My E46 M3 coupe. SOLD! :-( 18/7/14

Post Tue Dec 31, 2013 5:30 pm

New tyre fitted yesterday and luckily the rim is ok!

I will try to get something out of the council but im not holding my breath!

Post Sat Jan 04, 2014 10:18 am

You should try Barry, I have made successful claims in the past, the councils used to paint a line around the pothole, this served two purposes, first to highlight it to driveurs and also to indicate they knew about it, they would cite this if you tried to claim and use it to get out of paying, if there was no lines I would say you have a claim.

Post Sat Jan 04, 2014 10:57 am

If it's been reported and they are aware of it but there are no lines to mark it, you have chance.

It also depends of the highways agency or a local authority is responsible for the section of road. Highways agency seems to be harder to claim against

Post Mon Jan 27, 2014 6:46 pm

Had the car up on the ramp today for a general check over. One of the diff output seals is starting to weep to that will be tackled when I do an inspection 1 in a couple of thousand miles.

More importantly, continual monitoring of the notorious boot floor cracking,

Still perfect with 91k up.

Post Mon Jan 27, 2014 8:00 pm

bss325i wrote:Had the car up on the ramp today for a general check over. One of the diff output seals is starting to weep to that will be tackled when I do an inspection 1 in a couple of thousand miles.

More importantly, continual monitoring of the notorious boot floor cracking,

Still perfect with 91k up.

I would say, by your standards, that amount of surface rust visible is shocking

Post Mon Jan 27, 2014 8:24 pm

Bah! It's a daily dragger!

Only surface rust on the suspension components, not the floor.

Post Wed Jan 29, 2014 7:09 pm

bss325i wrote:Need to do something with these but im undecided as what to do, clean them up and keep them or replace with the bigger tips that some people have done. The jury's out on that one.

Well i finally made a decision on what to do. The original ones were too pitted and also what you can't see in the above pics is they were all dented so they went in the bin to be replaced with brand new OEM ones.

Much better!

Post Wed Jan 29, 2014 8:03 pm

I Likey.!

Your rear bumper had new paint?

Post Wed Jan 29, 2014 8:11 pm

Not in my time it hasn't. Why's that?

Post Fri May 16, 2014 8:33 pm

Time for a bit of an overdue update.

Last month saw me click over 93k and about 5k since the oil service/10k since the last inspection 2 so it was time for an inspection 1.
Also some new wiper blades and drive belts were needed.

Also regassed the A/C.

So a pile of parts was ordered from BMW and ECP and i set to.....

Going through the valve clearances 10k since they were last done, none of them were out!

Last week i finally got round to fitting a cutters favourite mod, the PBMW brake kit with Dino's (a cutter member) brackets and custom goodridge brake hoses.

So we have gone from 325mm discs and single piston callipers to 345mm CSL discs and 6 pot brembos.

The beauty of this brake upgrade is the consumable parts such as the pads and discs can be had from any BMW dealer or ECP same or next day, no waiting for specialist parts like with AP kits for example.

As you can see the old brakes were toast!

Wheels are in dire need of a refurb!

Post Fri May 16, 2014 11:24 pm

Nice upgrade

Post Wed Jul 16, 2014 8:21 pm

Car now sold!

Needed to sell as impending house purchase meant it had to go and it will be sorely missed as its been a great car.

Sold the BMWP brakes to one cutter and the genuine CSL's to another so put some 18's on with matching conti's prior to sale.

Last pic before it left.

Needed a cheap daily for the next few months until the house purchase is sorted so i bought this from my work which was a loan car!

An Alpina B3 3.0 Switchtronic in need of TLC.

Post Thu Jul 17, 2014 12:46 am

Sad to see it go that was a nice car. Where's the progress thread on the E36

Post Thu Jul 17, 2014 12:53 pm

You could have mentioned to me that you were selling the brakes

Post Sat Jul 19, 2014 12:25 am

Sorry Kos, i didnt even think tbh. They went for £900 in the end which is what they owed me as the discs were gratis.

Post Sat Jul 19, 2014 12:27 am

SAP1 wrote:Sad to see it go that was a nice car. Where's the progress thread on the E36

I will start a thread when there is something worthwhile to write about it.

Post Sat Jul 19, 2014 12:51 pm

This M3 was nice. Did you not have a custom sound system wiring made for it ?

Post Sat Jul 19, 2014 7:36 pm

I had a plug made so I could replace the HK amp with any amp of my choice and not have to cut any of the OEM loom.

I still have that along with a modded BM54 with two pre outs and upgraded internals, an alpina DSP and the custom plug I had made.

This can all be used with any E46 with Nav and HiFi or HK.