I bought a connector housing (P/N 61 13 8 364 425) for the sensor side harness and what I thought were the pin-contacts for it but I got the pin-contacts for the vehicle side harness instead. P/N 61 13 0 005 200 is for the vehicle side plug pin-contacts.

I couldn't figure out how to get the pins out of either plug connector so that sort of stopped me in my tracks and I didn't have the right pin-contacts anyway. There was not enough lead before the break to properly splice the broken wire so that method was out. That and the connector I bought didn't have all of the parts that make up this very strange connector arrangement.

It didn't really matter as both of the connectors are totally messed up and need replacement. Not sure what happened under there to cause all of this damage. The easiest way to repair this I think is to buy an entire harness from a wrecked X5 and just splice in both connectors. Getting the sensor side is easy but I'm not sure about the vehicle side.

In the meantime, I directly spliced the YLW/GRN wire, bypassing the connectors all together. It is very ugly, brutish, hack-repair but the PDC does function now. For how long . . .

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8/2011 X5 xDrive35d Sport, Black Sapphire Metallic, Black Nevada Leather, Fine Burr Walnut Trim
2/2001 M5, Jet Black, Exclusive Complete Black Walk Nappa Point Heritage Leather, Black Cubic Trim