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2 hours ago, Greydog said:

My first thought is, Is it seated on the splines properly ? Plus is it the correct wiper for the car 

Dave

Hi again Dave, 

Up until yesterday (before I replaced the wiper blade) the rear wiper has been working absolutely fine and doing a full sweep from bottom left to bottom right and then back to bottom left nice and smoothly then as soon as I e changed the blade it started making this noise even if the old (worn out) blade was put back in so I've no idea what's happened as the wiper arm is regularly lifted when washing so I've really no idea what I've done 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

Paul 

As you can see, it's got nothing to do with the blade coming into contact with anything nor does it do the full sweep of the screen anymore so I've no idea what's happened as just pulled the arm up and swapped out the wiper blade at the weekend 🤷🏻‍♂️

7 hours ago, X5smw said:

Can you do a video showing the whole rear window looking from the back of the car. I would guess that the new wiper is the same size as the old one ? 
can you put the wiper back on the window and see if it clears the spoiler near the brake light. I’m guessing the wiper arm has moved on its mount and now hits too far left, which would cause a bang and not sweep as far to the right. 

Morning,

It's not the wiper arm hitting anything as it even makes the noise when the arm is pulled back off the screen.

Will do a better vid later once on my break and hopefully someone can telle what I've done 😞 

Evening,

Have just changed the rear wiper blade and now am getting a god awful clicking noise coming from the arm and it doesn't sweep as much of the screen as it did before, what the hell have I done!! 

(Hope the very poor video clip helps)

Regards Paul 

On 2/19/2023 at 11:03 AM, Greydog said:

Hi Paul

Use the last 7 digits of your Vin to search www.realoem.com it will bring up your model the look in lights

Before spending your hard earned are the lens's clean? Not clouded. A bit of elbow grease could be the answer

Dave

And yes the old saying is right

Evening Dave,

Have had a look on realoem site but was just wanting something a bit brighter than what I've got already as the light being emitted just don't seam as bright as once was and yes the lenses are clear, not crystal clear but not all hazed or cloudy.

Cheers Paul 

As stated possibly this is going to be a stupid question but have always been told the only stupid question is an unasked one 🤷🏻‍♂️

But anyway

I'm wanting to change/replace the headlight bulbs in my 2007 E61 LCI 535

So was wondering what bulbs I'd need to look for as seams to be various configurations available 🤔 so some help would be appreciated 👍🏻

Thanks in advance

Paul

9 minutes ago, TCon said:

Scrap yards? Maybe facebook market place? Plenty of aftermarket ones available but they will be costly after you include shipping and painting. 

Thanks 👍🏻

Found a decent priced new one for £300 delivered and a local body shop to paint it for £200 so not too bad 🤔 then once painted il swap them over myself.

Morning all, 

As per the title (and I know probably not the place to post but it's not a sales request so hope it's allowed)

I've had a bit of an incident with the front bumper on my car and am looking to find the best place to get hold of a new replacement either genuine BMW or a very good OEM one or as it will need painting I'm also considering a nice looking aftermarket one that could give me a better look so any help and ideas would be gratefully appreciated.

I found this info from another forum (if this isn't allowed then please let me know and will delete 👍🏻)

Offers in my eyes a great and well easy solution for powering your dashcam plus stays on for 10-15 minutes after turning the car off so still records after you've parked.

Not too sure what other BMW models have this feature but saves hacking into existing wires and the time comes to sell the car on you can remove and no one is any the wiser that it was ever there.

https://forum.bmw5.co.uk/topic/125539-torch-socket/#comment-1349392

2 hours ago, X5smw said:

Can you remove the stereo? I’m sure the yellow is a permanent feed for data and the red is switched on the ignition. 
tap a cable off the back of that into an inline fuse ? 
I did this on the x5 reversing camera and it works great. The camera only needs to be on when the head unit is working anyways. 
 

Morning, 

Yes I could of gone down the route of removing the main head unit, but I didn't want to have to go down the route of taking most of the dash apart to do so, so using an old buggered torch for the glovebox was a much easier and better solution.

Paul

On 3/3/2022 at 7:20 AM, Greydog said:

Morning Paul

Well done you great idea plus if you want to you can buy a spare torch so that if you move the car on it's all OEM

As for posting a link to another forum ask Trevor, I can't think of a reason not to if it helps others.

For what it's worth I now think the Vanity Mirror light is a more elegant solution as all wiring is contained above the rear view mirror. Just took me 3 attempts but got it sorted on the 4th !! 🤣

Dave

Morning Dave,

Yeah that's what I thought too as didn't like the idea of tapping into existing wires that I'd have to go in again and remove if I was to ever sell the car on as new owner may not like the idea also, so this way it's much less invasive and can be just pulled out as and when and you would never know it's been done.

The only visible wires are the 2 the come out the headliner (about 2-3") that go to the front and rear cameras so this has kept everything nice and simple and neat 👍🏻

I'm not sure who Trevor is on this forum 🤔 about asking about adding the link to another forum as I don't want to just copy and paste all the info onto here and take credit for someone else's work.

Paul

On 2/24/2022 at 9:06 AM, Greydog said:

Morning Paul

When we did this on my brother inlaws 5 touring I took power from the torch charging point in the glove box with its own inline fuse. No battery drain no issues in use moved it 4 times since. Latest car is a 540d x drive Touring we used the power feed to the visor courtesy lamp 

Hope this helps

Dave

Morning Dave,

Thanks again for your help on this 👍🏻

Had a go over the weekend but couldn't for the life of me get the leverage to pull the charge point housing out from the glovebox to gain access to the wiring behind, so I used the old torch and took all the insides out as they was totally buggered and soldered straight onto the pins that way, works a treat and I've not had to alter any of the car in anyway and the cam now powers down after around 15 minutes after the ignition is off so am well happy with that.

Since doing this I've found a post on another BMW forum about this same opinion, what are the rules on posting links to other forms or here? As it's a great write up on how to adapt an old torch as a switched power outlet or usb socket for the glovebox without damaging the rest of the car

Paul

1 hour ago, Greydog said:

Morning Paul

When we did this on my brother inlaws 5 touring I took power from the torch charging point in the glove box with its own inline fuse. No battery drain no issues in use moved it 4 times since. Latest car is a 540d x drive Touring we used the power feed to the visor courtesy lamp 

Hope this helps

Dave

Morning Dave,

To be honest, was just thinking about that on my way into work this morning lol 

As was either gonna be that or trying to tap into the cigarette lighter socket at the bottom of the front centre console but that would involve taking a lot more of the trim and other parts off to get to easily so tapping into the back to the glovebox torch would make for a much cleaner fit 👍🏻

So will look into that over the weekend and keep you updated as to how it goes as I keep forgetting to take the cam down so it doesn't keep draining the battery.

Paul 

Afternoon,

As title says, I'm trying to hardwire my dashcam into the glovebox fuse board, now I need to piggyback off one of the 5 amp fuses but I can't seam to find a switched one 🤷🏻‍♂️ 

Has anyone done this and if so which fuse number have you used?

Currently got it piggybacked off fuse number 38 (cd changer) as thought that was a switched one but keep getting a battery drain message come up every now and then so am seeking help from the masses as can't seam to find the answer on Google 😞

Paul

2 hours ago, Greydog said:

Morning Paul

First do you have a tow bar fitted ? If you do then first check the connections at the trailer plug, check the PDC controller (there is a connector black I think that lets the control system know the trailer is connected) The last is a check on the LCM for faults so a code read will be required, while reading the fault codes you could turn off the trailer light check.

Dave

Morning Dave,

Thanks for the info 👍🏻

Checked the trailer electrics plug under the bumper and loads of water came out so I guess that's gonna be my issue 🙄 

Cleaned and dried the plug and covered the cover and connections with a good helping of silicone grease so hopefully that has solved my issue.

Thanks for your continued help in getting to know this beast of a car 

Paul 

Hi all,

Have just been out and am now getting this message come up everytime I use the indicators, (no trailer connected or any bulbs out)

Trailer Indicator Left

Trailer Indicator Right

can't find much info on where to look for a solution so anyone out there that's able to point me in the right direction 

Thanks in advance

Paul

Hi all,

Have just been out and am now getting this message come up everytime I use the indicators,

Trailer Indicator Left

Trailer Indicator Right

can't find much info on where to look for a solution so anyone out there that's able to point me in the right direction 

Thanks in advance

Paul 

2 hours ago, Greydog said:

Morning Paul

My brother inlaw is now on his 5th 5 series Touring (current is a 540d x drive) previous were 535d all ecu tuned from new. The last 535d and the current car are mid range Porsche killers 😈

The BMW bluetooth systems are limited on the number of phones that can be registered so if it;s memory is full it could drive you bonkers. 

Try this, on your phone turn on Bluetooth, in iDrive go to communication and in the sub menu phone (or could be new phone) and select. your phone and the car should find each other (something like BMW xxxx showing 0n both screens. OK you should be asked for a Pass Code (your Phones) so normally 0000 or 1234 click ok. then it will ask if you want to transfer contacts etc click yes job done. Well I think that's how it goes 🤣

Or you could call up You tube 😂

Hide your Licence and ENJOY, with that power and torque you you only need bluetooth to scream for you MUM

Dave

 

 

Nope, I give up 😞 can't get the !Removed! thing to work lol

3 minutes ago, Greydog said:

Morning Paul

My brother inlaw is now on his 5th 5 series Touring (current is a 540d x drive) previous were 535d all ecu tuned from new. The last 535d and the current car are mid range Porsche killers 😈

The BMW bluetooth systems are limited on the number of phones that can be registered so if it;s memory is full it could drive you bonkers. 

Try this, on your phone turn on Bluetooth, in iDrive go to communication and in the sub menu phone (or could be new phone) and select. your phone and the car should find each other (something like BMW xxxx showing 0n both screens. OK you should be asked for a Pass Code (your Phones) so normally 0000 or 1234 click ok. then it will ask if you want to transfer contacts etc click yes job done. Well I think that's how it goes 🤣

Or you could call up You tube 😂

Hide your Licence and ENJOY, with that power and torque you you only need bluetooth to scream for you MUM

Dave

 

 

Hi Dave,

Cheers for that 👍🏻 will definitely give that a go and fingers crossed you will have helped my smile get that little bit bigger while driving 😁 

Did find a factory reset tab but was a bit dubious about that in case I lost other functions of the system.

The thing is an absolute animal lol and the straight 6 sounds amazing so  not too fussed I I can't have my own Music in the car as am happy enough to listen to that engine all day long lol 😆😆

Paul 

36 minutes ago, Greydog said:

Morning Paul

Welcome to the Forum

The 535d is an awsome bit of kit I am sure it will give you plenty of SMILES per Gallon

Dave

Hi Dave,

Oh it's giving me plenty of smiles don't you worry 😁😁 

She came to me already mapped (374.3BHP AND 723Nm TORQUE) and with a few other upgrades so has more than twice the power of my old V70.

Just still trying to work out this idrive thing as have managed to work out how to get the radio on and tuned but can't for the life of me get my phone to connect to it either by WiFi or Bluetooth, 

I'm being a proper man here lol and I'm not resorting to Google to look for the instructions lol but after a week I'm about ready to hold up the white flag and admit defeat (hangs head in shame and holds up flag 😞🏳️)

Paul

Evening all,

As per title, just purchased a used 535d M sport after m trusty Volvo V70 D5 died, thought that was a lovely car til I got in the beamer 😍😍 oh my god, why haven't I had one of these before!!! 

The car came with bags of service history and all past MOTs have been clean with only tyre and bulb related advisories so I'm well happy with her and she goes like S### of a shovel lol 😆😆

Is there anything that I should be keeping an eye out on a car of this age?

Thanks in advance a newly converted BMW owner

Paul