I dont have an electric charger nor will i be installing one in our current property. We intend to move in the next 2yrs so will have to make do with flinging a 13amp plug out of the landing window unless I get an electrician to install a plug outside. I have about £18k cash to put into another car. ...

I was thinking of buying an early i3 (year 2024/15) prices are around £7-£8k. I don’t drive daily nowadays and probably won’t do more than 20miles weekly at most dropping kids to school. I’m fully keen on the doors but the driver seat are a good position off the ground making entry and exit easy on t ...

i plugged the battery back in this afternoon after charging and the final stage unit came right on without keys in the ignition. So looks like the culprit of the full drain is the cheap hedge hog unit I purchased few months back from ebay. It must have just packed up on friday after a drive. It’s a s ...

I have just taken the battery out of the car, plugged in the CTek charger to it and I’m not getting any error from the charger. I’ll give them it a couple hours to charge and see what happens

I’m assuming to jumpstart an X5 I would need a car with similar capacity? Mrs has a Peugeot 3008 which is not likely to have same capacity, would that work?.

It’s late in the day now, I suppose I could give breaker yards a call to see if they have similar specced used batteries for sale

Ailing battery on my e53 3.0d is finally dead as of this morning despite a short drive yesterday. My CTEK charger error lamp lights up and no charge going through. To cut long story short, I have already applied for the ULEZ scrappage scheme so meant to drop the car to recycler in next couple of ...

2.5mile round trip 2 or 3 times a week at about 25mph max. I do that now in the mrs car so I don't get ulez charge unless I am doing lots of driving for the day which I don't mind the ulez charge Saying that I have not had issues with my E53 3.0D With this type of driving since 2020 unless that is ...

Looks like I am going to have a big problem getting an X5 petrol car then

I just did a blanket search on autotrader for X5 between 2013 and 2016. There are only 4 petrols, 580 diesels and 32 hybrids.

Any other place to check?

I wish I had space for a proper lift. space, thats one thing we are not blessed with in the UK. Every time I go to the States and visit old friends, I always marvel at the size of their garages, big enough for 4 cars and oversized laundry machines. You have to be a footballer leaving in the sticks ...

I am thinking of letting go of my E53 3.0D for something slightly newer mainly due to ulez charge. I thought about the E70 but most of the cars about are diesels which are not ULEZ compliant and I have heard so many stories about the Petrol versions of E70 having los of issues. Now I am considering ...

This forum has helped me out a lot since buying my E53 back in 2008. Issue is we are all getting older and so little time to spend fixing cars. I can't be bothered to do anything that involved spending to much time on my knees. Young people nowadays buy cars on lease/pcp and change them before ...

I'll Check with BMW.

I'll stick the belay one if first to see if I get lucky

Thanks

It is Non OEM I believe for about £13. I just assumed it will be ok considering how many are advertised on ebay.

If it does not work, will the one from ECP for £123 be classified as OEM ?

I think I might have an issue as well with my final stage unit, no fan is working. I have purchased the unit from ebay to fix but have not got round to fixing due to work and not driving the E53 as much now. I did try a few days ago looking at you ube instructions taking off the trim on passenger ...

The 3.0i certainly is compliant as well as the V8's. The Ulez is meant to be Euro 4 Upwards, yet the E53 Petrol engines are Euro 3 but coming up as compliant when you do a registration check on the TFL website. Are all the E53 4.4, 4.6 & 4.8 engines V8's?. I will consider them as well. I found that ...