{"id":2360,"date":"2011-06-19T08:47:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T07:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mukerji.co.uk\/?p=2360"},"modified":"2011-06-19T08:47:54","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T07:47:54","slug":"e39-m5-brake-fluid-reservoir-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/e39-m5-brake-fluid-reservoir-location\/","title":{"rendered":"e39 M5 brake fluid reservoir location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <a title=\"E39 M5 \u2013 front brake replacement\" href=\"http:\/\/mukerji.co.uk\/2011\/04\/27\/e39-m5-front-brake-replacement\/\" target=\"_blank\">replacing the M5&#8217;s front brakes<\/a> it took me a little longer than I might have hoped to locate the brake fluid reservoir, so this is a quick blog post to address that in the hope that someone else finds it helpful. As you stare at the engine under the bonnet, it&#8217;s under the driver&#8217;s side pollen filter, as indicated by the arrow below:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2361\" href=\"http:\/\/mukerji.co.uk\/2011\/06\/19\/e39-m5-brake-fluid-reservoir-location\/dsc_0635\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2361\" title=\"DSC_0635\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mukerji.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_0635-800x535.jpg?resize=800%2C535&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cloud.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_0635.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cloud.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_0635.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cloud.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_0635.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To gain access, undo the plastic clips just to the right of that arrow to free it from the ducting. Also unclip the housing lid &#8211; there&#8217;s a metal bar running along the front that holds the lid in place. A certain amount of wrestling should reveal the reservoir:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2266\" href=\"http:\/\/mukerji.co.uk\/2011\/04\/27\/e39-m5-front-brake-replacement\/dsc_0405\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2266\" title=\"DSC_0405\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mukerji.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0405-800x535.jpg?resize=800%2C535&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cloud.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0405.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cloud.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0405.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cloud.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0405.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/cloud.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0405.jpg 3000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When replacing the M5&#8217;s front brakes it took me a little longer than I might have hoped to locate the brake fluid reservoir, so this is a quick blog post to address that in the hope that someone else finds it helpful. As you stare at the engine under the bonnet, it&#8217;s under the driver&#8217;s&nbsp;[&hellip;] &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/e39-m5-brake-fluid-reservoir-location\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2363,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions\/2363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}