josecebreros

I have a pair of Xenon headlights lens on my e60 that need replacing. I bought a pair of "look-a-like" headlights that are non Xenon. Does anyone know how i go about changing the lens from my new headlight (fake bmw headlights) and swapping them with the beat up Xenon headlight lens? My ultimate goal is to keep my original headlights but have new clear lenses. Please help or if anyone knows of a body shop around my area that does this let me know..I live in Paramount, Ca........... Thanks

cleung

this will not be worth doing in my mind. In order to do what you want to do you have to cut out both lenses and then glue on the new lens. The headlight assemblies are one unit. Not to say that its not doable, but if you are going through the trouble I would also suggest you look into doing the orion angel eyes as well since you will have it apart. Do a search for the install instructions for the orion AE's, those instructions will show you how to remove the headlight lens.

luigi524td

The adaptive set up for the stock xenons's are pretty involved - mechanically and electrically. I don't think this is going to work out easily for you but I'll let more experienced guys like Bruce weigh in on a reply.

nomis_nehc

I don't think that's what he's referring to.

OP: can you post pictures of this look-alike headlights that you speak of? I have never heard of someone referring to headlights as look-alikes, lol.

With that said, the E60 headlights are one piece, and if you intend to move forward with this, you would need to cut open the headlights with pretty damn good precision in order for the two piece to match up for reseal. Like cleung said, if you do end up doing this, you might as well do the Orion mod while you're at it.

Here's the thing though, how bad are your original headlights? Have you tried just restoring it via wet sanding and other methods? This seems to be a drastic measure in my opinion.

josecebreros

lol, i guess i need to post pictures.... what i meant by look a like is that I bought a pair oh e60 lights that are non xenon adaptive basically a knock off. they look the same as my original adaptive xenon headlights my car came with and they fit perfectly i bought them from bavauto.com .. And yes the lenses on my original are basically no good... The wet sanding was applied but they were so damaged that it didn't work. I had two options either buy original replacements which are expensive or knockoffs but I figured why not take the new lenses and place them on my original headlights.....But i did check out those orion AE's those are crazy looking i wanna 'em but i would still like to know how to take off the lense lol...ive seen it done before so come on guys help me put lol..

NoQuarter

Are the lenses actually cracked? I would question how well the wet sanding was done - this process can fix some seriously bad lenses.



I did it on my 13 year old mini van lights that you couldn't see the bulb through. Now they look like new headlights.

Rizbel

First, you need a tool to separate the clear and black shells of the headlight housing assembly.
A Dremel Multi-Max or equivalent cheap Harbor Freight Oscillating Multifunction Power Tool will do the job.



Use Plastic welder (available in Harbor Freight) and/or polyurethane glue to join parts together.
Look here.Good luck .

nomis_nehc

Yeah... I am not sure where you have seen it done before, but these headlights require being gut open literally. So you really will have to brave the process if this is really how you want to replace the lens.

As I said earlier, if you do cut them open, you'll probably want to draw identical outline on the headlights to ensure they'll line up properly.

Lastly, I would like to add that the outline I cut open is not the same as Rizbel's last picture.

Luxurytax

Wet sand them and use meguires plastic X!!

aharper

I need a good write-up for this. I wanna do it but am afraid to jack up my lights and make them worse than they are.