adaptive headlights
 

While driving home tonight it appears that my adaptive headlights aren't turning. I know that they were turning before they were replaced last week.

How can i tell if they put the adaptive or non adaptive xenons back in?

can someone who has the adaptive lights give me the part number so that i can compare to what's in my x?

thanks


:mad:

I don't have the part number but here's something to consider.

Is your light switch all the way to the left to the automatic position?
It's my understanding that adaptive lights don't turn if they are not
switched to the automatic position

thanks for the suggestion, but yeah, it's in auto.

G: after all you've been through w/your ripped off lights and the wait, you'd think you would cop a break and they would work?!
Damn, hope it's jes'a glitch. GL,md

thanks... i'm about to get medevil on BMW :mad:

I'm just hoping someone with the adaptives can pop their hood and give me the part number, it's on a sticker right on top of the assembly and is easy to get to...

In raised letters on the plastic shroud of my driver's side Adapative Xenon headlight (2005 X5) is the following part number:

224-583-00 LI

My guess the AHL part # is 63126940187 & 63126940188

Check this page on part#s and what you got.

Maybe they put the non-AHL system.

bfan - thanks for looking, much appreciated. That number matches. The passenger side is 224 584-00RE.

unfortunately, the part number that is on the white sticker on the top of the assemby doesn't coincide with any part numbers from RealOEM. :(

DUDE! Thanks.... that sight is awesome. Unfortunately, none of those part numbers jive with what is in my X. I'm going to call the parts department at the local dealer on Monday and give them the numbers that i took off of the white sticker and see what they tell me.

As a side note, while i was looking under the hood for the part numbers, i noticed that the hood realease cable is frayed (definitely damaged by whomever stole my lights), it was the first thing i noticed when i stuck my head under the hood, how BMW missed it when they were replacing the lights is unimagineable... and the saga continues....

Here are the numbers off of the sticker on my driver's side Adaptive Xenon light:

1ES-224-487-23/AC
7 164 461 01
SAE HR-HG03

And the raised lettering on my passenger side plastic shroud match yours
224-584-00 RE

As a side note, I looked at the window sticker from X5 and it says the following:

"Xenon Headlights: $ 800.00
Adaptive Light Control Included"

Logically I would think they would install the adaptive ones by default as they seem to be standard these days and are probably more plentiful.

Hope that helps you out.

BMW part #s are always 11 digits as shown on RealOEM.com. The first 2 digits the Main group. The next 2 represent the sub-group and then the part #. But in your case even the last do not match. :dunno: Check with dealer.

Thanks a lot! I'll take a look in the morning, I'm out on Long Island at my parents and didn't drive the X, so i'll check when i get home.

Much appreciated.... :thumbup:


It really is incredible how helpful everyone on here is...it just blows that "other" site out of the water...

Thanks again everyone... if anyone is interested I'll post an update as the saga continues!

The ring around the front of the lens should read "BMW Dynamic Xenon"

Ditto that. I just looked at mine with a flashlight and sure enough it says that. Definitley the easy way to check. Good call!

Wish you well with you Saga

Thanks for all of the replies, the numbers from the white label match up with bimmerfan's and the lights are stamped BMW Dynamic Xenon so I guess they put in the right lights, which then means that either they installed them incorrectly or they're malfunctioning...

Thanks again to everyone for the info, much appreciated...

Saga update:

dropped my x off at the dealer this morning so that they could fix all the stuff that they missed... I actually got a BMW loaner, a silver X3. At first I thought it was kind of cheesy inside compared to an X5, but after driving it around today and putting the tranny in sport mode, that 6 banger has some balls... and it's got almost all of the bells/whistles in the interior as an X5, just scaled down. The seats aren't as comfortable, the steering wheel is thinner and the gauge cluster is pretty sparce, but i have to say, after I got used to driving it, it's a pretty good car...

more tomorrow when i pick up my X5... same bat time same bat channel/site :)

The saga is over....
 

Picked up my X5 today... here's what they had to do to get it back to 100% functionality:

- re-aim and re-focus lights
- enable adaptive function in computer
- re-disable DRL's so that the car has dual angel eyes when the parking lights are on. (so i don't have ANY drl's, which is how it was before the lights were stolen, I have no clue why they would have changed them back to default)
- replace driver mirror motor
- replace sunroof switch
- reinstall molding on driver door/window junction

All of these things should have been done the first time as part of the process of repairing the vandalism.

I'm just glad it's all over with.

Have a good weekend.

gresch - glad to hear that the saga has concluded and all is back to the way it should be. Keeping my fingers crossed that the headlight theives leave you alone from this point on.

Thanks... from now on I walk to the train station and try not to worry about the car everytime i leave it in a parking lot :(


Have a good weekend everyone, and thanks for all the empathy over the last few weeks as this mess played out.

By the way, the dual angel eyes and no DRL's look friggin sweet :)

I noticed my adaptive headlights dont turn towards the drivers side, they do work when I crank the wheel to the right/passenger side.
But when I crank the wheel to the left/drivers side, the lights stay in the middle/original position.

Im guessing this is not normal?

Think it's normal, especially if you are doing it whilst stopped.

I THINK they turn up to 15 degrees to the nearside and 7 degrees to the offside (to avoid blinding oncoming traffic) BUT when you are stopped, then they only turn to the nearside.

I can only ever see mine turn left (in my UK RH Drive X) but not right. When I'm driving, I don't really notice them turning at all to be honest.

It was while stopped. Thanks for the info.

Talk about resurrection... Man this thread is old...... :rofl:

:iagree:

It was either bring an old one back or start a new one.