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- Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:50 am
- Forum: General X5 Forum (E53 1st-gen, 2000-2006)
- Topic: Opinions on dash removal
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1171
Opinions on dash removal
Very impressive, and well done, you deserve a few beers after that, it’s not something I think I would tackle without an expert very close buy, think I’ll keep the warranty going on my F15
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:50 pm
- Forum: General X5 Forum (G05 4th-gen, 2018+)
- Topic: Tracker options new X5 ?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 980
Tracker options new X5 ?
I had the Trackstar cat 5 with immobilisation fitted to my X5 in late 2018, it runs on 4G. At the time the sales guy provided me with the details so I could arrange to get it installed by the engineer who fits them for BMW, so had same device fitted, at a lower price as not branded or sold by BMW, i...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:47 am
- Forum: Forum Discussion
- Topic: Where is everybody?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2249
Where is everybody?
Same here in the nearly six years I have had my x5 the only real problem was the failure of the front radar on the ADAS, support here helped and saved me attempting to look into, new radar unit fitted, plus software updates part alone was ov £2k, fortunately and again advise from this site was don’t...
- Mon Dec 25, 2023 6:19 pm
- Forum: The lounge
- Topic: Happy Christmas
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11705
Happy Christmas
Merry Christmas to everyone and thanks for your assistance and help over the years
- Thu Dec 07, 2023 1:42 pm
- Forum: General X5 Forum (F15 3rd-gen, 2014+)
- Topic: First real fault problem in 5 years!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 50279
First real fault problem in 5 years!
Final update - hopefully New software patch received by dealer from Germany yesterday upload to vehicle radar calibrated and all good, collected car yesterday evening after 15 days. Very glad to have kept the extended warranty going on the car as the radar unit alone was over £2400 and that’s withou...
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 10:29 am
- Forum: General X5 Forum (F15 3rd-gen, 2014+)
- Topic: First real fault problem in 5 years!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 50279
First real fault problem in 5 years!
Update New front radar fitted on 24th November however dealer was unable to get new software to load, so car still with them. BMW Germany involved and dealer is still waiting for the software patch to arrive so they can activate, program and calibrate the new radar unit. In the meantime I have a nic...
- Thu Nov 23, 2023 4:23 pm
- Forum: General X5 Forum (F15 3rd-gen, 2014+)
- Topic: First real fault problem in 5 years!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 50279
First real fault problem in 5 years!
Further update From mid October, until early last week car was fine no issues and everything worked as it should. I put it down to a low battery. However early last week it started faulting again, so booked it in with dealer and after diagnosis, it’s the front radar unit that’s faulty. A new one is ...
- Tue Nov 14, 2023 5:14 pm
- Forum: General car-related discussion
- Topic: Code reader for X5 diagnostics
- Replies: 14
- Views: 32875
Code reader for X5 diagnostics
Another update, car went into dealership for front brake pads and discs as suggested by indi, but pleasantly surprised to find it only needed new pads as the discs are still ok for another set of pads after the heath checks. The battery was up at 86% after a few minutes in dealership car park, so ho...
- Tue Nov 14, 2023 5:02 pm
- Forum: General X5 Forum (F15 3rd-gen, 2014+)
- Topic: Which Oil do you guys use? and your service interval
- Replies: 11
- Views: 29878
Which Oil do you guys use? and your service interval
Change the oil and filter in my X5 every year and have done every year since I bought it with 18 miles (yes eighteen) on the clock, well the dealer or bmw indi does, they use the oil BMW recommends for the car. Mainly dealer as his prices are generally the same or less than the dealer! The car has n...
- Mon Nov 13, 2023 1:48 pm
- Forum: General car-related discussion
- Topic: Code reader for X5 diagnostics
- Replies: 14
- Views: 32875
Code reader for X5 diagnostics
Well after another 24 hours on the ctek , it’s up to 76%, but driving over to dealership tomorrow to have front discs and pads replaced, so will ask them for a price for a new battery, if it’s sensible then I’ll get them to check it and replace it, if not I’ll order one from Tanya and fit myself usi...
- Sat Nov 11, 2023 7:06 pm
- Forum: General car-related discussion
- Topic: Code reader for X5 diagnostics
- Replies: 14
- Views: 32875
Code reader for X5 diagnostics
Very true, but I know the price from Tanya, so it will be interesting to see what the dealer suggests, although to be fair they have been very good for the last 5 years
- Sat Nov 11, 2023 6:39 pm
- Forum: General car-related discussion
- Topic: Code reader for X5 diagnostics
- Replies: 14
- Views: 32875
Code reader for X5 diagnostics
Thanks I’ll see what it says tomorrow after 24 hours on charge m, but could well be time to change the battery, will ask dealer for a price but now that I have Beamerlink up and running might just get a battery from Tanya and fit it myself, will see what the dealership say on Tuesday whe it goes in ...
- Sat Nov 11, 2023 3:17 pm
- Forum: General car-related discussion
- Topic: Code reader for X5 diagnostics
- Replies: 14
- Views: 32875
Code reader for X5 diagnostics
Update on code reader Installed Bimmerlink for Android and used my existing dongle, it was very simple to set up and use, scanned for errors, a few came up but nothing to indicate any current issues with the ADAS system that I'd previously encountered. The biggest thing that showed up was that after...
- Tue Oct 31, 2023 5:35 am
- Forum: General car-related discussion
- Topic: Code reader for X5 diagnostics
- Replies: 14
- Views: 32875
Code reader for X5 diagnostics
Thanks for the information, I’ll have a look at these, but whilst rummaging in the garage yesterday came across an ODB adapter that I bought for a BMW motorcycle (used with Motoscan), a few years ago, it’s a OBDLink LX Bluetooth, and that looks like it is compatible with Bimmerlink, so that might be...
- Sun Oct 29, 2023 7:47 am
- Forum: General car-related discussion
- Topic: Code reader for X5 diagnostics
- Replies: 14
- Views: 32875
Code reader for X5 diagnostics
Hi Anyone suggest or recommend a decent code reader for diagnostics on a x5 f15, very unlikely to be wanting to do any coding, but think it would be useful to read and perhaps reset the error codes when the car pings up with the occasional message rather than take it to the dealer and pay their rate...