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I washed and covered the X as it is now raining here! Soon the salt man will come and that will be it for a while...

Found a small leak at the transfer case under my wife's X5. The actuator mounting surface is weeping. So I ordered two kits from ECSTuning, a rebuild kit for the actuator which includes the mating gasket and a new gear. Plus a fluid replacement kit with fluid, new plugs and sealing washers. Planning on doing the work as soon as the parts get here. Looking forward to seeing if ECS's shipping department has improved like I've heard. This work also requires resetting the adaptations in the control module so I will have to borrow the correct tool from my BMW tool source.

Sure glad I live in the desert, no salt, no moisture, like in the other posts. All we have is a lot of sun which is hard on the paint and exterior plastics like headlights, especially since I have to keep my cars outside.

AceEngineer :cool:

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Originally Posted by bhennrich (Post 1175066)

67k miles ago??? I would personally be doing a full refresh after 67k of driving.

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I was hoping I could get 100k miles out of the last refresh. Especially, when I did it, one had never been done. It had about 178,000 miles on it at that point with no refresh. When I did it, the only things in really bad shape were the front control arm bushings and the rear ball joints. Everything else was worn, but not ridiculously so. The shocks weren't even leaking, but I replaced all of them anyway.

Un-soldered the old battery from my 2nd key and soldered in a new battery. Reprogrammed the key (works great) and re-glued the key back together. Easy fix and saved a bunch of money!

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Originally Posted by squidzilla (Post 1175074)

I watched water leak through the glove box area after a snow storm. This is most likely the passenger side cabin filter drain is clogged right? Hopefully I can find a DIY to fix this.

Could also be a clogged or kinked sunroof hose. Pull off the passenger side A-pillar trim and have a look

aparently leaving the blinkers on will drain the battery sufficiently to get stranded in the middle of amsterdam :stickpoke

now I know :rolleyes:

getting a new android unit fitted soon, I find the sound quality from the front a bit crackly, anybode replaced the speakers? no experience with that whatsoever

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Originally Posted by guntherrex (Post 1175253)

Search is your friend.

Members, myself included, have done some awesome speaker upgrades and logged them in threads here.

I am thrilled with my choices which are listed here:

Speaker Upgrades
Dash Midrange: Memphis Audio PRX275 (4 Ohm) 
Front A-Pillar Tweeter: JL Audio C2-075-ct (4 ohm) 
Front Door Woofer: JL Audio C2-600 (4 ohm) 
Rear Door Woofer: Dayton Audio RS150-4 6" (4 Ohm) 
Rear Door Midrange Position: JL Audio C2-075-ct (4 ohm)

All these speakers work excellently in my non-DSP X5 with Eonon GA6166 head unit and it is by far the best sounding system of all the vehicles I own or have owned.

PS: I added a separate amp to drive a factory DSP subwoofer that was fitted to my vehicle in the factory position.

Mike

fantastic info! thanks! I'll have a look around too

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Originally Posted by guntherrex (Post 1175258)

fantastic info! thanks! I'll have a look around too

IIRC, this is the thread where I got all my speaker upgrade info and I contributed there as well

https://xoutpost.com/bmw-sav-forums/...-speakers.html

Mike

Replaced the drivers side window regulator, new dashboard lights, replaced all interior lights with LED lights and restored the headlights.