Hey everyone! I am a recent BMW convert coming from several Volvos (S80 2.9, C70 T5, S60 T5, S80 3.2, S80 V8, XC90 T6, then an XC90 V8) through a Hyundai Sonata Hybrid, now to an E53 X5.

I just bought a 2006 X5 3.0 Gray/Gray with Nav w/o DSP. Bought it at an auction and it needed a little love. Bad LCD with several dead pixels replaced with a Eurotech LCD on Friday and it is working great. It has a bad TCU but the stock bluetooth is garbage anyways so I have ordered a Dice Mediabridge with a Sirius receiver to put in this week when it gets here and hopefully it works out nicely.

I am looking for other fun, easy mods to do to the car. It has the stock halogen headlights but I would love to put in Xenons but not trying to spend a lot of money (any advice would be nice here). I am also a relative novice for these type of things. I don't have any ability other than the dealer for coding things, but if someone knows what I need for coding things like the LED lights and Xenons and how to do it, the advice would be greatly appreciated.

I want a reverse camera but can't figure out if I have the TV tuner that I need to use the stock parts. Any ideas how to find that out?

I really like the look of a lot of these LED license plate lights, tail lights, and interior lights but I am hesitant to replace any since it sounds like something needs to be coded with these to make the errors not pop up.

With the car being dark Gray, I like the looks of the gray carbon fiber logos you can get for the hood and tailgate and the gray carbon fiber emergency brake handle someone posted recently. I like both the LED smoke tail lights and the LED clear white tail lights and can't decide what I want to do there yet.

I am planning on upgrading the stock speakers at some point and maybe put in one of the subs from BSW that fits cleanly in the existing compartments.

Any performance mods out there I should look at?

Anyways, any ideas, comments, suggestions, etc would be greatly appreciated. I bought this car to only last me a year or so but I have a feeling if I mod it out I will end up keeping it for a while.

Thanks!!

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David Mehler

2006 X5 3.0 w/ NAV w/o DSP