience....................................................................................................................................5
What You Should Know Before Installation.........................................................................5
Preparation for Installation...............................................................................................6
Headlights QR-codes..............................................................................................................6
Headlights Control Units.........................................................................................................7
Tail Lights Market Specication.............................................................................................8
Location......................................................................................................................................9
Installation........................................................................................................................10
Adapter Installation..............................................................................................................10
Tail Lights Connection...........................................................................................................12
Coding...............................................................................................................................13
PreparationforCoding..........................................................................................................13
Coding.....................................................................................................................................13
Operability Check..................................................................................................................15
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Revision History
Revision History
Rev 1.01 [09/2017] – rst release
Rev 2.01 [03/2018] – second release
Rev 3.01 [04/2018] – third release
Rev 4.19 [03/2021] – fourth release
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Introduction
Preface
This document guides you through the installation of the W222 Multibeam LED
Headlights Retrot Adapter – the device designed to match Multibeam LED
Headlights with Mercedes Benz S-class cars 2013–2016 model years.
This document is intended for CarSystems customers, partners, and employees to
get familiar with the W222 Multibeam LED Headlights Retrot Adapter. It provides
instructions and graphical content for a user to get started with his rst installation.
Audience
What You Should Know Before Installation
This document expects that you are familiar with automotive electronics,
knowledge, and experience in that eld are highly required.
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Preparation for Installation
Headlights QR-codes
Take a high quality photo of two QR codes (watch Fig. 1) on the top of the Left
headlight and Right headlight. These codes will be used in the coding process, send
them to our technician. Don’t mount bumper until coding is nished.
Fig. 1 Location of sticker with two QR codes .
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Use QR codes from exact headlights that are installed on the car.
Using other headlights QR codes may disrupt performance and operability of
headlights.
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Preparation for Installation
Headlights Control Units
Fig. 4 Unmount Headlight Control Units appearance. Fig. 5 Location of HW and SW part numbers.
Fig. 4 PXL Headlight Control Unit.
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Take photo of software(SW) and hardware(HW) part numbers of the HLI Headlight
Control Unit and PXL Headlight Control Unit (watch Fig. 2;3; 4; 5) of Left headlight
and Right headlight. To get them you need to unmount Headlight Control Units on
the back and the bottom of Left headlight and Right headlight.
Fig. 2 Location of Headlight Control Units. Fig. 3 Headlight with Control Units unmounted.
Part numbers suitable with W222 Headlights
HLI Headlight Control Unit:
A 222 900 30 13
A 222 900 05 15
PXL Headlight Control Unit:
A 213 900 61 04
A 222 900 88 12
A 205 900 95 34
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Preparation for Installation
Tail Lights Market Specication
Different coding used for different car and tail lights market specication. There are
two types of Tail Lights: ECE market specication and US market specication. ECE
market specication Tail Lights have a white connector and the US market have a
blue one. Provide our technician with information about the market specication of
a car and tail lights before the coding. For example: car - US market specication,
tail lights - ECE market specication.
Fig. 6 ECE market tail lights connector. Fig. 7 US market tail lights connector.
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Preparation for Installation
Location
Recommended location for adapter installation is under the carpet of front
passenger footwell zone. All necessary connection points are located there:
Periphery CAN Potential Distributor x30/27 (hereinafter referred to as CAN
Distributor), A-pillar fuse box (hereinafter referred to as Fuse Box), ground point.
Fig. 8 Front passenger footwel zone. Fig. 9 Front passenger footwell zone opened.
Fig. 10 Location of necessary connection points in front passenger footwell zone.
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Installation
Adapter Installation
As soon as CAN Distributor, fuse box and ground point identied, you can start the
installation.
Fig. 11 Adapter’s connectivity
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Installation
Use Fig. 11 as a guide to take the following steps:
1) Connect the black Negative Power Supply wire (A) from the adapter to the ground
point.
2) Connect the red Positive Power Supply Wire (B) to the fuse number 301 in Fuse
Box and install the fuse (watch Fig. 12) supplied in the kit.
3) Connect Adapter 2 PINs CAN bus connector (C) to CAN Distributor.
4) Disconnect the Left headlight and Right headlight 2 PIN CAN bus connectors (F)
from the CAN Distributor. To do this you need to identify these two headlights CAN
bus connectors in the CAN Distributor (watch Fig. 14). It is really easy turn on the
ignition and remove one by one 2 PIN CAN bus connectors from the CAN Distributor,
when the headlight plug is removed corresponding headlight starts illuminate in
limp-home mode.
5) Connect Left headlight and Right headlight 2 PINs CAN bus connectors (F) to dual
connector (D) from the retrot adapter, order does not matter.
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INSTALATION:
car battery charger, notebook charger, etc.
VERY IMPORTANT!
Fig. 12 Fuse from supply kit
Fig. 14 CAN Distributor. Fig. 15 CAN Distributor and Dual connector.
Fig. 13 Tail Lights 10 pin connector
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Installation
Tail Lights Connection
Following procedures and tail lights coding needed only in case of facelift tail lights
installation. Route (E) Control wire (watch Fig. 11) to the trunk and connect to pin
9 of Left Tail Light and Right Tail Light 10 pin connector (watch Fig. 13), two white
connectors are supplied with the adapter. Repin old 8 pin Tail Lights connector’s
wires to new 10 pin Tail Lights connector according to Fig. 13 and Table 1.
Wire Color SignalSignal
Old
Tail
Lights
New
Tail
Lights
Explanation
Brown GND Pin1 Pin1 Ground Point
Black/Red SL Pin2 Pin6 SL(Schlusslicht) - Tail light
Black/Blue BSL1 Pin3 Pin4 BSL1 (Bremslicht) - Stop light
Black/Grey BSL2 Pin4 Pin2 BSL2 (Brems/Schlusslicht2) - Tail light2
Pin9
Control wire, should be connected to
Multibeam Retrot Adapter for sequential
lights control (To wire E of Multibeam
Retrot Adapter)
Black/Orange FRA Pin6 Pin3
FRA (FahrRichtungAnzeige) - Turn Direction
Signal(FahrRichtungAnzeige) - Turn
Direction Signal
Black/White RFL Pin7 Pin5 RFL (RueckFahrLicht) - Reversing Light
Black/Green DIAG Pin8 Pin10 DIAG - Diagnostic pin for FRA or BSL1
For Tail Lights conversion from the USA to ECE market specication, on both sides
of tail lights connect BLACK/ORANGE wire to pin3. After this re-pin this wire on the
rear BC module, connector «HL», move BLACK/ORANGE wire from pin 18 to pin 3.
Connector «HR» move BLACK/ORANGE wire from pin10 to pin12.
Fig. 13 Tail lights 10 pin connector re-pining.
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Table 1
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Coding
Coding
Fig. 14 OBD cable. Fig.15 OBD cable connected to the car.
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For Tail Lights coding special OBD cable is used, which is not shipped with an
adapter and available only on request.
Coding includes two main phases: Body Control Modules coding and Headlights
coding, both performed by our technician but assistance on your part is necessary.
To start coding take the following steps:
1. Start Teamviewer session with our technician.
2. Connect the adapter to the laptop via a mini USB data cable.
3. Disconnect one headlight 2 PINs CAN bus connector (F) from dual connector (D).
4. Connect OBD cable to vacated dual connector(D) socket (watch Fig.14).
5. Connect OBD cable to OBD-II socket on the car side (watch Fig.15 ).
6. Turn ignition on and wait for Body Control Modules coding to complete.
7. When Body Control Modules coding is completed turn ignition off.
8. Disconnect OBD cable from car OBD-II socket.
9. Disconnect OBD cable from dual connector(D).
10. Restore the CAN connection with the headlight (connect detached headlight 2
PINs CAN bus connector (F) back to dual connector(D)).
11. Turn ignition on and wait for Headlights coding to complete.
12. If the coding is successful go to the next point.
If errors appear during headlights coding, use Table 2 for troubleshooting.
13. When Headlights coding is completed disconnect the mini USB data cable from
adapter.
14. Turn off the ignition.
Preparation for Coding
The initial coding always done by our technician. The coding time must be reserved
in advance. Make sure you have done the installation correctly and make sure
you have everything required: mini USB data cable; laptop with a good internet
connection and working USB port; Windows 7 or 10 on a laptop with English locale
(no hieroglyphs) and last version of Teamviewer installed on PC. During coding keep
in touch with our technician, participation on your part may be needed.
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Coding result
Cause Solution
Left headlight Right headlight
PXL
module
HLI
module
PXL
module
HLI
module
OK OK ERROR ERROR One of the
headlight’s 2 PIN
CAN bus connectors
(F) is not identied
correctly and is still
connected to the
CAN Distributor
Turn ignition on and remove one by one 2 PIN CAN bus connectors
from the CAN Distributor, when the headlight connector is
disconnected from the CAN Distributor the corresponding
headlight starts to illuminate in limp-home mode. When missing
headlight 2 PINs CAN bus connector identied, connect it to (D)
dual connector.
ERROR ERROR OK OK
ERROR OK ERROR OK
Lack wiring for
MULTIBEAM LED
headlights
Check what headlights type were installed on the car. You can
check with a voltmeter if there are four 12V power supplies and
two GND on each headlight connector. Specically, pins 3, 4,
7, 9 must be 12V power supplies, and pins 5, 10 must be GND.
If the pinout doesn’t match add the appropriate wiring for the
MULTIBEAM LED headlights.
OBD cable and
headlight 2 PINs
CAN bus connector
connected to the
CAN Distributor
Check if OBD cable and either of headlight 2 PINs CAN bus
connectors (F) connected to the CAN Distributor. Disconnect
them. Connect headlight 2 PINs CAN bus connector (F) to the dual
connector (D).
OK ERROR ERROR OK
Blown Fuse
Check the voltage on the pins of the right headlight and left
headlight connectors. Pins 3, 4, 7, 9 must be 12V power supplies,
and pins 5, 10 must be GND. If the voltage doesn’t match replace
a blown fuse.
ERROR OK OK ERROR
OK ERROR OK OK Headlamp side
detection overflow
Do the HLI side detection counter reset. Disconnect headlights
connectors from the car for 30 seconds.
OK OK OK ERROR
Table 2 Troubleshooting
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Operability check
Operability Check
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After coding completion disconnect all equipment, turn off the ignition, close the
car, and let it sleep for 5 minutes. To start operability check, call up Vehicle settings,
select Locator illumination and switch function ON. Then select Exterior lighting
delayed shut-off, set delay for 15s.
Fig. 17 Location of the light sensor.
Fig. 15 Locator illumination settings. Fig. 16 Exterior lighting delayed shut-off settings.
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Complete darkness is required to check the operation of the headlights, we suggest
you cover light sensor in the center of the windshield near Interior Rear View Mirror.
Now you can test your new headlight’s functions.
Enjoy your Enjoy your MULTIBEAM LED.
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End
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