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[BGM]

Originally Posted by poinds

You're talking about the building across the street from Park Place Mercedes right? I work pretty close to Love Field and I swear that building has said "Future Home of BMW of Dallas" for around 2 years. It sucks that it's taken so long b/c that stretch of Lemmon Ave. has a Lexus, Mercedes, Volvo, Porsche, Volkswagen, Audi, Aston Martin, Honda, and Rolls-Royce/Maserati dealerships. I'm just wondering why the city is hassling BMW of Dallas so much.

Hopefully they'll move in there quick, b/c Forest Lane construction is ridiculous b/c of the DART Light Rail they're building near there.

Yeah that's the location. My sales guy told me that the city keeps making changes to their design like "you can't have a service entrance leading to Lemmon Ave because of possible traffic back-up" then they change their mind. Also he said that because BMW of Dallas is owned now by Autonation (I bought my e53 when they were John Roberts but he sold in '05) that they do like 75% domestic manufacturer car sales as a company-- so since domestic sales are slow that slows the cash going into the new dealership construction.

[Zoich]

Originally Posted by evolver

Having grown tired of the jerky transmission when coming to a stop or starting rolling, took my X5 in for service. Today received a call from SA and he stated that they will perform a complete software upgrade. I inquired if he meant to say that they will only reflash the transmission but he told me that even the Navi system will be updated. Well, that was a pleasant surprise

On a less pleasant side, they confirmed that I have another wheel bearing failure and they are replacing it. It might even be the same one they replaced a few months ago. And the SAV only has 10K miles on the odometer.

The original tires are also about to go. I thought that they would last until 15K but this also gives me a reason to replace OEM run-lats with my favorite Vredesteins. I have a spare tire, so I don't care about run-flats all that much. SA also recommended a 4-wheel alignment. I'm wondering if it is covered by the maintenance program...

I hope that coming to non-run-flats does not upset suspension settings. Even if it does, I hope the effect is not going to be much noticeable, especially with better grip of the Vred's.

I have a brake service due. Can you share with us what prompted you to believe that your wheel bearing were shot? What were the symptoms? My Dunlops run-flats are loud enough that I can't hear the bearing if it's going bad. Other tell-tale signs?

Thanks.

[evolver]

Originally Posted by Zoich

I have a brake service due. Can you share with us what prompted you to believe that your wheel bearing were shot? What were the symptoms? My Dunlops run-flats are loud enough that I can't hear the bearing if it's going bad. Other tell-tale signs?

Thanks.

There is no easy and yet reliable method to diagnose a shot bearing. Reliable methods involve lifting the vehicle and using a stethoscope or swapping tires with a set of quiet ones.

Less reliable symptoms are:

• If the noise changes as the gears change, it is not wheel bearings.
• If the noise intensity and pitch do not change as the vehicle speed varies, it is not wheel bearings.
• If the noise pattern changes when the road surface does, it is not wheel bearings.

If none of the above is true and you can point out the direction the noise is coming from, rather than having the noise coming from all directions, it is likely to be a wheel bearing.

When I brought my X5 in for the first time, all of the above lined up. However, on my second service visit I still could not determine the likely direction the noise is coming from but the service department was able to determine that it is a faulty bearing. They probably employed more sophisticated and reliable techniques compared to mine. I would be surprised if they didn't

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I'm going in for service next week, and they will hopefully flash everything on mine too.