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    Hi all , new member here. I purchased my first f10 m5 competition pack last Sunday. Enjoy driving it more day by day. It's in Singapore grey & has the carbonexterior pack, also only 1 previous owner & just touched 11k miles.
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    Something not seen being driven too often. Well not here locally anyway...
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    Nice 635 in the carpark at Manfield today
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    Great Success! Certifier was really happy with car and has passed it. Only had a couple of comments, one being that the ride is terrible. I couldn't agree with him more, the springs that were supplied have a spring rate 11kg/mm... That's a stupid amount and would ideally be ~7-8kg/mm. I went with a particular supplier of XYZ suspension after seeing reviews of how good this company was with setting up the spring rates for the E30. After the drama with this supplier of having the perches and springs rub and write off the tyres, waiting literally 7 months to receive a valid NDT report and now this, I might try to find another party that could supply me with the springs that are suitable. Secondly, the MAF support bracket. I had gashed up a bracket in the shed just to get through the cert process. I managed to convince him of my elaborate plans of boring out an E34 (similar to below) or E36 airbox to make a discrete cold air box. This way I'll retain the OE look of the engine compartment, which as this project has progressed, has become quite important. Massive relief as most of you on here know. Cert can be pretty stressful as the huge anomaly is the certifier themselves and the way certain things are interpreted. I've heard of people having to weld in the aluminium spacers on the power steering rack conversions, having to have engineers reports for suspension geometry, having to install 2x driveshaft hoops vs 1 etc so I feel I got off pretty lightly. My best advice (@Kobra) would be to have a talk to your chosen certifier and make sure you're on the same page and that you know exactly what he wants to see. An awesome site is the LVVTA Forum. The professionals there were answering my pesty questions within 24 hrs. So where to from here? Approached Wife on selling to fund my dream. Swift negative. Means I get to enjoy the work I've done now that its road legal I guess. I'll keep posting random updates for sure. But mainly... Replace leaky heater core Find suitable front springs with the correct spring rate Skid plate to prevent the sump from accumulating more scrapes I'd love to find some sport seats in terrible condition and reupholster Colour match basketweaves to centre caps Paint? Not very motivated after the work involved on Dad's ute ? Wife mentioned retrofitting aircon. Not happening. Radiator research, basically see whats the biggest OE radiator that fits Figure a way to use the OE oil cooler I've found. Preferably S52 oil filter housing Intake ✌️
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    The sport seats had arrived, and just needed to be recovered before I could put them in the car. As soon as the leather upholstery kit was delivered, I dived straight into the first seat. Many zipties were used... Some foam was repaired on the side bolster. The next seat was for the driver side. This one had taken a bit more abuse, and needed some more serious foam repair. The rest of the second seat was the same as the first. The seat rails were cleaned up and repainted. Both seats mostly back together. I still need to do some work on the back covers. I'm stoked with the result. I think they look great, although I may still need to tweak fitment in a few places. Quite happy with the quality of the leather kit, especially for the relatively low price.
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    Thought I'd offer a service to fellow members. I'm planning a road trip from Invercargill to Auckland and back in about 2 weeks. If there's any members on here that want to buy something from either end of the country, I'd be happy to take things up or bring them back down, meeting people in the main centres along the way for drop-off. The only conditions would be that all payments for the parts would have to be sorted ahead of time - I won't be handling money or paying for other people's parts upfront. And i'd want to be meeting people somewhere along the main route, really don't want to be detouring all over the place lol. Pick-up/drop off arrangements will be sorted ahead of time. Anyone interested? I'm not running a courier service so I'm not asking for money for this, just thought it might help a few people out. Also, @Jacko, I'll finally be able to pick the items up that I bought off you ???
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    Meguiars 105 and their ultimate finishing polish on a rotary polisher. The sanding marks were from an attempt at fixing stone chips.
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    That’s come up really nice @BreakMyWindow! What did you use for that?
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    No... the relief for breach of contract is rarely the reinstatement and execution of said contract. Rather, the aggrieved party might be compensated for actual losses which, in this case, is likely to be negligible. Now, if the original buyer had gone out and purchased a couple of 850 engines on the belief s/he was going to receive the cars for said price then that would be a different matter and a different case. Any magistrate would also be interested in how fair the (original) buyer thought the price was, if they knew they were getting a killer deal that would not be considered favourably. Essentially in the law's eyes this is probably about haste, naivety, mistakes, opportunism and possibly a little greed, nobody has suffered any serious loss and the law would look at the circumstances, not the morality. I suspect that if the seller had approached the original buyer and said "hey look, I've just got this better offer and it looks like I priced them wrong from the outset, could we negotiate?" the outcome might be the same but the parties would all feel better about it. I think that's the lesson here.
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    Tackling the staining andsun fade on the clear coat
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    They look great. What did you do to repair the foam?
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    Those seats look so good! Do you have a link for the kit?
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    Come on boys and girls, I think this has gone about as far as it needs to here. An indeterminate number of people are feeling aggrieved, and are taking legal advice on the matter. Views have been cast here. The seller has presumably pocketed some money and has a couple of his late father's cars off of the family lawn. We're a broad community; the purchaser is probably amongst us as well. Can we move on, or do some of you want to keep picking at the scab?
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    Nice one Mazar and welcome from down under! Man they look good from the back, squat and aggressive.
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    Yeah no worries, I dont know if the app will do things like enabling retrofitted bluetooth, thats more of NCS Dummy/Expert thing, but it may do it? The apps on my phone/tablet, but it only takes a few mins so shoot around whenever suits and your welcome to see what it can do.
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    Woohoo! Congrats Cam! e30 Mega Meet here you come!
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    This was on Discovery Turbo last weekend, worth a watch - it'll probably pop up again on the same channel some time soon. Still prefer Ed though.
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    FCP Euro the whole kit, with fluid and thermostat and bolts (Pierburg is solid). Cant go wrong, its not a difficult job either. It wouldnt be a bad idea to replace the plastic fitting next to the oil cooler with an ali one while you're there, Ive seen a bunch breaking recently and you want to do it with the cooling system drained. https://www.fcpeuro.com/products/bmw-aluminum-coolant-hose-flange-rein-chc0609
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    The O2 sensors were still original, and were very old and rusty. One of them finally died, so I picked up a couple of replacements. I also found out that the interior blower fan refused to function, and had seized in it's bearings Brand new units are fairly spendy, so located a used replacement locally. The replacement fan was installed, and the blower is now working again...but only on the top speed. Argh, that means the fan resistor is dead now too. Two steps forward, one step back. Such is life.
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    now your being optimistic
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    Never knew! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bmw-group_shareyourpassion-bmwgrouplife-bmwgroupcareers-activity-6598841489403453440-_XQv
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    Good weekend for the M3! Decided on a whim to give the Meremere drags a go and had a blast. Though the car is not competitive by today's standards, I was pretty happy to have gotten a PB of 13.9 at approximately 104mph. (Will find the timeslip) I also replaced the TPS to try solve the slight hesitation issue. The car definitely runs smoother now but still does always have the crisp, sharp rev that it should. I'll have to make the time to get it scanned and diagnosed. Still has all the go that it's supposed to have! Also stoked to have my new plates arrive in the mail today. received_430061327928647.mp4 received_504439176821928.mp4
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    Hey Team another productive weekend. Got the machined front disc and carriers back. Alloy rad also modded with filler neck and alloy overflow bottle, Bleed all the brakes and clutch system. Had to get the car going and ready as i dropped it off today down the the auto sparky, he going to attck the start issue and few other little things like wire in electric water pump. But other than that she should be good to go once done. My mate Conrad came over to help me load the car onto the trailer, i didnt know how this was going to go but started the car by bridging the starter lowered it off the hoist and mangered to drive it onto the trailer, i dont know why but cant remember what the car sounded like as i think i was more worried about the car itself. But Conrad has helped me with all the other car builds so knows the v8 rumble quite well. He said this one has a nice particular throatier sound. So cant wait to be able to drive and get a good sound clip so i can hear what it sounds like too. Also didnt help we were rushing as it was pouring down with rain. Ran into a few hiccups as you do, so found that the brake carrier still needs to be machined another 3mm off as it was fowling on the brake so had to blt the factory ones back on to get to drivable. I will get them redone during the week. Also one of my clients works in a panel beater shop for trucks and does alot of fibre glassing. We got talking and hes going to help me make a custom airbox utilizing the factor 6 cylinder ones. Ill also get a custom intake pipe to redirect the intake to go the the passger side. Will get more done with this once i have the car back. Thanks Team
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    Lack of S engine not a true M car Never was never will be one and finally the market have realised this and prices have started to reflect this fact. Marketing gimmic to ever call this a M car. To me this was the defining moment BMW M went downhill and everything just needed a badge to be a M
  28. 0 points
    Hit a hare in the m3, again. this time ripped the front centre bumper trim off and numberplate and couldn’t find it anywhere. So need to order a replacement euro p.plate. Plus smashed the lower mesh grill as well as the oil cooler bracket so that started scraping along the ground. Luckily I had some cable ties and could tie it up to get back home. Uggghhhhh
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