2011 E92 Hi-Beam headlight issue

[EJP711]

2011 E92 coupé Hi beams?
My ‘11 E92 335i coupé, On any headlight switch setting, the inner two headlamps (I think they supposed to be hi beams?). Don’t light up at all. When I put hi beams on the outer two lamps shift from low to high. Any ideas? What should I look at?

[jclausen]

Check for faults in the footwell module(frm module)

[JDStrickland]

2011 E92 coupé Hi beams?
My ‘11 E92 335i coupé, On any headlight switch setting, the inner two headlamps (I think they supposed to be hi beams?). Don’t light up at all. When I put hi beams on the outer two lamps shift from low to high. Any ideas? What should I look at?

I thought this too, you are wrong. The inboard lights are for cornering AND it appears that they only work with the headlamp switch in the Auto setting AND it is dark. Strangely, these lights work when you put the car into R, but the logic here escapes me.

I put my car into the garage backwards so I can crowd it to the right side and have more room between my car and my wife's car. To pull my car out of the garage, I must turn the wheel hard left and since it is dark, then the left side inboard light comes on. I thought the right side inboard lamp was out but it tested good with the meter (Ohms) and the voltage was zero so I began chasing wiring. I set up a mirror so I could see the lights, and found that in R, both worked so there was no wiring issue.

You're right about earlier years using the inboard lights as High Beams, and perhaps the halogen headlamps still so this, but your car with the Xenon lights uses a shutter on the outboard lamps to decide if the light is high beam or low beam.

I don't fully appreciate the engineering logic that that makes the inboard lamps do what they do, but mine come on when the turn signals are turned on, or when the steering wheel is turned more than it would take to change lanes (such as driving in the 'hood and turning onto my street) or when the car is going in Reverse. The bulbs you are looking for are on the top of the headlamp housings, under a flat cover that snaps on and off.

[JDStrickland]

Check for faults in the footwell module(frm module)

Before you do that, set the light switch to auto and select R on the transmission. If the lights come on, then they are doing what they are supposed to do.

I suspect you can cover the base of the rear view mirror from the outside so that the photocell thinks it is night time, then you should see the inboard lights respond to the turn signal stalk or to turning the steering wheel to make a turn in a parking lot or from a residential street to another residential street (low speed sharp turn of the steering wheel).

I'm going to say that the engine has to be on for the inboard lamps to operate, but I am not certain that this is a requirement.