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      12-11-2020, 04:17 PM   #43
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Originally Posted by Draman View Post
Bought an X5 for my wife for Christmas, picked up these parts from car-analysis. Do you need to disconnect the front and rear batteries in order to install these? The front seems exceedingly difficult to disconnect unless I'm missing something obvious

Edit: I'm going to say covid has rotted my brain out because this was actually quite simple. I have no idea what I was thinking but I was trying to use a regular wrench instead of a socket

To chime in for others who ask this, yes. yes yes yes, yes. Disconnect your batteries. It takes a few minutes and the peace of mind is worth it, unless you're a fan of the "you've really done it now George" sound the car makes.
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