For the record, another asked for just the lens today:
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E39 (1997 - 2003) >
headlight lens
I pointed them to here, but, I wish they would follow up here with their results so the next person would benefit from their experience.
I just picked up an 2002 530I I did not think it was too big of
a deal so I figured I could easily find replacement lens apparently
I was wrong.
I have the drivers side that is cracked and looks bad, However the light
works fine....
I want to replace just the lens is this not possible? does anyone have
a source? thanks much...
Here's what a quick E39-only title-only search for 'headlight & lens' found for me just now:
- headlight lens, pr02530i
- Headlight Lens Help, mikenboats
- Imprint on headlight lens, Melrose
- --headlight lens cracking--, Alexbenz
- 2001 E39 Headlight Lens or Assembly Replacement, socaman
- headlight lens, Paint
- Headlight module lens condensation, Jim Martin
- e39 replacement headlight lens, TIm_
- Headlight Lens Renewal?, bmw520
- How Do You Remove The Headlight Lens ??, toddmack
- Headlight Lens Replacement, ksayeau
- Want to replace Amber Lens on side of Headlight, BeemVerg
- Refinishing headlight lens, kd_unruh
Looking at all those threads briefly, and dropping the ones that contained little information or were irrelevant to replacing the headlight lens itself, I added the following (in red) to the bestlinks:
- Headlight aiming DIYs (
1) (
2) (
3) (
4) (
5) & how to physically remove the BMW E39 Hella headlights (
1) & how to twist out the headlight bulbs (
1) (
2) (
3) including HIDs (
1) & which stock H7 'halogen' bulbs to buy (
1) (
2) (
3) & how to physically remove the front turn signal bulb (
1) (
2) (
3) (
4) & what front turn signal bulb to replace it with (
1) & how to remove the angel eye bulb (
1) (
2) (
3) & which stock angel-eye bulbs to buy (
1) (
2) (
3) & how to retrofit halogen angeleye bulbs to LEDs (
1) (
2) (
3) (
4) & how to modify pre-facelift headlights to angel eyes (
1) (
2) (
3) (
4) & headlight plastic polishing & refinishing DIYs (
1) (
2) (
3) (
4) (
5) (
6) (
7) &
replacing just the headlight lens (
1) (
2) (
3) (
4) (
5) (
6) (
7) & how to cross reference all light bulbs for any BMW E39 including for the headlights, stoplights, backup, blinkers, dome, vanity, side markers, licplate, parking, fog, trunk/boot, glovebox, etc. (
1) & more information if you really want to know everything about broken headlight adjusters (
1) (
2) (
3) (
4) (
5) (
6) (
7) (
8) (
9) (
10) (
11) (
12) (
13) (
14) (
15) (
16) (
17) (
18) (
19) (
20) (
21) & how to make your own headlight adjusters (
0) (
1) (
2) (
3) and a summary list of all your options when your headlight adjusters are broken (
1) & headlight autopsy photos (
1) (
2) (
3) & an explanation of the weird flat spot on the USA spec headlights (
1) (
2) & an explanation of HID versus conventional headlights and why the high beam is always a halogen H7 bulb (
1) (
2) (
3) & the age-old argument of whether to buy aftermarket DJ Auto or Depo headlights (
1) or OEM Hellas (
1).