I put a full poly bush set on two or maybe three of my old MR2s. They were all macpherson strut of course, but I could get a full set of poly bushings including all four corners plus sway bar bushings for $100ish. Solid polyurethane is cheap cheap cheap! The only reason for the high cost must be that some of them are three-dimensional or very complex molds.

I didn't really notice a difference between the polys and the standard bushings. They are supposedly made so they have similar "give" as the rubber ones. As best I can tell from the website you linked the "radius" arm bushings are the ones you want. I'm not familiar with that particular brand.

Today I gave my (new to me) 2004 4.8is it's first oil change and new spark plugs (Denso Iridium TT Spark Plug IK20TT)

The coil packs were a pain in the arse to pull off but apart from that everything went quite smoothly. Oh and a couple of trips to the shop to buy tools along the way (female star sockets for the coil pack brackets, size 8 hex to remove sump plug and a 24mm spanner for the oil filter).

Took her to get an alignment. Didn't really *need* one but I have a free lifetime alignment so figured I may as well after replacing a wheel bearing. I guess it was mid-00's bimmer day today :)

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i like to ask if same body have retrofit the auto tailgate system to e53 from e70
thank you

It has been discussed but I don't think anyone has actually done it.

There are a few aftermarket options (kits).

I put my battery on charge, ran diagnostics, cleared all faults, went for a drive, codes returned.

So I gave it a wash to make me feel better lol

thank you for your help

Love the M3! Had that car in Imola red but the post Katrina roads here made it too painful to drive. Sold it to a guy from Miami who bought with a stack of bills it and let me keep driving it for a few months before he came to get it.

Just got back from a 1500 mile trip to Asheville with the X5. She was perfect and just crushed the miles like a beast. I need to go to war on the rattles, squeaks and wind noise though. It reminds me that the car is over 20 years old. I seem to remember it as it was brand new back in 2002. I am going to go to school on UCSBWSR’s fantastic write up on silencing the noise in his x5. I have a front passenger airbag to troubleshoot, and maybe speakers to install so I might do it all at once. I hate pulling the door cards off these days as the plastic is really fragile.

Interestingly the post fluid change transmission was noticeably smoother, most of the time. However, I did feel the occasional harder shift, both up and down, usually from 2 to 3, but not always. I’ve got plenty of fluid and will swap it out again shortly in an attempt to get more of the darker existing fluid out. I wonder if the Porsche shop that did the transmission install 4 years ago used OE BMW fluid, or something they had on hand, and now I’ve got mixed fluids. Who knows.

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A new master key from the bmw mini store showed up today and I got it programmed after a few attempts. I was mistakenly putting my old keys in the ignition when trying to program them as additional keys. Figured it out and I’ve got 3 working keys, one brand new and 2 over 20 years old. I’m using the new one!

Did Nolasport do the install?