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Hi Simon....welcome to the Forums I think Dave (Greydog) would be the best man to answer your X5 queries....he should be on the site soon. Good to have you onboard Cheers, Trevor

Hi Terry That's a tough one to answer really. My only alarm bells at this stage are that they say the oil pump has failed....how? Oil pumps wear and can block up, drives can shear and other factors can exist to lower oil pressure but to completely fail....bit confused by that one. Also, surely the oil pressure light would illuminate? I would certainly research the cost of the pump and see if you could supply them with one from a cheaper source. Bore wear, that can occur on overrun (piston slap) but to be fair, a rebore and new pistons would cure that. However, if you look at the score marks on the piston skirt they are clearly on either the thrust or the non-thrust side BUT when you look at the score marks in the bore they are on neither the thrust or the non-thrust side but within the gudgeon pin area. Make your own mind up....???

Hi Kay....welcome to the Forum Post up some pics of the revised bumper when you sort it Good to have you onboard

Hi John....welcome to the Forum Wow! 7000 miles on a 2007 car, that's a hell of a find. I'm sure it just needs driving around to loosen everything up after doing such low miles. Although the tyre pressures may lighten things up if inflated a little higher?

I think DAB is the way forward, although you would still need an aerial to receive the stations. I believe they do a DAB aerial that adheres to the inside of the windscreen but don't quote me on that

Hi Warren.....welcome to the Forum I have previously owned a Tuning Box (on a Honda CRV 2.2 cdti) and unfortunately sold it when I sold the car. It takes about 10 -15 minutes to fit yourself. However, in the time that I have it fitted, it vastly improved the driveability of the car, made it more flexible on the transmission (didn't need to change up constantly to maintain road speed), the economy improved by at least 15% and quite frankly cried when I took it off....what a difference it made! I fitted it with the intention of improving the economy and this is exactly what it did....I didn't however, buy it with a huge performance increase in mind. I would say, go for it, you won't regret it !

Hi Craig....welcome to the Forum ....welcome also to the wonderful world of BMW Good to have you onboard