Cracked Night Vision Lens - Repair Options?

[UnopposedCheeseBurger]

Discovered that my Night Vision lens is cracked. Unfortunately it's not a small one. It's a spiderweb crack, and with an actual piece missing so you can see through the lens.

What options do I have?

-Google didn't have much results. I saw a replacement being about $700.

-I'm wondering if this crack could be repaired by a mobile glass repair company? (thinking outside the box)

-If I can find out the lens size, I'm curious if I could just a get a generic lens? does it have to be a bmw oem?

I'm open to other ideas

[AlisterB]

My feeling is that you're just going to need to replace the NV camera.

Might be more cost effective to purchase a used one from eBay or a wrecker.

[TLK]

You should research because in retrofit threads i think it is often mentioned that the module and the camera must come from the same donor car.

[valbmw]

The camera and electronic module are somehow bound, no direct way to replace just the camera. And no way to "repair" the lens because the applied method means pumping a pressurised gel into the crack. It will just break your damaged lens into pieces.

You may want to buy a new OEM lens from ebay for about $460:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Genuine-OEM...beda%7Ciid%3A1

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Genuine-BMW...IAAOSwElhb45Q8

This is not too expensive because the lenses are made with the element Germanium to be transparent to infrared radiation, it is primarily military technology.

[UnopposedCheeseBurger]

Thanks for that, been searching for that part number. This is probably the route i'll go with