Helped a lot. Everything went smooth as good as shown. Thanks. Did whit heat gun, some tools. Took 2hrs first time doin it. Those two packs cost 8eur. :)
You can do it on a 2003 530i but it's not easy, the oven didn't work but a heat gun did, I started by cutting the front of the lens out so I could get razor knife around the butyl caulk inside and out there's no way however of doing it without deforming the housing a bit but that can be fixed after with some heat, you won't see it from the front anyway and unless you've got a show car it will work just fine, I bought a special butyl that's made just for headlights from a company called diode, I need to replace the adjusters as well while it's apart, I've done the oil pan gasket already now I'm doing the oil filter housing and the vanos hose that's just pouring out oil .
Great guide! Did you simply put the new lens cover back on with the original adhesive or did you add more to seal the headlight properly, preventing any leaks?
Nice job buddy very interesting as ive got to fix mine as well. Loveing the painted inlet pendulum in the body colour im going to have to do mine now :)
Did you keep the adjusters all the way tightened after install? I just did this and my beam line is still pretty good. I just wanted to know if you had to do any adjustments when installed back on to compare
No problem. Unfortunately, OEM spec amber facelift lights here in the UK are pretty much unavailable, got to make do with what we have and come up with ways of getting what we want.
It's one that I found on eBay - I was unsure if it would clear the large intake plenum on the S62, but it does with about 10mm to spare. Have a watch of my other video for installation: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JSTjrfgpI04.html
What year of manufacture are the lights? Later ones can’t be done by baking, Will need to use a dremmel, earlier ones can. If you see grey adhesive, you are probably not going to be able to bake, black adhesive, yes, bakable.
Dame AL all you gotta go is put foil on the rack, and put a piece of plywood or a few pieces of 1x2 side by side. Just set the headlight on them. You won’t melt it. Make sure the headlight doesn’t touch any part of the oven or the metal rack. I’m sure there’s plenty of ways to do it but I take lights apart all the time and that’s how I do it.
Domestic fan oven take all racks out just fitted in with a push dont let lens cover touch heating elements, 200 deg C wont damage the shell take all the bits off that will come off.
