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Discuss your latest mods or ideas, and anything to do with the BMW X5 (E53).
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Post by wilkoturbo » Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:57 pm

Has anyone got or seen this just been on the BMW web extras page !!!?
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Re: Front cam

Post by X5Sport » Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:04 pm

Not seen it on an E53, but I have it on my E71. Camera in each front wing about 12" back from the front of the car.

Very useful at junctions/driveways where vision is restricted. I'm amazed it was never offered as an OEM Option on the E53.

Has saved me from having the nose chopped off a couple of times in rural Wales at the outlaws.
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Post by wilkoturbo » Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:13 pm

It is offered on the e53 on the BMW web page !?
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Post by shadrack » Thu Mar 15, 2012 8:37 pm

i have this on my e53, i call it the windscreen!!!
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Post by wilkoturbo » Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:07 pm

Very very funny ! Lol I'm wantin more mods on the car !
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Post by dirtymonkey29 » Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:28 pm

I want 1

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Re: Front cam

Post by shadrack » Fri Mar 16, 2012 7:21 am

Tbh I would do one bt the wiring it took to do the back one was hard to get neat, I need more mods I've got more parts thatn I don't know wat to put on and an just always on the hunt, bt the other day thaught I might get an m3 e46 so I can mod that now the x5s nearly finished!
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Re: Front cam

Post by X5Sport » Sun Mar 18, 2012 9:11 am

I wonder why it was never listed in the factory options list? When I ordered mine in 2004, the reversing camera was in the list and not this but it would have made a lot of sense have this as a factory option, especially given how long it takes to put in afterwards. I mean you've got to be looking at £500 just in labour from a Dealer plus the cost of the two retrofit kits.
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