Sorry to keep coming back to this subject! I spoke to the local indy at the time of this original thread, who said that they knew they couldn't help me as they don't have access to the right level of the ECU. So I googled autologic and noticed that there was a place in Newcastle. We are heading down...

I am in Aberdeen, I had a quick look at the website for autologic yesterday and the most northerly appeared to be Tyne and Wear. I am heading to Newcastle in Spetember so will see if I can visit then, if you know of a Scotland based place I would be grateful to hear.

thanks Jason, I will have a chat with the guy I am seeing on Friday, see if he can sort this out! I wish I lived nearer London as I would just pop over to see you

the cynic in me says "coz it was the cheap option!" I'm not sure!! as i mentioned before my E39 petrol with the tip engine was beautifully tuned, but the tuning guy I spoke to had a X3 3.0i on the ramp when I called so he must have looked at it. Thanks for the idea for the Bosch auto speci...

Just to keep you all updated, I spoke to a guy who tunes BMW. He explained that the gear box mapping has not been changed in the X3 petrol from the diesel version, so basically the gear box holds down gears until it achieves the torque it is looking for, which in a petrol engine is at much higher re...

Thanks X5Sport, my 2001 E39 525i auto touring would easily do 30 to 35 mpg on a long run (25 around town although we barely used it for short runs), figures that I can't get anywhere close to on the X3. Despite them being about the same weight. You are right the MAF is an easy change but even OEM th...

Hiya, I went through the whole warranty thing with BMW and this issue, in the end the service manager called me to say that what I was getting was pretty much to be expected from the car / engine / gearbox combo. I get about 22 to 25 mpg if I coax it around and my husband seems to average about 12 t...

Hello All, The name's KT_MrsA, I currently drive a 3.0i X3 2005 auto. We have had BMW's for years, before that it was Toyotas (mine was the MR2 mk 2 rev 5, n/a, I loved that car and my user name MrsA comes from her, it's still around town!) and before that the inevitable bangers from my youth which ...

Hiya, I am in Aberdeen so not sure I have any local independents! I need to take my mother in law's X5 to a bloke in Livingston soon, but can't drive two cars at once! Are there any indy's local to Aberdeen?
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Will do newbie post this evening!

Hiya Newbie to the forum here!! Am looking for a bit of advice please, my car has always seemed to hold down gears too long in automatic (I always say it feels like the sport auto setting on any other BMW I have ever driven) and now it has virtually stopped changing gear. The codes on the ECU are no...