Suggestions Needed For Modding X5

[windforce]

Hello fellows,

I plan to mod my 2010 X5D Pre-LCI and need some suggestion from the community.

1. 20' Y-Spoke OEM Style staggered wheel and tires $1,200 from Craigslist.
Anyone had experiences with OEM-Style wheels? Do you usually switch TPM from old rims to new rims or just buy a set of new TPM?

2. Pre-LCI OEM body kit
If anybody had experience with eBay OEM replica? How is the fitment? Looks like a set of OEM will cost $1000 (no paint) vs. eBay replica $500 (no paint). Should I just buy OEM?

3. Fender Flare
Should I buy eBay OEM-replica fender flare or real OEM?

4. LCI Tail light conversion
I see eBay has a lot of OEM looking LCI tail lights but manufactured by some Taiwanese companies for $400-500 new/set. Are those good quality? Seems like a great deal comparing to OEM. Also do I need to buy harness or those are plug and play?

Anyways, I try to save as much $$$ as possible while not getting crap quality parts. So please give me some suggestions on what I should buy for above parts.

Thank you all in advance.

[Gixxerboy63]

I like the OEM 214s, with OEM flares. Unless you are going to further your mods, this is the best sporty combination for not a whole lot of coin.
Factory sport models always looks great to me.

I think the Aero kit looks best on darker colors, however my truck is white... Instead going with the Aero Kit, I added fender flares and refinished my black trim in body color.
To me, the truck looks more like the updated version (Makes me think of Msport).

Here is a before and after;





I would suggest OEM fender flares that correspond to your VIN#. There were several different versions, so you don't want to get this wrong or it may not look right.

I bought OEM LCI taillights from Latvia (Euro model with Amber signals). They had to be coded, otherwise I got warning lights.
Not sure about ebay lights, although I read a review somewhere that said that they were quite good in quality and coding was not necessary.