I'm the first to admit that I'm a techy retard but after reading these posts I thought," even I could do that" so I bought the Carly app and the ELM327 and I failed. I cant get past the first hurdle of the bluetooth connection. The app tells me that I have to buy the Carly adapter? I'm rel...

Yeah I'm on there as well but there's not a lot of X5 activity yet. ::)

thanks for the welcome, glad to be here.

Hi, Yeah tried the " be patient" stuff, then tried the beefy mate pushing and pulling it while I hold the button but no joy. The're a bit pointless really, I had a detachable on my E53 and that was fine. I don't actually tow anything but I do like every thing to work. snrbrtsn, it was that...

First post by me.......... Has anyone got first hand experience of fixing the fairly common problem of the Westfalia retractable tow bar not working and fixing it with the new gear wheel from Jaak the Estonian? If you have can you share any pictures or instructions on dismantling the thing? cheers >:(

I'm registered in the hope that Xdrivers will fill the info void created by the very sad closure of BMWLand. I've read loads of threads over the last couple of weeks and feel sure this is the place to share knowledge. I look forward to participating and I've already learned of and acted upon the inf...