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www.realoem.com will give all options for your model just put the last 7 digits of your Vin in the search box Good Luck

Morning Robert Check on www.realoem.com put the last 7 digits of your Vin in the search box and it will bring up all the parts including options for your car. In the lighting section you should see all components. The cross reference with www.newtis.com a BMW workshop manual site to see how they do it? Then check for any online video help I am not sure if there would be any clever coding involved though, good luck with the upgrade

Morning Ian and Welcome to the Forum I believe from what I have read the monitor is just that a monitor so should be inter changeable, I would search the net to look for video help. Good luck with the upgrade let us know how it goes

Welcome to the Forum Christopher Nice choice a stonking motor Enjoy

Morning Peter and Welcome Have you tried checking the plugs and coil packs also check the loom to the coil packs in case it is worn somewhere and shorting. A code reader will indicate which cylinder is misfiring. Simple things first do you know when the plugs were last changed? You should have hotter plugs for LPG I would get a set and change the plugs , if the misfire persists I would suspect a coil pack swap the coil from the cylinder with the misfire for one of the others if the misfire moves then you know which is the culprit Hope this helps Dave

Welcome Jon Have a look at www.realoem.com put the last 7 digits of your vin in the search box and you will have a list of parts and part numbers that you can then use when buying parts also look a www.newtis.com it is a BMW technical information/service information site (same as BMW Dealers use) That should give all the information you need to work through and sort your issue. I am not a diesel driver but have a son who is (Toyota) is the smoke after idle? or at start up? With his he had a leaky injector and when hot and left to idle it would smoke like a chimney Dave

Morning Dennis Welcome to the Forum Nice choice of car, the seat is fixed to the car floor by 4 bolts. I would look at getting a set of spacers made up (depending on how much you need it raised) if not much some washers maybe? If say 2" then spacers and longer bolts are the simplest way.then the car can be returned to standard when selling Dave

Morning John If you have no leaks and coolant at the correct level it should be fine if your concerned you can get thermostats that open at 88 deg. Sometimes when we have had to work on the car and have parts replaced we suffer that horrible uncertainty until we trust it again (been there) Try and enjoy the trip Dave

Come on Rod Do you really think BMW would make it that easy?? Then again why not?? Have you looked at www.realoem.com put the last 7 digits of your Vin in the search box and it will bring up your model, if you haven't used the site before it is a BMW part list which will show all part numbers available for your car. Once you have part numbers you can look at www.newtis.com you can see the BMW workshop instructions and see how it fits together and whether or not the parts are interchangeable. Hope this helps Dave

Morning John Welcome to the Forum, the gauge will move but temperature will be at boiling or above (it's under pressure) to make it happen. You have two temp sensors (if memory serves) plus one linked to the aux/AC fan the gauge takes an average I was once told by a BMW Master Tech. So in answer to your question gauge reading half way is normal mine is exactly the same when I checked with an infra red thermometer on the hose 94 deg C Dave

Welcome Alan First when you say "no heat" I assume you are referring to in the car ? Some checks I would make are (1) is the coolant level correct and no leaks (2) can you adjust the fan speed inside the car (3) check all fuses In the engine bay is a coolant valve (normally passenger side inner wing) if these fail no flow to the heater, also if the FSR (Final Stage Resistor) fails you will have no heat in the cabin plus no fan. both are fiddly not difficult to change. the sender may be the culprit for the gauge not working. Try looking at www.realoem put in the last 7 digits of your Vin in the search box it will bring up your model and all the part numbers, also check www.newtis.info a BMW repair shop information site you will get repair/replacement information there. Hope this helps Dave

Morning Ruben My 10 peneth for what it's worth 2B68 Air mass flow, plausibility. This fault reading can be caused by a dirty (oily) Mass Airflow unit or a old clogged air filter check and clean/replace. I would start with the simple filter change.(Would I think cause random misfire and lack of power) 2FEF Thermal oil level sensor Fairly common fault caused by a number of things Dirty connector or sensor failure (normally just a recorded fault no lights on the dash) 2775 Combustion misfire, cylinder 3 As cylinder 3 is nominated as the culprit Spark plug failure, coil pack failure are the suspects in my opinion. I would start by checking the loom to the connector at the coil pack, it's not unknown for them to chafe and short. If the loom is OK then simplest is the coil pack swap it to one of the other cylinders if the misfire moves that's your fault. If the misfire stays at cylinder 3 it will most likely be the spark plug.. Hope this helps Dave

Welcome to the Forum Alan

Always a tough call I've made it twice with the X5 4.6is both times came down on the side of the old girl. Only just over 800 ever registered in the UK only 400 odd left so who knows I may have a future classic?? If you spent £3k you end up with a car you know and understand that may even increase in value, if you traded it plus £3k would you get a better car ?? Like I say tough call Trevor where are you, you are the Z3 man Dave

Morning Jordan Updating your TV tuner is plug n play. The first method is a search on that well known auction site should get some results but an original Digital tuner will be in the £200+ bracket. Advantage is it will all be controlled from the OEM head unit. The second method is by a Digital TV Tuner (set top box type) and Audio TV SOT lead, with this method its a bit more work to fit as you will have run some cables as you will need to use a remote to tune the TV channels but they work really well. I would look at www.realoem.com search your model and you will find the part number for the digital tv tuner these were common across a lot of BMW models with ibus. As I say not difficult just fiddly Dave

Morning Patrick If your Warranty is a BMW AUC warranty I would talk to your service manager and explain the situation push and as they replaced alloys yet clearly didn't check anything else?? If your Warranty is by other's (warranty Direct or similar) I would ask your friendly garage to talk to them on your behalf, garages do better than us. I am attaching a page from the BMW parts catalogue that shows an exploded drawing of your rear suspension (one side) item 11 is the lower front arm of the rear suspension, if that makes sense to you, it could be slightly bent or the bush at damaged or worn prematurely due to being twisted slightly. That would give the out of alignment reading easily. I would think the arm is in the order of £30 to £50 plus fitting at your friendly garage. As a comparison a full rear suspension replacement kit for both sides of my X5 was £250 plus 4 hrs work for myself and one of my sons (younger and bendier) then £100 for alignment (rear tyres are £250 a side for mine so worth the effort) I am a bit OCD (well a lot) when it comes to the grubby bits underneath that make my car go where I point it and stop it when I need to so I would make it all as original settings. I hope this is a help Dave RealOEM.com - Online BMW Parts Catalog.pdf

Morning Patrick Thanks for posting the printout Looking at those readings you should be feeling a difference as well as having reduced tyre wear probably get some improvement in MPG as well. Following your comment that the car was hit on the rear and the fact they cant get full adjustment I would seriously consider a suspension rebuild as something is either badly worn or damaged. The job is not expensive and is a DIY task if you feel up to it the results will make your car drive like new again, Good that it is almost sorted Dave

I don't know if there are differences in the set up between the two models, in reality I wouldn't think there is much. I have alignment checked annually at service and the last time I noticed the print out said E70 mine is E53 but checking settings against the previous year there was 1/2 deg on camber at the rear difference. Annual service will be due again next month and I have no noticeably odd tyre wear in 11k so seems OK. Lets hope this fixes or at worst reduces your wear to a manageable level, thanks for the update it's useful information for others looking for ideas to cure similar issues

Welcome to the Forum Stephen Looks really good ENJOY Dave

Welcome to the Forum John Here's to many "smiles" of trouble free motoring Dave

5.2 ltrs is the BMW recommendation however they do say that the N47 engine oil level should be checked dynamically with the engine running through the on-board system and when static by the dip stick. This is from the Bently Manua lBMW F30 Oil.pdfBMW F30 Oil.pdf

Hi Patrick As you have the BMW Warranty I would start there. I would question there Service Manager to gain his opinion as to why your rear tyres should be wearing so far ahead of the fronts. I accept that the fronts don't do quite as much work but not 50% less, on a rear drive only yes but with X-drive it shouldn't happen. Also certainly your suspension bushes should be OK at 26k (though no guarantee on there not being a bad batch about?) even my 2+ton X5 makes them last 80k and I also tow a horse trailer. So back to either a different compound or alignment being out by possible pot hole damage. 4 wheel alignment machines are great these days either would do my BMW Independent has Hunter which is why I mentioned it. I use him for annual service to keep the book stamped and for jobs like the alignment that I don't have the tools to do myself. I have asked my neighbour if they have any tyre wear statistics and will report back if he can find anything (He is BMW UK) Regards Dave

Morning Patrick Unfortunately BMW Main Dealers (as do many other Marques Dealers) tend to vary massively when it comes to good old fashioned customer service, sadly most seem to think it means a comfy seat piped music and a free coffee!! The work shop tends to be totally reliant on diagnostics and actually never repair anything they just change parts at the customers cost. Service staff will look down their nose and tell you fitting a "non BMW" part will invalidate warranties and could cause damage to your car!! They probably don't realize that over 80% of the car is components from outside manufacturers freely available on the open market at a lot less money its just not in a BMW box. Someone has to pay for the coffee I would imagine the response will be along the lines of "it was the opinion of our skilled technicians sir, of course if sir wishes to take the risk" ? All our parts are specific to BMW after market parts won't be of the same standard!! Pagid and Brembo (both have been and are OEM suppliers) both cheaper from the after market and can be brought using a BMW part number from the likes of Euro Car Parts often with discount as can many other parts. With the tyres most odd, a possibility could be a change of compound by Goodyear? Clutching at straws a bit here are the tyres actually star marked?. My neighbour has an X-drive 440 coupe as a company car at the moment (they change his car every 30k) same size tyres as yours and he does drive it hard 18k and the wear front and rear is pretty much identical as it should be with X-drive. If it isn't suspension wear/setup compound is my only thought. Dave

Hi Patrick All the x drive cars are sensitive to tyre rolling circumference though I am led to believe by my neighbour (a senior BMW employee) that the latest generation are far more tolerant. Having said that from my own knowledge BMW are no worse than Mercedes and VW Audi with their need for matched tyres hence BMW recommending * marked tyres to avoid transmission wind up and possible damage. Firstly is your set up staggered (wider rear rims) or square (same size at each corner)? If it is staggered then using the correct sized and * marked tyres is more critical, as an example when I purchased my X5 it had Michelin Diamaris fitted, fronts were fine but rears were wearing on the inside edges the selling garage replaced them with Dunlops of the correct size. After having the car a week I noticed when reversing of the drive with some lock on there was a shuddering. I had read about wind up so put a chalk mark on the bottom of the front and rear tyres then rolled the car one revolution of the rear tyre the front chalk mark was about 20mm short of a full revolution scary as I had covered around 500 miles no wonder the transfer box was complaining.I had the rear suspension re-bushed and a 4 wheel alignment and had the selling garage replace the rears with Michelins and no further issues. I have since run non * marked tyres and providing they are within 5mm front to rear everything seems to have been OK (my car is X-drive but early !st gen with fixed 40/60 split). Cars running a square set up tend to have far fewer issues even with budget tyres as rolling circumferences will generally tend to be closer. Your car has full Xdrive variable split transfer box so even if you drive it like you have stolen it the transmission evens out torque across all tyres. With accelerated wear I would look closely at the rear bushes (bottom rose bush) and alignment, rear wear is normally toe in rather than camber though the two together will cause the inside edges to go fast. Find some one with a good 4 wheel alignment machine (hunter or similar) get the rear suspension bushes checked/changed (on the X5 they only last 60 to 80k) then a full alignment done if it is a square set up new rear tyres should cause little problem (though non runflats could) if your set up is like mine 20" 285 front 315 rear then stand the new tyre against the front and see what height difference there is Fingers crossed not more than 4 or 5mm. Sorry for the long winded post I hope it helps Dave

Tyre sizes look correct for the 19" staggered set up (wider rear) but are the tyres all the same make? Different makes may well have different rolling radius's BMW specified ^ (star marked tyres) mainly Michelin when your car was new. However as our cars get older cheaper tyres tend to get fitted. X drive cars don't handle different rolling radius front to rear so suffer transmission wind up which sadly if not addressed equals transfer case damage. Try making a small chalk mark on the front and rear tyres at the bottom roll the car forward until the rear chalk mark is at the bottom (1 revolution) the front should also be at the bottom. If the tyres are mismatched the chalk mark on the front wont be, each revolution the gap will increase to a point where the transfer case gives up trying to compensate and breaks (transmission windup). Just googled your fault code and from what I read it points to a stripped gear in the servo motor on the transfer case or servo motor failure a simple fix if your handy with spanners . I have attached a page from the BMW parts catalogue that may help item 12 is the servo motor. It took us about 4 hrs to remove repair and replace on the X3 so similar on the X5 I would guess, and we did it without a lift just ramps and a set of axle stands. My advice is don't drive it unless you have pulled the fuse or unplugged the motor as you are risking further damage may be even to differential front or rear. Dave RealOEM.com - Online BMW Parts Catalog.pdf