I like to be an active participant in whatever forum I join, but I'm pretty new to the X5, so I guess I'll start pretty innocuously.

Just starting to take stock of my '04 6 speed stick. The PO took very nice care of it, so not much to do yet, but one of my pet peeves is looking at rust streaks on license plates from the mounting screws. I removed the plastic rear mount, and ran a 5mm tap thru the threads of the captive nuts to clean them up, and used 4 new stainless 5mm pan head phillips screws in anticipation of its new plate. Waxed the cove while it was off, and reinstalled.

Installed a new front roundell, and made note of a couple minor ares in need of a daub of touch up paint below the front grills.

Once I register and start driving it, I'm sure this sort of post will be a bit more substantial!

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2004 3.0 6 speed manual