OK, so us pre-facelift owners are not covered under the recall for the bad grounding on the tail lights. This causes the front indicators to go in and out. Sometimes, I'll start my car and get the indicator on the dash that my front blinker is out. Sometimes, I can simply turn on my parking lights, the indicator goes out, and the blinker works fine. Other times, turning on the parking lights does nothing, and the blinker will truly be out. I can usually go out and whack the blinker a couple of times and it comes back on.
NOW, all that said, my local dealership said that can actually sometimes be caused by using shady non-OEM bulbs. I was told this when my driver side first started doing this. So at that time, I replaced the driver-blinker bulb with an OEM one. However, my rear bulb house had the scorched post and scorched plug. So I went to a scrap yard and just picked up a replacement bulb house for the back, put it on, and have not had a problem on that side since then, and just kept the scorched plug on that tail light.
OK, so for those of you still with me, I am now having the same problem on the passenger side. Driver side is still OK. I know my driver blinker housing is OEM, but the passenger is non-OEM. I am thinking of getting a whole new passenger blinker assembly, and then for now just getting the bulb housing for the rear since I see the same scorching happening. The question I have is this: IF I end up also having to replace the male plug on the rear (part 15 here: http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts...59&hg=63&fg=20), will I have to replace all six of the little wires? Do they get damaged when removing them from the plug? The wires, for what I know, could be perfectly fine, I am just thinking it is the plug itself that was the problem...
Sorry for the detail, but figured it was needed. Thanks!