Nice place you guys have here. This is gonna sound kind of weird, but I need some measurments from an X5 hood for a little project I'm putting together. I need to know the dimensions of the raised center section of the hood, and the grill. I need to know how long the hood is, at the center (I know it's longer on the sides), from the back (by the windshield) to the front of the grill. I need to know how wide the raised part of the hood is at the back, and at the front, and how wide the grill is at the bottom. I also need to know how tall the grill is, from the bottom edge to the point it curves back into the hood. If someone could take some measurments for me real quick it would help me out a ton. Thanks!

I know there's an X5 owner on here that also owns a tape measure... Come on, please? :help

You might get more help if you offered some details on WHY you need such measurements...what's this mysterious project? People are almost always more willing to get involved in a cool/unusual project, but are less willing to go through the hassle of taking measurements "just because"...

BTW, if you have an X5, why don't you take your own measurements?

My user name has something to do with it. I compete in rockcrawling competitions. It's kind of like an extreme type of four wheeling. You may have seen some of our events on ESPN2 or the Speed Channel. I am building a new vehicle for the 2005 season and I have the opportunity to make it resemble any four wheel drive vehicle I want. I dig the way the X5 hood/grill looks, so that's the way I have decided to go. The rest of the body will be made of plastic or thin sheetmetal and lexan. The vehicle is not nearly wide enough to use a full X5 hood, but I think it is wide enough to cut the center part out of an X5 hood and use that, possibly cut a little bit shorter. I started building it earlier this month, and I am now to the point that I need to make sure the hood is going to fit. I don't have one, so I'm asking you fine folks for some help. All I have is a crappy camera-phone pic of the buggy as it sits right now, but I'll attach that so you can kind of get an idea what it is I'm building. It says under my cars that I have an "X5, sorta" because the buggy will be registered with the competition sanctioning body as a BMW X5. The only actual BMW parts will be the hood/grill though. Make sense?

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