New owner and headlight blues

[Malibu111]

After owning a half dozen BMW's I just might have bought my first nightmare. Just picked up a 2011 F10 550i with 132k miles and looks great and runs fine so I think. I immediately have the lights on the bench and the TMS module on one side is so bad, the shell requires replacement as the TMS receiver is rusted. Can I replace the female connector inside, I think not?

My unit is the 1ZS01013146

FC EURO wants 1K for empty box.....ugg

I found a guy in NJ with two brand new for 1K, just the cases. His PN for the empty Helo shell is 1EL10113121 and looks identical from the pictures. I mean it looks apples-apples. I have pics of both shell part numbers.

Can anyone assist?

I also learned the 4.4 drinks oil like a boozer. I may have the engine pulled and updates applied. That's another story....

[pleadbymail]

Originally Posted by Malibu111

After owning a half dozen BMW's I just might have bought my first nightmare. Just picked up a 2011 F10 550i with 132k miles and looks great and runs fine so I think. I immediately have the lights on the bench and the TMS module on one side is so bad, the shell requires replacement as the TMS receiver is rusted. Can I replace the female connector inside, I think not?

My unit is the 1ZS01013146

FC EURO wants 1K for empty box.....ugg

I found a guy in NJ with two brand new for 1K, just the cases. His PN for the empty Helo shell is 1EL10113121 and looks identical from the pictures. I mean it looks apples-apples. I have pics of both shell part numbers.

Can anyone assist?

I also learned the 4.4 drinks oil like a boozer. I may have the engine pulled and updates applied. That's another story....

I use to own a 2011 550i, fantastic car but I got rid of it with only 55k miles. The first n63 motor has potential to be a nightmare.

Headlights get tricky, I've rebuilt a few high end salvages. It's always a pita trying to mix and match headlight parts. Hard to determine unless you try and rebuilding the housing. Oneighty in Coney Island Brooklyn did a good job with my headlights once.

U can always buy the umnitza f10 replacements for about 2k or I've seen pair of used for 1k…

Good luck

[Malibu111]

So two issues resolved thank God and only spent $100.00. Lights are working correctly...OMG

Regarding the Angel Eyes NOT working and having installed a new TMS module into the rusted female connector, I reset the card 5 times to see if I could get a good connection and that must have worked. Yippy...

The high/low beam issue was a bulb so I purchased was a two pack "Torchbeam DIS 6000 HID" and appear to be working. I purchased the two pack for $32.00 to ensure even light intensity. So the cheaper made bulbs do work. I hope they hold up.

These assemblies are specialized and I'm an engineer by trait so I welcomed the challenge but cold here in New England and feet were cold in the garage.