Swapping out rear reflectors

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Hi - my son has made it a mission to chrome delete and swap out red for black on my BRG '23. I have to say, it's looking pretty sharp.

However, he bought gray reflectors for the back bumper and hasn't been able to find a video to watch on how to replace them. Has anyone done it?

He's fairly certain he'll have to rent some time on a car lift, but would love any/all advice beyond that.

Thanks!

[He's already done his, a '15 ICE 2-dr in dark gray - but kept a bit of red to go with his "S" badge, so he hasn't done the rear reflectors...]
 
It's a few bolts (8/10 metric?) to remove before popping off the underbody panels. It's probably easiest to use a lift and torque wrench extensions for the hard to reach bolts. I think you can leave the center panel attached and remove the left and right ones (works for ICE version).

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Yeah, no lift needed. You can remove 1 8mm bolt behind each fog light to get enough room to get your hand in there to squeeze the back of the fog light housing and it will pop out. Very easy.

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Wow, that's two very different responses! :) I've passed this on to him to take it from here... Thanks!
 
Search on YouTube and you'll find videos of people doing this. The undertray is slightly different on an ICE F56 but essentially the same. You just need to squeeze the housing and it will pop out.
 
JonR said:
Search on YouTube and you'll find videos of people doing this. The undertray is slightly different on an ICE F56 but essentially the same. You just need to squeeze the housing and it will pop out.
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Hope he's able to figure it out as easy as that! He's pretty handy.... Thanks!
 
I’m not much of a car guy and was able to replace them pretty easily. Undid one screw and then reached behind to pop them out. It was a little harder to reconnect the new ones to the (non functional) power socket.
 
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Because the US fog lights aren’t enabled — you just have gotten the euro switch and coding installed.
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OK, but the bulbs are there, and the harness is active, if you don’t get the new switch for rear fog lights, you can still activate them as auxiliary brake lights.
 
Yup.

Edit: oops sorry I hit “send”.

There was an old thread about it that dropped off the front page a couple of months ago. If you go the rear fog route the switch is available on Amazon cheaper than just about anywhere else. For the auxiliary brake light there’s nothing to add, just coding.
 
KimB said:
Is that a bimmercode option? I'd love to...
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Sorry, it took a while to dig it up via search. H/t to @JonR and all those who’ve helped with this. Enter expert mode in BimmerCode and then:
JonR said:
Enable rear fog lights as brake lights (US models without rear fog light switch)
BDC_BODY
3065 LceLampMapping4, ED
Funktionen
MAPPING_BREMSL_2_L_OUTPUT
Switch to this
nsl_l (this is the rear fog light choice)

You need to do this for right and left. Above is for left,
For RHS just change the l to r

MAPPING_BREMSL_2_R_OUTPUT
nsl_r
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Just need to find how to temporarily silence the pedestrian warning and find a custom bonnet stripes place...

Want to do this, but obviously on my BRG...
 

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