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Rear fog light failure messege

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sbeast007
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Rear fog light failure messege

Post by sbeast007 » Mon Dec 07, 2015 10:45 pm

Keep having a message pop up saying rear fog light failure. The fog lights work fine though.  Any ideas?
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Re: Rear fog light failure messege

Post by Horizon » Mon Dec 07, 2015 10:59 pm

It's usually corrosion on the internal contacts in the light fitting, these can be cleaned up and stop spurious faults appearing.
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Re: Rear fog light failure messege

Post by sbeast007 » Tue Dec 08, 2015 11:51 am

Thanks do u know how best to get to them to clean them
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Re: Rear fog light failure messege

Post by Cat Man » Sat Dec 12, 2015 11:19 pm

See this for removing tailgate panel to access.

http://workshop-manuals.com/bmw/x_serie ... _rear_lid/

Moisture gets into the light units from the seals failing on the light units. You can get new seals from BMW or aftermarket. Originally I believe they used a liquid gasket, but moved to a foam type.
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