Today the car is going for it's MOT, cause it's been SORN'd the past two years.
Either way it time to say goodbye to her as she'll be going up for sale ,
I've had her for 13-years now and not using her at all...............

Purchased an evil-bay top notch under a tenner new connector plug, totally isolated the car, wired in the new plug, thought sod-it, the door card is going back on irrespective if it works or not, reconnected the battery, let my topdon do it's stuff, turned ignition off for +10 seconds, turned it ...

Thanks to all wo have supplied me with information
Greatly appreciated

Hi All
Can anyone give me a solution to fix this fault.
Annoyingly whilst sorting the car (Betsy) out for an mot and just doing the odd job around it I put the passengers front door window down and then it wouldn't go back up. Now if I had googled it it would of taken me a matter of minutes to get ...

Greydog wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 8:11 am Last evening I spoke with my neighbour who has iCarsoft
It will indeed activate the ABS Pump we plugged it in and tried it on his 330i and my X5 E70
It is iCarsoft V2 for BMW so specific, hope this is of some use

Cheers Greydog it's very much appreciated
Rich

Hi, from what you have mentioned the BMW 1.4.0 is the most cost effective and cheapest tool to get the ABS bleeding done on my vehicle. Although this unit, I assume will only carry out the diagnostics etc on BMW vehicles only, is this correct?
I am interested in the BMW 1.4.0 because of how cheap ...

Hi all, can anyone recommend the most suitable diagnostic scanner that will perform the ABS Bleeding sequence on the X5 e53 4.6is please?
Many thanks to all that contribute, it's greatly appreciated
Cheers
Rich

I only do about 100- miles or so in her a year, and even left her parked up the last 12-month, but she's very comfortable, fun to drive with that 4.6 m62 engine, and if I were to get rid, I'll easily have to put my hand in my pocket for +25k just for it to be another, as my wife keeps telling me ...

No probs many thanks for having a look about for me, I found the part in the side cubby-hole so I think it was surplus to requirements.
Going to get the old girl mot'd next week, I've had her 12yrs now and she's done 96500-ish , and now in a deelemer what to do with her, I don't know whether to get ...

it might be one of two connectors that would be used if you had adjustable rear seats fitted. if it is, there should be a matching one on the other side of the back seat. e53s were built with complete looms (unlike all subsequent models) which made adding options a breeze.

there might be a thread ...

Hi all, starter for 10...... lol
After repair to base of the O/S rear boot floor back well I cannot locate the adjacent plug to fit the one shown in the photo, yeah should of taken a photo or two, but we all have to live and learn, or my case live, learn, totally forget (very bad memory). :headbang ...

Cheers all for the input
Marti, great idea, will try this out once the evil-bay £11 one drops out, I'd say give it 6mths only because that door barely gets used lol

Does anyone know of a successful repair to reinstate the two locking lugs to the external door handle, as shown in photo.
I know you can get oem from £40 +p&p primer finish or painted to paint code around £160 +p&p, but if there's a fix worth trying I'd like to repair this existing part as it's a ...

thanks very much, from what I'm reading from the chart is the following correct?