JTDi
RMS Regular
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I've had this a few months now and forgot to put it up!
It's a comfy big wagon, awesome to drive, and isn't that bad on fuel compared to what I was told! £90 fills it from empty and that'll get me 500-ish miles!
I bought it like this:
With horribly finished 20" replica wheels (look like they had been re-polished with a brillopad), fitted with the cheapest of the cheap tyres.
First thing was to have it colour coded, and while it was away having that done, I picked these up:
Brand New (well, delivery miles on them) Genuine 21" X6M Style 375 Wheels with Dunlop Sportmaxx Tyres. They were a small fortune but I love them! I could've went down the route of 22" replica wheels but jumped at these when a good friend told me they were for sale!
The one issue with them was that the X6M has a smaller Centrebore on the rear than the front, so I had to get adapters, which were 20mm and left the rears sitting wayyyyyy outside the arch like so (picture taken from when the X5 was in with my good friend David Tweed for a paint correction and swirl removal):
So off the wheels went to have the Centrebore machined to the correct size
Next up were the small wheelbarrow-handle style exhaust tips (you can see one in the above picture, they looked silly IMO), they had to go
I had the above 4" slash-cut tips fitted by AM Customs, our local Powerflow guy.
Then I felt the jeep was a little lazy, and after a few weeks driving I started to get intermittent DPF fault coming up on the dash, so I sent it off to have the DPF gutted, which was massively blocked up. Then once that was gutted, re-sealed and refitted, I had the jeep remapped. It now does around an extra 50-ish miles to a tank of fuel, and is so so so much more responsive to drive!
I think that'll do it .... For now! Lol although I may fit the Aero arches at some stage
It's a comfy big wagon, awesome to drive, and isn't that bad on fuel compared to what I was told! £90 fills it from empty and that'll get me 500-ish miles!
I bought it like this:
With horribly finished 20" replica wheels (look like they had been re-polished with a brillopad), fitted with the cheapest of the cheap tyres.
First thing was to have it colour coded, and while it was away having that done, I picked these up:
Brand New (well, delivery miles on them) Genuine 21" X6M Style 375 Wheels with Dunlop Sportmaxx Tyres. They were a small fortune but I love them! I could've went down the route of 22" replica wheels but jumped at these when a good friend told me they were for sale!
The one issue with them was that the X6M has a smaller Centrebore on the rear than the front, so I had to get adapters, which were 20mm and left the rears sitting wayyyyyy outside the arch like so (picture taken from when the X5 was in with my good friend David Tweed for a paint correction and swirl removal):
So off the wheels went to have the Centrebore machined to the correct size
Next up were the small wheelbarrow-handle style exhaust tips (you can see one in the above picture, they looked silly IMO), they had to go
I had the above 4" slash-cut tips fitted by AM Customs, our local Powerflow guy.
Then I felt the jeep was a little lazy, and after a few weeks driving I started to get intermittent DPF fault coming up on the dash, so I sent it off to have the DPF gutted, which was massively blocked up. Then once that was gutted, re-sealed and refitted, I had the jeep remapped. It now does around an extra 50-ish miles to a tank of fuel, and is so so so much more responsive to drive!
I think that'll do it .... For now! Lol although I may fit the Aero arches at some stage
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