What did you do to / for your E53 today??

[E53Envyy]

The X5 was feeling kinky the other day…




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must’ve been like this since I bought the x. It’s always parked on an incline so I never noticed the fault until the other day when I backed in. Let’s just say the footwell makes for a nice pond.

Dry’d it out the best I can and hoping there’s no permanent water damage to the electronics. The glove box even had a puddle and we all know what’s located above the glove box. Unkinked the hoses and added zip ties to help hold them in place. That A-pillar trim is difficult to reattach properly so watch out and go slowly if anyone has to do this.

Taken it on a couple long trips since then with the heat on blast at the footwell so hopefully the carpet isn’t too waterlogged.

E53Envyy


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[X5chemist]

Finally pulled the GMIII module for repairs. It's in the mail! Hope to get it back next week! So much stuff not work.

[sandbagger]

FYI the carpet has open cell foam backing and under your feet its like 4" + thick.... please dont ask me how I know that

Originally Posted by E53Envyy

The X5 was feeling kinky the other day…

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Taken it on a couple long trips since then with the heat on blast at the footwell so hopefully the carpet isn’t too waterlogged.

E53Envyy


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[E53Envyy]

Originally Posted by sandbagger

FYI the carpet has open cell foam backing and under your feet its like 4" + thick.... please dont ask me how I know that

Wow! Well if any of my passengers get thirsty I’ll poke a hole through the carpet and give em a straw… yummy


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[Magister88]

This happened to me as well kinked line. Came in one day and there was a puddle on the passenger side. The glove box was wet as well. I pulled the carpets so much water was trapped under which also went to the back. I did the same trick with zip ties .... I replaced the carpet with black . Hope you will dry all the water out, the foam is thick and absorbs water like a sponge.

[srmmmm]

Originally Posted by c-bass

Factory BMW crossbars?

Yes, they are.

[EODguy]

Tramline check and road force balancing

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[Henn28]

Originally Posted by andrewwynn

From newtis I found what seems to be M8 screws with spec of 21 N·m which if you were just off on the bolt size you did a fine guess on the torque.

Thanks for checking…I thought they were M6, but fortunately they were M8s then according to what you saw on TIS. Just dumb luck I didn’t strip them. Thread locker is definitely my friend!

[BigLion]

It's been a while trying to find a coolant leak which drains maybe 2L a day; despite replacing the water pump, radiator, pipes, expansion tank, gearbox oil cooler connector plate... something is still forcing the expansion tank cap to leak! There's no leak at the front of the car anymore, so I guess we gotta check through the engine at some point - although there is no vapour at the exhaust

Yesterday I spent two+ hours scrubbing into the corners of the rims but the front ones still have little rusty lines in the sharpest corners - I'll try a polishing bit on the Dremel for that, as I guess the laquer will already be breached.

Apart form that, all is good - starting, shifting, AC, suspension, braking all like a champ, CD changer changed (for the older style with the BMW logo as I blew up two of the Alpine changers) with subwoofer and all speakers hot - best of all I managed to pick a HU out of the dusty pile of parts in the workshop and it turned out to have a pixel-perfect screen and working illumination and volume pots - I'm praying that todays' passenger door lock and window lifter change will be the last for some good while!

[Fifty150hs]

Originally Posted by BigLion

It's been a while trying to find a coolant leak which drains maybe 2L a day; despite replacing the water pump, radiator, pipes, expansion tank, gearbox oil cooler connector plate... something is still forcing the expansion tank cap to leak! There's no leak at the front of the car anymore, so I guess we gotta check through the engine at some point - although there is no vapour at the exhaust

Yesterday I spent two+ hours scrubbing into the corners of the rims but the front ones still have little rusty lines in the sharpest corners - I'll try a polishing bit on the Dremel for that, as I guess the laquer will already be breached.

Apart form that, all is good - starting, shifting, AC, suspension, braking all like a champ, CD changer changed (for the older style with the BMW logo as I blew up two of the Alpine changers) with subwoofer and all speakers hot - best of all I managed to pick a HU out of the dusty pile of parts in the workshop and it turned out to have a pixel-perfect screen and working illumination and volume pots - I'm praying that todays' passenger door lock and window lifter change will be the last for some good while!

Sounds like a leaking head gasket.