Jacko

Some truth bombs dropped. Shitty compact SUVs, screens for africa.

83k You would have to be a real back to the future fanboi to drop that on one.

Bump... no one wants near new OEM rotors for free?

Bump

The waterpump? When it starts throwing errors. They normally cough out a few spurious errors before dying. Mine did 230,000km before throwing an intermittent canbus coms error. Some die at 40,000km, some at 300,000. The motor is brushless, the whole thing is cooled and lubed by the coolant itself (wet rotor), so provided coolant is regularly changed they dont really wear as such.. (and its not swimming in green supercheap crap) its more likely heat cycles on the speedcontroller FETs etc that kill em.

I read all this, and saw no "Epstein didnt kill himself" in this whole thread, I am disappointed.

Well placed sign

Anything but an Aston Vulcan or Ferrari FXX makes you a dirty peasant who shouldnt be able to race.

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.

Ive got one, the app is the expensive bit though, but if you want to plug it in and code something yell out.

I saw them the other day in garage, and thought... hmmm... Flick me a PM and will get you addy.

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

Anyone found a nice fix for the rubberised paint on interior bits peeling off? Plastidip? Or is there anything more suited to fixing it

Just do it yourself, the Sonax CC36 stuff above is legit, and not the same as the generic ceramic you see everywhere. Its two stage, gives epic shine (more than a wax) and car was still beading 6 months later. The rest of the ceramic marketing talk is nonsense, totally agree. Go get a DA, some bug/tar remover, a couple of pads and decent compound, crank the stereo up and spend a weekend, save yaself $1300 Watching a few videos and getting a feel for the DA, and you cant go wrong (short of being a bellend and sitting in one spot with it cranked up to 11) Ceramic is no more work than doing a decent wax, sans the prep, the actual process of applying/removing takes way less elbow grease than a paste wax.

Figured out why my windscreen washer stopped working. Soaked in WD40, knocked all the lumps of rot out, and it lives again At least until parts turn up to replace it.

Front rotors are the same as 6 pot E9x, and X1s. Front Calipers same as 4 pot E9x Rear calipers/rotors are the same as a swag of E9x and the mighty Zinoro M12 I dont care what you bolt them on, as long as its not my garage carpet like how they are currently installed

Not to sure sorry, I suspect the fronts at least are bolt on, but there are differences between the 4 pots and 6pots wheel speed sensors. Will need to check realoem to work out what is what.

https://www.autocar.co.nz/autocar-news-app/bmw-asks-e46-owners-to-stop-driving-immediately

bump, offers. 6 pack of beers?

All in good condition, much life left in pad/rotors (40,000k+?). All ATE bits. Good upgrade for the lower spec E87s. $150 pick up only,

Yeah, 1mm more lift, but needs a tune to take advantage of it or the valvetronic just adapts the extra movement out. Seems to be roughly 10hp across the board. I saw the guy is also working on some new camshafts. With MILVs, headers and a tune, 300hp seems plausible.

1200km in one day...

Good old fashioned bedding in/back road abuse today. They work nice, no squeeks/squeeling/weirdness. Bite hard and predictably, more feel than stock, and I couldnt get them to fade on the road (I could make the old pads start to fade on same road), pretty impressive for ceramic... couldnt really ask anymore out of a road pad! Tomorrow is about 12 hours driving in one day (Akl-New plymouth-Wanganui return), will see how they work down the coast

I use AMI, they're OK to deal with and didnt bat an eye at my car (previously had engine swapped E30 with them, and modified WRX with them too) They also do agreed value rather than market if asked, for a reasonable rate.