Just bought some M5 replica mirrors from a vendor of mine. Normally I would go with OEM as I have with the majority of my parts but I just couldn't bring myself spending $1300 + Paint + Install into my financial equation. Besides that, I had a hard time trying to find a set that would fit my car, most of the ones I found out there were for post 9/05. Yes there is a retrofit guide out there, but i'd rather not tamper with $1300 mirrors that might actually end up getting all jacked up with my clumsy ass.

Anyway, I purchased these for about half of the cost ($700) which included paint, heated glass and the carbon fiber lower section! They have these available as full carbon fiber. half carbon fiber or just primered all around. I bought the half carbon fiber. They are made of fiberglass and carbon fiber with an aluminum base.

Here are a few pros & cons:

Pros:
-Inexpensive
-Comes Painted
-Carbon Fiber option
-Heated Glass
-Uses existing motor from original mirrors so no errors in idrive.

Cons:
-Fiberglass
-No puddle lights
-No autofold only manual fold
-Made in Taiwan

So if you're like me and you don't care too much about the autofold function or don't mind fiberglass side mirrors let me know. No i am NOT a vendor... just looking to see who wants to be hooked up.

Here are some pics (Tasty carbon fiber) :cool:

http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/i...d4f792f816.jpg
http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/i...7dabca99a4.jpg

send me a pm with details

Sounds interesting,
is there a way of retrofitting puddle lights onto the mirrors?

Im sure you can, you'll just have to create a hole into the housing to hold them. With fiberglass almost anything is possible.

+1

i was just having this conversation with Heip & Skee on Friday night!!! if someone would come out with a good rep, someone would make a killin'!!

looks good, but if they could incorporate puddle and auto fold - that'd be money!

good find pare!

I guess this is the best replica so far.

it sucks that they dont have puddle lights and is fiberglass. I saw these before and I can get them as well. Just wish they have puddles.

And auto dimming mirrors.

Yeah of course guys, if you wanted all the nice features of the OEM mirrors then you should definitely get the OEM M5 mirrors.

But if you just like the look of M5 mirrors and want a nice far less expensive upgrade from what you currrently have without the nice functionality of OEM then get these. :)

That's a total savings of $700 which can be used for another mod.