Clear side marker install on '07 & up
Justy received the clear side markers I ordered. Looks like a good product. They are a bit different than previous 210 markers. They don't have the large clip at the rear but a different looking clip. Anyone do it themselves or should I have dealer install.
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NO ONE has any experience with these??
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I installed them on mine. It's pretty easy. There are 3 black tabs on the fenderwell. One is located at the bottom. Once those are out you need to pull the fender back. This is where it gets hard. There is a plastic tab holding the lights in. you can see it on the ones you received in. They are so tight in there on the stock ones that they are almost impossible to get them uncliped. It took me an hour to do one. The other side I said screw it, got a puddy knife and a hammer and broke one of the tabs off and it came off easily. Good luck.
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yeah I got my clear markers about a month ago. Havent jumped into it yet. Probably gonna wait a bit since i have a few more exterior goodies I am waiting for.
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Originally Posted by liquiddi
(Post 3413977)
I installed them on mine. It's pretty easy. There are 3 black tabs on the fenderwell. One is located at the bottom. Once those are out you need to pull the fender back. This is where it gets hard. There is a plastic tab holding the lights in. you can see it on the ones you received in. They are so tight in there on the stock ones that they are almost impossible to get them uncliped. It took me an hour to do one. The other side I said screw it, got a puddy knife and a hammer and broke one of the tabs off and it came off easily. Good luck.
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im unable to get the lense to come off of my e550 :S
unscrewed the bulb but tried squeezing the little tabs for a needle nose plier and no matter what i did for 2 hours i couldnt get it out :S what am i doing wrong? |
Ok.. JUST went though this all in the last few days getting rid of my amber ones to put clears in.
In each front wheel well pull the lower grommet on the plastic cover in front. Get a demel and cut one of the pins that is closest to you when you reach in to the side markers. Once you cut one of those plastic pins, they whille come out very easily. However the stock lights are very tough to get out without doing this. I fought with it for an hour, then finally decided to cut one of them, since I wont be putting them back on the car anyways. Should go fairly quickly after doing this. FYI. Look at the new side markers you bought. Notice that on the back part in the area that would be closest to you when reaching into the wheel well there will be a set of pins that look something like... "^^" On the old ones cut off one of those "^" (hopefully that makes some sense when you are inspecting the new ones you bought. |
by pins you mean one of those tabs right? the tabs you have to squeeze together to be able to push the lense out on my clear markers too? so if i were looking in the wheel well, cut off the tab thats closest to me?
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Originally Posted by tchu-
(Post 3538222)
by pins you mean one of those tabs right? the tabs you have to squeeze together to be able to push the lense out on my clear markers too? so if i were looking in the wheel well, cut off the tab thats closest to me?
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After doing one side in 30 minutes the other side took 5.
You do not have to remove the wheels just turn them to gain access to the inside wheel well. Remove just the lower plastic pin looking thingy and hold out the front part of the plastic wheel well. You will be able to slip your entire hand in and get a good grab of the stock light. With a little force you can get it out. The new ones push right in. |
If you do not want to keep the old lights, just cut the pin/clip with a plier, its much faster.
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If you just need to change out the light because it is burned out, how do you go about doing this?
Hopefully it is not as hard as the side marker replacement. |
Originally Posted by sack5000
(Post 3545865)
If you just need to change out the light because it is burned out, how do you go about doing this?
Hopefully it is not as hard as the side marker replacement. |
i have to do this as well on my E63. I bought the smoked lenses and am having them painted black to match car. should look wicked!!!
i tried prying them out but that wasn't working. i will try the methods suggested above. getting in using the access panel should be the key! Thank you all! Aj EDIT: i just went out and did this. took me 5 minutes to take out the stockers! LOL... it really is THAT simple! i just cut the tabs and called her good. |
where did you guys get the clear lenses from (aside from FleaBay)?
Also, what type of bulbs should I get to match it? |
Originally Posted by LB63
(Post 3603477)
where did you guys get the clear lenses from (aside from FleaBay)?
Also, what type of bulbs should I get to match it? |
Originally Posted by LB63
(Post 3603477)
where did you guys get the clear lenses from (aside from FleaBay)?
Also, what type of bulbs should I get to match it? |
Originally Posted by MB_Forever
(Post 3603827)
I got mine from e-bay as well (but I got the smoked version)... you don't like the e-bay ones?
Can you PM me the seller you bought it from? Also, do I need to get orange bulbs? |
Originally Posted by LB63
(Post 3603477)
where did you guys get the clear lenses from (aside from FleaBay)?
Also, what type of bulbs should I get to match it? |
Originally Posted by LB63
(Post 3604222)
I never bought anything from e-bay before so I was just keeping with habit in trying to avoid it.
Can you PM me the seller you bought it from? Also, do I need to get orange bulbs? If you want to look for other websites to look for E63 lights, etc or anything. Go to MSN's www.bing.com search. You can find anything, make sure you type in the correct words to search, it will take a little time for you to look and search through the massive results, thats why make sure you type in the correct words. |
Thanks to original poster and others, this was helpful. Just wanted to clean contacts to the bulb. I had intermittent failures that responded to tapping. |
Originally Posted by Dublinoh
(Post 7589156)
Thanks to original poster and others, this was helpful. Just wanted to clean contacts to the bulb. I had intermittent failures that responded to tapping. |
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