Degreased the underside of the engine in search of oil leaks. No leaks found so far but I'm going to wait overnight. Taking off that metal subframe brace was annoying, and a terrible job when 13 years of road dirt start falling on your face. Wear eye protection kids!

In my experience, that's usually how a battery die - worked perfectly one minute and nothing the next. If you're lucky, you may get some warning (slow crank), IF you pay attention.

I'd say you got your money's worth after 6 years of service.

OEM Headlight assemblies? Did you win the lottery? Last time I looked those were stupid money. :wow:

Perhaps you can point me to a less expensive source?

Looks great with the mods!

I almost needed that under ride protection on the rental car in north central KS this weekend. Had a couple of critters try to commit suicide. The possum wasn't going to be too much of a problem but the 200lb deer would have been!

Can I have your old headlight assemblies! :)

Can I have your job so I can not feel bad about dropping 1k on OEM running boards LOL

No lottery, just got fed up with non-existent lighting at night. I got them from here:

COMPOSITE ASSY | Genuine BMW | 63-11-7-166-817
COMPOSITE ASSY | Genuine BMW | 63-11-7-166-818

Thank you, I'm sort of proud of myself for doing all of that in 3 days.

You'd need a bull bar (51100392916) against a deer, but it's NLA and extremely hard to find. Hunting for it for over a year.

sure, PM with reasonable offer. Will come with 2 D2S bulbs, but not ballast, ignitor and ALC.

Picasa album with pics:

https://picasaweb.google.com/1046690...eat=directlink

I was collecting parts for around a year

I had the opportunity to run into another XoutPost enthusiast as I stopped by the Dunkin Donuts this morning. It was a pleasure meeting TiAgX5 and his silver chariot.

^^Awesome! Glad to hear you guys met up - his is super clean for the miles and I'm sure yours is too