HalfJobHarry

Glad it's sorted. You'll likely find somebody swapped the battery in the past and didn't bother / know to do the coding.

I used to use INPA to do this but it became a chore. I have ProTool and a cable that works on my 07 E87 and 08 E82...which I believe should work on your E61. It's a 2 minute process if you want to swing by East Auckland sometime

Yeah exactly......much easier with a helper. Although it does balance quite nicely with a large wooden board I have and my big jack under that board.... i think its totally *doable* single handed...but like many things in life, it's going the be better with two 😅

Haha, the sump was easy enough with the subframe off. I just think I could spend an hour manuvering the damn thing back into place by myself...but would be 10 minutes with a capable helper . I'm possibly a week or two from putting the subframe up anyway, and the offer of help is much appreciated when works for you No, the hose is not new, year, cooling fan / radiator fan, the big electric one behind the radiator. The trans cooler is fixed to the bottom right (if you are facing the front of the car) of the cooling fan with a single screw. Once freed it moves around supported by two coolant hoses and two hydraulic fluid hoses. This movement seems to have caused the top hose to leak. It's a short little hose that goes into the radiator. I suspect only disconnecting it (and probably losing most of the coolant) and reconnecting or replacing it will solve it. Those clip/snap on type connectors are usually pretty good and this one seems in good shape. See the pic...the trans cooler is in the pale grey and the problem hose is 12. I don't do early mornings on the car either with the kids....snatching time in lunch breaks and in the evenings right now

Hi all, Looking for a mobile mechanic with BMW experience who would be able to help me progress the last stages of my project and resolve a few outstanding issues. I'm totally happy to pay the going rate for the BMW experience. The 'big one' is helping me get my front subframe back on. I think I could struggle with two jacks mucking around for an hour...or with a capable assistant get it back on in 10 minutes. Just the subframe back in position and bolted back in, re attaching everything else from that point is a single person job. Additionally The top coolant fitting of my AT cooler is leaking intermittently and it's no doubt due to having taken the cooling fan out and putting it back in. This beastie here : https://www.realoem.com/bmw/enUS/showparts?id=UC72-EUR-06-2008-E82-BMW-135i&diagId=17_0377 #12 in the diagram. https://www.fcpeuro.com/products/bmw-engine-coolant-hose-17117541143

Turners have now pushed dispatch back to 20th Jan, saying supplier delays, less than impressed as the website implied that these were in stock with them and they simply were not dispatching until 12th due to Christmas delays.... With the speed FedEx are delivering, I could be 'armless' for a month more at this rate....

Thanks for the offer, I should have updated that I'm all sorted now! Will have a spare set of bolts and gasket if/when Fedex deliver my order

I'm thinking back in the 2000s certainly very much before 2010! The gap did close as this shows...but the "Diesel takeover" was well established by 2012. I had the Mark V back in 05? 06? Anyway, even if they were the same price per litre...the MPG was the star...that 48 / 50 MPG could be hit easily.

I've done some calculations on my 120i over a couple of years and it seems to me the 91 to 95 (98 didn't result in improved economy), that the often substantially cheaper cost of the 91 offsets any consumption savings over 95...if the cost difference between 91 and 95 were more linear then it would probably not be the case. Interestingly in the UK 95 (RON so same as NZ) is the "cheaper" fuel and 98 is the premium stuff. I cannot recall ever seeing 91. (That said, I do usually fill up the 120 with 95....because that just seems the right thing to do 😂😂) Trust me...the increased MPG and the fact that at one point in time diesel was less than HALF the price of petrol in the UK was the main driver. The few hundred quid a year difference in 'road tax' (rego equiv) was not the main motivator, especially when considering the higher diesel car sticker price (and at one time the increased maintenance schedule!) People could pretty much half their annual fuel bill going diesel. Given they are also turbo diesel also of course, many most have amazing torque outputs for 'ordinary' cars and this also makes them very appealing. The gap between diesel and petrol has closed in price i the UK but the 48+ MPG that many diesels. Many of the smaller diesel and even petrol engines qualified for zero 'road tax'. I had a 2.0 TDI Mark V Golf as a company car for some years and the fuel economy on that thing was immense (and it would be most things off the lights with ease too!).

Any of the regular BMWs are more than happy on 91... The massive price of petrol in the UK drove a BIG BIG change to diesels (i'd say more cars were diesel than petrol when I left back in 2016). Don't know if that will happen here with the 'perceived' expense of RUC...

There is a 135i Manual coming in from Japan on trademe at an asking price of 30k..... I can only fathom that the premium is being asked because it's MT. I have driven both MT and AT (owner of an AT 135i)...and I had thought/wanted to prefer the MT version...but the truth is I didn't and I grew up with manual cars in the UK. With the XHP flash on the AT gearbox it's a responsive fast shifting thing of beauty...

Cheers. I pressed the button on Turner....not shipping until 12th though....I'm off using FCP Euro until Fedex sort their life out....waiting over a month for many items at this point

Oh yes please, do share some recordings....once I'm done with this round of upgrades exhaust is next on the hitlist.

My research and personal experience on the 135i E82 is that it does not work. The flap appears to not be CAN bus toggled but is directly controlled by the DME/ECU. I suspect it's the same on the E90. It's easy to have it open all the time...but then that comes with the drawback of having it open all the time...which for somebody considering a straight pipe probably isn't an issue

The N54 oil pan is in no way designed for gasket maker..I wish it were. it's a metal gasket with a crush by the looks of it. I'd be interested to know if anybody ever had success making their own gasket on one though.

Thanks for the offer, much appreciated! I'm not quite that stuck really at this point, just a few things (like some stuff from VRSF are stuck with FedEx) meaning that I'm in the unexpected situation of having the car in bits ready to do the work but none of the parts to do the work . Over 2 weeks stuck in Auckland at this point with no ETAs provided. I have parts from VRSF and FCP all shipped by fedex and all stuck.

I'm going to go for that from Turner I reckon. Pity they are not shipping until mid Jan though. Looks like she might be off the road until the end of the month. I suppose this is why I have a fun car I don't rely on day to day!

It's looking to be cheaper for the package as you thought it may be, such is the mass production consumer world we live in.

Hi all, I have an N54 pan gasket and bolts order stuck somewhere in the FedEx failure machine with no ETA, I have my pan off and want to start getting my car back together :). If anybody has or has a decent source for these parts local to Auckland please let me know. I'm preferring to collect in person as postal/delivery services seem super unreliable at the moment. I'm not *quite* ready to go any pay the dealer markup

Thank you very much! What's involved in changing out the bushings? I'm a simple engine person and all I ever hear is it's aggro pressing out bushes and what not. Although it would work perfectly if I can do i (get it done) as the tension struts are off the car right now.

Thanks, TRW or anonymous? Was that Amazon.com, and if so could you kindly point me to the seller

Cheers, have you used them? Do they ship Fedex/DHL types or something else?

Have you done the rear also or just front ? I've become quite an FCP fan over the last year, great service and delivery times from them, so sad they don't have the arms. I have my subframe off at the moment and am hitting everything that needs hitting. Hadn't even though/considered swapping the trans mounts... My motor mounts are standard and are still pretty solid so no need to change them.

I'm really not trying to be contentious. My key point is, that troubleshooting boost leaks on turbo vehicles is pretty much the same process, I don't personally feel it requires any particularly N54 familiarity. A smoke machine without pressurizing the intake tract is objectively the incorrect procedure, that's all I'm saying.

A couple of US suppliers (FCP Euro) etc are out of the complete M3 arms for upgrading 135i. Would anybody by (some slim chance) know of a local source or alternative source?