Ordered a new $27 xenon lamp ballast/igniter last month off the ebay and got around to installing it today in hopes of fixing the dim driver-side headlight (replaced both bulbs awhile back), but it's either defective or has a bad bulb connector which looks quite different from the OE one because the bulb would not light. Put the old one back in... and I might go back to the pull-a-part because for once one of the recent E53s has xenon headlights that nobody's molested, at least as of yesterday, to grab the ballasts.

Also replaced the broken headlight mount with another ebay buy.

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