2008 BMW 335I Exterior lighting Problems

“I have had issues with the insulation sleeves on the headlight wiring flaking off. I witnessed short circuits and sparks while signaling and driving at night. All the wires are already close to eachother and now the insulation is completely off causing a fire hazard and fixing this myself is impossible as well as costing over 1200 dollars just to buy new headlights.”

“Went to replace an obviously burned out brand new xenon hid ballast. Confused about why it burned up(failure rate of 1 per 1,000 quoted by the manufacturer) I took off the back cover for the housing. To my surprise, the power cable's that plugs into the hid ballast insulation was completely gone. Bare. Wires. This is obviously an extreme fire and safety hazard. Curious if my other headlight wiring was the same way, I popped the back housing of it to inspect for another hazard. Lord and behold, it was exactly the same way. …”

“After driving up to 75mph at hwy, I parked my car at parking lot and 15 minutes later , someone notified me that there's smoke coming out from my engine bay. I immediately opened the hood and the right headlight was on fire also spread to the heat shield (attached to the hood). I was able to extinguised the fire but the top part of the headlight melted thru the wires. I read that there are several issues with this headlight and want to know if Bmw has recalled this light. I looked it up and the part itself cost around $1,100 plus labor. …”

“I have a 2008 Bmw 335I, and recently I noticed something that is a huge safety issue, and is a major fire hazard as well. Inside of the sealed headlight housing, is a wire harness that's used to power the headlights. That harness has several wires coming out of it, and each one of those wires has a protective colored insulated coating that distinguishes the wires from one another, such as power, ground, etc. Well, every single wire that comes out of that harness is cracked and missing sections of insulation all together, which exposes the copper wires underneath. …”

“I was warming up the car in the morning for work, it was on for about ten minutes; as I sat down put the car in reverse I heard a noise and my car shut down. I turned my car back on and drove for a short period before noticing that there was not any air blowing.... I took it the mechanic a day later to replace the blower motor.... The problem was not the blower motor, the problem was a rectangle shaped cable for four prongs but only three where connected to the blower motor melted and burned out the cable. The mechanic followed the cable and cut the affected burned corroded rusted !!! …”