So, this is a totally new issue to me. I've been around cars for most of my life and I've been selling car parts for 13 years. Swapped hundreds of bulbs for customers over the years.

What you're looking at is the plastic cover for the high beam bulb on the right side headlight. All those wires are related to the auto adjustment and cornering feature of the xenons, and the cover is also a box containing a bunch of electronics. It's supposed to snap in place creating a watertight seal, but a small plastic part snapped off completely by itself.

I didn't notice anything wrong until I went into a car wash and got a message in the maxidot telling me the cornering headlights were out of order. Guess water got into the system.

I'm now driving with a cross-eyed and technically illegal car until the 10th when I'm scheduled for warranty repair. Good thing I dropped by there today because an e-mail with pictures and a phonecall afterwards wasn't enough to get them to understand what the issue really was. They hadn't ordered the correct parts.

This little annoyance would have ended up costing a fortune if I hadn't had factory warranty left. Xenon headlight assemblies don't come cheap.

As good as Xenons are thats one reason i didnt want them.....they go wrong out of warranty and they can leave you bankrupted......i think one Xenon light cluster costs 1k or something crazy like!

That's why you should make sure that your insurance covers headlights if you have a little fender bender.

Adjustment motors, ballasts and bulbs aren't too terribly expensive on their own. Absolutely not expensive enough to make xenons cost-prohibitive.

Aaand it's fixed, as of yesterday.

That little plastic piece caused them to have to replace the entire headlight.