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Well, I didn have a word with your old man whilst I was there - as he had the keys....

yea he said he made a comment about ur plate! lol

When I saw this the other night, it looked pretty mean - have you changed the headlight rings?

Xenons make a huge difference, god knows why the rents didnt spec them on the 535, it has pretty much everything else.

You never do that kind a shit anyway, ls or no lsd

Now if i was on lsd you'd see al mannor of crazy stuff!

You mean youre not on LSD all the time

It does get the TC and DSC turned off and being a manual I can drop the clutch

Yeah, Ive changed the sidelights, for LEDs, not fitted HIDs just yet though...

And I recommend you dont, unless you want me to fall out with you

Blinding everyone else on the road for the sake of a few more metres vision? Tut Tut

Its on self levelling air suspension, so no chance of that

It was also a BMW option, so you just retro fit them

Set about removing the swirl flaps on the BM today. Its a common problem that the screws come loose which hold the flaps to the spindle, and the flaps then drop in to the engine

So, eventually, I got round to buying a set of blanking plates to remove the flaps!

Not sure how I felt after removing the flaps....... An inspction showed them to be fine, allbeit covered in black sludge, though it does not give me peace of mind for the future

Here are the flaps I removed...













It not that bad to do, I just found it time consuming (2-2.5hours, inc 30mins cleaing the EGR valve) as the scuttle panel has to be removed to get the inlet manifold off and I gave that a good clean around the drainage holes where quite a bit of muck had gathered!

looks like a job worth doing, are these things on all diesels?

No mate.

They are designed to speed up air flow at low rpm (they are closed) and then they open at higher boost / rpm.

Drove the car to work today - cant feel any difference in performance, though a small flat spot has now gone, but that may have just been that the EGR needed a clean...

You should put them in the old DIY electrolysis.

They sit under the manifold, so you cant see them when fitted

This is the article that shows where they are, problems they can cause, and where the blanks are fitted

PBMW Magazine article