[quote=""x555""]Rear bushes can be bought for around £80 and they are pretty simple to diy if you have access/loan/hire the bushing tool (Lez has the tool for hire ;) They look awkward but are pretty straight forward if being methodical and taking time :thumbsup: Without the too...

thanks guys, its not really a power lift system that i was after, i just wasnt sure if the hydrolic rams should be powerful enough to push the lid up all the way once the latch was released.. nevermind ha

when you pop the boot open via the key, does your hydrolics open the boot lid all the way up or does it just release the latch ? is there a way of making the boot lid go up like the lexus's or some other cars ?

done a full engine service on the X today :D drained all the oil, went to change the oil filter, i noticed that Stephen James gave me the wrong bloody oil filter :thumbsdown: ... so i kinda had no choice but to keep the old filter in there until i go and exchange it 2moro. Anyway, service all done, ...

sorry to say, but your reverse band in the gearbox has died !!!

same thing happened to my E46 325 cabby, i lost reverse which meant new (second hand) gearbox !. i thought i would be able to drive it and not use reverse, but thats proved impossible !!

sorry

£175 !!!! bloody cheap...

Liverpool for the league this year

thanks for the reply chaps... i popped down to Stephen James earlier and picked one up for £2.88 .. all fitted and looking good again

cheers for that Stuart.. ive been meaning to do this to mine too, but just havent got round to it yet !! mines dead slow.. hardly alive, so good to know it actually works

shouldnt be to difficult Roy... in the wires that you can see, you should have the power and earth wires, so basically a live and a earth, then you will need a seperate AV source ie, a dvd player or ps2 etc, thats where you will need to plug in the red/yellow and white rca cables and its pretty much...

incase anyone has got 1 spare? i need the rear left hand corner plastic bezzel which surrounds the sensor

any pics mate? once i buy mine, i will also go down the carpet route

such as? id rather pour boiling water over the handles which will take a couple of minutes than have to spend £70 odd quid and 2hrs labour to fix it !

im so glad i read the previous posts about the door handle freeze problem... everytime they freeze up now, i dont pull them, i just boil the kettle and pour hot water all over it ...

[quote=""StumpyPete""]3G might not be compatible if you have an older ULF module. I would check that out. Also have you checked to see if there are any phones already paired - there is a maximum of 4 I think, and if there are 4 paired you will need to delete one. Other thing to d...