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My new purchase X5 40d m sport

Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2017 8:39 am
by marsie
Thought i would start a thread in here with some pics. Picked it up yesterday and unto now i am very happy with it. Just sold a Discovery 4 and first impressions are-
Its faster!
Its louder
Its a lot more planted on the road
Its smaller

None of which were much of a surprise  8)
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i am thinking of changing the front kidney grills to black :-\ .
Paul

Re: My new purchase X5 40d m sport

Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2017 9:17 pm
by Colin
A lovely X with a good spec  health to drive

Re: My new purchase X5 40d m sport

Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 6:59 pm
by graemeX5
Hi

Car looks good and yes it's probably a better road car than the disco.

The wheels are a pain when the lacquer corrodes and is fairly common on them approx every two years so some have them painted rather than diamond cut. Did you manage to get the dealer to refurb them?

When doing the wheel refurb it's worth considering replacing the small M badge and the centre caps with new ones.

I think I paid about £70 all in from BMW but it just finishes off newly refurbished wheels
Graeme

Re: My new purchase X5 40d m sport

Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 9:17 pm
by X5Sport
The mudflaps do reduce the rubbish in the car but not all of it.  Given the size of wheels they need to be ‘large’.  I have then in the X6 and they aren’t too OTT.  :)

Re: My new purchase X5 40d m sport

Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 10:06 pm
by mark hamster 28
Car is very shinny indeed..! what polish do you use  O:-)

Re: My new purchase X5 40d m sport

Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2017 10:01 pm
by Sit
Looks nice!! Make sure you post some pics of wheels once done, I have just bought a set of secondhand OEM front kidney grilles which I have split and intend to have the outers (chrome part) painted body colour and leave the slats satin black.

Si

Re: My new purchase X5 40d m sport

Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2017 8:08 am
by snrbrtsn
Very nice!
Whilst a personal taste thing I preferred the look with the mud flaps

Re: My new purchase X5 40d m sport

Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2017 3:43 pm
by Sit
Those 22’s look MASSIVE!!! Lol! Good the refurb shop were able to loan you some - like that.

Post a pic of the grill, keen to see how they look.

Si

Re: My new purchase X5 40d m sport

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 7:30 pm
by Glen
Curbed my front passenger side at the weekend what a sick feeling  >:(
Yours look great though :)

Re: My new purchase X5 40d m sport

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 8:24 pm
by Sit
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Wheels back from refurb and grill picture for Sit 8)

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Looks lovely  :) what a difference those black slats made!!!  I take it your pleased!?!

Si

Re: My new purchase X5 40d m sport

Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2017 7:27 pm
by jason1872
[quote="marsie"]
Thanks Si, i have split the grills and done the centres satin black and think it looks much better. The other job has been to remove the mudflaps

Hopefully getting my wheels back from refurb on monday but until then i am running the refurb shops 22" loan wheels :puke:
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[/quote]I like that look tbh lol

Re: My new purchase X5 40d m sport

Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2017 5:30 pm
by X5Sport
‘*’ marked tyres could be an interesting “challenge” for those.  I do like the design but the roads around me would wreck them  :(