05-16-2018, 09:54 PM
"I'm not turning a bolt on this car." - me a month ago
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Pulled everything like Justin suggested and swapped bulbs. No go.
Swapped the ballasts on the bottom of each headlight and problem solved. Ballast on passenger headlight had water around the connector, which is interesting as it doesn't look like its possible from water to get from inside the housing to there. The roads were wet on the way home and when I pulled the passenger headlight, there was condensation in there, which is really annoying since I don't know what I did wrong when reinstalling the cover.
Put everything back together to drive to work tomorrow morning, then gotta do this all over again when the new ballast gets here. Panel gap on the passenger headlight is atrocious now but I'll figure that out when I have to pull it again.
I am wholly unprepared for german car ownership as I had a total of 3 torx bits that go into an interchangable screwdriver so I had to make that and a couple allen keys work for all the hard to get torx bolts on this car. Definitely picking up a torx set and some extensions from harbor freight before undertaking anything else on this car.
Anyone thinking about messing with BMW headlights? Don't do it
To top off today, it poured down rain while I was inside fixing the headlight so I had to put everything back together in a dimly lit soaking wet parking lot.
Pulled everything like Justin suggested and swapped bulbs. No go.
Swapped the ballasts on the bottom of each headlight and problem solved. Ballast on passenger headlight had water around the connector, which is interesting as it doesn't look like its possible from water to get from inside the housing to there. The roads were wet on the way home and when I pulled the passenger headlight, there was condensation in there, which is really annoying since I don't know what I did wrong when reinstalling the cover.
Put everything back together to drive to work tomorrow morning, then gotta do this all over again when the new ballast gets here. Panel gap on the passenger headlight is atrocious now but I'll figure that out when I have to pull it again.
I am wholly unprepared for german car ownership as I had a total of 3 torx bits that go into an interchangable screwdriver so I had to make that and a couple allen keys work for all the hard to get torx bolts on this car. Definitely picking up a torx set and some extensions from harbor freight before undertaking anything else on this car.
Anyone thinking about messing with BMW headlights? Don't do it
To top off today, it poured down rain while I was inside fixing the headlight so I had to put everything back together in a dimly lit soaking wet parking lot.
2013 BMW 135is
2010 Forester XT land boat - sold
2010 Forester XT land boat - sold