Just ordered a Yuasa form Tayna

You need to check whether lithium is appropriate as the charging characteristics are different and the E53 doesn’t have a battery management system such as was fitted to the E70 and later models.

The OEM battery is (or should be) an AGM type.


I’ve used both Exide and Yuasa on my BMWs with good ...

I have one of them big stupid (9") screens in mine. They are more difficult to fit if you have DSP, only in that you have to run a cable from the head unit to the boot area. As I didn’t have a reverse camera with the original head unit I had to run a cable to the rear as well, any camera will do I ...

X5Sport wrote: Tue Oct 24, 2023 5:40 pm And these are non-Xenon….

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These don’t have connections 4, 5, 6, 7.

Hi X5Sport, do you have higher res copies of the wiring diagrams or point me in the direction of where to find them please?

Thanks

Jazz

Thanks for the info, think I will need to get the headlights tested, neither one powered on when fitted

Thanks, I will double check the headlights, they came from an X5 with Xenons

My xenons beams don't power on at all when I swap the headlights over.

Hi Gisli,

You ever get this resolved?

Hi!

I'm trying to swap my oem halogen headlights for oem xenon but they aren't powering on. Wondering if anyone else has down this same mod and if any additional wiring involved?

Cheers for letting me join, just got my first BMW Its a 2005 e53 X5 3.0D SE and I'm looking for help with mods