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Or, you know, just keep an eye on your speed and dont worry about speed cameras or cops? I've had two speeding tickets in my lifetime, and both were 100% my fault and both were due to me being stupid. Dont use a radar, dont use waze and dont even have cruise control. Better living everyone.

Thats cool. I knew they ran the 4G15 but didnt realise they were manual too. I wonder, how heavy are the garish blingy wheels?

Honestly, reading the Car Constructors Manual, which is what LVVTA uses, you might be pushing sh*t up hill trying to use aftermarket recaro rails in a stressed seat situation. You wouldnt need to prove the rails/seats meet the standards, you would need to prove the rails were factory fitment in a factory car as fitted by BMW. I know my friend who did a similar thing to his corolla had to prove that the recaro rails he used were OEM toyota parts, as fitted to an OEM toyota (in this case, a Levin). This was helped by the rails having OEM toyota part numbers on them. If he changes seats to more modern recaros which have the newer bolt pattern, he has to change the rails and will need to put the buckles on the tunnel then. Easiest solution is to mount he buckles to the tunnel with doubler plates and be done with it.

"ENGLAND VERSION" in the decoder. Maybe it was one of those tourist delivery things?

Since you're already running MHD, turn on the exhaust burble option. On my E91, with stock exhaust other than decat, it could pop and bang with the best of them. Its horrible for the turbos though I believe.

AH, i didnt check the rego, so just presumed it was live. If its dead, its not even good for P&Ts (as the cool kids call it)

Someone buys/obtains a car that is dead reg/stolen/not an M3 and wants it to be a road "legal" M3... buys shell with reg, plates and vin tags, puts said identity on dodgy car. Very illegal, but still happens. I think they call it ringing in the UK.

M3 plates and tags aint cheap, homie

Still doesnt give you the right to be a wanker and bully someone else on the road if you are behind them. Just chill out, sit back and accept the extra 2 seconds it'll take to get to where you're going. If we were talking about doing 20 under the limit, it'd be another story, but 5-10 under in bad weather? Grow up.

Or, hear me out, remember that the posted speed limit isn't a hard target you MUST meet, drive to the conditions and bullying people on the road isn't ok.

Wasn't a Ranger danger, was it? Ute bros are a pest.

I got shot of it ages ago, thank god. BMW uses the same bing bong for everything; door open? BING BONG. Ignition on? BING BONG. Critical failure of the active steering, causing the steering wheel to be on a 45deg angle whilst on a twisty single lane hill road? BING BONG. I had issues with the valve stem seals and smoking (very common, even turners knew to look out for it and refused to buy the car because of it), the active steering regularly thew its toys out of the cot, dynamic drive would sometimes throw errors, as would the engine. I think almost every time i drove it something would throw an error. I chased error after error fixing things until it kept the errors away long enough to sell it. It had about 130k on it. I took a hell of a loss selling it just to get rid of it. I've had a few BMWs now and generally liked all of them, except that one. Im sure not all of them are that bad, but ugh.

was already bent when i got the car, suspect it was probably done in metal folder. Its up there with one of the worst cars i've owned. Constant problems, all common, and ended up with PTSD hearing the BING BONG noise whenever i drove it. Horrible car, its no wonder people say BMWs are unreliable. It was nice to drive when it worked though 🤣

Yeah the one on my shitbox 650i was bent like that and looked 100x better than the OPs.

It's probably still on the adjustable suspension as per the thread I linked

The same facebook listing you've seen it on, i presume. its been edited a couple of times.

If you'd dug a little deeper you'd find a thread on here if it being sold previously. It has/had a lot of good bits on it but looks like its a fair bit rougher now than it was. When it was first listed by the current owner they had only recently got it from Turners, and had a bunch of warning lights on, so I'd go into it with eyes wide open. Its a heck of a car for not much money, but it could also be an incredible amount of pain since it has the N54 and no service history. I believe it says its a manual because its DCT, not auto.

I reckon they need a plinth or the plate curves and looks all gross. Sounds like you need a euro plinth and relevant sized plate.

Love how the E46 looks on those E90 Msport wheels. Great looking car

That interior is proper minging. Just look how discoloured the contact areas of the center arm rest are 🤮

Keep it in the showroom as a reminder of how far wrong they've gone.

Trying to look tough, succeeds in looking like a bloated pig hiding in the shadows.

Just needs a manual swap for ultimate win.

Shame its not a Roadster. Always wanted one of those.

You need to read up on what Valvetronic actually is before you start messing with anything. The N46 engine is a dog. Just drive it until it eventually terminally fails and then scrap it. Dont try to mess with it or "improve" it.