Estoril X5 D Sport

Am in Scotland but would travel down to the north east or west of England, no chance of coming further north I suppose? Stephen

Nice Tim hope you enjoy it! Stephen

Nobody said you did Dennis, and the post wasn't meant for you Dennis, but if you read Bretts first post he said both light were coming on intermitant, or did you miss that!! Glad your seeing to it Brett hope its nothing. Stephen

James its what I do for a living and honestly 2k will get you nothing but trouble, auctions are the best bet for your money but no warranties no test drive etc, my advice save a bit to around £3500 it will get you a facelift 53 plate sport manual but doing it this way will get you piece of mind, a good small dealer will give you a warranty fresh MOT and give it a small service but the galloping gunge will still be an issue, take a magnet and piece of tissue if the wings are full of filler its a cheap way to find out and then run a mile! Regards Stephen

Hi mate I have posted on a few of your threads and this is a long shot but worth asking as they were very few 840s in estoril blue around, the last one I sold was P723LSR is it yours? Regards Stephen

Nice I haven't seen an 840 Sport in years! Did you buy it in Guilford maybe 6 years ago? Stephen

Get a picture up, great cars sadly none up my way for a long time they didn't like the cold and salt in winter, fell apart in front of us!

45 in a week and still no sence, guess am like a good wine and still maturing!

Glad you took his advice mate, why not but an E60 530i, bomb proof in my experience, a 545 or 550 SE or Sport, auto gearboxes can throw there guts at high miles but manuals are brilliant, cheap as chips as few people want them, but hard to find as not many sold when new, a 550 Sport can be found for £10k for the best out there and as little £5k for a 545 SE, as close as you can get to an M5 for little money, buy the best you can afford with a fully stamped service book, great fun and smile on your face motoring. Regards Stephen

Wow what crap advice!! You are choosing to ignore two warning lights (coolant level and oil level or oil pressure dependant whether the light is amber or red?) and that it looses coolant in and around 20 miles, if you take Dennis advice then you deserve all that will happen! The least you can do is have the coolant system pressure tested, if it turns out to be a quids worth of hose clip or rubbed through hose pipe it really is worth doing, if all turns out well then change the oil and filter its disgusting. Regards Stephen

Hi Caroline this is a long shot that you get this post as the thread is now 2 month old but I have seen this problem before, sold a E90 320d to a guy and he was back time and again with the same issues as you and just couldn't get to the bottom of it. Most diesels get run on supermarket rubbish diesel and never really get a good hard run often and mostly just potter around cities, short journeys etc and the dpf filter never gets a chance to carry out a full regen, they have to get massively hot, manifolds just get clogged with debris, diesel is just a filthy fuel. Carry out the above advice that you have received, get the fault codes cleared then fill it with good branded fuel, find a motorway keep the revs above 2500 rpm and go for a drive 100 miles round trip, when I did this to the 320d I could see the car do the regen process on the road, the crap that was leaving the exhaust wasn't pretty but it worked, the car was running smother more responsive etc, 4 months passed and back the guy came, codes were cleared told him what to do and that has been more that a year now, he just makes a point of doing a journey every 6 weeks or so. Hope this helps or you have maybe just got fed up and sold it. Regards Stephen

Have a problem with an M3 S54 engine, car put on the management light with a slight misfire on cylinder 6 after doing all the easy usual stuff did a compression test cylinders 1-4 all fine but cylinder 5 40psi and cylinder 6 nothing whatsoever, carried out the test again with 5 and 6 plugs removed and you could hear it blowing through the cylinders, I am assuming that the piece of gasket is stuck in the valve of number 6. I would like to hear from anyone that that has done the job before regarding dos and donts pitfalls etc and also am struggling to find the timing tool required for the S54 lump, it can be sourced in America at around £400 but I guess I will never need it again so any tool hire companys that I can rent it from would be useful info also. Regards Stephen

Steve don't do it mate, everything is madly expensive! I had a 735 sport, a water cooled alltenator £1600, a fuel tank £1400 and enough electrical problems to turn me grey and I pampered it and looked for ages to find the best I could after a year it had to go! Regards Stephen

Hi Chris I had a 335 with same problem and it had covered only 26k, the turbos are made by Mitsubishi and are a bit naff, loads of stuff on Bimmerforums about this, contact Adam at Turbo Development and Engineering 0208 560392 he keeps them on the shelve and does an exchange policy, £600 I think I was plus my old turbos. Regards Stephen

No problem SHY7G. E36-Steve it really could be anything but you have to get the panel off first, I can only really comment on my past experience on E53 models, sorry mate don't know much about the E36. Stephen

Hi SHY7G, we had an E53 for sale and one day it was fine the next it was the same as yours, we have a paintless dent removal guy that does work for us and he has a bag of rods and all kinds of odd stuff in his bag to ply his trade, he was able to get a thin piece of steel down between the glass and door skin and was able to hook a connecting rod in the door and gave it a good tug and by luck it opened, we got the panel stripped off the door and found everything to be corroded, it was just a case of cleaning everything up and a whole load of WD40 and all was fine, hope this helps. Stephen

If its just dark smoke for a short period whilst under heavy load and full throttle and disappears at the next upshift its normal, its just clearing its self out, I have seen many of them do this after a period of town running, mine does the same. Wouldn't be putting that bypass on if it was me, they don't like getting mucked around with and the blanking plates are for the inlet manifold, the blanking plates take the place of the swirl flaps once they have been removed,, the 4 cylinder diesel engines suffer very badly from swallowing swirl flaps but your 6 cylinder unit is a harder beast but it has happened, I had an E60 530d that started to make a slight noise so I took the manifold off and a swirl flap came off in my hand with a slight tug but it had done over 160k, if yours were to swallow a swirl flap its a major disaster and really expensive to sort, when I bought my current one the previous owner had gotten a new manifold fitted just in case so has saved me the worry or bother, and that to would be my advice to you if its done a few miles. Stephen

If you wish to check if your X5 has Bluetooth from the factory, go into the boot and pull down the cover on the left hand side, where the CD loader or nav unit would be Take off the side trim and get way down in the depths to see if you have a Bluetooth module, if you do then take it out (a bit of a fiddle) and your blue tooth passkey will be on a sticker (4 digits) then just follow the instructions in the telephone handbook, if you haven't got one its around £15 from any BMW parts department, will need to be ordered though, hope this helps.

Hi Dave am new here also but can maybe help with an answer. It sounds like you just got your X5 so its still understanding its new owner and the gearbox is still learning your driving style, mine was the same for around a 1000 miles but got a lot smoother after that, if it still continues to do so then maybe a software update would help.