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I have detailed both in the past and spent considerable time with both. Both really nice cars! The black CSL has my heart out of the two.

Hi all, Just bought myself a BMW 530e, anyone who does Jap conversation be careful on NBT id5/6 you can lock them if you change Vehicle order with BMW esys. If locked you will require a patch unlock. Once unlock then you can change region. I done mine last night, just had to pay for the maps. Also done the radio

So, it has been a while since I posted on this thread. Took the head off, found gasket had blown between 5 & 6. Head components were worn beyond reasonably re using. Looked at various options (including buying a parts car - but that is another story...)and decided to keep this car original and to rebuild the cylinder head. Big thanks to Jon at Begley Motor Works who has completed the rebuild - new valves, guides, rockers, camshaft, seals etc - virtually anything that moved was replaced. Bottom end seems to be all good, as Jared suggested. Car is now back and running sweetly, and hopefully I will take it to the BMW Nationals in a week or so. Meanwhile, I have purchased the parts car, only to find it is too good to wreck, so another unexpected restoration project about to begin.

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You could also option on PDC. 😂

The rights of salvage part is correct, what I was meaning was that there would not be anything worth salvaging. From the photos you could see large areas of the ships sides that had melted from the intensity of the fire, so you can imagine what the inside looked like. 1,000s of cars crammed together in open decks (not many vehicle carriers have fire control walls I believe) just becomes fuel for the fire with all the plastics, oil, fuel, Lithium-Ion batteries, etc in a confined space. With the decks being open even if a car was stored well away from the fire it would still have been subjected to a lot of heat and smoke, then finally water damage on top of that. Again the photos showed how extensive the damage was - from bow to stern and top to bottom. Salvage laws change from country to country, I think in some of them the original owner has the right to buy back the items. Manufacturers work with insurers as well to repatriate vehicles, even down to single crashed vehicles if the car is rare / valuable enough and deemed to be too risky to repair. I’m sure the doom merchants will blame it on EVs, but regardless the fault there clearly needs to be changes to the ship designs and fire suppression systems.

Look again, it's disappeared due to it's camouflages

Hello, Thought id start a thread to keep track of the progress on my 2008 bmw 135i. A bit of background, before this car, I had a 2004 e46 330ci m sport that I bought for $1000 with a crash damaged front end. That was my first project car and taught me most of what I know about cars, I fixed the front end, stripped and restored the entire interior after finding water ingress, rebuilt the cooling system and replaced a few gaskets. Once finished, I felt that it was time to sell it as it wasn't a car I felt like should be modified being somewhat of a classic, I sold it to an e46 collector and began the search for my next project, it had to be small, fun and fast, preferably n54 powered for easy performance gains, decided on a 135i. I bought my sapphire black metallic, black leather interior, 135i in late October, 127,000km bone stock leaking oil, overdue a service, cracked 3rd brake light and broken LED in RHS taillight and a dirty interior, and on the drive home it went into limp mode. Great introduction to N54 life. Not really a surprise when you got it at price that makes it the cheapest low(ish) km 135i for sale. However it wasn't all bad, it had extensive service history, used to be under auto sure mechanical insurance, had the water pump and thermostat replaced, and a transmission service done as well as regular oil changes at 10k intervals, that is until the owner I bought it from got it, who only owned it for a few months. Catching up on things ive done so far: First thing I did was address the issues, scanned codes, limp mode was for exhaust Vanos mechanism, most likely just needed a clean from the old oil. Did an oil change, cleaned the Vanos solenoids and that fixed the limp mode. However I found the following issues; leaking sump, valve cover gasket, OFHG, oil cooler gasket, wrong coolant. Time for an FCP euro order, added PCV valve, top radiator hose, expansion tank hose, coolant flange and also a new drive belt to the list. I worked my way through all of the hoses, gaskets one by one, learning as I went and eventually had everything except for sump done. Valve cover took 2 attempts because I couldn't find a tool for the ground lead studs anywhere, eventually I contacted Ray from HellBM who ended up giving me one for free o massive thanks to him. Filled the cooling system with correct bmw coolant and bled it, so easy with the electric water pump. No more leaks. Gave the car a good clean, cleaned the interior, rewired the paddle-shifters for left down right up, and installed silver interior trim in the place of the woodgrain. Now the sump wasn't a job I wanted to do myself, I don't have access to a garage, nor a car lift so dropping the subframe didn't seem like a fun task, decided to let Michael from Euromotive handle this and got him to install catless downpipes and larger high flowing silicone turbo inlets too while he had the subframe out of the way. Next was coils and plugs as it had started to misfire on the way to the workshop, one of the coils in the car was a Chinese one and ripped in half, leaving rubber stuck on the spark plug after removing it, spent an hour in the car park with needle nose pliers puling bits of rubber out. Eventually got the new coils and plugs in and car ran smooth. Next step after fixing all the oil leaks and misfire was replacing the drive belt that had oil all over it from the OFHG leak. Did that, easier than I thought with the inlet in the way. Also installed pcv valve and oil catch can. At this point car was running smooth and no issues, decided it was time to make some more power, bought a bigger intercooler, metal charge pipe and installed them. Angle grinder came in very useful in making room for the intercooler. Flashed MHD stage 2+ and car felt ridiculously quick. And sounded good with the hatless downpipe and inlets. Then installed some dual cone intakes and blanked off inlets so that DV vent to atmosphere for more noise. Decided exhaust wasn't loud enough to match intake noise, so cut off muffler and welded in 2.5inch steel pipe with thin stainless exhaust tips, sounds better now but will go back and change this slightly. Decided that power was more than enough (for now) and time to move on to some handling and aesthetic changes. Bought a set of 18x8 et38 CSL style wheels (in white which is a unique look) from an e46 and they fit rather well. A little bit of rub on the front guards, but nothing a wheel alignment shouldn't fix. Also bought a set of second hand aragosta coilovers with adjustable front camber plates so that I can fit some wider tires and dial in the ride height as well as firm up the suspension. Got 6 well used dunlop direzza 03g 245/40/18 semi slick tires for free so will see if I can get them to fit to gain some traction. White wheels and a nice clean engine bay: That is where the project currently is at, waiting for a new 3rd brake light as it cracked again so I can take it for a WOF and then install my coilovers and try fit the 245 tires and hopefully get the wheels repainted soon, thinking either shadow chrome, gunmetal, or gloss black... More things coming soon

Order update: car was in status 152 - Paint Shop when my SA updated me yesterday. It's getting real now hahaha

Managed to make a little bit of progress between uni lectures, car passed its WOF, dropped 2 wheels off to have the 245 semi-slicks fitted so I can test fit them once I try install coilovers hopefully this weekend. Still need to find a pair of C spanners to adjust the coilovers with somewhere. Also got to try figure out if the rears are true coilovers or if the spring goes next to the strut, this suspension stuff is new to me so not entirely sure just by looking at them... Also cleaned the surface rust off and painted the vacuum canister bracket.

Does such a thing still exist? 😂

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I hope its the only one 🤮.... sorry not sorry.

Thanks very much! Yeah it’s been a hard road, but also very rewarding! thank you - I’m scared to touch it haha - will be putting on the car at some point, but not until the car has had a bit of a clean up!

Thanks - very happy with it. Just on $1000USD including shipping, customs, etc. 😬

I did see the errors. I have a friend who lives in Dubai who has bought a car off the company. But who’s to say that he may have a couple of legit deals and some dodgy ones? But if I did live in Dubai - I would have pursued this further.

Tried to fit Style 193 wheels on mine 18x8" ET34 with 225/40 front 18x8.5" ET37 with 235/40 rear fronts rubbed over any small bumps. Ended up taking them off the car until i sort out new shocks to see if it would make a difference. Otherwise will need to change to m3 control arms. if you want you can try my wheels for fitment on your car. alternatively smaller tyres would probably work but i had already bought new tyres in the above size so it would be nice to be able to use them.

Nice work on getting that all done!

Nice one man, cool to see you digging into it. Love those 1-series coupes, absolute go karts those things.

Whoops, just went to FCP for 1987 but saw the below: 1987 BMW 325i Tail Light Lens Seal From 9/1987 @Rick Rub Take your Vin and enter it into Real OEM to find the correct part number and google should reveal plenty of options.

Those are not the right gasket for an ‘87 E30, for the pre-facelift it’s a large cut foam gasket shaped to fit around the mounting bolts. Different lights on FL so I think those are the seal for the later lights.

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