Contacts fail and it overheats and melts the plastic that holds the contact making it exponentially worse.





I drilled out the melted stand off/ stake on, bent the metal to make a stand off and installed some self tapping screws. Lasted the life of the car.





If your e53 is old enough it won’t have pins to light up the 21w filament on both lights. Add a jumper in these two places and get 4 brake lights vs. 2 (and still have lights on both sides when a lamp fails). It’s a miracle I find those photos I’ve tried half a dozen times when it came up I couldn’t find my post because I didn't make a thread.

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2011 E70 • N55 (me)
2012 E70 • N63 (wife)