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Intermittent headlight fault

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Intermittent headlight fault

Post by big_tex_uk » Wed Aug 29, 2018 5:36 pm

Hi first post in the forum.

I have just purchased a used face-lift E53. 2005.

Apart from the odd little niggles here and there I seem to have a reoccurring issue with the front o/s headlight unit.

The dash system alerts to dipped/main and park issue and all lights on the o/s headlight stop working.

The car is fitted with the halogen headlights which are self leveling. Swapped bulbs and they are fine and it's not a dry connection in the plug. Fiddled with it a few times then it worked OK again with no fault warning.

It did the same the next day. I have tried clearing the fault code with my carly unit I have which works for a short while (1 day max) but it then stops working again.

I know looking through other threads there are issues with the factory xenons but mine are halogen standard bulbs.

Any help much appreciated.

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