What have you done to your BMW today?
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danb79 said:
Time to get em off, washed, dried and then coated 
Doesn't take too long really. Just do a wheel at a time and use Gtechniq C5 - its good stuff and it goes a long way
I did think of you Dan last night watching YouTube funnily enough, and the video I was watching was advertising that stuff on it! Doesn't take too long really. Just do a wheel at a time and use Gtechniq C5 - its good stuff and it goes a long way
Decided to put my big boy pants on and have a go at installing the retrofit Integrated Automotive Car Play unit to my 2014 F10 530d
I figured rather than pay someone £250 to fit it, I could pay them £259 to come and fix it, if I couldn t do it myself..
Not gonna lie, there was a point where the HU was out, the HVAC was out, the screen was out, and I had taken the glovebox out, where I looked at the car, now in many pieces, and felt the cold finger of fear poking me up the bum
But, a bit of self talk and some deep breathing, and it all went back together just fine..
Quite a spenny system, the IA version, compared to some Chinese versions, but the spec is better and they are apparently the version to go for.
I do have a couple of screws left over though from somewhere in the glovebox, so I need to sort those and reconnect the soft opener damper. But my head was ready to explode and I will return to sort those bits maybe this avo or tomoz.
I figured rather than pay someone £250 to fit it, I could pay them £259 to come and fix it, if I couldn t do it myself..
Not gonna lie, there was a point where the HU was out, the HVAC was out, the screen was out, and I had taken the glovebox out, where I looked at the car, now in many pieces, and felt the cold finger of fear poking me up the bum
But, a bit of self talk and some deep breathing, and it all went back together just fine..
Quite a spenny system, the IA version, compared to some Chinese versions, but the spec is better and they are apparently the version to go for.
I do have a couple of screws left over though from somewhere in the glovebox, so I need to sort those and reconnect the soft opener damper. But my head was ready to explode and I will return to sort those bits maybe this avo or tomoz.
Edited by CTO on Saturday 11th October 11:00
CTO said:
Decided to put my big boy pants on and have a go at installing the retrofit Integrated Automotive Car Play unit to my 2014 F10 530d
I figured rather than pay someone £250 to fit it, I could pay them £259 to come and fix it, if I couldn t do it myself..
Not gonna lie, there was a point where the HU was out, the HVAC was out, the screen was out, and I had taken the glovebox out, where I looked at the car, now in many pieces, and felt the cold finger of fear poking me up the bum
But, a bit of self talk and some deep breathing, and it all went back together just fine..
Quite a spenny system, the IA version, compared to some Chinese versions, but the spec is better and they are apparently the version to go for.
I do have a couple of screws left over though from somewhere in the glovebox, so I need to sort those and reconnect the soft opener damper. But my head was ready to explode and I will return to sort those bits maybe this avo or tomoz.
Great job and thats a great upgrade!I figured rather than pay someone £250 to fit it, I could pay them £259 to come and fix it, if I couldn t do it myself..
Not gonna lie, there was a point where the HU was out, the HVAC was out, the screen was out, and I had taken the glovebox out, where I looked at the car, now in many pieces, and felt the cold finger of fear poking me up the bum
But, a bit of self talk and some deep breathing, and it all went back together just fine..
Quite a spenny system, the IA version, compared to some Chinese versions, but the spec is better and they are apparently the version to go for.
I do have a couple of screws left over though from somewhere in the glovebox, so I need to sort those and reconnect the soft opener damper. But my head was ready to explode and I will return to sort those bits maybe this avo or tomoz.
Edited by CTO on Saturday 11th October 11:00
These OEM in dash displays get old looking very quickly. Its good theres a market in upgrades.
I'd an E63 a couple of years back and the display was ancient looking!
CTO said:
Decided to put my big boy pants on and have a go at installing the retrofit Integrated Automotive Car Play unit to my 2014 F10 530d
I figured rather than pay someone £250 to fit it, I could pay them £259 to come and fix it, if I couldn t do it myself..
Not gonna lie, there was a point where the HU was out, the HVAC was out, the screen was out, and I had taken the glovebox out, where I looked at the car, now in many pieces, and felt the cold finger of fear poking me up the bum
But, a bit of self talk and some deep breathing, and it all went back together just fine..
Quite a spenny system, the IA version, compared to some Chinese versions, but the spec is better and they are apparently the version to go for.
I do have a couple of screws left over though from somewhere in the glovebox, so I need to sort those and reconnect the soft opener damper. But my head was ready to explode and I will return to sort those bits maybe this avo or tomoz.
I thought I had to change the head unit on my 645 a few years ago (it turned out to be 2 dicky screens from ebay before I got a good 2nd one) and forgot I'd moved the gear stick back to give me room to get the unit out. On reconnecting the battery (having remembered not to shut the boot this time...) the dash showed a very big very red cog and a very big very red exclamation mark. The ice cold finger of fear arrived unlubed.I figured rather than pay someone £250 to fit it, I could pay them £259 to come and fix it, if I couldn t do it myself..
Not gonna lie, there was a point where the HU was out, the HVAC was out, the screen was out, and I had taken the glovebox out, where I looked at the car, now in many pieces, and felt the cold finger of fear poking me up the bum
But, a bit of self talk and some deep breathing, and it all went back together just fine..
Quite a spenny system, the IA version, compared to some Chinese versions, but the spec is better and they are apparently the version to go for.
I do have a couple of screws left over though from somewhere in the glovebox, so I need to sort those and reconnect the soft opener damper. But my head was ready to explode and I will return to sort those bits maybe this avo or tomoz.
Edited by CTO on Saturday 11th October 11:00
Olivergt said:
I'm hoping to do my 2 rear wheels over the weekend, I have a sticky caliper to resolve first though, hopefully it just a case of cleaning up the slide pins as it only started a few days ago and did free itself a couple of times.
Resolved the sticky caliper,as suspected it was just the slide pins. I did both sides as I figured the other side would be in the same condition.Didn't do the wheels as it took me a while to figure out the rear centre jacking point.
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Olivergt said:
Olivergt said:
I'm hoping to do my 2 rear wheels over the weekend, I have a sticky caliper to resolve first though, hopefully it just a case of cleaning up the slide pins as it only started a few days ago and did free itself a couple of times.
Resolved the sticky caliper,as suspected it was just the slide pins. I did both sides as I figured the other side would be in the same condition.Didn't do the wheels as it took me a while to figure out the rear centre jacking point.
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Have you greased them at all; or stuck with what TIS says and keep them dry?
I did the latter and they squealed
Popped a touch of Liqui Moly's ceramic anti-seize on and now nice and quiet 
New shocks all round (stuck with Sachs sport spec for now - 556838 fronts and 170857 rears - for the V8 E39s); new dust boots, bump stops all round too and for now will reuse the top mounts, but have new bearings for the fronts
There's been some good discounts on eBay recently, so taken advantage of that
I've a new lower oil pan and OEM BMW gasket on its way to me as well; the current gasket is leaking and the sumps love to warp with age, so may as well swap them out at the same time
There's been some good discounts on eBay recently, so taken advantage of that
I've a new lower oil pan and OEM BMW gasket on its way to me as well; the current gasket is leaking and the sumps love to warp with age, so may as well swap them out at the same time
danb79 said:
Olivergt said:
Olivergt said:
I'm hoping to do my 2 rear wheels over the weekend, I have a sticky caliper to resolve first though, hopefully it just a case of cleaning up the slide pins as it only started a few days ago and did free itself a couple of times.
Resolved the sticky caliper,as suspected it was just the slide pins. I did both sides as I figured the other side would be in the same condition.Didn't do the wheels as it took me a while to figure out the rear centre jacking point.
Before:
After:
Have you greased them at all; or stuck with what TIS says and keep them dry?
I did the latter and they squealed
Popped a touch of Liqui Moly's ceramic anti-seize on and now nice and quiet And to clean them up, I just stick them in a drill and use very fine wet/dry and then a scotchbrite pad to finish them off.
I'll be taking it on a run tomorrow and will be checking along the way. It was quite noticeable when it started sticking, weird noises etc, sounded and felt like I had a load of mud or something stuck on a tyre, which wouldn't be unusual given the s
te roads I have to drive on 
g3org3y said:
FFS.
Half way en route I get a low oil add +1litre warning. I think that's a bit odd, oil was at max on Monday when I last used it.
Get out and see this...
Had 1litre oil in boot, topped up (as possible...access is not ideal so spilt some down the side of the engine (*facepalm*) and got to garage without engine stting self. Left VERY apologetic note in the dash to mechanic and have since spoken to him.
Front left so I assume alternator gasket bracket? Cheap part but lots of labour. Told them to take their time...Feel terrible 'dumping' the car like that on them.
Update from the garage: Oil cooler/oil cooler pipe. Whole thing needs replacing. Suffice to say not cheap. Oh well, cheaper than a new engine. Half way en route I get a low oil add +1litre warning. I think that's a bit odd, oil was at max on Monday when I last used it.
Get out and see this...
Had 1litre oil in boot, topped up (as possible...access is not ideal so spilt some down the side of the engine (*facepalm*) and got to garage without engine s
tting self. Left VERY apologetic note in the dash to mechanic and have since spoken to him.Front left so I assume alternator gasket bracket? Cheap part but lots of labour. Told them to take their time...Feel terrible 'dumping' the car like that on them.
Edited by g3org3y on Thursday 9th October 08:34
And the CCC idrive in the 630i has decided to s
t itself. Not sure exactly what's wrong, but I presume the unit needs replacing. *adds to list* bodhi said:
Added half a litre of coolant to the 125i - not a mechanical expert, but I can't help thinking the fact it's used/lost half a litre of the stuff isn't good...
Can't see any around the engine bay or on the floor, no error messages on Carly either.
What prompted the add? Low coolant warning?Can't see any around the engine bay or on the floor, no error messages on Carly either.
g3org3y said:
bodhi said:
Added half a litre of coolant to the 125i - not a mechanical expert, but I can't help thinking the fact it's used/lost half a litre of the stuff isn't good...
Can't see any around the engine bay or on the floor, no error messages on Carly either.
What prompted the add? Low coolant warning?Can't see any around the engine bay or on the floor, no error messages on Carly either.
Kept an eye on temperatures yesterday via Carly when popping to the next town and back - other than the N52s love of running hot nothing was too alarming.
Started it up today and was greeted by the warning straight away.
Have taken it out this evening and it's all running fine, will see if the warning comes back tomorrow - if it does I'll either get it booked in, or give it a rest for a couple of weeks when we're in Cyprus.
Radiator is less than 2 years old and done 10k miles, water pump isn't much older.
It has taught me how to keep an N52 cool tho - drive it harder
Fortunately N52s don’t have stty plastic pipes under the inlet like older engines, but check your oil too in case the oil cooler gasket is allowing the two to mix. Otherwise it should be easy enough to spot an external leak, which is good.
It’s wild to floor the throttle and see the coolant temperature just freefall down to 80°c. That said mine seems to never go into the 110° mode now, it sticks at 80-90° no matter what. I did some parts changing and then just left it.
tty plastic pipes under the inlet like older engines, but check your oil too in case the oil cooler gasket is allowing the two to mix. Otherwise it should be easy enough to spot an external leak, which is good.It’s wild to floor the throttle and see the coolant temperature just freefall down to 80°c.
That said mine seems to never go into the 110° mode now, it sticks at 80-90° no matter what. I did some parts changing and then just left it.JakeT said:
Fortunately N52s don t have stty plastic pipes under the inlet like older engines, but check your oil too in case the oil cooler gasket is allowing the two to mix. Otherwise it should be easy enough to spot an external leak, which is good.
It s wild to floor the throttle and see the coolant temperature just freefall down to 80°c. That said mine seems to never go into the 110° mode now, it sticks at 80-90° no matter what. I did some parts changing and then just left it.
Aye it has been an eye opener watching the live temperature output as I've been driving the last couple of days. Pottering about it sits between 105-110, then on empty backroads last night it was down in the 90's tty plastic pipes under the inlet like older engines, but check your oil too in case the oil cooler gasket is allowing the two to mix. Otherwise it should be easy enough to spot an external leak, which is good.It s wild to floor the throttle and see the coolant temperature just freefall down to 80°c.
That said mine seems to never go into the 110° mode now, it sticks at 80-90° no matter what. I did some parts changing and then just left it.Someone needs to tell Carly how these things work tho, as it sets the "safe range" between 80 and 100 degrees C, so it spends most of its time with the temeprature in big red numbers...
Anyway I've had another look this morning. No mayo on the oil filler cap and coolant is still on max after doing 20 miles or so last night so it seems to be behaving. One thing I did notice though, is it says on the radiator cap to turn it until it clicks, which mine isn't doing. I can't say it feels particularly tightly done up either, so am going to pop to BMW later on and see if they have a radiator cap.
I've seen I can get them on Amazon, but will stick with Genuine BMW for this.
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