X5 - newbie in suffolk
Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 10:08 am
Hi Everyone,
Just recently joined the site and have been looking over a lot of the stuff on the X5 (E53).
I have, and have, a couple of niggles with the car so a lot of the stuff is handy to know.
I havnt done the BMW drivers course yet so not much good at Tailgating Audis, overtaking on blind bends and cutting up old ladies on roundabouts. Still breaking myself in. I am a bit of an electronics tech so can handle the electrics etc, not so good with the mechanics of it all.
I have had a 2nd hand X5 for 3 years, 3.0d Sport, 2003, met green with pastel green leather with wood trim. We bought this one for the interior mainly but would swap it for a red one with cream interior .
Live out in the sticks so handy to have a 4 x 4 monster occasionally.
It came with a few intermittent alarms (from a dealer) and eventually got them sorted as they turned out to be genuine and not as spurious as I thought. The most interesting was the occasional 'Self level susp inactive' - intermittent but found by accident when I went to 'fix' the radio. Someone had been into the boot / Battery area and when reassembling the compressor bell and frame had inadvertently folded over and crushed the air lines (red / blue). Just straightened them with a little bit of hot air and alarm cured. I know it works as I discovered when I climbed onto the tailgate while the car ticking over and the compressor kicked into life.
Have also been without a blower for a couple of months, until last week, but I traced this to the hedgehog, changed and now fine. Funny name that hedgehog - anybody know any BMW jokes ?
Still got a radio problem, it comes on and off when it feels like it and occasionally we get a loud bang in the speakers and I have to reset it at the fuse on the radio box. That's only every month or two. I believe the long term cure is to redo the internal connector mountings.
Had a digital display problem on the dash, missing pixels, but this has magically cured itself.
My mobile phone broke last week as well, and I am unable to connect the replacement to the BT. It looks like I have a problem with the button on the centre console. Unfortunately I flattened the battery while I was trying to connect to the BTooth and only found out the next day when I tried to start it. Wife not happy. (Is she ever, I here you say !).
Otherwise it just needs a service, the car not the wife (?). There is always something to do on it though. Maybe they are over complicated ?
Anyway, had some good help from you guys and look forward to taking part in the forums. It seems to be a bit more active than the last one I was on.
Cheers
babylon X5 (Not an ex police car !)
Just recently joined the site and have been looking over a lot of the stuff on the X5 (E53).
I have, and have, a couple of niggles with the car so a lot of the stuff is handy to know.
I havnt done the BMW drivers course yet so not much good at Tailgating Audis, overtaking on blind bends and cutting up old ladies on roundabouts. Still breaking myself in. I am a bit of an electronics tech so can handle the electrics etc, not so good with the mechanics of it all.
I have had a 2nd hand X5 for 3 years, 3.0d Sport, 2003, met green with pastel green leather with wood trim. We bought this one for the interior mainly but would swap it for a red one with cream interior .
Live out in the sticks so handy to have a 4 x 4 monster occasionally.
It came with a few intermittent alarms (from a dealer) and eventually got them sorted as they turned out to be genuine and not as spurious as I thought. The most interesting was the occasional 'Self level susp inactive' - intermittent but found by accident when I went to 'fix' the radio. Someone had been into the boot / Battery area and when reassembling the compressor bell and frame had inadvertently folded over and crushed the air lines (red / blue). Just straightened them with a little bit of hot air and alarm cured. I know it works as I discovered when I climbed onto the tailgate while the car ticking over and the compressor kicked into life.
Have also been without a blower for a couple of months, until last week, but I traced this to the hedgehog, changed and now fine. Funny name that hedgehog - anybody know any BMW jokes ?
Still got a radio problem, it comes on and off when it feels like it and occasionally we get a loud bang in the speakers and I have to reset it at the fuse on the radio box. That's only every month or two. I believe the long term cure is to redo the internal connector mountings.
Had a digital display problem on the dash, missing pixels, but this has magically cured itself.
My mobile phone broke last week as well, and I am unable to connect the replacement to the BT. It looks like I have a problem with the button on the centre console. Unfortunately I flattened the battery while I was trying to connect to the BTooth and only found out the next day when I tried to start it. Wife not happy. (Is she ever, I here you say !).
Otherwise it just needs a service, the car not the wife (?). There is always something to do on it though. Maybe they are over complicated ?
Anyway, had some good help from you guys and look forward to taking part in the forums. It seems to be a bit more active than the last one I was on.
Cheers
babylon X5 (Not an ex police car !)
Good intro. 
