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workingonit · #5 07-12-2021, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by ScottPhillips

...Appreciate the help. Not used to these German cars yet, way easier to work on my old muscle car.Scott

Yep, you're right. Fifty years+ of working on simpler vehicles made it easy for me to go from one to another, since most systems were the same, simple. Then came the "electronics" to make everything better ?!?

And it was no longer possible for a "shadetree" mechanic (even with '71 GM technical school training) to fix everything, without advanced learning, a bevy of testing equipment, detailed information available, and very often the aid of a widespread network of other DIY-ers (and some factory techs thrown in), to work on a vehicle. I'm finding that my old (but new to me) '01 X5 is probably going to be my hardest challenge to work on, though I've worked on dozens of OBDI & OBD2 vehicles over the years.

Just trying to find an acceptably-sized switched wire underhood (wire gauge was too small on those I found, for adding an electric fan) was impossible, whereas it's never been a problem on any other cars/trucks so far. And, I'm fearful of tapping into any of the wires coming out of any module, just in case there's the possibility of backfeed into that module. BMW's sure have a lot of modules, even more than GM cars I've worked on.

So, Scott, I'll second your voicing of appreciation to this forum (and others) for any and all help shared to fix, modify, or even understand our modern vehicles, X5's being the newest one to learn about, for us. Yeah, I just traded my '66 Chevelle drag racer for this X5...I could (and have done so many times) tear it apart and rebuild without problems, due to having many years of experience with it. Simple.

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