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Where the hell are the photos ? Good grief.

For a pair of them, for an engine that can gobble fuel like there's no tomorrow when under full boost, that seems legit reasonable.


A lot of the engine parts are quite reasonable, the M5 engine isn't actually special, it's just an N63 (as fitted to 550i, 650i, 750i) with more turbot ...

Sundayjumper wrote: Thu Aug 20, 2026 2:01 pm It’s one of the HPFPs. Common problem so not surprising and not *too* expensive. It’s also an easy job fitting them.

Ordered just now, £360.56 for the pair from my fave supplier.

There’s a lot of words then right at the end it says:

Therefore, our focus will likely be upstream and focus on addressing practices that involve illegal modifications to the ECS of vehicles.

It’s cracking down on people selling dpf deletes, de-cats, egr deletes, obnoxious remaps. Probably not ...

Google says the problem is sharp edges on the body, and the steer-by-wire steering is not permissible.

I guess you could put rubber padding over all the corners, which wouldn’t make it look any more stupid than it does already, but the steering seems like a hard “no”.

I was wondering if they imported it themselves, or took it in px - for peanuts - from someone who discovered the hard way it can’t be registered here.

Does this work ?

https://www.threads.com/@iamreginaasaba ... UXqZVoLT2Q

Edit - nope, threads sucks as well.

I’m not sure the Islamic Republic of Iran has a Bluesky account, it doesn’t seem like their kinda crowd.

The link was some rando reposting the video.

And after all the labour to remove & refit, it would be a bummer to find out it was something else.

I'd also overlooked that a broken one would of course be undrivable and I don't have a trailer any more. D'oh

The trailer tent is well within the tow rating for the car. That shouldn't be the issue. Whether the gearbox has ever been serviced might be a bigger thing. They take it to VW, but I've no idea of what the service schedules are like.


I'd missed the "GTE" bit too. It seems to have a lower towing ...

Iran are turning out to be very good at this:


https://bsky.app/profile/danielgamboa82 ... 6qia3ssc2h

Back at Chateau Jumper, today was time to take the M5 for its first MOT in my ownership. My local place is good, but they have a new MOT guy now. The last guy was always very quick to get things out the door if you booked the last slot of the day. The new guy was seemingly grumpy about working on a ...

£5k ?? Get out.

Fair enough a garage won’t want to fit a random s/h unit from eBay or whatever and will (justifiably) insist on a properly refurbished item because they need to stand by the warranty, but £5k is mental. That must be a whole new gearbox ?

Edit - although this thread seems to ...

Yes. This is part of their idea of autism “research”.

This is more RFK jr tbf but I’m sure he’s all on board with it.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/28/rfk-jr-autism-research

The IACC panel calls for “rigorous testing” of fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT). The experimental procedure would involve small samples of feces from a ...

Next up; the San Andreas Fault will be renamed “Obama’s Fault”

It’s all so incredibly childish isn’t it ?

ANYONE can rename Lake Ontario:

https://gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario



Do this, he’ll lose interest very quickly:

Note to Grim Reaper - when we asked you to take an 80 year-old that likes kids, we didn't mean Dolly.

I know nothing about the Sportage, so I’ll just repost the same thing I said about a car for IanF’s daughter:



Let her choose something in a colour she likes. If you push her into anything else, every niggle will be a drama and All Your Fault. If she has the car she wants, the niggles will be ...