yup will keep ya posted....not tried lifting the seat afraid will break something...but may have to resort to this, mad thing is I checked the fuse area of a 4.4 e53 and that seemed to be more of a mess than mine as had woofer etc installed ...then again didnt see the wires that I showed in the pics attached....

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E53 X5 3.0d SUV prod.date 11/2004 eng.variant M57N Europe Right hand drive N