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

[andrewwynn]

+1 it's worth a buck a month for automatic photo uploading.

[X5only]

Replaced vacuum pump, coils and plugs, installed 5mm spacers all round on 2005 4.4 without flares and style 87 staggered setup. Car now looks and drives amazing, but the steering has gotten heavier. I think the fronts could look more flash with 10mm spacers. I need to install the Servotronix steering rack.

[X5chemist]

Hit the style 130 wheels with aluminum cleaner. I need to do it more often. Years of neglect show up. Corner pitting doesn't clean up well. A lot does come off. A brush does help get into lug holes and corners.

[andrewwynn]

I lost my finger prints once from aluminum rim cleaner! My motorcycle had raw aluminum rims! Talk about maintenance headache!


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[powers1]

Too slow, too many ads. Hate the simplistic layout. Prefer the Xoutpost site and deal with just a few ads and having to host pics.

[ajacks8]

Originally Posted by powers1

Too slow, too many ads. Hate the simplistic layout. Prefer the Xoutpost site and deal with just a few ads and having to host pics.

Even BETTER, was the Xoutpost app! Unfortunately, it fell from App Store and now only works on my secondary phone ;'(




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[workingonit]

Originally Posted by ajacks8

Even BETTER, was the Xoutpost app! Unfortunately, it fell from App Store and now only works on my secondary phone ;'(...Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I also lost the Xoutpost app when I was having trouble with my Android phone, back in April.

Suddenly, my Samsung S9+ could receive calls or internet, but not both at the same time, so I worked with Boost Infinite techs for over a week until we found a solution (three complete reboots, two new APNs tried, a new sim card, and 24+ hours on the phone).

When the phone returned to normal, I had to reconfigure my phone, including re-installing all my lost apps and widgets, but I found that the Xoutpost app wasn't available, anymore. I tried to contact the admins of XO, https://xoutpost.com/1238126-post1.html, but got no reply from them...probably because "Xoutpost is currently undergoing a planned server migration.... stay tuned for new developments.... sincerely, the management".

So, I reinstalled Tapatalk (free), and was able to use it to see XO on my phone again, but since I've had a love-hate relationship with Tapatalk for many years (during which I've installed/uninstalled it many times, on several devices, for three reasons...fails to connect, freezes up, uses too much data in the background), I also made a Google shortcut to the XO "E53" page, to sit ready for use, on my homescreen, as a back-up.

Perhaps I'd get better service from Tapatalk if I bought the paid version, but as I said, I don't rely on their app, entirely.

Does anyone know why the XO app was withdrawn from the app stores?

[Factory6speed]

I use imgur and the l or m in front of the .jpg in the url to get the thumbnail. Then you can use the url tag with the original URL for the "click for large". Of course the pictures will all be gone in 10 years, like photo bucket today.

Myself, I've really just been daily driving it. It did survive a 10 hour trip. I'm getting close to a legitimate oil change. The CCV needs replaced and there might be another vacuum leak under there. Oil consumption is pretty bad and there's a slight hesitation around 2800 RPM in 4th gear up a hill that is getting worse. Not sure why I really only see it in 4th gear.

I thought the starter was not disengaging and making noise, but I think it's a weird noise from the uuc throwout bearing or clutch. I found the inpa and NCS tool suite sitting here on the laptop, and I figured out how to use them to do coding. So I coded off the clutch safety switch and if I don't push the clutch in it barely makes the noise. I think it's just a cheap throwout bearing probably, noise when cold.

I think the esys tool would work for coding, I might try that soon. The lock / unlock beeping must stop. I ended up having to do the head gasket on the E36 but as soon as I finish that I get to remove another intake manifold. I wish I could figure out a catch can for this car.

[X5only]

Changed the fuel filter after more than 6 - 8 years.

[andrewwynn]

Did you do post mortem? When i did wife's after 15 years it still had plenty of life bit it was charcoal black on the inlet side! Definitely did it's job filtering roughly 9500 gallons of gas. Was interesting to see it cut in half and the black goo pour out the dirty side.