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Yu'll be allowed to park in FRONT of your shop now

or BMW Scanner 1.4 from xcar360.com for about NZ$40 shipped. BMW specific, and can be used to change some stuff :-)

Keen on swaps for a jetski?????

E39 wipers are great! I get sick, sitting in little Jap car passenger seat with one eye looking out the cleared windscreen and one eye out the wet bit - some of them are REALLY bad! E39 is clear for both eyes, regardless of the side I sit on! Our VW Touran is even better - BOTH wiper pivot on the outside, so the wet triangle is behind the rear view mirror!

I like the little places! I use a local place - Ubernet. I once had a problem with our internet, and it WAS a fault on my network. They offered to come out and change the settings for me, when they set up the voip phone I was ordering. I had another problem with dropped connections, and they phoned ME and told me I had an issue with my antenna, and someone would pop out if the time was OK and replace it - I hadn't gotten around to calling them yet! Then last weekend, we had a fault where the Voip phone worked, but the internet wouldn't. Sorted on the phone, with a guy who KNEW what he was doing, in about 10 minutes - turned out to be a cable fault at my end too! The cable I tested it with was faulty too, which confused us for a few minutes too. Sure I only get 10 mbps, but it's always the speed I pay for (their slowest option) or faster, and I don't use any Telecom/spark stuff - my house isn't connected to the phone netowrk at all It took Telecom so long to diagnose a fault when I tried to hook up our house, that I arranged an alternative. Then when our firends built down the road 18 MONTHS later, the same fault still existed and it took them 6 weeks to get a phone line I also live in the country, and 10mbps is a shitload faster than anyone else out here gets anyway

Lucky someone knows! Thanks Glenn!

Not sure that's any better, considering initial context......

The gauge doesn't move from normal, until the coolant on the sensor is HOT - it will show normal until at least 115C, probably 120C. Also, be aware that the gauge ONLY reads the temperature of the coolant it is in - if the coolant no longer touches the sender, it often just reads normalish. The sender is very low in the M54, so it's not too likely to happen, but the gauge climbing means things are getting HOT! The OBC in our E39 is set to gong for high coolant temp at 130C or 135C, so you don't really want to get that far. I'd stop driving it if it were mine. If you have coolant loss, you've got a leak somewhere probably, and the overheating and lack of heating in the cabin will probably be because of air - certainly the heater will be. You do NOT want to overheat an M54 badly, because you'll need a headgasket done, and that usually involves fitting timeserts to the block - which is REALLY difficult to do with the engine in the car on a 3 series, because the back holes are far enough back that the scuttle gets in the way of a straight drilling line. On an M54 powered E39, the easy way to bleed the air out, is to turn the ignition on but engine off, heater on highest temp, fan on lowest speed, top up the coolant, and bleed bubbles out the bleed screws - while keeping the level as close to correct as possible. I assume the 3 series has the same auxilliary coolant pump. This might help too: http://bimmersport.co.nz/topic/47848-e39-obc-secret-menu-ktmp-coolant-temperature/?hl=%2Bsecret+%2Bobc+%2Bmenu

Pull the radiator and check it. The legs on the small knobby connector where you leak is can break off, and cause the leak. They have an oring in there. The bottoms of the radiator can bow out under pressure, and if that's happening, its new radiator time. Check it quite thoroughly, because the radiators have a limited life anyway.

Bet it made him feel like a real man.

The Government pays them to have more kids, and bring them up the same way... Thanks Labour!

5 day weekend for me

The E39 MUST have a decent battery, otherwise they can have a fair few weird issues. If the starter is clicking (ie power to the solenoid, and the main live) when you try to crank, that suggests a starter fault. If you don't get clicking, it can be any number of things, and a scan MAY help identify something, such as an intermittant key code issue (which leaving the battery off overnight can SOMETIMES help).

What version of windows are you running? Mine works fine on WIndows 7, 32 or 64. I haven't setup my BMW Scanner for a while, but I seem to recall plugging it in, then manually installing the drivers via device manager, then installing the software and cranking it up. The software itself won't open until you plug into a car. That was my www.xcar360.com BMW Scanner. INPA from cable-shack has great support, though I didn't get mine there, Jimmy reads another forum I read.

No heating here yet. Got down to 14C inside last night... Double glazing, or even curtains would probably bump that up a bit though

Sounds like the AA - know about as much about cars as my Mum.

NICE! That really looks good - Interior looks way nicer than black too. I started a list of things to do 1: Clean exhaust tips

buy a ribbon cable off ebay Took me about 1.5 hours to do... with a 3 year old "helping".

and it burns...

Ooooooooooooooooh! I was thinking Unimog, or trabant, right up until you said that! Local collector up here has one, that was smuggled through switzerland to the UK and then shipped over here. Any one of them is a great idea. If you can't shift it, you can give it to me.

NO TIME! It's all about post count - quantity, not quality! Outside of internet forums, I have no life! The emergency contacts in my wallet require internet access. My will leaves money to my ISP and hosting. I really drive a Mazda Demio Auto

That's true - the TU was a massive improvement too, the M54 gains a better low end torque curve, which blitzes the M52 non TU... which possibly doesn't have a torque curve with a slushbox and E39 strapped on. I don't think the TU was used for long in the E39 was it??? The 3.0 is the 6 cylinder to get, because it doesn't really use more gas than the others anyway.

Remember the Jap import prefacelift "525i" is really a 523i is disguise - the facelift M54 525i is a far superior performer.

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