You might find this useful - OEM fitting guide for the running boards: -

https://www.dropbox.com/s/79dgfxqfv0...tions.pdf?dl=0

:thumbup:Nice!

Thanks for sharing!

Yep I have that and will reference it - btw this is the tool you need for the blind rivets and plastic wheel well rivets

Hand Riveter with 40 Industrial Strength Poly Rivets

Ive got a set of the 'no running board' stuff. if anyone needs them! also, while youre coming up north, you might as well get yourself some maple syrup too :) lol, and bring along a tennis racket, I hear the mosquitoes are quite bad this time of year! lol!!!

RFaber, I might be interested in your no-running-board parts. My X5 is an 02/2004 so it's a facelift and I wonder if the parts are the same? Yours being a sport package are the skirts gloss black? I'll try to check into it a bit and maybe PM you if it looks like it will work. Maybe start a new thread and tell us about your subwoofer install, I was just thinking of doing that myself as well! Cheers :)

craigslist X5 parting out with running boards, Sacremento CA
 

just fyi, Rich

2002 BMW X5 3.0i E53 PARTING OUT

I was looking for a tool like this and it delayed my install by a day. I was telling my buddy who owns a shop that I was looking for the tool and he says..

Yeah. We have one of those. We call it pliers. :banghead:

20 mins later, my rivets were installed and I was going for a drive. All you need to do is push the trim toward the body around the rivet while holding the plastic pin with the pliers. when it 'catches' on the indents, just twist or pull the plastic tip and it'll break very easily. Voila. Riveting! :p: