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

[TG Goose]

Today I did the fuel pump, and found out how to load the X5 onto a flat deck, lol.

[crystalworks]

Originally Posted by admranger

Decided we wanted something a little bigger and are going to lease a 2016 X5 40e (the hybrid one). Mineral white over black leather and a gazillion packages. Got a screaming good deal from Greg Poland over at Pacific BMW (I bought my 2011 M3 from him). They need to make room for the 2017s that are in production. BMW added in $3500 lease cash and has the residual set artificially high at 60%! We fly out to pick up the new one on Saturday.

Congrats on the quick sale (always nice). I just sold one of my bimmers and it took FOREVER on CL.

Congrats also on the new vehicle acquisition. I was just at the dealer (parts dept and inspection) and poking around the showroom and took notice of the 40e. The wife and I really have our eyes on a diesel X5 to replace her X3... but the 40e could fit the bill as well. Not sure. I can't find any highway efficiency numbers for the 40e, do you have any insight? I know the "e" portion will benefit mostly in city driving. Her X3 (and my X5) gets ~18mpg and we are looking for something more efficient for her.

Nice garage flooring as well. Not sure how it would hold up at my place since I also do HEAVY maintenance (engine pulls/replacements sometimes) and mods every so often. But it sure does look nice. Our bare concrete is spider cracking like crazy and I'm hesitant to do the epoxy route just to have it continue to crack.

[admranger]

Originally Posted by crystalworks

Congrats on the quick sale (always nice). I just sold one of my bimmers and it took FOREVER on CL.

Congrats also on the new vehicle acquisition. I was just at the dealer (parts dept and inspection) and poking around the showroom and took notice of the 40e. The wife and I really have our eyes on a diesel X5 to replace her X3... but the 40e could fit the bill as well. Not sure. I can't find any highway efficiency numbers for the 40e, do you have any insight? I know the "e" portion will benefit mostly in city driving. Her X3 (and my X5) gets ~18mpg and we are looking for something more efficient for her.

Nice garage flooring as well. Not sure how it would hold up at my place since I also do HEAVY maintenance (engine pulls/replacements sometimes) and mods every so often. But it sure does look nice. Our bare concrete is spider cracking like crazy and I'm hesitant to do the epoxy route just to have it continue to crack.

I looked at the diesel too, but I don't plan on towing anything significant or putting on huge miles until I retire. The 'e' can still tow 6k lbs, though your cargo capacity overall is degraded due to the battery weight.

Highway is supposed to be in the high 20's from what I've read on other forums. The battery capacity is small, but it provides the ooomph when you need it. It's no 4.8iS, but it scoots.

For cracked floors, you're really limited. Doubly so if the concrete is soaked in oil, etc.

The race deck floor structurally and functionally holds up to abuse, but it isn't all nice and shiny like it was out of the box. I've spilled numerous fluids on it and there's no degradation. I drug the X5 subframe with diff, axles, and brakes across the floor and scratched it a bit, but it's serves a useful purpose if you can get past that it won't stay pretty looking. Don't go for a dark color either. You want a light one so light reflects and you can see things on the floor. I think it is a good solution for you. Head over to garagejournal.com and nose around there for ideas too. The discount may still apply.

This morning I looked longingly at the empty space in my garage.

[itscoo2pyopants]

Changed driveline fluids again. Noticed a leak coming from either the valve cover or upper timing.. left side of the engine. Hoping it's not the alternator gasket..

[puddinboo]

^ nice jacks where did you find those?

[OregonDude1]

Front end felt sloppy and would clunk on braking so I brought the X5 to the alignment shop and they told me one of the radius rod bushings had leaked all its fluid and a ball joint was out on the other side.
I just got done putting in a 10 piece Lemförder control arm kit to replace all the normal wear items in the front suspension. Got the kit from FCP Euro and followed the awesome tech guide from Pelican Parts

Been struggling with DVD navigation computer disk read errors, random hangs and reboots since I got the X5. First I replaced the disk with a DVD +R that I burnt and that helped a little. I then replaced the laser in the drive and that worked great for about a week then I got total failure of the drive so I replaced the entire drive assembly with brand new one that I got on eBay. So far, so good with the drive replacement...

[itscoo2pyopants]

Originally Posted by puddinboo

^ nice jacks where did you find those?

https://www.quickjack.com

[puddinboo]

nice but not cheap at all over 1000.00 and thats probaly in U.S. dollars too yikes .
thx for the link .

[srmmmm]

Did the solder fix on the tail light housing. Amazing that 10 minutes of effort and a dab of solder can avoid $170 part replacement!

2002 X5 3.0 306,200 miles
2014 428i 20,200 miles

2004 325i sold at 123,600 miles
2001 325i sold at 66,000 miles

1970 Firebird - under restoration

[puddinboo]

Originally Posted by srmmmm

Did the solder fix on the tail light housing. Amazing that 10 minutes of effort and a dab of solder can avoid $170 part replacement!

2002 X5 3.0 306,200 miles
2014 428i 20,200 miles

2004 325i sold at 123,600 miles
2001 325i sold at 66,000 miles

1970 Firebird - under restoration

I did my fix 2 years ago and still no issues ,all it cost me was my time, very easy to do.