The NUN is all finished (Black & White)
 

Attachment 34043Finally got all the mods done!

Very well done pic, imo!
And, Titz looking E70.
BR,mD

nice.

Wow, your X looks great! :kewlpics: Love the M Sport Package...more pics please!

:wow:Your 35D looks like a Sleeper...:thumbup:

Very nice! :thumbup:

Closeup of the brake job please!

Very clean!

Cheers,

more pictures, please!

No comments till you post more pics. ;)

Calipers with ceramic pads.

Me Likey....Me want....

Nice touch with the yellow, as compared with the usual red...

Towbar installed!

Nice... Are you leaving the Mudflaps black ? Or would you consider taking them off... Like the look without sideboards as well ...!!!

Looks great!

I see an M badge on the back, duck you head for the incoming comments.

It's a M-Sport, its on the wheels and steering wheel also!

Black Matte Kidney Grills!

M-Sport flares and side skirt!

Clean as can be! It all comes together nice.

Very nice - an X after my own heart!! ;)

Final Shot!

congrats... glad you got it the way you like it.

Oh wow thats really nice. May I be the first to say that the truck would be over the top if those wheels were black

Yes there has been a fair amount of discussion about whether to have the wheels painted or not!

Paint Ball gone wrong!

Very nice X. I love everything about it.

very sharp. :thumbup:

Only thing I might do is remove the side badges...either way it is stellar!!! Congrats!!!

What tint process did you use on rear tail lights and bumper reflectors? I need a set of European fenders to get rid of my front side markers!!!

:thumbdown They look great just the way they are. All black wheels give trucks a military look. Like a H1 or something.

The photos are in Black & White and we don't get the front reflectors here as you do it the States!

No more discussion they are fine the way they are !!!:p:

Yeh, I think for time being I will leave the wheels the way they are!

If you ever get rid of them I'll take them off you in a heartbeat! Yes I am serious!

I will keep that in mind, the dealer has a set of black 21", when I have time I will get he to put them on and see what they look like!

PS. Jamesboags, I just put my first tank of diesel in, filled up with the new 5ppm of Sulphur BP Diesel, I had used in the old E70 3.0sd the previous BP diesel fuel which was 50ppm. There is a noticable difference in power between the old 2008 X5 3.0sd running on the 50ppm and this one on the 5ppm! it does get up and go!

In that case , Ok they look like crap get the black ones!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

Awesome X and some kick ass photos! Absolutely beautiful.

:iagree:

Lovely looking vehicle.

Personally I would loose the M badge though.

Kinda like having a AMG logo on a E350 sedan. But a great! looking X5. Nice job! :thumbup:

+1 especially now with the arrival of the X5M

The final snap to add to the collection!

Wheels still look crap !!!;)

In that case jamesboags they will shithouse on your X5!!!

Whats the weather like down south! its down to 3-5c here tonight!

In understand the "nun" aspect, but aren't nuns' habits mostly black? You could call this the "penguin"

i agree its not an M X5, its an x5 with the M body kit on it. Just my .02:iagree:

Some orders of NUN's wear white habits, or we could call it a white wabbit!

Whats that song, run rabbit, run rabbit, run run run!

Think Penguins have more black than white.

Or, what goes black & white, black & white, black & white ....... a nun in a revolving door!:rolleyes:

Weather is good.. for winter... it was colder last week... I'm on the coast so no frosts here ... What S/S pedals did you install... ? btw I've completed the Led bulb replacement on the rear lights..... look pretty good.. I have the HID kit for the Fogs just need some time to install... also have a 5000k replacement HId for my Xenons on the way... I got some of those leds for the Angel Eyes and the resistor fried within one hour. .:(. they are very shoddy .. and someone is making a lot of money off these... led themselves are still ok so I am wiring up a harness to try with a 50w 6 Ohm resistor to see if that works....have GP Thunders in there for the tiem being....don't forget to drop by the dealer to try those black 21ers!!!:D

I bought the SS pedal box from BMW, simply SS around the rubber, thru the middle and also on the throttle pedal.

Yeh, I put those leds on the AMG we have with big arse resistors, those resisitors run hot too, burn your skin hot! Also run 8000k xenon ds1 bulbs on it as well.

Those 5000k ones will look good but its not much of a step up as the OEM ones you have would be either 4200k or 4700k anyway?

The only thing I need to do now is the rear number plate bulb replacement on the new X5, then its all done!

Went 5000k (Stock 4300k) as that is what the HID fogs are that I am installing... prefer the white and higher Lumens (!) rather than blue tinge....

How come no inside shots?? I guess the FF0236 is no different to the 2008 model as nobody has shown anything new. Outside is looking good. I may have seen you a week or two back but the car had no plates at all.

There is not much difference, I think the start/stop button chrome surround looks a little different and I have the perforated leather comfort seat whereas I just had comfort seats in the last one, otherwise other than the extra I have optioned up there is not much at all.

The 6mm offset castor bushes I had installed track the x5 straight now on the heavier left cambered roads which was my main beef with the Adaptive Drive option, it has a little more go as the 35d has about an extra 10kw but it's probably down to the new 5ppm BP diesel fuel thats out now.

The under carriage plastic trays have changed a little, they look like they have been made a little stronger, especially around the inspection points under the motor/transmission area! I have been on the beach several times already and in the previous E70 I had to get BMW to place screw into these inspection caps so they would not get ripped off all the time while on the beach.

Front rotors as of Oct 2008 went to 348mm x 30mm and they still are the same size on this new May 09 production model. I changed out the pads for ceramic and they work well. Oh, and I went for the 16 speaker HiFi system and have to admit that I have had all 3 versions of the BMW audio systems now in the 3 E70's that I have owned and would say you can certainetly tell the difference. I don't think I would ever go back to any of the other BMW audio systems after hearing this one.

Also having had the different range of tyres on the E70's I still say that these Dunlops are the least noisey and as RFT the dunlops are also repairable as long as the damage is not on the sidewall. Finally the Active Steering feels a touch lighter at speed, always thought in the previous E70 it was a little to heavy at 100kph but that could be the combination on this X5 tracking straight and maybe the dunlops.

So, having had 3 E70 X5,s, a 2007, 2008 and now a new May 09 production, all have had Adaptive Drive & Active Steering & self-leveling suspension with 3rd row seats & HUD, I can say that all 3 have driven different on the same road conditions that I travel each week, Hwy, Freeway, Dirt & Beach. The little changes like Sport Seats to Comforts Seats, different tyres and making changes to bushes & brakes certainetly makes the X5 feel different. The extra torque of the diesel is also up from the 2007 & 2008 E70 models and like any vehicle that starts to be pushed harder the handling starts to change, you drive it harder which means you stop it harder as well.

Overall, I think the one thing I have learnt is that buying the first release of a new model although the difference between a E53 & a E70 is like Chalk & Cheese is that every yearly refinement of the same model improves that model, and with that would probably wait for the Oct or April production line minor change to occur as the very first 2007 E70 I had was like an experiment.

I don't think they can get this 3rd generation E70 X5 much better as the Oct 09 production looks like getting some minor front & rear bumper changes and the new iDrive. Thats my $0.02

My 2007 is fine.. although I went base options.. no adaptive drive .. no active steering as I didn't trust them in a new model..I'll definitely consider them now or in any model that is out for > 2 years.. I'll keep my 2007 now until 2014 ....

Can you tell me what type of ceramic pads you are using and if they will fit the standard callipers?
I ask because the front rims on our car become black with brake dust after a day or so. Very messy looking.
Thanks.

Nicely done.

Contact Carbotech there in the States, they are the ones that did mine. Just check with them which model you have as the E70 X5 comes with 3 different front brake types over a 2 year period!

Great find watrob. Which compound did you get...bobcat 1521? How is the dusting, noise and brake fade? What's your review so far?

Well its been 9 days since I cleaned the X5, have driven some 400klm and had about 3 days of rainy weather driving as well. The photo displayed shows the state of the front wheel, took it with my iPhone in the undercover car park, it actually looks worse in the photo as it quite a dark photo and the iphone does not help. The wheel would probably look cleaner if I had not driven in the rain each day and has probably picked up more dirt from that rather than off the brake pads!

I am quite happy with the amount of brake dust, would say its about 70% less than the oem pads. In regards to stopping power of these pads there is no difference and if anything maybe better, I have had one emergency stop on the Freeway the other night but with ABS and the braking system on the X5, it stops well, no lockups and straight.

The compound of these pads is the Bobcat 1521, its rotor friendly and you can see the rotor in the photo. I have no pad noise or fade.

If I can drive the X5 for 2 weeks without cleaning the wheels and when I do clean them they are in the state that the photo shows I don't think you can go past this setup. The pads themselves once installed cannot be picked as not being oem.

I should have done this to all my BMW's instead of putting up with dirty wheels. The only real differnce in these pads against oem is the bonding of the brake material is with ceramic instead of a carbon type substance with causes all the black dust.

Thanks for the info Watrob - I must look into it.

Good to see you are keeping my wheels clean ? :wow:

Hot!

I contacted Carbotech to see if they can make some pads for us E70 owners. I am looking into a possible group buy. I will post my findings.

Hi,

Just remember the front pads for the 348mm x 30mm rotored X5's, the blanks are hard to come by. CarboTech had trouble getting them and the only way I got a set built was to supply a oem pad set they could bond there material too!

Maybe if they had an order for 10 or more they might be able to get the blanks, otherwise you need to get some old sets off a BMW dealer or send them your front set off your X5.

Yes this is correct. I will have blanks laser cut to OEM specifications with CarboTech. Just waiting to hear who may be interested and pricing info. I will need 15 interested members to have this done.

I like the way this turned out.
Different but pleasing. Would
I want different color wheels?

No way......... Keep on truckin:thumbup:

I think you should get rid of the black protection film on the side step and the rear bumper. They're not functional and don't make it look better.

My wife actually uses the side steps to get in & out of the X5 when she has a tight skirt on, if I take off the black protection strip I am afraid the paint work will get damaged!

I thought I would give a report on how my Carbotech Brake Pads were going. If you read thru my thread you will realise I put a ceramic type pad on my standard X5 BMW calipers.

Well its been 21 months & 41,000km and everything is running fine, I have no brake noise or shudder and my rotors have minimal wear. The best part is I don't get that black brake dust and only need to clean my wheels every couple of weeks.

My BMW dealer has kept an eye on my rotors and is quite impressed.

My daughter has just picked up her new 2011 3 Series White 330d Coupe and on delivery we painted the calipers red and installed Carbotech Pads as well. I also painted the Wheels & Hubs in black gloss and ///M sticks on the calipers, looks great.

I would say putting ceramic based pads on our BMW's is one of the best mods we have come across. it is not hard to organise and the pads in most cases are cheaper than the oem pads from BMW.

Good to hear. Anything come of the GB? Brake dust is seriously harshing my buzz.

I believe Carbotech now has the brake pads in stock as a standard part number, give them a call?