[quote="X5Sport"]
Apparently the seller will post it in the UK.  Too embarrassed to drive it I guess....... :blink:

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...... unless you live within 8 miles that is ?

I reckon, call Iron Man, it would go with his suit  :footballhelmet:

[quote="Aevans"] My motor was built in Feb 05 so its unclear as to whether it has the new or old style breather so i thought i'd remove a few bits under the bonnet in order to try and see a part number. (I cant take it off fully to check as i don't have the fancy female shaped torx tool ye...

[quote="storminmike"] To find out you will have the car literally in bits and in reality a non-driver unless you want to spend half an hour at least putting it back together again. Pulling it apart is a right PITA, doing it twice is madness. [/quote] Hi, Guilty of madness - I have just don...

[quote="graemeX5"] When looking for an X5 I originally wanted the the aluminium or piano black and ended up with dark wood. However it is ok and probably goes better with the light beige leather, but on a black interior I would want black or aluminium trim but they can be changed to suit. ...

[quote="shadrack"]
whats chavvy bout piano black 
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Depends if you have matching Adidas tracksuit bottoms  ?  :cap:

Mine comes with pipe and slippers . . . . comfy as yer grans old draws.
B X5

[quote="petert"] Out of interest: what is that control between the instrument binnacle and the head unit screen? Peter T [/quote] I think you mean that push button mounted on that piece of wood trim ? I'ts marked TM and switches the Nav over to traffic monitoring system which is no longer ...

[quote="shadrack"] i preffer the piano black, anything but wood, personally your light wood is my least favourite, but were all different i just hate wood trim [/quote][quote="Horizon"] [quote="shadrack"] i preffer the piano black, anything but wood, personally your lig...

I likes a bit of wood - how about you ? 




I know the Carbon Fibrosis brigade will disagree !

B X5

Yeah but, your taxes paying his (marine's) wages - so you just getting your money back ! 
Like a tax rebate !

>:(

I have tried to install the Virtual PC/ Windows XP program but it wont let me !

I have to have Window 7 'Professional' for it to work, only have 'Home Premium' on the Laptop.

Dah !!

So do I risk the Cheapo Scanner ?

. . . . probably.


B X5

ITBarbie: I got one exactly the same and it was fine :-) I run it I'm XP but there is a lot of info on the net that states you can run it on win 7 I might give it a go, I've downloaded Virtual PC / Windows XP successfully this morning. (I hope!) I got stung last year with the BMW TIS disk I bought w...

Hi has anyone bought one of these, or similar, and are they compatible with Windows 7 for instance ?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200968319323? ... 7477391057

Cheers
B X5

Hi Horizon,
thanks for that, it appears as if it is in the same 'menu' then,
I will see what happens next week when I get it back.

Thanks again,
B X5

Hi, I have trawled the site for the reset of the brake fluid service light (without a scanner that is).  On my X5 03 3.0d it is a clock symbol in the service box.  The local indie is doing the oils next week and I want the procedure to hand just in case. I have the procedure for the engine oil chang...

I had the self level alarm inactive regularly since I got the car from the dealer (2nd hand) a few years ago.  It occured every other journey or so, was an annoyance more than anything and there was a couple of other intermittent alarms at the same time. I discovered the fault by accident when I wen...