Fianlly after a 'month Hartwell Ford' got the new LCU and even though everything was fine I let them fit it :-) might as well as they were paying! Everything is fine even though it took 2 days!! Will not be returning in a hurry. Also got updated firmware and 2012 maps for Sat Nav...wot say where ...

Yes very satisfying to have a success. Im heading down to London for New Year so lets hope it performs as well as it did to Birmingham drives like a dream. As far as problem returning it has a new lighting control module coming from BMW at the dealers expense so I will let them go ahead and fit it ...

Ok now the fun starts. Had a spare hour before driving to Birmingham this morning, went in the boot with my tester and pulled every fuse out one by one checked them and put them back, nothing wrong with any of them! But sat nav fired into life radio came on, alarm started working, revering lights ...

Hi X5S, Thanks for responding. Luckily it is a new purchase so they are under obligation to sort everything out before I am satisfied, so if it needs hew head unit etc then it's down to them. It came with 12 months MOT - no mention of warning lights! I do have 3 years 4 x 4 prestige warranty on it ...

Thanks for all your kind welcomes!! :-) I will sort some larger pics out when I get to see daylight! As far as the LPG goes - yes it starts on petrol until the engine gets to a set temperature the automatically switched to LPG. :-) Before i get that done I need to get a few teething problems sorted ...

HA HA Thanks
I tried to load a pic and it just put a load of gobeldy gook - so I added a tiny avatar one!

Good morning,

Just aquired (Last night) Nov 2004 X5 3.0i Petrol
Hoping to become a regular contributor to the forums.

I am getting it converted to LPG in January so will let everyone know how that goes.

have a good day all!!

Dunc