Check your front light assembly bracket!!
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I bet your brackets are cracked too! Have a look at your left and right front light assembly mounting brackets. The bracket holds the light assembly to the side front frames under the hood. (Hard to explain...see pics below)
I went to my dealer, I checked every E60 they had in service, and BINGO, they are all cracked. My dealer is looking into it...However, the part number written on the bracket references that the entire assembly would have to be swapped out to fix it...($1000 per side! - under warranty of course) They didn't want to swap it until they heard back from BMWNA.
Anyway, here are some crappy cell phone snapshots of the bracket's location. (the crack is hard to make out in the pictures but basically, it is cracked across the bolt hole)
![](http://members.roadfly.org/moballa/46ML0025.jpg)
![](http://members.roadfly.org/moballa/46ML0026.jpg)
![](http://members.roadfly.org/moballa/46ML0027.jpg)
Interested to know who DOESN'T have these cracks!
Cheers,
Marco
I went to my dealer, I checked every E60 they had in service, and BINGO, they are all cracked. My dealer is looking into it...However, the part number written on the bracket references that the entire assembly would have to be swapped out to fix it...($1000 per side! - under warranty of course) They didn't want to swap it until they heard back from BMWNA.
Anyway, here are some crappy cell phone snapshots of the bracket's location. (the crack is hard to make out in the pictures but basically, it is cracked across the bolt hole)
![](http://members.roadfly.org/moballa/46ML0025.jpg)
![](http://members.roadfly.org/moballa/46ML0026.jpg)
![](http://members.roadfly.org/moballa/46ML0027.jpg)
Interested to know who DOESN'T have these cracks!
Cheers,
Marco
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Yep, same cracks, seems stable enough even with the cracks. Looks like the torque setting on that assembly implement is set a touch too high. However, mine are only broken on one side of the attachment bolt. Not on both sides like in your pics.
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Originally Posted by moballa' date='Jul 23 2004, 05:33 PM
Interested to know who DOESN'T have these cracks!
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OOOOhh!!! If mine are cracked maybe I can swap them out for the euro style
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Well, looks good here.
I shouldn't be depressed but I was thinking there might be some good of this. I am not about to crack them either but I wish they would if that means I can swap out the unit.
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