On the driver's side you have to remove the fender and to undo a bit of the bumper to remove the headlight . Quite a messy job. Many bolts and quite a hassle . Just did it today both sides ...
Chris Maverick What about the passenger side? I just removed light on drivers side without removing the bumper. I hear that the passenger side is much more complicated
Roosevelt Stewart Your passenger, my drivers side. But we both have the wiper washer reservoir to deal with. It’s a case of bolts removed from the light assembly holding arm and drop down and un bolt the relay from the car body also and gently manipulate and remove the light assembly. Not easy but can be done. Other side should be easier as mentioned by others.
So Much easier to take off the driver's side. On the passenger side you need to take off part of the front bumper and loosen a few fender bolts. There is also an electric box that you need to take off. Then you can wiggle the headlight out. NOT AN EASY JOB
X5M has oil coolers on both sides you will also have to remove to get the support bracket bolts out. Much messier job so best to do during an oil change
@@yuliyanholu9626 Its about an hour to get off and an hour to put back (But you need to know what you are doing for that speed). Remove the wheel and inner wheel liner (10 mins) Remove the trim from the wheel arch - (5 mins) - Remove the plastic nuts that hold the Fan relay in place and the bracket itself (10mm) - Remove the lower support bracket about 20 mins -- There is a Torx 30 on the right and a bolt that holds it into the inner part of the car - Dremmel that bold shorter (its 10mm I think) (But keep the nut on) then when you remove the nut the threads are OK - Then there are two T30 inside the engine bay pointing towards the light cluster. When these are out you can lever the plastic support bracket over the shorter bolt that you made to allow it to come out easier. (You will need to remove a vertical torx thats going into the bottom of the light cluster from this bracket you are removing. Once you have that out of the way you can remove 3x 8mm bolts in the headlight itself. And the light cluster will then pull out through the hole. If you have an airbag sensor on the bottom bracket DO NOT disconnect it or you will have an error code. Leave it plugged in and move the bracket out of the way. It sounds a nightmare - And its a pain just for maybe changing the Angel eyes. But its not the end of the world and with basic tools and a few hours you can do it at home -- A garage would charge at least three hours for this so its expensive. And to be honest stupid engineering.
3 minutes just to show taking out the fender liner smh... Was hoping for information on the actual headlight removal not a video of you removing 10mm plastic nuts
I was hoping you would show the removal of the bracket below the headlight as the headlight will not come out with it there.
What size bolts are keeping the actual assembly in? are they torx?
Torx t27
I sold an X5 because of this... what an absolute headache just to change a headlight over...
Literally a 30 second job on mostly any other car...
Not a car for lazy people
fool
On the driver's side you have to remove the fender and to undo a bit of the bumper to remove the headlight . Quite a messy job. Many bolts and quite a hassle . Just did it today both sides ...
Chris Maverick What about the passenger side? I just removed light on drivers side without removing the bumper. I hear that the passenger side is much more complicated
Roosevelt Stewart Your passenger, my drivers side.
But we both have the wiper washer reservoir to deal with.
It’s a case of bolts removed from the light assembly holding arm and drop down and un bolt the relay from the car body also and gently manipulate and remove the light assembly.
Not easy but can be done.
Other side should be easier as mentioned by others.
passenger or drivers? are the processes the same?
So Much easier to take off the driver's side. On the passenger side you need to take off part of the front bumper and loosen a few fender bolts. There is also an electric box that you need to take off. Then you can wiggle the headlight out. NOT AN EASY JOB
great video man, ive seen some goofs take the whole fender off lol
Did not show how to remove the bracket (support) under the headlight
X5M has oil coolers on both sides you will also have to remove to get the support bracket bolts out. Much messier job so best to do during an oil change
Nice video
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How long did this take you to do in total? Are we talking like 2 hours or 5 hours?
rh71 More 5 than 2 mate I’m afraid.
Not an easy job I would say 5 hours each.
@@yuliyanholu9626 Its about an hour to get off and an hour to put back (But you need to know what you are doing for that speed). Remove the wheel and inner wheel liner (10 mins) Remove the trim from the wheel arch - (5 mins) - Remove the plastic nuts that hold the Fan relay in place and the bracket itself (10mm) - Remove the lower support bracket about 20 mins -- There is a Torx 30 on the right and a bolt that holds it into the inner part of the car - Dremmel that bold shorter (its 10mm I think) (But keep the nut on) then when you remove the nut the threads are OK - Then there are two T30 inside the engine bay pointing towards the light cluster. When these are out you can lever the plastic support bracket over the shorter bolt that you made to allow it to come out easier. (You will need to remove a vertical torx thats going into the bottom of the light cluster from this bracket you are removing. Once you have that out of the way you can remove 3x 8mm bolts in the headlight itself. And the light cluster will then pull out through the hole. If you have an airbag sensor on the bottom bracket DO NOT disconnect it or you will have an error code. Leave it plugged in and move the bracket out of the way. It sounds a nightmare - And its a pain just for maybe changing the Angel eyes. But its not the end of the world and with basic tools and a few hours you can do it at home -- A garage would charge at least three hours for this so its expensive. And to be honest stupid engineering.
So literally pull the whole car apart to get the light off 😂
Its fucking ridiculous. Whatever genius designed this needs shot
this video skip the first part of this job, why do you no record from begining?
Thank you so much
All this to remove a headlight. No wonder garage bills are high!!!!
This was not from the start, looks like you’ve already removed trim from the wheel arch
No shit sherlock
@@dflex4180 so then it’s not a how to on removing the headlights is it then!
Top one no way can get otn
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3 minutes just to show taking out the fender liner smh... Was hoping for information on the actual headlight removal not a video of you removing 10mm plastic nuts
Absutely catastrophically bad design this!!! Shocking