The problem is the parts price was something i came across on eBay to get a ball park figure of someones assembled kit. I'm not saying these parts are any good, i was told at least 600 pounds in labour. then theres the issue that f its not the cam chain guides and it is actually the van unit it ...

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Even I'm gutted to hear that this 84k machine may end up getting sold in bits. Such a pity cos it could probably be fixed for under £400 if you didn't count labour.
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Unfortunately i have been told around £1300 for parts for guides? am i missing something here?

As much as I love the car I think this time it's just too much to spend repairing for me.  Will put her up for sale and hope someone with the skill and time purchases her and brings her back to life. Gutted.

does anybody think it would be worth while trying a replacement vanos solenoid or changing both?  would this cause knock if they had failed.  also stalled at low revs on way to garage, but didn't drive too bad when above 1000rpm, assume slack taken up at this point.

Wife reported the car losing power and almost stalling in the morning, i drove in the evening and was fine, this happened on two occasions. last time she told me about it i had a drive up to the petrol station and while sat in the cue, a extremely loud knocking began to come from the front end ...

disc changer should have power when the ignition is turned off, i take it the tray won't eject and thats how your judging no power. mine got stuck sometime ago and gave the impression it was electrically dead, took the unit out of the car and removed the case screws, cleaned the old grease of the ...

will probably lean towards the cautious side, where its parked would need moving under its own power so would still be driving it to a trailerable location. Dan, makes sense that it would fail "safe" in a sense, but i have physically removed the abs module form the abs pump exposing parts of it ...

I have recently sent my ABS ECU Module off for a warranty refurb as it failed a year after being fixed (try light fault). Anyway my car is sat outside and i have been afraid to run it with the module removed exposing the pots where the electronic board usually plugs in. I have some work that ...

hi all, having problems again with my abs module a year later after being refurbished, it has a lifetime warranty on it by the refurb the company. i would like to check what codes i am receiving on mycar but have lost the software disc that came with my scanning tool, cant find anywhere to download ...

I am also suffering with my back window wiper blade not making contact in all places, just ordered a rear E70 one from StorminMike's link above, £22.60 delivered. 

i lost mine and realised on the day of a tyre change on a booked in black circles job. Went to my local BMW dealer, lincoln, and they tried there master set on my wheel nuts, be watchful as about three roughly fit on mine due to how close they are. it cost me £6.50 for a new key, i took a picture on ...

could be a dodgy ABS/DSC Module?

I am also interested in updating my headlights, and similarly a part of my headlight has become detached internally.

Abs module now refitted and re MOT'd this afternoon. All is well and I am back in my car again, I have missed her over the past week.  I have been driving my wife's Astra and so glad to be back in the X5.  We need to get rid of the Astra and buy a decent second car. Maybe another X5!

Received word from ECUTesting.com today that the module is faulty and repairable, which in a weird way is good news, at least the location of the fault has been determined. Should be in the post at the end of today and hopfully back in my car tomorrow. £240 for test, repair and postal, seems fairly ...