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

[Joshdub]

Mine did the same thing after I uninstalled my Eonon. It went back after I r&rd the battery cables.

[Hcbeck2689]

Put on new shoes

Before:

After:


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[andrewwynn]

Originally Posted by OrangeFurious

Last night I parked that car with 95k or so miles on the odometer. An hour or two later I came out to find the dash sitting at 156k+. After a moment of deep confusion I realized it was set to KM not miles. Stayed that way the drive home.

Today I'm back at 95k miles.

WTF?

Metrics to English conversion will happen if you press the odometer reset button while you turn the key to off. So usually when it happens by accident you're trying to use one of the hidden test menu options it's really easy to accidentally switch to metric. I did the same thing by accident a couple days ago and I left it so much easier to tell if you're going to have to worry about ice when it's positive versus negative.

Actually I spoke too soon because I'm looking at my dashboard and it is still in miles how confusing is that. I'm sure that odometer conversion is something similar maybe you press the button while you're trying to ignition on for example

This does remind me of one of the best pranks I ever played. We were in a rental car and I was in the passenger seat when the driver hit full throttle to get onto the freeway. When he looked left to check his blind spot I happened to notice a big button in the middle of the dash that said E/M on it. Right about the time we were crossing 60 65 mph I hit that button and then it jumped to 110 km/h.

Since it was a rental car that had a fairly good engine in it and the guy actually thought he was going over a hundred miles an hour. Pretty much once in a lifetime chance for the set up on that one


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[richardb]

Replaced valve cover gasket, DIY here (M54 only)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkNaNGtnyYU

[andrewwynn]

Originally Posted by Hcbeck2689

Put on new shoes

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Nice improvement.



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[gatojurko]

[QUOTE=Hcbeck2689;1105182]Put on new shoes

Change side turning light plastic to white plastic and white bulb to yellow bulb!

[andrewwynn]

[QUOTE=gatojurko;1105235]

Originally Posted by Hcbeck2689

Put on new shoes



Change side turning light plastic to white plastic and white bulb to yellow bulb!

Nice upgrade. My X came that way. Wife's is still amber lens.

Another mod I did to my X is that I tweaked my tail light so that all four brake lamps light since they use two-filament lamps for the run only light.

The 01 model didn't apparently have wiring to the bright filament but my lenses were replaced due to an accident from P O. The connector didn't have a pin for the bright filament on the second lamp but the light assembly had the wiring for it and the mod was crazy simple to do. I drilled a 1/16" hole in the two metal bars I wanted to connect and took some 1/16" spring steel wire and made some jumpers that look like staples.

Very happy with the results. Not only twice the brake light brightness, the whole red lights up bright and maybe more importantly, I have redundancy: when a lamp fails that side will just be dimmer.






I ended up discovering the internal wiring for the bright filament on MY X that's not on wife's when her brake lights failed from a design flaw in the lamp assembly.

The metal ring that forms the contact for the bulb is held in position by a plastic post that is melted into a plastic rivet at the top. The problem (design failure) is that when eventually the contact gets dirty the resistance causes heat to generate and the spring pressure on the contact pushes the contact away when it gets hot enough to melt the plastic post.

Both sides of wife's X had the problem but one side stopped working at about 112,000 miles. When I fixed the non working side I first checked the other side of her car and it was 95% as bad as the first side. I repaired that side and then of course checked my car.

My X had the entire tail lamp assemblies replaced with some made in 2009 which had the extra wiring internal shown in the pics above.

I thought I took a video of the before & after but can't seem to find it. I love the improvement. Before the fix it looked like a lamp was burned out every time the brakes were used because only half the red lights up bright.



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[wpoll]

The tail light failure is well known design flaw that many of us have delt with. I "fixed" mine with the solder fix but they still play up from time to time. I looked into the fix that uses the MB lamp holders but it's stupid money here (for all four tail lamps) so I'm going to mod my tails and wire the lamps in with a custom mod.

Be aware that the pre-facelift and facelift tails are different and the mod shown above by andrewwyn might not work on the later facelift cars. In fact it could damage the LCM, which lights up the tails progressively using PWM, depending on the need. Tails only is four dim lamps, normal braking adds brightness to two of the four and sudden braking lights all four brightly (and brighter). Or so I believe - I can't actually get behind the car to see!!

The PWM signal results in each single filament 21W tail lamp getting an average of about 5v as a tail, 9v as normal brake and the full 12v during sudden braking. Clever... But a shame about the connection design....

[Topboy1971]

LEDs inside and blue on doors


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[gatojurko]

But do u have factory plastic with led inside or whole plastic cover is aftermarket? Can not see