The hitch itself came with just the metal bits, ran about 250 or so, as for the hardware, I had to get four nuts for the mounting bolts (whopping $2.50 in parts...) got the wiring bits new from BMW.

part number for the wiring kit was 71 60 0 009 698. That part was about 160 IIRC

not much (if any) cheaper than brand new, but it was AVAILABLE, and that made the difference to me

I may go this route now, thanks for the info!

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2005 X5 4.4i
-sport/premium package

2007 328i
-premium/cold weather package

if you need the install kit documentation, I have it downloaded in PDF form. I can either email it to you as an attachment (helps if you need to ID missing parts) or try and upload it here (unknown if I can do that, due to size)