Brilliant! Thanks in advance for the photos Trix, that will really help me to see the effect of the 30mm spacers with the 132s, (even though mine are 285 at the rear so in theory will protrude slightly more).

I didn't order the arch extensions but I probably will - I had them on my last one and just prefer the X with them - same with the running boards.

Hope you get your tranny fixed mate. A week before I sold the last X5 (in the UK), mine went into Trans.Fail.Mode and ended up costing me $2000 to fix. That one had 125k miles.

Now I have a slightly newer (facelift, 6speed) with 85k miles and am really thinking of gettin the tranny oil changed even tho its running perfectly. I know they (BMW) advise against it in case metal particals/shavings get dislodged, but look where I ended up by following that advice last time.

Thanks again mate...