The tyre kickers is easily solved by qualifying your buyer and we have had a few bmws from them as well as all our servicing. Think this it's poor form imv. Other marques manage it and largely why we went the Porsche route in the end. Size wasn't a consideration, we'd looked at both cayenne as well ...

After 13 years of owning X5s in a couple of guises E53 4.4 V8, then the E70-FL 4.0D MSport it's a farewell to X5 for us. The 4.4 will be remembered for never putting a foot wrong, the E70 has being a welcome upgrade but plagued by corroding alloys, electrical gremlins and the odd oil problem. Mrs S ...

Thanks folks, the wonders of checking back on emails shows it was actually May 2013 when we raised this first time and think they were replaced in June not 2012 from BMW service pov. Have the emails from them confirming this, so it amounts to less than 2yrs since replaced. Does anyone know if BMW ...

Argh, so the already replaced alloys (had them first replaced in 2012) on the X5 have gone and done the white worm tricks again. Car is now about to hit 4yrs old and on extended BMW warranty, dealers referred this to BMW and they have offered a goodwill gesture. The painful piece is while BMW pay 70 ...

Thanks guys - will see how we get on with service team tomorrow. For the RFTs will ask where exactly as we may go repair route given how new the tyres are and that we haven't used them much since TPM tripped, BMW assist did say it would be unlikely all 4 showed yellow that we had a puncture - more ...

40d was in for bunch of work : (1) High battery drain - they recharging battery overnight - asked them to check the bulletin for this... which they assured they would do if the bosch battery tester throws up error on test in the morning. Have a feeling that is their speak of kicking can down the ...

wee update - meant to post this ages ago. Had both rears that this happened to replaced under warranty by BMW - I think we can call that a result ! brand new spanky wheels

Folks, Been a while since I posted here but thought I'd share a link to a thread on PH - stay safe out there - No fix from BMW yet... http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=72&t=1121571&mid=219458&i=820&nmt=New+BMW%27s+getting+stolen+using+blank+BMW+keys&mid=219458

Thanks Minda let me know if you see same - will let you know the dealers say

Hey guys Our 20" alloys seem to be losing lacquer around the central hub (centre insert area) - before I go trooping off to stealers anyone else had this ? Btw car is a Nov 10 !!! Didn't expect this Seems to be both rears only http://tapatalk.com/mu/5ea8bc32-87ae-4649.jpg http://tapatalk.com/mu ...

Ahh yes - excuse the iphone pics - more to follow

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The Money Shot - nice ass

The german metal at our house received a new addition - 996 turbo )) loving it though mrs p has taken control of the x5 leaving the 5 series unloved

Ok so seeing as the conditions aren't getting any better up here I've been back to the search for winters; coming up blank and then found this : http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... _511wt_907 Any thoughts on these ? Will they fit the M-Sport ? Also Been bidding on E70 alloys on fleacebay ...

[quote=""MJim""] I'm interested in the comfort access that I see you went for. A problem we've had a couple of times with our current car is it being unlocked from inside the house, we think either inadvertantly by us in handling the remote or our son playing with it. I don't know if the standard ...

[quote=""x555""]Still haven't seen any snow yet down here thank god .....it looks pretty but it's arpita when it comes :roll: Mind you still get the mupets seeing snow on the telly/news and going mad with there panic buying of 30 loafs for the freezer :rofl:[/quote] We've had a lot up here, think ...