If your original plates are black on the reverse side, screw the original plate on back to front and then stick your short plate on to it. Worth a try as it won't cost nowt

I would change the battery first if the 4x4 light only comes on when low voltage, or charging.
If it was a SAS fault it would come on no matter what charge was on in the battery.

The rear lights seal is a weak point on the E70 in early models, they upgraded the seals after a while, possibly worth looking at
And welcome to the forum

The rear lights seal is a weak point on the E70 in early models, they upgraded the seals after a while, possibly worth looking at
And welcome to the forum

My angel eye / halo/ front marker lights used to strobe on startup, this is normal with aftermarket LED  ( white ) front markers.
The bulb. Heck voltage is enough to light up the LED, but not the OEM halogen bulbs
Is it the front marker \ halo lights you mean or the dipped beam?

My old 07 3 series E93 CCC IDrive had the 8 buttons

[quote="A Blair"] Do you lose the mpg / timer / time reset with these units? [/quote] Having read your post earlier on in the thread it looks like your car was non factory nav and someone has fitted an aftermarket Chinese headunit in yours and put the original MID unit in the glovebox to r...

Cartronics repair them and Baris can upgrade them too, also repairs the Amps, maybe worth a call. You may be able to send it to them for Testing / Repair. See their Website A decent double din  headunit would be my choice,( not a Chinese one. ) Kenwood or Alpine ,  the MK4 BMW unit is prehistoric no...

[quote="Entwicklung34"] Horizon I appreciate your detailed respinse there, thank you. Sounds like a fairly involved job, but doable with some patience. I have never encountered a water pipe manifold before, unless I have and never knew what it was called ha. Thanks for the price info... i'...

[quote="Moley"] Just thought I'd mention that myself and a mate have started to wrap the interior trim on the X5. The standard trim was silver and it had lots of scratches and marks.  I decided on a nice grey carbon wrap. We have managed to do the front door trim without removing door pane...

If you have removed swirl flaps then you know how to remove the intake manifold , your halfway there. Once that's removed the glowplugs are accessible, loads and loads of penatrati ng fluid, then some more over a couple of hours, a 6 mm deep socket on a stubby racket, so you can feel of its going to...

[quote="Lincspoacher"] Started yesterday but quickly got louder, sounds like when a kid puts card in there bike spokes, its coming from the top of the drivers side front drive shaft under the centre cover [/quote As mentioned it could be the CV joint, but als the diff. The fact it is deter...

Probably glow plugs / glowplug controller, I changed both whilst in there as the inlet manifold has to come off, not a job for the faint hearted, and spray the glowplugs with penetrating fluid several times owner a couple of hours, using a full tin of WD40 or similar, as of you break a glowplug off ...

No glow plugs, no DPF regen, wonder if the DPF has been stripped out