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After getting a new wheel bearing and sorting the outstanding thermostat bits, have just been enjoying driving the car lately in the great weather and a fantastic run of big Auckland meets. Still saving my pennies for rust and respray over winter but still looking good and singing sweetly in the meantime.

I saw that for sale. Hopefully a simple fix. I vaguely remember an issue like this that Ray (HellBm) fixed very easily. Maybe worth asking?

I guess M5 ownership means something has to happen every year. Got a misfire a few weeks ago, I just thought hmmm this is odd just got 10 new coils and 10 new spark plugs less than 10k kms. Anyway, I read a little and I found a good potential culprit... Ionic Current Control unit. Fancy pants distributor that BMW experimented on the S85. I thought it doesn't seem to be hard to diagnose so I gave it a try. Swap the left and right unit around, sure enough the misfire just went from cylinder 8 to 3. The part wasn't cheap, but to reach it was relatively easy. Just remove the airbox, it's cover and wire harness. My daughter helped me a bit, as I have a finger injury. We discussed it a bit, why I think my theory is correct and just order the part. Ordered from FCP Euro with a kind discount from the CEO, about a week after it arrived along with some other parts. Today my daughter helped me again, my finger is taking ages to heal. Top part is the new one, bottom is the broken one. The other working seems to have been replaced as well by previous owner. I may order another one eventually, ordering 2 will definitely attract customs. Test driven the car, that sorted out the misfire which will appear when car in on temp. I hope the rest of the year will be boring...

Nice work @adro! Hope life is going well for you

A kidney bro lol I feel this

Hello everyone, I’m Thomas and I live in Paris. Ooooh outrage.. Yeah sorry, I wish I lived in NZ but that’s what it is. I actually live on the west side of Paris in Boulogne-Billancourt, just next to the seine river and the Forest of St-Cloud. (You really can’t make that sh*t up) Long story short, my grand father was big on cars (used to work in those Peugeot and Renault car manufacturing plants) and his last two cars were Bmw’s. He was very proud of owning a BMW in the late 90’s and early 2000´s. Fast forward 20 years, when I came back from New York and settled back in Paris in 2021, I inherited the E46 316ti Compact which had at this time something like a 280k mileage. Today It just passed 300k and I would like to maintain it so it goes another 100k, 200k, maybe another 300k on the same N42 engine. I’ll share a few pictures of my loyal bimmer with you guys. I recently read a post by another user named Alan who had issues with his E46 N42B20 and I saved a full post response going through the details of the issues I had on my E46 N42B18. I’ll look on the forum and see if I can find it again. Cheers to all and good shifting Tom

Just over a month of ownership, and easily the best car I've ever owned in terms of power, handling, comfort and just sheer enjoyment. Glorious.