Yes - when Peter finally sends me the harness pigtail!
Finally got the autodim mirror installed. Thankfully it was as easy peasy as I thought it was - plug & play. I didn't bother installing the covers because those are a royal PITA to install and I still have to install the rain sensor and wiring for it. What's even more surprising is that the autodim mirror works perfectly, and doesn't yet need to be rebuilt. Score! I remember these being super expensive when I was looking for them for the ZHP a while back (well over $100) but now all of a sudden I'm finding autodim mirrors for $30-50. What the heck?
What bothers me about it at the moment is that I didn't even notice that I already have a garage door opener / Homelink (not sure which) installed in the upper panel next to the sunroof switches, so now I have two sets of garage door opener switches. This is gonna bother me... gotta let it go...............
Also got some much needed brake love. For some odd reason, the owner before the previous owner thought it was acceptable to run two sets of pads on a single set of rotors, both front and back. The lips on the rotors were MASSIVE! The rotors were also very grooved, which showed on the brake pads as well, so this car definitely was in need of some brakes. New rotor screws and new brake wear sensors topped off the brake service, for now. In the future, there will be some stainless lines in the mix as well as some fresh fluid, but that can wait.
I'm used to having left- and right-side specific rotors on the ZHP because of directional cooling vanes, but it turns out the E39 doesn't have directional cooling veins, so the rotors are the same part for left and right. Love the look of fresh new rotors. I wish I had time to paint the rotor hats black, but time wasn't a luxury I had so I just installed them and called it a day.
Also installed were both front sway bar end links to eliminate most of the clunking, and the right-rear sway bar end link. That rear one proved to be so much of a PITA that we ran out of time and couldn't do the left one, so hopefully can get that addressed this weekend. The headlight leveling sensor was also incorrectly mounted and the arm looked pretty rusty, so I replaced the leveling sensor arm and mounted it correctly.
Now if I can only just get some money to have my buddy do my oil pan gasket... it's an absolute mess down there.
The Vault desperately needs a new set of headlight bulbs. I can barely see anything at night!