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Old 11-30-2018, 03:54 AM
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Originally Posted by 4.8isguy View Post
All you had to do was change out the plastic cover that goes over the gauges? I have the same crack/scratch going down the middle of my cluster since I purchased it also. Always drove me crazy.
Yessir. 20 minute job. The X5 is, by far, the easiest vehicle I have pulled a cluster for. Hardest part is disconnecting the battery, and I'm not even sure that's absolutely necessary if you don't put the key in with the cluster removed. Any e53 cluster lens would work (or e39 I believe), but the 4.8is uses the matte silver rings around the gauges. Other X5's use no rings, or chrome rings, so you have to watch out for that. I got lucky in that the 4.4i parts truck had the same rings as are in the 4.8is. My previous 4.4i had chrome rings.
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