Hi all, well the X5 has started knocking/ banging /creaking been into the garage and he said this: O/s/f lower front suspension inner arm bush split causing excessive movement same for the n/s/f N/s and o/s rear lower suspension inner arm bushes split Can you just replace the bushes or does this ...

Haven't had time to have the battery tested yet due to work but it has been cranking fine and starting up till this morning where it was a little colder than the other days.. Took abit of cranking (lazy) then fired up but with a big puff of white smoke took the little lad to rugby can out cranked ...

Thanks for that, I'm going to go and have the battery tested before paying out for a new one. And work my way through stuff

Thanks for the reply, well green flag came out to it and jumped it off there boost pack and fired up straight away. He said there doesn't seem to be a problem with th glow plugs as it didn't try and struggle to start. He thinks it's just a bad battery that needs replacing But now since this I drove ...

Oh well could very well be battery too came to it this morning turned over a couple times then stop then again then click click click

Nice long walk to work for me 

Is there any specific way of testing the glow plugs?

Hi all, so since buying the X5 couple weeks ago I've been hit with a few problems but battled through most of them and sorted... But... I noticed yesterday after work (10 hours) the car struggled to start turned over a couple times then fired up, did a trip to the shop on way home and it started ...

Thank you I will have a look for one of these

Hi all I'm looking into getting my own software to read faults etc...

However there are many on eBay but which is the best one or do you people recommend?

Thanks

Hi just an update today I had a look at the car, stripped out the air filter housing and engine cover to see if there was anything noticeable ie lose connection split pipe, but couldn't see anything any ways put it all back together and now it's goes like a rocket? Don't know what I've done but it's ...

I will try that out and hopefully find something put it on the list for many problems to sort out

Hi all just noticed this morning after having a lot of rain over night, a slight drip from the lights above the centre console? It's a non sunroof model so where could the water be getting in? There is nothing noticeable either

Thank you for the reply, yeh I can't understand why it's had the turbo done twice, but I will look for that I'm pretty handy with tools to a certain extent haha.

Hi all, just bought myself a 2003 X5 3.0d and thought I would join this site as it seems to be full of helpful people Anyways, the car has covered 115k will full history for some reason it had a new turbo at 55k and another one at 113k?? Problem with it is, it's very flat at set off and low speeds ...