Jacko

Little baby class D amp sits in there pretty good, tracing all the factory wiring to subs is a bit of a headscratcher... had to remove car to do it.

Im no conspiracy nut, but I'm starting to think there is way more to this than meets the eye. Big power shifts are happening. Vanuatu must be close to defaulting on their chinese loans due to covid ending tourism, which means china essentially own em, they already have clandestine presence in the pacific and this will just make it formal. If Taiwan gets invaded (sep/oct is apparently the best Wx), the chinese then have a clear run down through micronesia into the pacific..... /tinfoil hat off.

Nah, black is stock. What thickness is it?

yeah other than a little nick on the edge of one, they look new.

On police frustrations.. my house got broken on the last night of Lvl 4 lockdown, when were all at home. My wife, son, dog all asleep. This guy had balls. He ran through our house grabbing laptops and tablets. He also left his palm prints on my gate... the police forensics team turned up quick and did a really good job. They called us a week later with a name, asking if we knew him, we didnt... I found him on facebook, about as stereotypical as you'd expect from someone who does sh*t like this. I called the police 3 weeks ago, to see if it'd had been actioned. Nothing, no progress. They said they'd call me back as it shouldve been actioned. no call back. Its madness. I dont blame individual officers by the way, but the system is broken. This sack of sh*t will 100% be out there continuing what hes doing.

Well timed project of door card and stereo upgrade. Dont quite know where the amp is going to go yet, any advice? Its a small monoblock focal purely for the underseat subs. Debating installing it the factory position in the boot, close to the battery, and then running the RCAs back and forwards down the car, or moving the amp closer to the subs and having shorter RCAs and longer power leads? I may end up amping the original subs just to see what happens initially! The blaupunkt BM1402CM4 door speakers look like a quality bit of kit, particularly as the price is pretty sharp. No idea what they sound like, but the engineering is solid and the whole frame in CNCd etc. Nice.

Incompetence.

Surely this will get reversed with right to repair legislation kicking up a storm.

The cargo net is very handy, it stops my dog licking my ears whilst driving to the vets

Yeah the lump outta that would be perfect, looks like too nice a car to pull to bits though... Maybe you need to talk to Ray about a S65 for it....

Project My two still run mint, but one's at 280,000+km and I want to build up something to beat on with MILVs and headers etc, then rebuild the old one as a slow burn project once it's over 300k.

Blacktop, want the silver top OG.

After a nice solid N52B30, something lowish km and looked after. Long block is all good. Preferably later built magnesium rocker and with cam ledge seal fix. Ideally manual sump too, but not a deal breaker. What's out there?

The tube that fits to gets really brittle, its pretty common for them to snap when ya mess with em. If it does snap it becomes a mare of the job as its pretty much totally CCV system replacement which is a job with bloody knuckles and swear words (at least on silver tops) Id let them do it, and they can deal with it if they break a line. Or just do it as part of the full CCV system refresh ya self, they all fail at somepoint anyway

Isnt it the heating element in the CCV system lines? They were shorting out and starting fires.

Went paddock bashing in the sun

Yeah same calipers as mine, the front rotors and all pads are the same and bolt on, but 130s need different rear rotors - https://www.ebay.de/itm/Bremsscheibe-2-Stueck-COATED-DISC-LINE-Brembo-09-C246-11-/123588455233 is whats on mine.

Bimmersport sticker lasted 5 years, fell off in last wash so got replaced. Just managed to snipe a set of mint lci door cards on tardme, so will swap em in with new blaupunkt speakers and subs, driven by a focal amp. Going to take some wiring to separate the factory sub wiring from the head unit.

Theyre realllly cheap, most go for 3 times that price.

cheap - https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-parts-accessories/bmw/brakes/listing-2722836467.htm?rsqid=2c87eb7aa7a046a6bdaa7aac6091a1e3-001

The ones left and right of the boot, its about 5 min to get access. The rear end is easy.

Whats one of these actually worth now? I need one to match my 1980s pre stock market crash executive house... Maybe I have no taste, but that colour and those wheels look awesome to me

Ahh... interesting, so that B1 V1 sized swaybars, mine are 28/16mm. Did you take note of the spring/shock p/n? Be curious if Birds went back to the old setup (lower spring rates, bigger sways) or youve got big sway bars and the higher spring rates of the V2

Its part of the Y that joins the two exhaust manifolds.

That is slick, I think the wheels work!