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Hey guys, I've had a couple of 5 series Bmw in the past back in the UK, I had an E60 and an F10, both 525d's, after moving to NZ, I've spent a few years in a VW and an Audi A6, but I've been looking for a decent BMW for a while, I've finally sourced my favourite BMW, that I've been after for about 10 years! I pick up tomorrow my 2013 F06 640i in carbon black and I can't wait! It's a Japanese import so first job will be an Android auto upgrade to the infotainment! I look forward to being part of the community and asking questions. Thanks for having me.

"engine damage" Franklin looks 100x better with the Euro plates though.

Ice worked followed by a hot soapy carpet cleaner session to get the remaining goo out. Cheers.

Grandma's tips and tricks for the busy housewife book says freeze the chewing gum with a block of ice. It will harden and can be broken up and removed. I think that's the same tip she gave my wife when she asked about getting semen out of her hair.

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

Damn, im paranoid about public parking because of situations like this. At least it doesn't look too bad compared to some of the ones ive seen.

24 March 2023. 187549kms I've had very little seat time in the the e60. I've started it monthly, hadn't driven it since Jan. . 1. Brake Fluid Flush Scheduled brake fluid flush. Yes, anyone else would probably ignore this! 2. WoF It flew through it's WoF, as you'd expect. 3. Registration 12 months rego bought and paid for, now current to 31/3/2024. Next steps - suss out job to address the variable intake actuator code, get that resolved, then find it a new home. Tears my heart every time I drive it as it's so very good, though find a new home it must.

Sorry 😁

Oh dear, just as I try reduce the fleet of cars, another one wants to be adopted....

Probably worth more now it’s an internets sensation!

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SOLD UPDATE: I just SOLD the car. Buyer is a fellow BMW enthusiast and lover of high mileage cars. Had a very tasty M-Sport F01 730D which I got to drive, very glad the car has gone to him. His previous BMWs include an E38 750iL, F10 M-Sport 535i Touring (which unfortunately got flooded) and 318iS Manual. He said the wheels + Le Mans Blue drew him to the car, and he found it by filtering by BMWs, -> highest mileage on Trademe when he was bored.

Got the wiring all sorted now and there is no more dummy data going to the screen ... just have to sort out the vacuum sensor I have on the crank case as its readings are bogus. Used 1500 ohm resistors to make voltage dividers for the two temperature sensors. This selection is based on wanting a fairly linear relationship (resistance to temperature) around the 90 degree mark. The pressure / vacuum sensors all output a voltage which I can happily read with the Arduino so no issues there. I took the standard sensor wiring that was previously going to the gauges and added a separate 5V supply so things are more self contained where the wiring terminates and to reduce the load on the Arduino itself. Working on the screen mounting also and it should work fairly well. Need to order some slim line right angle HDMI and USB cables from Amazon to make it functional. Will 3D print some end caps so the screen has a flush look once finally installed. The update frequency is a little sluggish (maybe 2 or 3 Hz ?) due to the Raspberry Pi not having enough juice to drive the Grafana dashboard in the browser. I will likely look to switch to something with more spice like the Orange Pi 5 which should be multiple times faster. Also still have to integrate the screens touch capability so I can switch between multiple dash views. Maybe throw a backup camera in the mix ? Who knows ...

Anyone use them before? Looks like a good idea.

Car has been parked up on a quiet culdesac near my house due to having no wof or rego, waiting on cert. Parked there as my driveway doesn't have any room, and house is halfway through renovations. Someone hit the car while it was parked, and damaged the front bumper and fender as well as a small scratch in one of the brand new wheels. Didn't leave a note or anything, so ive got no idea who it was, and my insurance is only 3rd party. So looks like im going to have to pay to have it fixed myself, pretty shitty thing to do. Spend all these hours working on making the car as nice as possible, just for some c**t to f**k it up. 😡 Nobody saw anything and no CCTV. Got a good plan for getting fixed and looking better than before at least but going to take a bit of saving, with being a uni student.