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Should just do the inline £5 Renault 5 thermostat in the top hose fix the car wont regen with faukt codes so use Carly every 500miles to clear codes and request regen good luck and well done at fixing JJ

It bugs me too - was gonna pump a bit of contact grease behind it - or a blob of vasseline JJ

Any bolt to the metal body is a ground the bolt that holds the fuse box in place can be used JJ

Isn’t that standard? i think that’s only where my 525d MSport Business has them. as stated above, would be an expensive way to do it. winder if it was registered incorrectly OR was a pre registered 550 SE and when someone wanted a 550 msport the dealer just specced it up rather than ordering a new 550 and having the SE sat around depreciating JJ

What makes you think it’s an SE? JJ

When wiring my dash cam it was not possible to source an ignition live in the fuse box i tapped into the wires in the rear cig lighters and ran wiring along under the centre console then up behind the glove box. Doing it this way would future proof proof any other uses and avoid battery drain JJ

You want a filter for your air filter? let the filter do the filtering and check it more often? my induction kit on the Brabus gets a regular clean as it’s always full of flies ha JJ

Diesels take longer than petrol cars to get up to temp - should be fine JJ

When my belt snapped it was because the water pump had seized make sure everything moved freely JJ

It’s not about opening the stat quickly - it’s because all the other stats have failed open because they are piss poor over engineered expensive cack i dont know what the coolant circuit is around the gear box or how it works off the main coolant but if it’s designed to have a different operating temp then I agree the top hose solution wouldn’t work. But then it must have its own pump etc? otherwise it’s all the same coolant on the same circuit and just because it’s a R5 thermostat - doesn’t make it crap at doing its job. That’s like saying a standard house thermostat is terrible because you haven’t bought a £300 Nest system. JJ

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It’s BMW that are bodging things with an awful design and poorly made parts just because it’s OEM doesn’t mean it’s good sounds like the OEM suspension vs aftermarket talk tbh JJ

You don’t have an OBD dongle plugged in unknowingly do you? JJ

Yup maybe shame not all places have this kit so in the absence of this, isn’t UV dye in the regas not the next best thing? JJ

If it’s just when you start the car it’s the glow plug controller JJ