Wayne cheers fella, good to know and making more sense now the gas loss not allowing spooling up, looking on ebay now found cast iron from uk germany poland...gonna go for one with most sales i think...be interesting to see what resellers locally flog this part for....again thanks

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