2006 BMW 530I Exterior lighting Problems

“The wiring ithin the xenon adaptive headlight assembly on the left and right side of the 2006 Bmw 530I has extreme wiring insulation rot. The exposed wiring is extensive on all wires within the assembly on both sides with most of the wires now bare. This is creating a severe and dangerous safety and fire hazard. I will upload photos when I disassemble the car headlights again. The fire hazard was found when replacing an angel eye headlamp.”

“Headlights would take turns randomly working, then one night both headlights turned off while I was going around a corner at 55mph. This was in the country no street lights. Just as I came to a blind stop there both kicked back on. After getting home I took apart to find some wires were rotting other already bare, and others cracking. I pray this doesnt happen to anyone else because if this problem isn't fixed someone's going to die. Also if someone does crash I pray to god they can quickly get out of car before all those bare wires behind headlight get smashed together and the fire starts.”

“As I was driving a warning came on my idrive display that there was a parking light malfunction. I later removed the headlight to replace a bulb and upon doing so I noticed bare copper wires. I then removed the main cover and saw that literally every wire had portions of the outer wire jacket deteriorating. When I removed the parking lamp assy. To replace the bulb, the wire jacket just flaked off. Due to the severity of the damage I immediately took the headlight to lauderdale Bmw. Lauderdale Bmw had a specialist look at the headlight. …”

“I was replacing a parking (angel eye) bulb in the drivers side of my 2006 Bmw 530I and noticed that the wiring for the parking and high beam bulb was so brittle that the was falling off exposing the bare wiring and I also noted a smell of burnt plastic. I checked the forums and other owners with the same headlights 2004-2010 5 series were reporting the same issue. Bmw is not offering a TSB or a recall for this. The lights in this case are the bi-xenon adaptive lights. It appears the heat created by the hid unit is causing the wires to become brittle. …”

“Have a problem with the right headlight in my 530I 2006 Bmw. The angel light bulb burned out and when I went to replace it, the wire covers started to come off exposing the wires completely. After replacing the bulb (which was a bit difficult to do), most of the wires in the headlight had no protection and were completely exposed. I had to cover them with electric tape to prevent some shorts, but missed a section I guess, since now the computer is giving me a adaptive headlight warning message and the light is not pointing to the proper direction. …”