e53 emblem?

iop9000 · #1 08-27-2005, 12:13 AM

Is there any "E53" emblem badge out there? (to replace the 3.0 or 4.4 badge) i think that would be a nice mod....

UCrewX5 · #2 08-27-2005, 10:35 AM

Not that I've ever seen. In fact, I've never seen an eXX badge for any BMW

FULANITO · #3 08-27-2005, 11:07 AM

You can go to bimmian.com and purchase the "E53" letter combination!!!!
http://www.bimmian.com/X5

LeMansX5 · #4 08-27-2005, 12:14 PM

You can get the 530i emblem and chop off the 0i and you got 53. Then you can find the 'e' from somewhere and align them together and glue it.

UCrewX5 · #5 08-27-2005, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by LeMansX5

You can get the 530i emblem and chop off the 0i and you got 53. Then you can find the 'e' from somewhere and align them together and glue it.

In sticking with BMW only parts, pick up a 320e emblem to get the "e"

Michelle · #6 11-01-2007, 04:03 PM

Go to bimmian.com and purchase the "E53" letters individually.
http://www.bimmian.com/X5

X5Jay · #7 08-27-2005, 01:00 PM

No offense, but I don't think that's a good idea. Merc has a whole product line of "E" vehicles - that's the number one reason. 2 - it annoys that hell out of me that BMW uses 2 names for their vehicles. Sure - there may be a good reason for it, but I just can't keep track and it drives me crazy when people use the "E" designators instead of the real name of the car - wouldn't that be so much easier? It's very frustrating to me when I read an interesting post and I don't know what the hell the subject vehicle is! 3 - after working for a software company for the past 14 years, I've become acronym-phobic. We use so many acronyms at work, I could probably give a 50 page slide presentation and not use a real word on the entire thing - all the hard-core geeks would probably have woodies and the others like me would be getting sicker by the slide. Anyhow - if you think you'll like it - go for it. And again, no offense - this is probably just the tip of the iceberg of a much deeper medical issue that I've got brewing here....

LeMansX5 · #8 08-27-2005, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by X5Jay

No offense, but I don't think that's a good idea. Merc has a whole product line of "E" vehicles - that's the number one reason. 2 - it annoys that hell out of me that BMW uses 2 names for their vehicles. Sure - there may be a good reason for it, but I just can't keep track and it drives me crazy when people use the "E" designators instead of the real name of the car - wouldn't that be so much easier? It's very frustrating to me when I read an interesting post and I don't know what the hell the subject vehicle is! 3 - after working for a software company for the past 14 years, I've become acronym-phobic. We use so many acronyms at work, I could probably give a 50 page slide presentation and not use a real word on the entire thing - all the hard-core geeks would probably have woodies and the others like me would be getting sicker by the slide. Anyhow - if you think you'll like it - go for it. And again, no offense - this is probably just the tip of the iceberg of a much deeper medical issue that I've got brewing here....

Mercedes also uses something similiar. Instead of Exx they use Wxxx.

UCrewX5 · #9 08-27-2005, 01:35 PM

The e designation is really not much more than a version number. Much like software companies use version designations to distinguish a newer release from an older release, that's basically what BMW is doing as well. And keep in mind that the e designation is really an internal thing to BMW and they generally don't refer to their vehicles to the public with those designations.

I find the e designations helpful because when someone says that they have a 325 I don't know whether they are referring to an e30, an e36, an e46 or an e90.

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Originally Posted by X5Jay

No offense, but I don't think that's a good idea. Merc has a whole product line of "E" vehicles - that's the number one reason. 2 - it annoys that hell out of me that BMW uses 2 names for their vehicles. Sure - there may be a good reason for it, but I just can't keep track and it drives me crazy when people use the "E" designators instead of the real name of the car - wouldn't that be so much easier? It's very frustrating to me when I read an interesting post and I don't know what the hell the subject vehicle is! 3 - after working for a software company for the past 14 years, I've become acronym-phobic. We use so many acronyms at work, I could probably give a 50 page slide presentation and not use a real word on the entire thing - all the hard-core geeks would probably have woodies and the others like me would be getting sicker by the slide. Anyhow - if you think you'll like it - go for it. And again, no offense - this is probably just the tip of the iceberg of a much deeper medical issue that I've got brewing here....

X5Jay · #10 08-27-2005, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by UCrewX5

I find the e designations helpful because when someone says that they have a 325 I don't know whether they are referring to an e30, an e36, an e46 or an e90.

I can understand the internal use, but in general discussions, I think it's more clear and very much easier for all to understand when someone says "2005 325"...