BMW and M Power Owners

Simon said:
I buy 5l stuff for £15 and dilute it 2:1 (Water: wash) Still works to -10C.

Neat is -63c which we don’t need here !

So really it’s £5 for 5litres which isn’t too bad
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I dilute it a lot more than that and it still is spot on. I think I do it at around 5:1 and its still a deep blue, and never freezes or struggles to get rid of stuff on the windscreen.
 
Simon said:
I buy 5l stuff for £15 and dilute it 2:1 (Water: wash) Still works to -10C.

Neat is -63c which we don’t need here !

So really it’s £5 for 5litres which isn’t too bad
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Fair enough, I was using it diluted 50:50, guess the M4 was incredibly greasy this week as I nearly went through 5L of the stuff since Monday.
 
ChrisD. said:
Coming back to the fold, Focus ST is off and an M140i will be taking its place. Shadow edition, blue car, black (heated) seats, and Pro Nav. Should be a nice upgrade, may be putting some aftermarket suspension on it for track days.

I regret to this day selling the F10. I am fed up of running two cars and the Civic FD2 is pretty extreme for the roads so its barely used.

Looking forward to collecting it.
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Have fun. Had mine almost a year now and it still puts a smile on my face every time I drive it.
 
Odd question but does anyone know where the DAB aerial is located on a F30/31?

I'm about to fit a dash cam and rear view but have read they can interfere with DAB signal. Want to run the camera cables as far away as possible from the aerial.
 
Cristian said:
What do people use in terms of screenwash?
My old F30 got clogged from using the - 20 Halfords stuff, looking online it seems to be a very common issue, bacteria builds up and the like.
I used to buy 20L containers from bmw but seems they're no longer available? Do I have to rely on the 5L slightly overpriced stuff from BMW ?
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I bought the 20L tub from my local dealer (they don't normally sell it to plebs though) but that was nearly 4 years ago. I'm down to the last few litres now, so I'll be going in again soon to ask if I can get more. Normally the 20L tub is for workshop use only. I think I paid £56 for it when I got it.
 
[TW]Fox said:
Cars fitted with Xenon or LED headlights have auto levelling, cars without are manually adjusted inside the vehicle.
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Thank you, and can the autolevelling be overridden from within the control interface?
I've noted recently, an incredible amount of vehicles driving with their lights set incorrectly, I don't mean on full beam, but on dipped lights, still blinding everything in their path.
Of the 10 we clocked on a short journey yesterday evening, 8 were BMWs and 2 were Fords.
Perhaps they were all manually adjusted to the wrong level. Just seemed remarkably the consistency.
 
I keep getting flashed by oncoming vehicles when my LED headlights are on. I’ve had them checked out and they’re correctly aligned. They’re not the lazy-self-dipping either, nor are they being left in full-beam when passing oncoming vehicles.

Anyone else have this issue? People not used to the dipped brightness?
 
Havana_UK said:
I bought the 20L tub from my local dealer (they don't normally sell it to plebs though) but that was nearly 4 years ago. I'm down to the last few litres now, so I'll be going in again soon to ask if I can get more. Normally the 20L tub is for workshop use only. I think I paid £56 for it when I got it.
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I use the 5L containers from BMW; never knew there was a larger volume container available though! (Albeit previously)...
 
RedvGreen said:
I keep getting flashed by oncoming vehicles when my LED headlights are on. I’ve had them checked out and they’re correctly aligned. They’re not the lazy-self-dipping either, nor are they being left in full-beam when passing oncoming vehicles.

Anyone else have this issue? People not used to the dipped brightness?
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I was gonna say I have the same thing (once a week maybe). It's definitely set up fine and they are always dipped, like you I've checked (it shouldn't be blinding anyone, unlike raised 4x4s) and it doesn't look high from a driver's point of view, in fact I'd argue it's too low.

Every time I think something is broken on the outside when it happens, because I know the lights are fine.

Destination said:
Thank you, and can the autolevelling be overridden from within the control interface?
I've noted recently, an incredible amount of vehicles driving with their lights set incorrectly, I don't mean on full beam, but on dipped lights, still blinding everything in their path.
Of the 10 we clocked on a short journey yesterday evening, 8 were BMWs and 2 were Fords.
Perhaps they were all manually adjusted to the wrong level. Just seemed remarkably the consistency.
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Being able to manually adjust to an illegal level is an MOT failure. So that shouldn't be possible.
 
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There’s adjustment on the headlamps to account for tolerance at build to a set datum. So they can be adjusted... just need to open the bonnet! It’s likely many cars are probably driving around outside spec.
 
RedvGreen said:
I keep getting flashed by oncoming vehicles when my LED headlights are on. I’ve had them checked out and they’re correctly aligned. They’re not the lazy-self-dipping either, nor are they being left in full-beam when passing oncoming vehicles.

Anyone else have this issue? People not used to the dipped brightness?
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I have adaptive LEDs and do occasionally get a flash when the light pattern is actually blinding people (the adaptive being a bit slow to react), so on certain roads where I know it is a problem I avoid using it.

I know that's not the question you asked, so...I haven't had anyone flash me when they are on dipped.
 
Saw this at the dealer today. Wow but £85k (inc options).

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