I have been loving my first BMW a 2001 Sport Wagon 525I Ok sounds crazy but drove it at night for first time and WTH! Headlights aimed at the ground right in front of car--almost undriveable in the country
So I look on Youtube and around--do I need to pop the lights open and replace those little plastic adjusters or ?????
need help determining what lights I have and how to fix
Thanks
My internal headlight adjusters were broken and couldn't be replaced, so I ended up buying new Bosch headlights - just like OEM but half the price.
Buy the little plastic adjusters and follow the instructions. 2001 you can bake the headlights to get them apart. Lots of online tutorials etc to follow. All of the plastic you run into is brittle and will break.
Two fire flies in a jar is the way I describe my own wagon when I purchased her. Upgrade to new headlamp assemblies or try the "ship in the bottle" approach and replace the plastic adjusters. If you are lucky you will only need the Low beam adjusters. See http://www.odometergears.com/howto/E...ter_Repair.pdf
I have done the ship in a bottle and the lights were hard but not impossible. The second one will take 35% less time.
Last edited by StephenVA; 09-04-2018 at 03:44 PM.
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I don’t know how you guys do the ship in a bottle thing! I open them up.
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
OK well....I used a $14 heat gun from Harbor Freight--worked great just do not let it near the "clips" on the clear part
First light was a PIA both adjusters were dust so no idea how they went back but after the first one second light took 30 minutes
I don't see why or how you can do ship in bottle deal
But then...
The bottom leveler rod was just sticking out--no leveler motors etc just brittle plastic nut on them---wound up cutting a plastic disc with hole saw--RTV'd it over that rod to close the opening--use zip ties to pull down on back of bulb sockets and get correct level and now I can see at night--adjusted them up against brick wall and after two nights test driving and minor adjusting I have lights
hard to spend $700 on headlights for a car I gave $3800 for Oh well I can see now on to the next BMW adventure
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