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Old 01-14-2019, 04:22 PM
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They’re the fiberglass reproductions, not factory.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?m...2F142628958567
You'd have a helluva time coming up with a mounting solution for those flares. Maybe fiberglass them to a factory set of non-flared arches? Or epoxy them? Would definitely take some work to look right.

That said, with the right work... I bet they would look nice.
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Old 01-14-2019, 05:15 PM
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I am looking to do the same with my heated wheel, perforated leather on the sides. May I ask who did the work?

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Pulled my sons Golf out of his muddy yard

I was able to get close enough and connect with a nylon strap. Had a little traction issue myself, but X-Drive saved the day and got him out!
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Do the fronts LeMans stick on to the existing trim, or do you remove the stock flush one and bolt them on?


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I was able to get close enough and connect with a nylon strap. Had a little traction issue myself, but X-Drive saved the day and got him out!
I have been amazed at how well the xdrive has done on my two x5's with it. Im wondering if the 2001 X5 I just bought that doesn't have it is going to suck offroad or not.
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Do the fronts LeMans stick on to the existing trim, or do you remove the stock flush one and bolt them on?


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You remove me stock one completely and put on the le mans version.

The flares are mounted to the wheel arch by slots and tabs holding from the inside and not really made to be removed. Same way the rear flares are mounted.


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I have been amazed at how well the xdrive has done on my two x5's with it. Im wondering if the 2001 X5 I just bought that doesn't have it is going to suck offroad or not.

I've been very happy putting our two '01s through their paces. Plenty of driving where ATVs are meant to go, I recorded a trip through a ditch at -37° down and 12° list. Same day drove out of a ditch at 2 mph so steep the left front tire came well off the ground. I had to take a second attempt at 3mph because when the front left went airborn, the drop in weight on right rear got it to spin a little and I didn't want to burn holes in the grass.

At 3mph and as a "trike" the X thought nothing of a slow controlled chug out of a 5' deep ditch without spinning any tires.

I have a feeling the xdrive is a little smoother at the three wheel operating modes as my car will make a pretry obvious bang when the floating wheel gets slammed by the DSC

I've confidentiality driven around hilly terrain in 6" deep heavy wet snow and pulled a car out of a ditch (he went off the road in a curve); I drove down until the ditch, l pulled him father into the ditch then drove out and into the ditch at a shallow angle 3-4 times to make him a packed snow trail he could drive on.

I can use full throttle at 5 mph on fresh snow over hard pack. I'm very happy with the abilities of the X5.

Of course the phenomenal tires doesn't hurt. Dunlop GrandTrek W/T M3. I also have a set of M2 that are 235 for when I really want to get serious. I put those on last year when we got about 20" of snow in one storm in the exact middle of spring. They didn't disappoint.





That's my ten yr old for scale. The road is about 5' higher than where I'm standing taking the picture.

Notice in the close up photo you can see the perfect tread pattern. That was fresh heavy wet snow that turned slippery when you stepped on it. The fwd car that was stuck simply spun it's wheels. Not only no probkem driving on it, no problem pulling or pushing the disabled car either.
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Old 01-15-2019, 02:38 AM
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I haven't used the 2001 yet but the xdrive is amazing on the newer ones. I have had one front tire and one back tire off the ground at the same time and all it did was pause about 1 second like it was "think" then it went on without spinning. I just hope the non xdrive can do that too.
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I did.
Looks great. Do you mind explaining what you did/where you got the materials?
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