Matt

@Jacko has changed to the SMF in his car, I went for the DMF again in mine when I had to change it, I got the LUK kit from rockauto. A while back we had a quick drive of each others cars back to back, the SMF definitely makes the clutch much heavier but gives it a bit more feel and a sharper biting point. Given mine is daily driven in traffic, I'm really glad I stuck with the dual mass, but if it was just kept as a second car for fun drives the single mass could be a good option

The LCI plastic valve cover has the bolts you don't need to replace. They're actually captive in the cover and can't be removed (except for the two in front of the valvetronic motor but they can also be reused). A couple of things to consider, if you haven't already. Make sure you also replace the valvetronic motor gasket is that is very prone to leaking too. While the cover is off it is also a good time to replace the eccentric shaft sensor (and gasket too) as that is prone to failure and you have to remove the valve cover to do it. Also, the crankcase breather hose is really hard to remove from the back of the valve cover and also easy to break. If you're careful, you can reuse it, I bought a replacement when I did it because if it does break you don't want to have to wait to get one. Lastly, the plastic valve covers themselves can be prone to cracking, so there is a chance that you replace all the gaskets then find out you actually need to replace the whole cover. Also, the PCV is integral in the cover so if that fails, you also need to replace the whole cover. For this reason I replaced everything when I did. It turned it into a pretty expensive job but there's enough labour that you don't really want to have to do it twice (or more)...

Ditto this for me. Supersprint backbox with resonator delete. A bit louder than stock and still no drone. If I could do it all again I probably would've tried to find an N55 135i backbox instead and probably saved a bunch of money, but I do love seeing the supersprint tips sticking out the back!

Quite a few haha, I have a showroom thread with all the detail here: But in a nutshell, Full Birds B1 suspension kit with Quaife LSD, M3 front control arms, camber pin mod, bmw performance short shifter, Simota carbon intake, MILVs and tune, supersprint backbox, 135i brakes, BBS wheels, and a bunch of 1M style interior bits. Spent WAY too much money on it all haha but oh well, I always enjoy driving it!

That's me! 🙋‍♂️ Sadly the car is deteriorating cosmetically, will probably need a respray sooner rather than later, but still such a fun car to drive every day

I've had one pretty similar to this in my car for a few years now, I bought it from aliexpress and installed it myself, wasn't too difficult, just a bit of a fiddle to fit it all in. I went for the add-on version to go with the original screen just because I don't like the way the replacement android screen ones look, perched on top of the dash like they do. I also like being able to fold the screen away. It's a bit low res, and every now and then they can have a weird bug but it normally comes right after restarting the car. All in all I'd totally recommend doing it, gives all the functionality I need!

The workshop manual says to remove the slave cylinder and completely depress the piston for bleeding. There's a special BMW tool to keep it depressed but it should be easy enough to do a makeshift version

My drivers side headlight has just started flickering on and off this morning!! Got caught out by a couple of decent puddles in the rain last week, and my car lives outdoors anyway so I'd say this is exactly what has happened to me! Where did you get your replacement ballasts from, Dave?

Mine are H&R so they've been that way a little while now. I also use the HEL braided lines

Pretty much the same as what I have on mine (except my rears are ET45) and no issues at all for me

I got my battery from here, a Varta E39. Would never call it cheap but they seemed to have a better price than other places I looked at the time

Yeah it pretty much stayed the same as it was after the MILVs and flash. Although I never used to get as bad as 11.5-12 l/100km unless I was really stuck in traffic. Living in a really hilly area (Titirangi) really doesn't help though, a cold engine driving straight up hill is a thirsty combo!

Haha I know what you mean, it is hard to be restrained at times! But unfortunately I do 400+ km per week so it makes a pretty big difference to the weekly bill!!

Some of you might have noticed my car disappearing off trademe, but I didn't sell it! I actually did start to get some decent interest with some offers not too far off the asking price but in the end that just made me realise that I didn't really want to sell it afterall. It is way too much fun and I really couldn't see anything I wanted to drive more for similar money. On another note, I'd been getting pretty terrible fuel economy in it, averaging 11.5-12 l/100km on my daily commute. Having seen how much better fuel economy other people get I was wondering whether I had faulty injectors, or something else wrong to make it so bad. Then I decided to try driving it a bit more sensibly, and now for the last 6 weeks or so I have consistently averaged around 9.5 l/100km on the same commute!! Just goes to show... 🤣

I second this 😅