What did you do to / for your E53 today?? - Page 842

MorpheusRS · #**8411** 05-28-2017, 10:40 PM

Put 25 mm spacers on the rears, the wheels perfectly aligned to the sides of the car.. did the missing pixels diy, what a pain in the neck.. but works perfect now. Installed window weather guards, and picked up a set of oem 18s for a winter setup..

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crystalworks · #**8412** 05-29-2017, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by X53Jay4.8is

Okay I just finished installing the switchbacks that you recommended in my 2003 X5 4.6is and funny thing is the switchback works as its listed where turn signal is in amber and the park light is white. These leds are bright which is way better than the silver coated incandescent bulbs that bimmian sells. Crystalworks thanks for the recommendation. Oh by the way didn't have to use load resistors on these led bulbs also.

No problem. They are really bright aren't they?! I just hope they last... time will tell. Always hard to get a REAL idea of quality and longevity from Amazon reviews.

Your white function works? Mine is amber on parking lights and signal. Does your bulb socket look like this with only 2 contact pins?

X53Jay4.8is · #**8413** 05-29-2017, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by crystalworks

No problem. They are really bright aren't they?! I just hope they last... time will tell. Always hard to get a REAL idea of quality and longevity from Amazon reviews.

Your white function works? Mine is amber on parking lights and signal. Does your bulb socket look like this with only 2 contact pins?

Yeah my socket looks like yours. I was looking a little closer on the switch back led bulb and mine has two amber and two white leds on each panel and then in the projector portion there is the same two amber and two white leds. I noticed that the same company makes another 3157 LED bulb that looks like the swicthback but it has 4 amber leds on each panel as opposed to the white and amber combination. By any chance did they furnish you with an all amber led unit?

crystalworks · #**8414** 05-29-2017, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by X53Jay4.8is

Yeah my socket looks like yours. I was looking a little closer on the switch back led bulb and mine has two amber and two white leds on each panel and then in the projector portion there is the same two amber and two white leds. I noticed that the same company makes another 3157 LED bulb that looks like the swicthback but it has 4 amber leds on each panel as opposed to the white and amber combination. By any chance did they furnish you with an all amber led unit?

No, mine has 2 chips of each color on each circuit board...

Edit: How is yours coded? Parking lights, etc. Wonder if I should try flipping the bulbs, though I could have sworn I did try that.

richardb · #**8415** 05-31-2017, 12:57 PM

Calling all those with air suspension knowledge! Please give me a hand with this air suspension mystery:

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Pekelicious · #**8416** 05-31-2017, 05:08 PM

Stupid O-ring in the compressor went south.... now I have to hustle to fix that leak.... is there a way to remove the tube in the Ac compressor without lower the front axle?!

- Gil -

gatojurko · #**8417** 06-01-2017, 02:22 PM

Just swap wiper purchased from Ali...price was about 7e! Minus is that it is shorter!

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andrewwynn · #**8418** 06-03-2017, 02:39 PM

Put on the new wheels I picked up for a song. Original invoice of $3600 for tires and wheels. Won an eBay auction for $202.50. It cost more to ship. I did save $100 on shipping by using ShipNEX rather than FedEx directly. Definitely use them if you have to send wheels or other heavy auto parts. They are a shipping reseller. They use fedex but have deep discounts so they can apparently still make a profit while charging far less than counter rates.

Watch the stop-motion video here.

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