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My name is Jimmy and I have IBS issues.

Bloody BMW decided to put an intelligent battery sensor in the E60.


The big question is....have you ever charged the battery directly, bypassing the IBS?


i have never charged the battery. It's in rude health and this is one of those BMW "known ...

Cotswold BMW's phones have been borked all day so things are going slowly. Turns out the EGR cooler is borked as are two of the connecting pipes. Parts are on next day order.

£750.

Ouch.

My name is Jimmy and I have IBS issues.

Bloody BMW decided to put an intelligent battery sensor in the E60. Sadly, it's caught Donny T's dementia and been very very not intelligent. Firstly it threw a voltage issue and needed the negative cable from the battery replaced and then spat it's dummy out ...

Selling 10 of these for £10m each would get more money in than any other car in their range.

Jobbo wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2026 1:05 am

Matty wrote: Sat Mar 21, 2026 11:52 pm Oh, and it's gotta be Techno-Violet, surely?!?

Close enough - it’s Daytona Violet. E34 M5 vibes.

Good choice!

You're tempted, then?

https://www.tiktok.com/@epistemiccrisis ... 8092847639

Would you like shit shoes? be a friend of Dementia Donnie.

Jobbo wrote: Mon Mar 16, 2026 4:08 pm
I will hear no further discussion on the matter.

Has your deaf aid packed up again?

Anyway, I have decided that I'd take a Diablo VT over a Cuntrash.

That's shitty. Condolences.

mik wrote: Sat Feb 07, 2026 7:54 pm

Great photo.

GWS Hutch

This thread really feeds my dog broodiness.

It's been quite the week at Chez Choo.

Last friday a squeal came from the bathroom indicating that the hot water was no longer being supplied to the shower. Investigation revealed that the central heating was still working but the boiler wasn't doing the hot water thing. The boiler is 20 years old ...

jamcg wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 4:59 pm https://www.threads.com/@laif227_/post/ ... Ki7&slof=1

What struck me about that was the amount of french and italian dross in the list.

Question for the BMW owners who have idrive based service history. If you service it and reset the regular service reminder but not the dealer only idrive service history will the car throw a hissy fit and keep saying that it’s overdue for a service?


my '05 5 is iDrive and when I've reset ...

Question for the BMW owners who have idrive based service history. If you service it and reset the regular service reminder but not the dealer only idrive service history will the car throw a hissy fit and keep saying that it’s overdue for a service?


my '05 5 is iDrive and when I've reset the ...

it was good fun to make and cool to have a bit of an adventure.

The thumbnail reminds me of what you were like 20 years ago. :D cracking vid, though. Is that one of your longest videos?

The thing with Gloucester services is that it prices out the chavs who'll keep driving down to Michaelwood ...

Delphi wrote: Mon Jan 12, 2026 1:41 pm Well it looks like I'm no longer being made redundant. Had a call on Friday from my Head Of Technology saying a senior engineer role had come up in the MySky app team and was I interested. I've asked for a pay rise and said yes.

Good Darts!

You're a dick.

John wrote: Sun Jan 04, 2026 11:28 am Who remembers the first time they tried left foot braking?

When I first got the Jag, I did left foot braking when I forgot i didn't have a clutch.

It’s interesting that I didn’t post one of these last year. I suspect I wasn’t in the right headspace.
2025 has been a bit tough. Redundancy in May was a bit of a kick in the plums, especially as I did the budget for 2025/2026 and made sure I was in it. It’s the first time someone has cried in one ...

T'other