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Originally Posted by semcoinc
Good Luck with it all Danny!
Sounds like the car is in the perfect set of hands for the work that's coming.
Yeah, I had the pixel issue in my dash display and fixed it myself with help from a guy with components over in the UK. It was a little like brain surgery (or what brain surgery must be like  ) but I went slowly and followed the You Tube guide and all came out very well. |
Yeah, I've read the DIYs for fixing the pixels, but I'd rather just get a professional to do it, I'm pretty rubbish with delicate electronics. In any case I may just live with it for a little while since it's not missing too many pixels at the moment— everything is still quite legible otherwise.
Anyways, onto the X5 updates!
Yesterday I gave the X5 a nice bath, which got about 90% of the dirt off. It's not perfect but it'll do for now.
Before:
After:
I initially rinsed it down with water, used a foam gun attached to my hose to get most of the dirt off, rinsed again with water, washed with a soapy wash mitt, rinsed, washed with a mitt again, rinsed, and then towel dried to avoid water spots (Arizona has very hard water). It was extremely satisfying to see the X5 all clean and shiny, I can't wait to do a full paint correction on it!
The interior is pretty clean already, and I took some pictures:
For 213k miles, the driver's seat wear is pretty minimal— it's less worn than the seat in my (formerly owned) 160k mile 2004 Range Rover! Somebody took real good care of this X5. All of the rear window shades work perfectly too.
The only things that doesn't work inside the X5 are the steering wheel adjustments and the driver's seat memory. From doing some research, I see that the driver's seat memory module is known to fail which causes the wheel adjustments to stop working as well. I'll tackle that once I get the engine all sorted out.