Recent content by smorris_12

Ha. I was going by the lack of orange strakes in the headlights. The side repeaters are orange too, rather than clear. Never realised the pre-facelift didn't get the reflectors!

I've got *exactly* this same problem on my E70 - trying to find the time to get it looked at. I get a sort of gurgling sound from behind the dash but that's it. The only other part of the system as far as I know beyond pump and heat exchangers is the expansion valve, of which faults can be a...

The facelift E85 went from M series to N series engines and his does look to be a facelift.

So why doesn't my car with the same tyre setup not buck me off the much abused M4 & M5? I can tell when there's an egregious rut but it runs nicely otherwise. It sounds like they've looked at the front but not the back. The RTABs are impossible to see in situ and can be really very worn but...

You lot have an absolute idéfix with tyres. The Z4 was designed with 18s in mind and far worse run-flats than we have now. It's not like 25 years ago with people throwing 18s on cars that came on 15s and having it dive around the place on motorways.

Oil will be LL-04, you won't find LL-01. Do you have some reason to think it won't have had everything done as per the book by the last owner? It could well have just had its second change since done by BMW based on those mileages, or it may be coming up. What does the dashboard countdown say...

I've got RFTs on the front and non-RFTs on the back and it drives brilliantly. Straight as an arrow well into license losing territory. The ride is also no worse than with non-RFTs. They're Merc spec Bridgestones FWIW - Chinese random name stuff is a lot stiffer and crashier. However, it won't...

Have a break, have a Kit-Kat. (Some car I worked on (forget if it was a BMW, might have been an E90) allowed you to adjust the position of the pedal switch slightly to vary the amount of dead travel before activating. And of course set a negative amount of dead travel.)

The big obvious difference is the hydraulic vs electric power steering which will lose the pump and possibly an idler.

Lovely. The 2002s have always looked well propositioned in pictures and I was still taken with them when I saw several of them at some car gathering somewhere. Also appear in one of my favourite films, The China Syndrome. What's going by the door hinge, just under the black decal, on the...

To quote Rolf the Dog: that boat has sailed, my friend. I've read your post twice and I know you're not one of the recent influx of AI bots, but bloody hell that reads like a dictionary attack fed into a drunk LLM. But you can have one point for not using the word "synergy." The site moved a...

The ally V8s are apparently a reasonable option as, IIRC, they're not that much heavier than the S54. As above the V10 has been done and I believe one of the V12s has been done as the engine bay is already long enough for a 6pot bank. But it did make the weight balance something like 70/30...

BMWs have had headlight monitoring since Moses was a boy! If by Google you mean the AI summary bit, ignore it completely on all subjects as it's so hallucinatory that it's got to be on drugs. I've lost track of the rubbish I've seen it spit out; it can't repeat fixed tables without rewriting...

An American with a big engine in a small car is like a mule with a spinning wheel. No one knows how he got it and danged if he knows how to use it.

.... and high & low beam halogen bulbs, and rear fog light(s).