I ran a car load of parts over to my Indy repair guy, who is going to chase down the trifecta for me. As long as it will be there a while (long line of Bimmers at his shop waiting for attention) I asked him to short cut my to-do list with a caliper rebuild and the rear shock refresh I have been trying to find time to do. My wife was happy to see the large FCP box with the Bilstein B4s, mounts, bumpers, etc. disappear from the dining room.

I also dropped off an EBay DSC module, with the pump on. I couldn’t track down an exact part number match, but the Indy can reprogram it so I went with a several years newer E53 part. All evidence points to my module intermittently loosing power as the car heats up, so hopefully the used part will fix it and I’ll send my original off to get repaired and add it to the spare shelf.

I was able to do some driving trips for work in my X, and subsidize a parts order with the mileage reimbursement:



New BMW driver's door lock actuator
New BMW shifter boot
New tension struts and ball joints for the front (figured out this was the source of my clunk)


Mileage reimbursement is up to 65 cents/mile, which is enough to keep even an E53 X5 running. Looking forward to finding some time to put all of it in.

Wash, clayed and Waxed. Interior detailed and leather treated. Posted it for sale on BMWCCA website.

Replaced the driver side door window as the original was really badly scratched from grit in the outer wiper seal. Can't believe the difference it makes to the look of the car..

Installed a new center support bearing and CV joint on my driveshaft. Man, what a complete pain this thing is to remove. The rear flange on my 4.8is was tucked way under the stupid exhaust heat shield, unlike the pelican parts how-to shows. Had to drop the exhaust to wiggle the heat shield out of there and despite having no rust on my car, the driveshaft was seized pretty good to the rear diff so that took a lot of coaxing to get it off. I was only planning on replacing the support bearing, but when I removed the driveshaft, I noticed that the CV joint was really gritty feeling so I decided to replace that too.

On the m54 the starter is on top. I can't remember where on the v8s. If you have trailer hitch it has B+ on it you can slow charge but it's fused likely 10-15a

You can open the hood though the kidney but you need to cut a small hole in the skirt around the radiator

I tapped a concrete pillar in a pitch black parking garage while reversing at maybe 1 mph... Which of course pushed the bumper in enough to cause the end of the bumper cover to pop off at the wheel well. Great

Bottom right side of the motor. A challenge to get to without removing the stiffener plate, or the right wheel well liner. Although I did change mine a few months ago without removing the plate. Realistically I would have saved time by removing it though. Trying to shortcut Bentley rarely works out for me.

Photo? I hit a snowbank and pushed in Paris of my front bumper cover. Was able to push them right back in with my hands after getting spray shields out of the way

actually found a pair of your wheels, it has significant scuff marks on one of the wheels, not sure if it's worth the purchase, thoughts?

He was kind enough to offer 500 for all 4 wheels

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