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BMW 535i FEAD

You may recall, I ended the last time (August 2021 issue), with me going off to check a squeak from the front-end of my eight-year-old BMW 535i? Well, I discovered what was causing that issue and found another couple of things to grumble about, literally! However, I did manage to FEAD my car.

I like doing homework to prepare for future jobs. I am planning a coolant change as I need to do some work on the system. For reasons known only to BMW, they decided not to

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