JC, yes it is part #7 actually (part #8 is just the screw) and I've checked the classifieds and only two people were kind enough to respond to their thread or a PM sent directly.
I can buy that part #8 for just $35 in Calgary, but its the wire and connector that p;lug into the suppression filter that the local BMW can not figure out what it is, even though I have given them the part # from the plug/wire on the OTHER side of the hatch from the good suppression filter.
its really that wire I need.

so I did not have a bad lic plate light ground, in fact It was the positive wire from the lic plate wire that rubbed over years with this bigger brown (ground) wire that goes to this suppression filter that actually made contact through their sheaths to cause a spark and inferno.
yeah i thought it was a car ahead of me on fire to be honest as I said to my wife to be that the vehicle had seen better days (as we were driving up a giant hill) but as I happened to look at my rearview mirror, I seen thick brown smoke billowing up so I pulled over and as I opened my hatch, there were flames pretty big, so I had to throw snow on my flames.
that was the ONLY time in my life I was happy to see snow.

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I swear, my cars are like a girlfriend.
Sometimes its a rough ride, sometimes its smooth motorin'.
Sometimes she doesnt like how i treat her and sometimes i dont like how she behaves.
BUT at the end of the day, she loves it when I am inside her.

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'91 850i
'05 X5 4.4i
'09 Clubman S