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Thinking about returns    in the eventuality of a wrong part,maybe a UK supplier would be a option, as I am going cheap as possible,as I'm still smarting from the amount of money that was thrown at all three cars in 2025....should have kept the VXR8 and thrown these money pits away      Will pm you, but the site is playing silly buggers atm.                       

Significantly more than I paid for it 

He gave uk clear instructions. “ Get your own oil”.

Don’t worry this sh1t show will end in a few weeks then everyone else will have to pick up the mess ( except of course Israel)

Dorset has it's own oil! 

We should proclaim independence from Starmer's socialist shitshow Yookay. 

The Democratic People's Republic Petrostate of Dorsetshire?   

Parts finally arrived, so got stuck into sorting the parking brake fail on the ML.

New rear cables, new discs, new shoes and new fittings.

Someone had been there before, and the backing plates are, er, showing their age.

It needs another tweak just to tighten it up a smidge. But it seems to be fundamentally functional and balanced. It should last the couple of years or so that the car has left in it...

Not sure how to address the smoking issue, driving it doesn't smoke at all, but sat idling it does produce a bit

If it's down to wear and tear, then that's fine, it's done nearly 210k. It also hunts a bit under light throttle, tooling down the road at 25/30 mph. It's not surging through the drivetrain, but you can hear it. Pulls like an absolute train though so reasonably confident it's not a real issue.

Al, How much are you expecting/hoping to get for this Germanic piece of excellence  once the MOT regulations have been satisfied?

Brackley had no diesel or petrol Thursday afternoon.  That said, that's not an unusual occurrence, even pre the current minor disagreement.

Parts finally arrived, so got stuck into sorting the parking brake fail on the ML.

New rear cables, new discs, new shoes and new fittings.

Someone had been there before, and the backing plates are, er, showing their age.

It needs another tweak just to tighten it up a smidge. But it seems to be fundamentally functional and balanced. It should last the couple of years or so that the car has left in it...

Not sure how to address the smoking issue, driving it doesn't smoke at all, but sat idling it does produce a bit

If it's down to wear and tear, then that's fine, it's done nearly 210k. It also hunts a bit under light throttle, tooling down the road at 25/30 mph. It's not surging through the drivetrain, but you can hear it. Pulls like an absolute train though so reasonably confident it's not a real issue.

I bet Lizzies Omega that in fifteen years time you all will be having exactly the same conversations about whatever happens in the intervening time! The key thing to remember is your politicians aren’t in it to look after the people just themselves.

He gave uk clear instructions. “ Get your own oil”.

Don’t worry this sh1t show will end in a few weeks then everyone else will have to pick up the mess ( except of course Israel)

Yesterday I bit the bullet and ordered a new LED light unit for my tailgate from an Ebay supplier at about 4.00pm. £109.75 plus £21.95 to Rachel Theives.      Still it was better than £243 from the local BMW stealers.  ……..

It’s probably best if you don’t look up a genuine BMW headlight unit then, unless you’re sitting down.   

Headlight prices are crazy these days. Long gone are the days you could buy a sealed beam unit to fit an Austin or Ford for a couple of quid.

The Milk Float comes with matrix LED's that cost an arm and a leg if they go tits up.

Who deserves a boll*ocking for this?

POTUS

Trump is all over the place with this Iran episode.

One minute he tells us that the US will bomb Iran back to the stone age.....The next he talks about pulling out and leaving it to Europe to sort it.