Cheers for the sanity check. Anyone know what the book time is to get it done? Best part of a day I’d imagine

Ha yeah ok, good point! Are these the symptoms of a transfer box fail or 99% likely the clutch? Need to get it sorted before it fails but don’t want to do the clutch and find it’s not that!

There is judder if I don’t give it quite enough revs which makes me think it is the clutch

Hi all, I have an odd sensation that’s been happening recently.

When accelerating on medium/hard throttle, there is a loudish drone at 2.5k rpm (sounds like it’s from the front).
Yesterday I when I accelerated from 2k (in 5th) I noticed the revs slide up the 2.5k. (Same drone noise)

Something is ...

Cheers - and dampers recommended? And are the non-sport ones any more comfortable than the sport?

Das 6 has been great for me..

I am yeah - very glad it wasn’t bad lacquer. I have a Das 6 v2 DA polisher. Very easy to use

Did a long drive in it this weekend. Found out:

- Bumpy on country lanes. Really bumpy.
- Vibration at about 60-65 upwards through the floor
- bounces forward and back when coming to a stop

Did the headlights. Not perfect but a million times better - I can actually see now

Before:

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After:

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Also gave the car a polish today. Lots of oxidisation and general wear on the paint. Jet wash, snow foam ...

3 more jobs completed:

- Interior swap mostly done (all the boot trim and door cards). Just a few bits of trim to do
- fixed the drivers door lock as the key was spinning. £7 Amazon fix
- fix the battery drain. Someone had wired in a DVD player and fm transmitter in behind the sat nav unit. Took it ...

Set myself the challenge of swapping the interiors of my X5s today. Started around 930, finished around 530.

Pulled the Dash out of both cars, installed a new blower in my green one, swapped the carpets, swapped the seats (mine now has heated front and rear seats). Got almost all of it done apart ...

I’ve seen that before with BMW.

Changed that and fitted the blanking plate (where someone had done the value end but bent the pipe up that half way along). Cleaned up the area which was covered in soot - hopefully that’s 1 problem sorted. Certainly seemed way more eager on the short drive today ...

Well the crank case vent was overdue a change. A 20k serviceable item apparently - doesn’t look like it’s been done any time recently.

FSR didn’t fix the heater. Next step is to check the control unit and feed to the blower

Cheers

10k deposit! This first owner must have been keen. They spec’d it well though - love Oxford green.

The other job I have is sorting the headlights - properly opaque

Hi all, I’ve been on here for some time but never officially said Hi

I bought an e53 4.8iS off someone here around 2 years. I still have it but between the garage who were fixing it going bust, moving house and having our second child, it was put on hold.

I subsequently bought a Range Rover L322 ...

I think 1b is exactly it! I’ll have a look in the morning.

Many thanks indeed. Where did you find the image?

Found that a previous owner had half done a EGR delete which had involved bending the pipe to block it!

All done properly but in order to do this I had to remove the air pipe which goes down near it. When putting back together I found this - I’m sure it wasn’t there before. Any ideas where it goes ...