Indeed the boots are reasonably priced here too...shame they dont last long....maybe should look at silicon rather than rubber ones going forward? Also advice i read about conditioning the rubber boots by giving them a good clean followed by application of silicon spray to keep em supple sort of seems to have worked apart from surface cracks at smaller end of boot.....i think the rubber glue/protector i used should help. In the meantime off topic starting is still fine now 9 days after starter change....

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E53 X5 3.0d SUV prod.date 11/2004 eng.variant M57N Europe Right hand drive N