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Straight ahead, instruments, right mirror, rear view, instruments, left mirror, straight ahead, instruments, right mirror, rear view, instruments, left mirror, straight... Sounds exhausting for a Sunday drive! ?

Nice one Brian, Dan put it out there for a sharp price, I'm glad it stayed in the BS "family" (although it feels a little too "tribal" at times!). Do you have any plans for it other that just drive?

Appears so. Maybe somebody that thinks they're worth 80k snapped it up as a bargain?

This isn't about ownership, it's about poor administration, Admin. There's a bunch of us that want to make the site administration better, if you're all for that then perhaps live up to your title and contribute something helpful. If, on the other hand, you're satisfied with the status quo then fly that flag but stay out of the discussion, your puerile comments don't help improve the situation, nor do they enhance the conversation (or your reputation for that matter). Edit: o/t but it's interesting that the emoticon changed in the quote, conflicting unicode?

It might not have changed the timelines but at least it's given us some engagement and visibility which was sorely lacking. ? Even a regular monthly update would be an improvement. I'm not sure if you hosting the site for free so you can "try things out on something production like" is good value though, that actually sounds like a disaster waiting to happen! It seems that a consequence of that "free" arrangement is that the site is a slave to your availability and that doesn't appear to be a reliable operating model, regardless of your best intentions. Your last sentence highlights the benefits of using a hosted solution, we wouldn't be negatively impacted every time things change, and you wouldn't have to keep up with changes which seems difficult because of your other commitments. I suspect there are enough potential sponsors and donors here to make hosting the site "free" for Ollie anyway, and with the benefit of more effective maintenance and production support. If you share the non-functionals with us we can work out the most cost-effective operating model. I think you need to be open to the possibility of either more technical assistance or a different hosting arrangement because there's clearly a bottleneck that needs addressing with the current model. Hopefully your PM discussion with Graham will surface some of those opportunities. As I've said to Graham, yourself in the past, and other interested parties, there are many willing and able to help and many with $ to contribute. But nobody will likely invest in the current admin situation, it's broken.

Fair enough. If you're happy with the $400 and don't want to pull your radio out then just go for it... I'd hope they were willing to remove the band expander for that $400 though. I could be wrong but in the F10 don't you just have to pop the fascia off around the headunit and then there are two screws to undo before you can pull the HU out? I thought you could get a radio recoded for ~$100 but I'm not in the market so could be way wrong there.

Band expanders tend to be pretty easy to remove, they're normally an interface plugged directly into the back of the head unit. Remove head unit, remove interface, stock plug now goes back into head unit. I've not used Audiocity, how much do they charge for the conversion?

You don't see many realistically priced ones (or many at all I suppose). It's imported but if you're in the market for one it's certainly worth taking a look at!

Thanks for the update @Jamez, it seems like the call to arms wasn't wasted after all Martin. ? Lot's of people have offered technical assistance in the past James, many of them are still around, you don't need to do it all yourself, let us know what support you want. We've also asked in the past what the site's non-functional requirements are, repository sizes, traffic, concurrent users, load etc because nowadays it's pretty simple to chuck these things in the cloud to look after themselves. Many people have offered to contribute to hosting fees but without the technical profile it's impossible to establish what those fees might be. If you can help with that info it would also be great. Invision has a cloud offering. Do "we" renew the Invision on-prem license regularly? If so you're entitled to access their support which might help with some of the functional idiosyncrasies that have broken over the past months (condensed view for example). These should be easy to knock over with support tickets.

My understanding is that they're pretty much the same thing, I stand to be corrected.

What we need is for the current administrators (i.e. not the proud folk that have "Admin" roles/status here and seem to do nothing at all helpful) to actually engage with the community to discuss this, it shouldn't be a binary us/them thing, I'm pretty sure with an open dialogue we can get this sorted. Is it Ollie? James? Both of them? Get them to actually get online to let us know why they're struggling, we can probably help!!!! Feel free to tell them they're being irresponsible by not engaging and letting things go to sh*t.

I hope the sex is great.

No worries, sewing and curtain shops normally have a selection.

I don't think there's any avoidance necessary, at least I don't practice any. I'm pretty sure the pins would push aside any wires rather than pierce the sheath. I used the ones in the link below because they were cheap and readily available, if I had more time I know there are ones with more suitable heads available (like plain matt black or charcoal). https://www.mitre10.co.nz/shop/hillman-upholstery-pin-pack-of-16-clear/p/277799

Do modern cars use the engine coolant to also cool the trans? This may be my ignorance of modern vehicles but the only platform I know well enough is the e36 and there was no relationship between the engine coolant and the transmission back then. The auto cooler was a separate radiator up front that you pumped your transmission fluid through.

That sucks, great you have warranty coverage. How does glycol, presumably from your coolant, actually get into the transmission?

We're talking about an E82 William, don't wander away from the context. I'd be surprised if any BMW has 9 or 10 degrees caster, the 1 series, and E82 in particular certainly does not. Your theory is probably right (I'm not one to judge) but it has no practical application in this case. -2 degrees front camber in an E82 has absolutely no disadvantages, it's not even a trade-off.

I'll send him a PM over there and ask.

My point being that -2* is nothing, it won't adversely affect you in any way unless you're running around with the wrong pressures. All the things you mention need to be considered once you start winding in excessive camber, 2 degrees isn't excessive.

I also removed and cleaned the vanos solenoids and filters, after doing it first on blue one and understanding how simple it was. These ones had more buildup so I might do an early oil change but nothing to be concerned about, main gaskets all look okay. I need to sort out my 208's and tyres.

If you decide to get some I'll get a set as well (stage 1) so we could split the shipping. -2* camber up front is no problem, there's no disadvantage so it's sort of a "why not?" equation.

Not just you. And there's the misconfiguration of the forum software, raised months ago. And the lack of proper security certificates, also raised months ago. Given the amount of free technical support and even cold hard cash that's been offered by members here it's pretty inexcusable really.

Yes, less than half a degree. I've just checked my alignment sheet, camber pin mod + M3 front arms = 1*34' so 1.5 degrees 1*12' (was reading the wrong column!). FYI: https://babybmw.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=96465

Camber plates officially need a cert but if you get fixed ones nobody can tell. M3 LCA's will also help increase the camber. Yes, remove the camber pin first, then I'd say add M3 arms and finally camber plates. I'm sure the Dinan ones are hella expensive but you can get some from the UK for peanuts. I'll check my alignment sheet when I get home, I've removed the camber pin and added M3 LCA's, I think I've got about 1.5 degrees max.