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Yes, I discovered mine has no tweeters on the weekend after the discussion here... ? but I think I can just add some tweeters, just need to find the right ones. But I removed my tweeter pod without separating the grill ? any reason you took that route?

Yes, this thread: Certainly the manuals you link to are overpriced, they're not worth $17k but there is good guidance above. Here's a left field suggestion: get an ECU flash, a transmission flash, add NRW shifters and you'll have a very different experience to the one you're having now. That's how I'm riding at the moment and I'd say the experience is closer to the out-of-the-box manual experience than it is to the auto experience. Fix the suspension and add some M3 bits with a good alignment and it might be enough. Will cost a lot less than a manual or conversion as well and you can still go down that route if you want. If you'd like to try that experience out then hit me up and you can take my black one for a drive. It's so fundamentally different to a stock auto you might be sold.

No need to be condescending, I was just trying to understand why you don't think rifles are guns when they are indeed guns. I did do my reading before I posted because I thought it odd that you were being so precise with your language (and requiring that precision of others) yet chose the example you did. Rifles are guns Olaf, the original term is actually "rifled gun". But certainly, not all guns are rifles, or rifled. I have no opinion on the rest of your position, I was just pointing out an inconsistency in your argument.

Yes, a family friend borrowed it before lockdown and they've apparently fallen for it. Son is a car nut so won't let it run on rubbish! ? It's not locked in yet but it's looking that way...

Might be sold... deposit pending.

It doesn't show it pictured but it is included: Surely you need a thrust bearing/washer to take the loads required when the wheels turn? I'm not an expert on this so stand to be corrected but I don't think the spherical bearing at the top can take those vertical loads. But not having inspected the parts myself I'm just guessing, there could be two bearings in that silver bit.

I think I get the point you're making ("all firearms are guns but not all guns are firearms"?) but rifles are both firearms and guns so there is no difference in this case. Unless you're using the original (and long forgotten) definition of "guns" to mean old-school "big guns" like artillery? But that would be silly. If I'm wrong about your point, what distinction are you making between a rifle and a gun?

I think you're obviously pretty good with a camera Sam but your car continues to impress me, it just looks timeless BMW, it's perfect.

That's a choice, often driven by whether you have iDrive or not. Chris replaced his non-iDrive HU with a double DIN whereas mine is iDrive so I replaced the screen and kept the HU which controls the radio (edit: and volume, CD, MD). If you have iDrive you'd typically replace the screen so you don't end up with two screens (one being redundant I'd imagine). You may be able to do double DIN plus iDrive screen with both functional but I've not seen that.

Tell me about it, wading through it to find the right bits and what to avoid was taxing. Edit: summarised it so people can actually understand it. ?

Yep, and the sound of birds (other than pigeons).

Yes, that's the difference between the stock lights but Blackline's for both pre- and post-LCI look very similar. The ones for the pre-LCI (called Blackline "Lows") have 3 non-LED bars whereas the LCI ones (Blackline "Highs") have 4 LED bars. Blackline Low = LCI look, 3 reflector bars, designed for pre-LCI and halogen cars Blackline High = LCI look, 4 LED bars, designed for LCI Xenon cars However, the 'Highs' will work with pre-LCI and halogen cars also, just the LED bars won't light up. You can wire them into the license plate lights and code them as DRL's if you want them to light up the same as the LCI Xenon cars. So, always get the 'Highs'. Apparently all lights have all part numbers on the back surround so that part number in this case is not definitive. Mine have turned out not the be Blacklines.

It's a bit confusing tbh... all LCI lights have the LED strips (the lines as you call them) and there's 4 of them. On the pre-LCI's (like your pic) there are 3 lines but they're not LED strips. None of mine are as dark as the LHS ones in your pic. ?

So I picked up these genuine BMW E87 LCI taillights today for a steal from Trademe, $100 including bulb holders and bulbs (and since @Jacko obviously didn't want them I couldn't let them go so easily, nobody else bid). They're lightly used (auction said unused) but at fifty bucks each I'm not complaining. Got them home and discovered something that pleased me immensely, they're evidently Blacklines which I've been wanting since I got this car. Having said that, I can't tell the difference between these and mine so perhaps I already have Blacklines? I didn't think so. Not Blacklines, the black trim with the Blackline part number is used on multiple light assemblies.

There no point in upgrading to CIC, they're all terribly old tech now. GROM is great if you want to keep stock (not sure about E8/9x options personally). Alternatively an Android unit, I really like mine. Chris (@Jacko) has put in a double-din, check his 130 thread and I've put in a 10.25" dash-top one in my black car to replace the CCC screen.

I'm not sure how quickly I'll move but keep me in mind and feel free to send me a PM if nothing pops up and you want to discuss it further. I have 2 x full Vader interiors and only one M3.

Possibly, M-Rain but not immediately, what's your timeframe?

Does it have drive-by-wire? I'm not sure when they introduced it to the M3. Are you able to read the codes or only when you take it to a shop? You need to fix that first if not. It's highly unlikely the car will be going into such an extreme mode without any codes.

Perhaps that's it. I've lived overseas for over 8 years in two stints, including continental Europe for 6, that's only increased my appreciation of just how lucky we are down here. It's easy to take for granted what you have already.

How can I what factory system I have in the (black) car without pulling it apart? It has "BMW Navigation Professional", A-pillar tweeters and under seat subs but no amp that I can find.

That car is fugly. But you can't diss the guys commitment and I got some kind of perverse enjoyment watching that video.

Have to call you on that one. 5m masks released from central repository yesterday, all rest homes locked down and no staff movement between them, 16 new fixed and mobile testing stations in the last 24h fully staffed with trained teams, 9 effective roadblocks sealing a city. All of that is an improvement and in many cases they've hit the right standards. Perfect? No. Better? Yes.

Heck, the world didn't even stand up for Crimea, Taiwan is totally fooked (I'm afraid ?). China are a bad actor, that's undeniable, if there's one thing economic we should be worried about here it's our trade dependence on China. And yes, we need to collectively protect the pacific nations.

Sweet home Alabama, welcome Gerald, you'll find a lot of E46 M3 love here! ? Is that snow, ice, concrete or otherwise in your first pic?

It's summarised here as 5.8% direct impact https://www.tourismnewzealand.com/about/about-the-tourism-industy/. Indirect contributions of 4% should also be considered but not in their entirety. Regardless of whether it's 7% or 12%, it's a contributing industry, not a dominant one in NZ. For example 80% of the Cook Islands GDP is from tourism, they're royally screwed on that front but their economy is so relatively small that they can be bailed out by NZ and Aus if need be. I'm not denying there is pain and businesses are failing, just that it won't be the end of the world for our economy. And realistically, irrespective of the action our government takes, we're not going to benefit from international tourism for quite some time, local lock downs in NZ aren't going to change that. Organisations that rely entirely on international tourism can't expect to survive I'm afraid. ?