New member, Hello!....pics enc.
 

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Hello,

New to the forum...always been a sportscar guy, but when my wife and I found out we were having our second, we had to get something a bit bigger and comfortable enough to use as a daily with 2 pre-school age kids. After trolling the board for a few weeks we ended up getting an extended warranty, 1-owner, fully loaded seal grey 05' 4.4. Car only had 55k miles on it and was a deal off of KBB. Previous rides include modded: 996 911 C4S, B7 Audi S4 and an E46 M3. The reliability of the BMW brought me back....

Any advice in mods, care, tuning or upgrades is always appreciated!:thumbup:


Here's the pics sorry about the blackberry camera quality: KW COs, 177s...4.8is rear and front bumper retrofit coming in the fall.
http://i1109.photobucket.com/albums/...5/aa340ed0.png
http://i1109.photobucket.com/albums/...5/5be96149.png
http://i1109.photobucket.com/albums/...5/a4cff272.png

Thanks for looking!


Alec

Welcome! Beautiful X. Love the Y-spokes! :thumbup:

Oh, nice parking job too - tight fit. :D

welcome! looks gorgeous!

:thumbup:Welcome, looks greats. Look-out for those garage posts.

haha..thanks for the comments guys!!! yeah i'm a close parker to immovable objects. It's better I park close than my wife or son wack the door on the way out of the passanger side.


:dunno:Quick question...does anyone know how to kill the susp. inact code? or do a hard reset on the nav/comp. The indy i brought it to for the COs tried to kill the susp code but ended up configuring the default nav/comp to Metric. ....with no luck on the susp code.

Thanks in advnce!

That_is_beautiful_!

Thanks for the kind words

Welcome - gorgeous X. Love the rims! How friggin big is your garage dude? :) I'm jealous...that's all.

Now that is one good looking X!

Great color, awesome wheels. Tint those front windows to match the rears and it'll be perfect!

Great looking car .Love that colour...Why is it so low??????''

I should have asked these questions in my first post, but is that as low as you can go? How is the ride compared to 55k mile suspension? How much travel is left in the suspension (ie. can the car flex over curbs anymore)?

Looks Awesome :) I have those wheels and I was deciding to put them on. At least I get a better idea now... Update us with the 4.8 kit. cheers

It's about time you guys convert to the Metric system anyway! :p:

Christian

BMW 325i 2003 Jet Black
BMW X5 xDrive50i 2011 Sapphire Black (on order)

Thanks guys for the comments....

Car is lowered on KW Coilovers...i know i wish it wasn't as low but that is the highest setting. Surprisingly the car still rides pretty good....my wife couldn't even tell when she drove it!:D shhhhhhhh!

That's possibly one of the nicest 4.4's I've seen in a while especially compared to the ones around where I live.

Just a suggestion but have you thought about adding wheel spacers? I think it'll really give it a sexy look.

Are you out of your mind? There's no such thing as too low!!:D:thumbup:

:xoutpost: nice looking X, not too many X's can pull that sexy looks with those rims.. i guess the color makes a difference good choice :thumbup:
regarding the sus. level inact... since its been lowered.. if am not mistaken the stealers r the only one can delete it.. unless u do a search here or someone come across ur post well help u.

btw keep us posted on the 4.8i front & back kit... am in a market for the 4.6i kit as well :D

Welcome! Nice to see another modded X5 here in Illinois. Great looking ride

ps. the third pic looks like you side-swiped the rear quarter panel!

In these pictures it was lower than my current setting...Honestly the ride isn't that harsh and is pretty comparable to 55k oem. Not sure about travel left in the suspension but I can tell you that I haven't recognized any problems in daily driving or functionality.

Didn't realize you deleted the air suspension. See here about the jumper:

http://www.xoutpost.com/746737-post50.html

Thanks Twins!!!...yeah i installed KWs all around and removed the rear air susp.

Thanks for all the comments...here are some pics I have off my other/prev rides:

http://i1109.photobucket.com/albums/...5/e62c8dea.png
http://i1109.photobucket.com/albums/...5/7b5125e1.png
http://i1109.photobucket.com/albums/...5/9c3dde5e.png
http://i1109.photobucket.com/albums/...5/2ca9556c.png

As you can see I'm a sucker for grey...

nice ride looks a bit like mine ...

there's nothing wrong with grey bro...