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Hi everyone, first time posting here. This is a bit of a guide, but mainly a review of my experiences with the EvoX-R 2.0 projectors from retrofitlab.com. I don't want it to be too long, so I'll just highlight some interesting points that I wish I knew before buying. Feel free to ask any...

Okay so my car is '01 525i, Automatic, sedan, M54B25. I love this car, bought it 4 years ago from an owner who neglected it for years. I've mended it and it runs heavenly now. There are no big issues with this car in the last couple of years that would leave me stranded on the side of the road...

Hello! I’m thinking about changing my 3.5 with 4.4. Do you guys think that there is any sense? I’m feeling my car a little bit slow than I want. Is the 4.4 faster enough to make it worth replacing it? Greetings!

Hey guys! I'll try to keep things short, but please give me as much details as possible. So I have e39 with manual seats and manual steering column. A friend of mine has recently bought an e39 as a part car (He was doing manual gearbox swap, so buying the whole car was a smarter and cheaper...

Hello Everyone, I have an 01’ 525i automatic. I recently got gas at QT (93 premium) as I’m starting my car to leave it begins to rough idle then cut off. I checked the oil and it’s was pretty low, so I bought some tried again and the same thing happened, rough idle and stall. I checked the DME...

I've had sound issues with my 01 530i touring since i purchased it back in dec last year. When i turn on the car, the radio plays only through the rear speakers in the boot for anywhere between 1 - 10 seconds before all sound cuts out. My setup is the 16:9 unit with nav, cd changer, no dsp, no...

OK, I'm getting closer (I think) to solving my A/C problems. I recently discovered I could look at the A/C with INPA so I did and here's what I came up with. If anyone can shed some light on to what these errors are telling me (where to look) I'd greatly appreciate it. ECU: IHKA39_5 JobStatus...

Car in question a e39 523i 1999,Sooo, now when im preparing for a germany trip i found out that just nu both front doors wont lock or unlock on my keyfob. (The rest of the doors are working) Byt from my front door am i only able to roll down my driver window. Ive Been in the driver door and...

My car is doing this violent thud/jerk that is really loud and feels rough whenever I hit 20mph. It comes from the rear, and feels like I am getting rear ended every time. I thought it might be the transmission but once i start driving, i get that thud when i get to 20mph then after that it...

While driving down the freeway, I noticed a slight loss of power.. While continuing to drive, I was pressing the gas pedal but it was not accelerating.. The engine started running rough so I pulled over to the side of the highway, the engine seemed to be shaking and running rough, I turned it...

As the title says. Just replaced the drivers door lock actuator today on my 2001 540i/6 because every time I unlocked the car, all the windows were going down. Now, after I replaced it, it is behaving strange. I CAN unlock the drivers door, all the other doors, as well as roll the windows...

TL;DR at the end, I've been restoring my 2000 540i for a couple years now, a very slow process. The last major work I did was the timing chain guide rails, during which I was supposed to remove all sprockets from all four camshafts. I removed three easily but the bank 2 exhaust cam bolt is very...

Hello! I am in desperate need of some advice on how to deal with a Secondary Air Monitor that will not run. I need the car to pass smog for state registration but I'm having incredible difficulty in setting this monitor. It's one of two monitors that won't run (EVAP and Secondary Air) and...

I want to rebuild a M62TUB46, I have been researching to source parts and info for the rebuild and I stumbled on this YouTube video and I noticed the guy in the YouTube video use a double chain VANOS and crank timing instead of the single chain units I usually see on my YouTube University...

hi i am doing a manual swap on my e39 525d 2002 Model i have a manual Kit from an e39 525tds . anyone have any experience with this? possibly which clutch and flywheel I need to use. have heard that this should work.

Hello Bimmerfest! I’ve usually googled my way around the WWW and found alot of helpful threads here! But i have a issue i can’t seem to figure out of, nor google my way towards a fix. i have managed to move the 528 car into the 525, gearbox, pedal and it fires and runs, clutch works enough (...

Okay I’ll try to keep this short and simple as I can while giving as much information as I can. any help would be greatly appreciated. so I was out driving my car hard and decided to drift in a parking lot with a couple of buddies and I definitely pushed it passed it’s limit. Which is okay I’m...

Dear all, I want to say hi. I am a new owner of 2003 525i, with less that 54,000 miles, automatic, and kept in the garage all of its life by the two previous owners. It was their weekend car. Reading this group is really helpful and entertaining. the previous owner (family) did notify me that...

So my car has a knocking sound, it started maybe month or two ago, took it to the mechanic and he said that it's normal for these engines, however, it became louder overtime, and more agressive, at first it was like tapping rather than knocking, i think it is coming from the top-back of the...

My obc says the temp while sitting says 99c with ac on but when driving around it goes from 93-97c. Without ac it can be a tad lower then that usually sitting without ac is 97c is this normal