Gents,

I was budgeting around US$ 5-12 th max. for the Body mod. For me is worth it, since I have had my X5 since 0km and it only has 32th km. (Has been Garage kept since, I only take her out on sunny days!) One big problem we have here in Brasil is that Luxury cars past 3 yrs old loose around 75% of their book value. I paid USD$ about 157th for my X5 in 2003 and I really love this car and do not want to give her up....(So you can understand, I just finally took the factory-plastic off the back seats last august!) I wanted to upgrade it to look simular to Vorsteiner X5M. I remember reading that guys have upgraded the E53 to E70 front ends replacing the fenders, hood, bumper and headlights.

With this said I began thinking, Ïf the E70 fenders etc. fit on the frame of the E53 why could I not put a E70 WB kit on my E53, of course I will need to change the fenders and hood but it seems logical.

Any help is greatly appreciated, I plan on throughly documenting the mod with fotos, parts list, etc. and I will create a tutorial to post as well for future tuners.