Thanks for the info ForcedInduction! I know about the speed traps. One of my German colleagues last time I was there told me about getting flashed...
I'm going to be storing my car for 18 days while I am out of the country. Are there any precautions I should take? I'd disconnect the battery, but...
I will be in Germany for two weeks in October. I will be arriving in Munich and hoping to rent an Autobahn worthy car there for the weekend and...
My shifter seems to be getting worse. As soon as I take care of some other maintenance items such as cooling system and rear shocks, I plan to tackle...
Sorry for taking so long to follow up on this. It turned out the seat switch plastic housing was cracked where the connector plugs in. I repaired it...
I finally got a build sheet for my 2000 528i. The big surprise was that my car was originally delivered with Xenon lights. As it is right now (how I...
After more than two trouble-free months, a new (although minor) electrical gremlin: My driver's seat adjustment and steering wheel adjustment...
OK... My car has had four owners. Owner #1 (unknown) bought the car new in NY, and appears to have traded it in. Owner #2 bought the car as a CPO car...
I have a 2000 E39 (which I purchased in Jan 2010) that apparently was a BMW CPO car. Going through the service receipts that I was given, I found an...
It's a tricky procedure, but it can be done. You'll need to have experience working with small electronic components and soldering. The batteries...
I could see a 330i ZHP 6-Speed coupe as my next car. With my lifestyle, I hardly need a back seat. I took the wiper blades back to BMA,...
Griot's Garage sells windshield polishing kits, and even "glass clay" to get the contaminants off. Unrelated: Yesterday I rode with a friend who...
I think it was the older ones that were flawed or failed (mine was date stamped 2000). The Valeo unit did not have a BMW logo, but it had the letters...
I'd totally buy $5 inserts from the dealer parts dept... but they are all closed weekends, and I work M-F. No one else seems to sell inserts these...
Mine does this too... I think it's just something that needs lubrication. It does not sound like anything is binding or wearing out. I will be...
I'm going to have the Power Flex polyurethane bushings and the Bilstien Sport rear shocks installed soon. Based on the improvement to the front...
I've heard the M Coupe OEM shifter works well in the E39...
This seems like the dumbest thing to me... coming on a DIY forum to ask for advice on wiper blades. But I've noticed that none of the "usual...
If it's your FSR, I would reccomend pulling it and taking it in to the parts supplier to get a replacement that matches. The first replacement FSR I...
I have the same engine (M52TUB28) in a E39 528i. A cold air intake, performance exhaust (a/k/a new muffler), and software upgrade (e.g. Shark...
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