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Nice work Tom. Yeah some cowboys out there for sure. Glad the outcome was all good in the end.

Enjoy

No probs thanks for the update

Have run it on several cars for the past 10 years ... no issues ever. Infact Jamez ran it for 4 years in his race car that only ever saw extreme conditions, engine started with 80,000ks on it ... and was compeditive and still had all factory hoan marks when he dismantelled it for a routine rebuild. This meant that he didnt actually need to rebuild it. I wouldnt believe everything youre told on the internet or around some traps. I prefer to rely on proven race performance. At the end of the day as long as you select a good mid range oil which is matched to you temprature condition of where you live (again a non issue in New Zealands mild temprature range) and you maintain oil change schedules you car will last you 300-500ks easy. I would be more worried about cam lobe wear than bearing failure in this case. I think Polly summed it up once in a thread, buy some bloody oil, change the filter, do an oil change, close the bonnet and just go enjoy your car.

In real world terms - I don't think generally it has anything to really do with the oil you put in your car, its more to do with how its driven (cold startup etc) and neglect as to why bearings fail. The 'going bang' issue was more a oil starvation issue with the reversed sump and oil pickup design under hard braking and transition to cornering. The S engines have tighter tolerances than normal but most oil that OEMs choose is more based on stability under longer service intervals than out right performance under extreme conditions.

perfect "dont open ya f**kin door on my car" parking

haha yerp picking up pressys for a mate of mine.

Will get Tom's attention to this thread. As he has the gear to do the chip replacement method We have restored ecus before that are deemed 'dead' over obd. If not the last way is to dump the a new flash onto the rom chips directly. The ecu can be realigned to your ews... all this really needs to be done in car ideally as its a bitch trying to do it on the bench. Ews ignition cut can be disabled if it's really a problem.

After being bailed into the passenger seat and enthusiatically being taken around the track for a 1:15 laptime with James at the wheel. James chuck me the keys and I went out at the end of the session. It felt like a natural change from my e30/s50 to this so my learning curve wasnt too steep... not quite having the same confidence as james' 160kph power slide around turn 6 I can say this thing allows you to reaaaaly push it and still feel like your safely doing what you want. Its a really amazing chassis. With some race seats + suspension tweaks and lightening up .. I cant see much touching it on the handling vs power front

But how do you make a successful media campaign about stupid people for stupid people?

Thanks Arron

Go get it load tested.

so its turned into a reality tv show now ?

I would also be interested if you have two. Jamez obviously gets first dibs

Enjoy

nylon fishing line and desolvit .. the safest way.

Then m-performance sub sub brand

I would get the badges, redo them slightly to the left a bit and fix the f**kup with the height of them. Then send the dealer a bill for my time. Pissed ant built the jig for that badge.

What happened is the 50d motorsport X5 was marketed as an M car (like the m5 or m3) Everone thought they were going to call it the X5M .. but it kind of got badged with that rubbish on the back. Its what happens with the marketing department get involved in anything.... blanket confusion

hahaha you should see my garage after my efforts ... nothing some degreaser and a scrub didnt fix.

Youve done bloody well man .. specially we you see what it came from

its is an auto but there is no slush about it.. especially with steering wheel controls and an Alpina EGS flash.

enjoy

Looks awesome man ... was quite a good hoon the other day ... its not sh*t thats for sure.

Nice work ... love the colour and look of your car.. and even more so your keeping it all serviced and mint.