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Friday, May 17, 2013
How to Repair a BMW Z3 Seat Motor
1. Open the hood and remove the cover from the Z3s fuse block.
2. Remove the fuse from slot 14 and install a replacement 30A fuse. Reattach the cover to the fuse block. If the power seats are still malfunctioning, you may need to replace the motor.
3. Slide the Z3s seat all the way to the back and use a socket wrench to remove the retaining nut from the front of the seat. Slide the seat all the way to the front and remove the two bolts at the rear of the seat.
4. Unplug the two electrical connectors of the Z3s seat and remove the seat from the vehicle.
5. Use a flat-head screwdriver to remove the four clips from below the seat, retaining the cushion with the metal part of the seat. Remove the two Torx screws with a Torx screwdriver and remove the cushion from the seat. Once the cushion has been removed, you can locate the seat motor at the bottom, right corner of the seat.
6. Remove the four Torx screws from the seat motor and disconnect its electrical connector. Remove the motor from the seat.
7. Place a replacement motor onto the seat and connect its electrical connector. Reattach the four screws.
8. Reattach the cushion and its retaining screws and clips. Reconnect the electrical connectors to the seat and place the seat back into the Z3. Reinstall its retaining nut and bolt.
Sunday, May 12, 2013
2011 BMW X5 Performance Accessories

BMW has announced the North American availability of BMW Performance brand accessories for the X5.
The BMW Performance Aero Kit for the BMW 2011 X5 includes new bumper covers which have a new design, new side skirts. Black kidney grilles are also available to offer a meaner look to the X5. The whole kit was designed with the purpose of reducing the drag in order to improve the stability of the car.
The interior, the BMW Performance Accessories include upgrades on both the SUV’s steering wheel and pedal set. For the former, BMW Performance has a unique multi-function steering wheel that features a thick, racing-style, flattened lower rim that’s fully covered in hand-stitched Alcantara material. For the latter (the pedal set), BMW Performance has an aluminum pedal kit that includes a gas pedal, brake pedal, and footrest pedal, all of which were ergonomically crafted with aluminum featuring rubber inserts.





Press Release
BMW has announced the North American availability of BMW Performance brand accessories for the trendsetting X5 Sports Activity Vehicle. The new BMW Performance parts for the X5 include aerodynamic components, aluminum pedals, special kidney grilles, and a new flat-bottom Sport steering wheel. The new accessories go on sale at Authorized BMW Centers this month.
Aerodynamics
Directly from BMW’s state-of-the-art Munich wind tunnel comes the comprehensive new BMW Performance Aero Kit for the 2011 X5 (excluding X5 M and models equipped with trailer hitch). The Aero Kit, which includes redesigned front and rear bumper covers and side skirts, is specifically sculpted to reduce aerodynamic drag and lift at high speeds, improving stability while making a dramatic, stylish statement. Additionally, BMW Performance has made available a set of black kidney grilles for the X5, which provides a sporty, menacing appearance for the front of the vehicle.
Interior
For the interior, BMW Performance has concentrated on the driver-machine interface, creating a new steering wheel and pedal set. The BMW Performance Aluminum Pedal Kit includes gas pedal, brake pedal, and footrest pedal, ergonomically crafted of aluminum with rubber inserts. The pedals fit all models of X5 and provide enhanced pedal feel for the driver.
Last but not least, BMW Performance has made available a unique multifunction steering wheel for X5 models. This direct replacement for the standard X5 steering wheel features a thick, racing-style, flattened lower rim and is fully covered in hand-stitched Alcantara material (Not available for X5 M and vehicles with Lane Departure Warning).
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
2016 BMW M1 User manual

BMW testament be ending a new supercars, titled 2016 BMW M1. The BMW M1 is one of the legendary sports cars of the 70s and is noneffervescent remembered. Originally intended as a homologation theory, the M1 soon matured into the favorites of the socialism jet set. With its level embody, whose programme included unerect eyes typical of the smell of that era, the M1 does not recall baselessly models from Lamborghini, but he originally desired to habitus in cooperation with the European sports car business. This finally was zero but what the M1 success of the direct but did not fall. Untold to the displeasure of umpteen sports cars Friends BMW produced exclusive some 400 models of the 286-hp supercar, which upheld the desire for a ingeminate over a phase of author than 30 eld. It seems as if one heard the cry in Munich now the die-hard fan supposition, since 2016, the legendary Bayern M1 athletes are dropped again and wage Audi R8 and Mercedes-Benz SLS forehead. The acknowledged discipline information of the back breeding of the M1 sports car can be friends already, quartet life before the conceived business see in 2016, along the irrigate in the spokesperson. An engine production of 650 hp, superpower gear via the seven-or double-clutch case achtstufigem and outspoken supply shot are both of the high-tech ingredients, the new BMW M1. Whether the engine is a supercharged six-acting eight-or ten-cylinder engine is not yet familiar, but which unify finally in the M1 are also used, it is earthshaking Developing Department for an quickening from 0 to 100 km / h in inferior than tercet seconds and a top travel beyond 330 km / h to be right. To attain these objectives testament also encour Of {course, in a high-performance cars much as the M1, the surroundings and so is not this also be equipt with start-stop group and braking doe retrieval. Rumour say that 2016 M1 faculty be sold at a really place price play at $ 317,000 (nearly USD 3 1000000000000 ). This should be so privileged, the 2016 BMW M1, suchlike his predecessors wanted.
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