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Olaf

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  1. bump. Come on you guys with e53 X5 with the alloy V8!
  2. I'm a comparatively recent convert to RFT. My tyre guy looked at me and said "why wouldn't you?" (in context of a vehicle built to run on RFT, no spare, no jack, no space) - and gave me the "are you really that stupid?" look. It's all great with tyre goo and a compressor until you have a triangular hole in your sidewall, and you're two days away from a replacement tyre! My X3 came on the wrong tyres - non-RFT in the wrong size, though they were the right rating. Got factory Dunlop RFTs. They were a bit odd, though okay - better than the originals. When I replaced them with Bridgestone S-001 RFTs the difference was substantial. Quieter, better riding, better grip - particularly in the wet - and more progressive. HTH.
  3. keep the faith Cam! We've had ours twelve years this month... I saw it across the road yesterday arvo where my wife had parked it as I headed over to my F25, still a double-take. They're the near-ideal car! The great all-rounder. Ours is about to get a big maintenance birthday.
  4. BMW Part number 11427511161 Hengst E203H D67 These are beaut oil filters, my e60 ran on these exclusively. Hengst also make the OE filter housing on the N62. These include a copper washer for the drain plug, a black o-ring for the housing, and the big white o-ring for the top of the filter housing cover. Sweet! $60 for the three of them. Collect well;ington, or I'll throw them in an NZ Post pre-paid bag at your expense. Cheers. / Other applications this filter works with: Oooh - e53 X5 with the N62 donk!! Get at it!!!
  5. Welcome! Stick with RFTs, unless you like the idea of no boot space from carrying a spare, a jack and wheel brace etc. RFTs are consistently improving; the suspension is tuned for them...
  6. In my humble opinion - and the experience of having run an N62 for 7 years and 36k kms with uncompromising maintenance, it's a non-issue. My personal view re the coolant pipe 'issue' is that it's caused by neglect. If you do a coolant flush annually (instead of the recommended bi-annually), with BMW Blue coolant, the likelihood of failure is greatly reduced. Perhaps the higher temp contributes to cooking/hardening the valve stem seals? Mine were replaced, I did oil and filter more frequently than BMW and the condition-based servicing in the iDrive calls for. There's enough to do on an N62 to keep it running reliably and well, without looking for modifications. All those seals and gaskets to keep oil on the insides (and the outsides dry and clean), including the upper and lower oil pan gaskets. PCV bellows. Valve cover gaskets. Cooling System services. Replacing the intake actuator as they fail causing low RPM minor roughness and bad fuel economy. The list goes on, coils and plugs, then there's the Auto to service, all the suspension and brakes. I was never concerned about the engine 'running hot'', the design is for efficiency. My e30 - by contrast - takes way longer to warm up. HTH.
  7. Date: 23 Feb 2024 Distance: 210,335 kms 1. Flat tyre Hmmmm. Drove the car Weds night, it was pulling to the left and seemed a bit dead. Checked pressures… 3psi down on both fronts, right rear down 3psi, left rear down to 13psi (!). Gark in the rim and a corresponding gark in sidewall - thankfully not deep. Dropped into my trusty tyre guy this morning. Nail found, Tyre demounted, repair effected, remounted and tested, wheel reinstalled. Job’s a good ‘un 2. Rego Ordered another 12 months rego. $106.
  8. the joy of living in Wellington perched on a hillside is that offstreet secure parking is scarce and ++$.
  9. @treone nah I've given notice on my rented garage, and getting rid of storage next will free up ~$550-600/month. With a prevailing wind I should have the e30 project back on track this year...
  10. 12 Feb 2024. 188659kms I pulled it from the garage and drove it yesterday to get to the Brit & Euro Car Day 2024 at Trentham. It ran beautifully. 1. Final items before sale WoF. Flew through it's WoF. Aircon Re-gas. Completed, comments were 'added dye, it was half full. Working well'. I'm sure that a couple of years with little use didn't help the seals keep the refrigerant in. Added Rego. Easy at VTNZ, expires 31 Aug 2024. 2. Sold. With luck the new keeper may continue this thread... and even join the BMW Car Club of NZ. Parting is such sweet sorrow. I'll miss this car. On the upside, may have a new friend 🙂.
  11. Listed in the For Sale room, and on TradeMe.
  12. I had a peek for Highway Radar in the Apple App Store - couldn't find it. Anyone got a link or more details? @E63 thanks for the info R3 on sale, beats waiting for the exch rate to improve. Think I'll buy one.
  13. IMHO you're on the right track. I recall reading about this on a UK site... although it lacks the specific coding detail you seek, \ take a read down to the section "OTHER USEFUL BMW AUDIO INFORMATION AND UPGRADE OPTIONS." - outlines the disadvantages of Base Audio and it's attendant equalisation, and possible approaches. Hope that helps. https://www.audiofile-incar.co.uk/audio-upgrades/bmw-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-and-x-series Also, anything that @Neal doesnt know about high quality integration with BMW audio systems probably isn't worth knowing! He may be able to suggest something.
  14. You doubt I can hear the difference, you're welcome to your opinion. To recap: You've doubted I can reliably hear the difference. And that in a moving car it couldn't happen. I've responded to the points you made, noted that I'm older and my hearing is degrading, and furnished my experience. You've raised choice of DAC - I've said that's irrelevant - to this discussion. You've suggested my opinion would change if I read audiophile discussions, inferring I don't understand. I read the audio comics for years, and indulged in internet discussion. You present a straw man about hearing degradation and perception differences between the sexes. You disagree, though you misquote me - I have not said WAV is necessary - I've said it's better, and questioned why throw data away when disc space is cheap. At every point I've expressed - all based on my experiences - you've simply attempted to cast shadow. You claim my argument is silly and condescending; what has yours been? I've only presented my experience, that clearly does not align with your opinion. You've gotten personal.
  15. My ears super-good for a 50 year old? No! The point is, I'm listening and responding to music. My hearing has been measured and is worsening. I can still tell sh*t from clay! Hint: It's not about frequency response. It's not about soundstage or other artifacts of the US High End Hifi Press. Just listen to the music. Or don't. As for SACD, I could never understand why - for the forty-odd albums available at launch, why you'd bother. Well-implemented Red Book CD Players sounded better; most "SACD Fanboys" had never experienced good Red Book CD, or a decent turntable. WAV is uncompressed audio. FLAC is lossless audio via the algorithm - but the file size is compressed. The general consensus you refer to is formed by folks that can't tell the difference between two violas and a cello, and sit on the edge of their seats straining to hear the difference in "the soundstage", and probably never attend live concerts, have no frame of reference. Don't listen to the consensus, listen to your ears!
  16. Even the rear privacy screen works, it's really swish... touch of a button in the driver's door 😊. It's got the Logic 7 sound system, pretty good. Heated (Sports multifunction) Steering Wheel even!
  17. it's certainly going to go like a cut cat! I hope you'll leave the 318 badge on the tailgate! 😀
  18. 09 Jan 2024. 188500kms Having got through Xmas, it was time to get back to this car. On saturday morning I pulled it from the garage (started first time, settled into a beautiful idle. 1. Went to BMW Car Club cars and coffee meet. This car is a superb camera platform. Park on side of road, get out and shoot pictures 😀. Easy access to the cavernous trunk to select weapon of choice. Always great variety at a BMWCCNZ meet-up! unwashed e60 in it's natural habitat, yesterday 2. Washed and photographed for Sale Listing. AutoGlym shampoo. Wash, rinse. Wheels with AutoGlym Clean Wheels and AutoGlym Wheel Brush. Rinse, dry with speed towel. Easy. Oh, and disgusting Meguiars Trye stuff that refuses to finish. The Auto Glym stuff is much nicer, though this needs to be used up first. It's probably an envionmental disaster in a plastic bottle, makes the tyres look spangly though. I did some running around in it during the afternoon, collecting daughter's friends and generally performing 'Dad Taxi' duties. It's using less fuel and idles better, moves off from the traffic lights more smoothly since that actuator was replaced. Waited for sun to get low enough for soft light. Shot images, edited. Looking good eh? Scrubs up nicely with minimal effort. Now time to compose ad copy, and list.
  19. No need to pull the head, surely? If you've removed the crank to do your big ends, drop the piston&rod assy out the bottom and presto.
  20. I have reliably demonstrated I can hear the difference between FLAC and WAV on many home systems. So I use WAV. People argue that FLAC is best "because tagging and artwork". When I ask if they've bothered to listen to the differences, the room goes quiet. I tag and put artwork on my WAV rips, so the usability difference is NIL. I agree - the car is a sh*t place to listen to music. However, Neal has gone to extraordinary lengths to make his car a great place to listen to music. I'd venture that you'd easily hear the difference between 320k MP3 and FLAC, and probably difference to WAV in his car. Hell, in my X3 stock factory system I can hear the difference between Bluetooth from my phone - 320k Spotify and 'uncompressed' Tidal, then compared the compressed crap BMW stores on the HDD (yecch, unlistenable), and WAV from a USB stick (unquestionably better). I don't think my X3 will cope with FLAC.. If the source is downsampled rips, it's a case of garbage in, garbage out. No end of optimisation, amplification, manipulation of the file, or speaker technology can make up for a poor input signal, whether in a home, venue, or car. I'm in my 50's, taken good care of my hearing, and it's starting to decline - it's still easy to hear where the music is slaughtered by the tech, on simple equipment. You need only open your ears. This has nothing to do with which DAC to choose.
  21. GIGO! Garbage In, Garbage Out. How much data did you throw away when you ripped your CD collection? If you ripped to FLAC, at least you can re-convert to WAV with dBpoweramp music converter.
  22. Olaf

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    Pretty sure I don't count as 'old days', though have been here a while. Great to see the place continues to evolve. 3-Pedals/Ron was - and remains - a serious loss to this community. A bunch of us in Welly all met on here and restarted the local BMW Car Club NZ chapter in Wellington, which continues to build after 6 years. There's plenty of value here, and agree better - generally - than bookface.
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