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Take it back to the mechanic who did the job and get them to fix it. N47 engines can have timing chain issues, make sure that is not the problem.

Well the initial couple of drives have been very successful. Couple of one time codes on first start up related to TPS and 1 misfire code, which I think was the engine being mad at the change of program plus blowing out the carbon from the throttle body cleaning. No repeats of any codes in the two 20 minute drives I've done since. First impressions: the base CSL tune was not as bad as I was expecting. The warm up was rubbish as expected and lots of idle hunting, etc. going on. Once the SAP turned off things settled down. Driving around at slow speed was much smoother than I was expecting. The up and go was a bit muted, but tip in with the SMG was exactly the same as before and there wasn't any jerkiness under light/moderate acceleration. I presume that the reason for this is that my car is a Euro car, which differs less from the CSL than a US spec car does. I know that the US and Euro tune vanos maps differ significantly in places, so that would explain why the standard tune is worse on a US spec car. The car was quite reasonable to drive in the various conditions I tested it in. Given this I wasn't entirely sure how much of a difference I would notice with v1 of my tune (which I must point out again is simply me making my own version of the approach which Bry5on has pioneered). I loaded it up and the improvement was immediately noticeable. The CSL tune wasn't rough driving around the neighborhood and it wasn't enormously noticeable that it lacks in peppiness under those conditions, but when you bring the peppiness of the standard M3 tune back at those low load, low speed conditions it is immediately noticeable as an improvement. I've logged the run in TestO and will go through it later. I need to adjust a couple of the timing maps in the 3300-3900 rpm range (I haven't quite got the crossover lined up right with the VANOS maps crossover and need to adjust slightly, but it's not off by much). Extremely happy with how this has all gone. No installation issues, no programming issues and a good success with v1 of the tune!

Ghastly thing. Red interiors are never great but combined with a bright blue exterior 🤮

https://www.alpina-classic.shop/teile/leichtmetallrad-classic-8x16-passend-fur-e30-ha You can still buy them directly from Alpina, staggered set too. edit: that's price for a single wheel btw.

I've driven it a few times since we collected it. Full tank of Waitomo 95 before xmas day. I drove it today, into town and back... and I marvelled at how well it's running. Light throttles... making making torque and climbing hills at 50 like it's enjoying it. Running sweetly. Jon at Begley Motor Worx has worked his magic.

If the listing is old make him an offer? "Tell him he's dreaming" 🙂