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yep... and people who drive with park lights on... doesn't help the front end visibility at all! I once nearly hit a chick while she was walking. She was on the side of our country road, on the inside of a blind sharp corner. wearing a black top with a white stripe up one side... I swear she looked like the roadside. I didn't see her until she jumped into the drain

On the M54, it only changes the intake from a long path to a short path (kind of) to aid either low end torque, or high end power. It shouldn't affect the idle stability (on an M54) They can cause vacuum leaks however! They were known to disintegrate and the metal pin from the end, and some plastic parts lunched a few engines over the years! For the N52, I have no clue, having never worked on one. There are a number of intake cleaner you can spray into the intake when running - I've used Wurth system cleaner on a number of cars - the jap ones always blew PILES of smoke as the oil residue washed through and was burnt. On our E39, and VW Touran, I got NOTHING, no smoke at all - I assume because of the complex oil breather systems actually working!

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Just wait till the new X5 come out with a factory installed cracked head. Then we know they've swaped diesel technology both ways

Really? Ask a Hilux owner how many sets of injectors and clutches his Hilux has had, and how much THEY cost! Neighbours Hilux had a total of 9 injectors and 2 replacement clutches. Under warranty. With the piss-ass amount of power they make, they shouldn't have much trouble! A mate who is a heavy diesel service manager sold his personal one (hos wife actually drove it 90% of the time) with WELL under 100K (I think it was 65K) because the warranty time was expiring, and the warranty repairs so far had been close to $15K if he'd had to pay for them! Have you SEEN the price of genuine Toyota parts? Makes Euros look quite acceptable!

If you order a pile of them, you'll probably get stung for GST/customs on the way in, which may defeat the purpose of a group buy??????? Something to look into at least!

Nice AUTO shiftknob...

I've got the whole lot in my garage. It's in our 525i though The box from a 3 series can be used, and the other bits are small enough to get from europe, if you can't get them here (though most are probably hiding somewhere). Manual vs Auto in these things is nice and day - a manual E39 feels like a completely different car to an auto one.

530i must be manual also.

Having said that, there is a 100% mint (externally) one that parks in the Hospital car park here every now and then... I'm picking it was someones Grandfathers or something, and drive it in when it's rested long enough between outings. We all know what colour it is too

"Crome Shart": Could only find white...

We're trying to justify a new ultrasonic cleaner at work - I have a list as long as my arm that it would be handy for... but there are only a couple that are work related... Luckily, the work related ones are pretty important, so that helps - We'll have to use it for home stuff, otherwise it might deteriorate from lack of use I can't see why they can't spring for the $1200 one we're looking at, when the CEO got a 30K pay rise, and they're charging for parking now

Errr... maybe ARMY? It's good, but it's not easy.

That pic isn't an E39 though, right? Or is this for the E60 sport mode mod???? First pic looks like E39. If you're fitting them elsewhere, or plastic welding things to fit them, you could maybe rewire to VW ones: shop.carstyle4u.com has some cool ones (and weird ones!) and I've heard he's done custom ones for people: http://shop.carstyle4you.com/

Get an E65 and put a Toyota 2C-T in it. That would be the sh*t! Oh. No wait, I meant that would BE sh*t. ... with a cracked head.

^^^ That right there says to me it's had typical NZ car owner servicing - Engine Oil and filters - nothing else matters - haven't you heard?

Or anything else it seems - I actually made them refund me for the shitty test they did on ovens. I paid $20 online to read the test, which toild me absolutely nothing I couldn't get from the brochures, then they tried to argue that I'd gotten value for money. I thought $20 to find some good info on $6K+ ovens was worthwhile... turns out asking the salesman was just as "informative".... Yes, I do eat a lot, and am overweight.

Common as - trying to get their moneys worth!

About 4000 hours on Google will sort it. Problems: Depends on what cars you want to do, because they aren't all the same. I've fiddled a lot with the E39, but would be wary of anything not on similar architecture (which is really SOME of the E38 stuff, SOME E46 stuff and most of the E53 X5). If you're looking at similar stuff to that, start with "NCS dummy", and read at least 3 different guides :-)

It's funny how the Governments of the world do a LOT of talking and spending about reducing polution, but the policies don't actually do it... like the "smoke tests" they introduced in NZ years ago! In reality, there is a simple solution to reducing vehicles emmisions - use them less. If they actually made cycling, walking, running, scootering etc feasible it would reduce emmisions. Instead, the alternatives are compromised, to ensure vehicular traffic remains more popular.

Isn't there a fuse box or junction box under the driver seat?

Actually... it was available on the VW Touran in 2006, for the 2007 model year - so VW had it close to 10 years ago... but you sat in the car to do it. I think sitting in the car is better, because you don't have to stand in the rain watching your new 7 fail to park itself, because one parking sensor is faulty. again

Errr... you know we're talking BMW's right??? Intermittent was INVENTED in Munich.

Probably about time you spent some more money on it. I bet if I scanned it, we'd find the intake pressure was too low....