My febi turned out to be OE BMW with the name scraped off

Great idea with the wooden block. On the x5 its easy for me to remove the pan and this made it much easier than digging my hand down under the starter to get to that lock point in the engine bay.

Argh, the A/c belt was a hassle without the tool. If the belt starts to fray I'll redo it... I don't understand why it's so damn tight, feels like it has almost no deflection. Can't be good on the harmonic!