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Also have a 66 plate 2017 Rex and am very interested in learning what is involved in changing the lights from tungsten to LED.

I write about the luxury industry and wristwatches in particular. The CEO of the largest chain of Rolex dealers in the UK once told me that he prefers selling used Rolex watches to new ones. With a new watch, Rolex control his margins, they tell him how much window space the brand must have...

Thank Goodness that Mr. Porter was registered in March 17, as it had a list price WELL in excess of £40k

I experienced the same problem, 48 hours after updating the app. The app showed me 6 miles away from my true location and didn't acknowledge that the car was on charge. Tried the usual stuff, turned my phone off and on, disconnected car, uninstalled and reinstalled the app, all to no avail Went...

The reference to 'plates' is uniquely British, over here the identifying number on new car licence plates changes every 6 months, so saying a car is a 71 plate immediately tells us that it's a 2021 car from September 2021 onwards.

Arthur was standing in front of my car, instantly recognisable by the white mirrors and the pinstripe. It was with them for the REX sensor to be replaced, they did it perfectly and charged around 40% of the price my BMW dealer quoted.

Well, that was 25 minutes of my life that I will never recover. I clicked the link on the above message on my computer, filled in the requested detail only to discover that your website assumed I was doing this on my phone - as I was instructed to download the app. Went to my iPhone, repeated...

The BMW dealer gave me a quote of around £3,000 to drop the engine and replace the sensor; I called Wisely (who sold me the car 3 years ago) and they did the job for less than half of what the BMW folks wanted.

How different from my experience in London, there are 4 or 5 on my street, in fact my next door neighbour has an almost identical car to mine. They are so common in London that last month I tried to open the wrong car because it looked identical to mine and was parked only three cars away from...

Safer to assume he is in the real Birmingham, as he mentions BMW UK in his post.

Never trust anyone - man or woman - who claims to have ALL the answers. However, between everyone here, we each have sufficient specialised knowledge to be able to answer most of your queries; if it's of any use I can assist with the Swiss watch industry, the Albigensian Crusade and independent...

I have never had to unplug mine and it has been to BMW on three occasions.

No, it's a box which needs wiring into the media system, I don't know if this is a DIY possibility, I know that I am incapable of doing anything more complex than changing a lightbulb, so I had mine professionally installed.

So, the dealer has informed me that the crankshaft sensor is most likely the root of the problem and that replacing it involves removing the REX, costing around £2,000 in labour alone. Has anyone else had this problem and how was it solved?

Whilst we were away over the holidays I received one of those automated survey responses from BMW UK asking about my experience at my recent visit to the dealer. I responded honestly and discussed my disappointment at having paid for a fault to be fixed and for it to reoccur within days, I...

Where are the seats from?

In the UK licence plates have the year the car was originally sold as part of the identification, so its an easy way to refer to a car's age.

Another UK owner, as my screen name might suggest.

You mirror my thoughts exactly, if I could have a 400km range in MrPorter then I would probably keep it for the rest of my life, although I haven't yet seen an acceptable alternative to the i3, so just might keep it forever anyway.

This is MrPorter, my 2017 94AhRX. Made as a joint promotion by BMW UK and the high end online store Mr. Porter. The plan was to make 6 of them sold online by MrPorter.com; however only four were actually produced. They were imported in Caparis White and delivered to Rolls Royce in Southern...