Looking for a replacment to our E53 and I'm in the market for a 7 seater E70, its to be the wifes car so I'd like to spend as little as possible, but will spend the right amount for the right car. I'd like something with less than 70k miles but obviously less as the car gets newer.

What you got?

Thanks chaps.

Economy looks better on paper so an interesting comment that its worse. that said I expect both will be better than our e53.

I'm looking to change our e53 and have a rough budget of late teens. I'm off to look at a 2008/9 e70 tomorrow that looks fair value and miles etc. It's a 3.0D m sport. My question is it worth spending a little more for a 35d twin turbo?

You saved a BT callous fee for that, they would definitely have charged you to fix it when TalkTalk finally passed it to them when they exhausted trouble shooting options.

Mine did that with an older firmware on a backup map disc. Maybe try a different disc from a trusted source.

I concur that drop links are most likely for your symptoms and as said, easy to do.
You'll probably end up replacing most of it though because as soon as you change a weakened part it exposes the next weak link in the chain. If you are paying someone to do it, it's probably better to get a quote to ...

We had one in the E53 in that area and it worked fine.

Mine looked ok but after taking it apart 3 were completely shot.....

2nd part is fine but the first one i'd pick a known brand like Febi.

What about the subframe bushes? I fitted MeyleHD, couldn't justify Poweflex.

The camber bushes can be bought from a Polish seller on ebay, mine came in a couple of days, Lemforder make them but they are very hard to do even with a press etc., you can buy the complete arm from BMW but its quite expensive. I think these is the least wearing bush from my car. The outers where ...

Just checked my purchased items as i bought the lower camber bolt about 8 weeks a go but the listing has been removed., it was £7.99 delivered for the bolt and washer/nut but I sure I payed around the same from BMW for the other one last year.

One of mine sheared under force but was then easy to ...

Buy new bolts, a few quid on ebay, drop the air out before you shear the old ones off changing them

Igot a printout a month or two back for my MOT.

I only have to add that I had flat battery issues but wasn't the starter.

TBH not sure exactly what is was but it seemed to get fixed when I sorted the supposedly unrelated occasionally rear brake light warnings and the poor radio reception so I believe bad/corroded connections causing the symptom.

Can you do the same for a 2001 5 series? I mate needs them done and the E53 tool doesn't fit.