Morning all I have a few issues that I want to get sorted before they get worse 1) I have a slight wheel shimmy at about 50mph up to about 75mph then disappears after that, I have had the wheels balanced, tyres checked and the whole car on a 4 wheel alignment and new front discs and pads but it has ...

Hi

How many people ended up going to Gaydon?
I went and took my son, only saw about 5 X5 one being mine, lots of M3, was a good day, thought the trade stands were pretty poor

Cheers Turks

Was gonna get Jason to do it at some point as I want the gearbox and DME flashed at the same time

Ollie

Sorry car and exhausts are filthy, but you get the idea, car will be cleaned for BMW festival

Hi Guys Just thought I would give you an update on the exhaust front, today I went to my mates garage and had the back boxes fitted, a little bit of fettling and they went on no problem, they mount in exactly the same places, to X5Sport the bores of the pipes looked the same but actually measuring t...

Oh right got ya!
A mate of mine is an MOT tester and said it would be fine, but will double double check!
Thanks for the heads up

What's illegal?

I am going to measure the diameter of the pipes later, then I should know for certain as just looking at the pipes they seem the same size but it could be a slight a difference in size, if I decide to get them fitted then I will speak to Jason to get the car remapped to take the exhausts into accoun...

Oh really? It's only the rear box sections I will be using, having put the pipes up together they looked the same diameter, but I could be wrong, better get the tape measure out! If I put them on and then get the car remapped, would I be ok? Or am I going to kill my turbo prematurely?

Cheers

Ollie

There is no real point at all! Haha! But I have the exhaust off a 4.8is sitting in my garage that I didn't have to pay for and like the looks of the exhausts coming out the bumper in the 4.8, so it's really just for visual purposes! My diesel is never gonna make that awesome V8 rumble

Ollie

Hi

Is it possible to fit the rear boxes from a 4.8is to the 3.0d?
Has anyone done this? Looking at real oem there is only seems a very slight difference in the mid section to join them up so maybe some adaption?

Cheers

Ollie

Hi, sorry don't have any lights for sale, but just a quick one to say my rear lights went really dull and Matt looking on my facelift, I got a kit from halfords by Meguiars! Only took the use of a drill and about 30mins of my time and they came out as good as new, so might be an option if you can't ...

Hi I recently had exact same problem and actually took the car in to the garage thinking it was gearbox/transfer case related or a wheel bearing, the noise would change under different loads and speed. mine was resolved by changing to star rated tyres, bizarre but true and not a single noise since, ...

That was going to be my plan, may send them off to have all the bits swapped over but retain all the guys off the 3.0d cluster
See what some companies say

Ollie

Cheers guys

I thought this might be the case, maybe a future project if I can get enough info from Google!

Watch this space!!