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Sweet fuel consumption really.

So how’ve ya been 3pedals? Any interesting projects going on?

Welcome back, William.

Have you checked them for play or damage ?

P&S automotive or BM workshop Grey Lynn are also good places to go

Few little things done to kill time over lock-down. Replaced the sun-damaged outer door handles with some in better condition. These are an absolute cunofajob to install and i now wish i had just masked and painted the originals. I also fitted the shadow line door card strips as the chrome with shadowline outter window trims bugged me. Before : After: Had an issue with the central locking not working and the drivers door master switch not operating the other windows. After about 10 hours of dismantling and troubleshooting I found the p-bus wire in the passenger front door loom connector was shorting against the neighbouring wires. Wish I had checked it first! But was good to learn more about e39 elec troubleshooting.

I miss the days of the SA parts bin special’s i.e the e30 335i & 325is

Clearly my sarcasm receptors were offline. I'm glad you're happy.

ok stand by

Go to the envelope icon for messages, at bottom click 'Go to Inbox' scroll down and you should see a 'Enable my messenger'

It actually read quite offensive.. "Well f!#k you guys, I'm a devoted Scientologist and all you naysayers are wrong. WRONG!" But then on 2nd thought I thought you may have been joking ? Probably were? On the 17th of April when you went read-only I think I may have clicked the wrong thing when I was processing the warning. Apologies for that, it was a cock up on my part. Anyway, you're obviously quite upset over this. From looking I can't see how to bulk unhide your posts, but have now revoked your post about the M3. I've also revoked your warnings. Let's try keep it this way ? I think you may need to re-enable PM'ing yourself ? I get this message when trying to reply to a PM from you. ""M3AN will not see any replies to this conversation right now, but they may re-enable the messenger in the future"

Weird, you were warned twice in the political thread and then it subsequently restricted your posting and hid all posts started by you. I've re-instated your e87 thread, if anyone has the links handy to the other internationally acclaimed posts, link them here and i'll fix them. As per Glenn, the forum needs new leadership.

You can usually get a bit more life out of the pulleys if you pry off the bearing covers and pack them with grease. That one sounds well passed it though. I definitely noticed an improvement doing the vanos seals with low end torque. Wouldn’t need to change up a gear anymore cruising up the harbour bridge at 80ish km/h.

Fuel filters getting blocked i think is another internet myth. There’s a filter on the end of the pump to catch any larger particles, then there’s a fine media filter inside the fuel filter. Old fuel filters you’ll see black dirty fuel pouring out from the inlet side and clean fuel on the outlet side towards the injectors. You’d have much more pronounced symptoms if either of the filters were blocked. Still a good idea to change them though.

Scrubbed it up really nice

Fiji green

Seems like a minter but the full de-badge to me makes it look like a car that’s ready for a commercial where branding needs to be omitted. And really? You could have paid 5k to de-badge including the actual bmw emblems??

Especially with the pus ca18.

Yep will be sorting that when I can get more paint and possibly pickup some nicer rear door cards.

Yeah these are anodised aluminium producing a fine chrome finish for a short period. Scuffed them up with 320 then a few light coats of etch primer, followed by some satin black. The pillars and pieces around the mirrors were just scuffed with 800 then a few coats of the same satin black.

Got around to sorting out the crusty “chrome” window trims.

Hey could you please update your original post with the asking price?

What’s the plan of attack for cleaning/maintenance on them? Just wash with soapy water?

Why oh why did they make the NSX in auto ?

Can you give us some specific examples of that?