Oh, i see now, didnt take notice to projectors in highbeams above.... But even tmv above, fogs look like projector also... His is 3.0 too.

2000-2003 ..you can play and easily mod those headlights as they come apart easily....as with 2004-2006..they are a little bit hard..but X5snd made his happen changing his AE's to a brighter LED ones.....

Not so much interested in projector in the "highbeam" spot,

More interested why they would get rid of projector fogs... I guess i can always do mine in the future, good retrofit projectors for the fogs is like $100 and fogs shouldnt be too hard to mod.

Are you talking about the inner projector on mrbmwx5 headlights? that is his custom work he made a custom high beam.

If you refer to the lower fog light housings, yes up until 2002 all X5's came with projector fog light housings taking an H3 bulb. 2003 (mine did) and above including facelift models have reflector fog light housing taking H11 bulb.

I'd like to retrofit projector fog light housings down the line when I get the money to do so, I had projector fogs on my VW and loved that my D2S/fogs were projector housings, nothing but clean sharp cutoff of light!

Don't know why they got rid of them, but yes tmv has a 2001 so he has the old projector fog lights, you can find them on ebay for about 130 for the pair of factory housings.

However you could always take your stock ones and do a Morimoto mini or similar retrofit :)

Yeah thats what i was thinking with the minis.

Dont care at the moment but it is one of those little things ill do in the future... Just dont like that companies do that little stuff thinking no one will notice! Lol

'01 3.0 5 spd...only mod was going from Style 69 18" wheels to oe Style 132 staggered 19s. And, a set of very rare BMW center cap spinners, :D

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Since you asked for "your favorite mod", here is my:

-ArmyX5...i love those Black wheels...did you paint them? powerder coat? plastidip?


i took some shots played with camera...
I think i may need a better camera than my Nikkon 9300 digi cam..lol:dunno:

at baseball Field Black n White effect:thumbup: