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Learn more here http://www.bmw.com/com/en/newvehicles/7ser.../exterieur.html

Maybe give StocksShocks a call.

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It all depends on your tire choice, put cheap rubber on expect average results. The e39 is a heavy car and having soft side walls and bad casing design will really show. Lowering will obviously change the geometery and cause the dredded shimey but replacing the thrush arm bushings and a decent wheels alignment will bring this back into order.

good stuff, bring it to the Jan - Show and Shine / Festival.

Sweet, mines going in the xmas stocking

They'll only show OBDII 'p' codes .. not all subset BMW specific codes. OBDII is an american emmisions standardisation that was used to standardise vehicle diagnostics when american WOF station wanted to test for emmisions. Unfortunately it has pretty limited output on the codes and wont cover the detailed or more BMW specific stuff. Plug-in generic handhelds: Americans love this sh*t for some reason. I would be looking at something a bit more BMW specific such as Autoenguinity. However even this doesnt cover everything.

Will sell mine after I swap to Dynavin which im told will be around mid dec if your into waiting that long.

happy birthday dickface

My one is a honeywell MLH series pressure sensor. Few places around that sell them. I got mine through a mate on his account. You can find them online. No worries

AA doesnt do a true pre-purchase inspection. It should, in addtion to the normal vehicle stuff, include a full run sheet of what commonly goes wrong on the car your buying and a full run down of upcoming service costs and repair/replacement parts including a full scan with proper BMW specific software, not just a generic OBDII code scan. Otherwise its pretty much just generic 'warrent' style check. There aren't that many places in auckland that I know of who do it properly. As glenn says, you get what you pay for .. and unfortunately in the case of the AA, then some.

http://www.dpccars.com/car-videos-11/11-16...-Powered-Up.htm enjoy

Yeah in peak summer with the traffic its a nice stable temp with the fan going the whole time. Temp switch kicks in at 95 degrees and stops at 91 degrees. It pushes a lot of air as I have just wired it in for full speed. Best thing to do is go out and test it. I use the block temprature sensor / ECU for realtime read outs instead of the temp gauge. The fan temp switch I use is just is a single stage one. The fan is capible of two speed but I dont really need it.

So been a bit busy ordering some new stuff. New Oil housing with the elusive pressed in Oil Thermostat, yes you have to buy the whole housing just for this one bit. My old one is poked shut. And while im at it I installed a new Ratiometeric 0-100psi, 0-5 volt industrial grade pressure sensor (Thanks to conrad for help locating one) This will eventually connect to my new GPS datalogger project (watch this space) Just sitting it in the housing, will seal with alloy washer once locked in.

Might be worth a purchase.

Take it your talking about a front bumper splitter ?both have there looks.. OK will let you in a little secret with modifying e46's with m3 front bumpers and this may help you with designing your colour scheme as its the formula I used for mine. If you look at the front area of the car with the m3 bumper on you have two main colour lines First is the indercators, head lights and grill Second is the spot light/brake inlet holes, front air dam. The first you can either go black or white the second you you cant change as they open holes (black) Youll be introducing a splitter .. which if you paint black or get carbon fiber it will introduce more black down the bottom, which will break up the shape of the bumper a little. Your choice is based on weather you want the car to look 'clean' or more chunky. This is something a lot people struggle with when doing colours and what some cars will look better than others, all it takes is the wrong unbalancing factor and it wont look as good as you wanted. The reaction you should be going for if you putting the effort in spending the $$$ is that first 'look' you get when see it coming around a corner and the car looks really attractive. My mind set when I was doing the e46 was something with wow factor yet still classic. Hence I left thge chromo detailing on the car and didnt paint it. I tried dark headlights inners and even considered doing the kidneys dark, and used electical tape to see what it would look like, but suddenly the indecators that I had spent at the time over 1200 on (came with euro change OEM over kit) stuck out like sore thumbs. Another thing people miss is basic contrasting colours rule of thumb. Its the whole picture you need to look at. EG all dark wheels on dark car have a certain look to them and is very hard to pull of without doing something like say polished lip to offset the 'dark' factor the car will now have. Just like light coloured wheels look naff on a light coloured car unless its the same colour of the car. Really dark wheels on oppersite colour car EG, flat black wheels on white car create 'wow' factor. Ray's new e46 m3 is another example of a car that is balanced very well. However when he tried my old BBS LMs on his old techno violet 540is it didnt work because the inner parts of the wheels I painted dark silver .. intended to go on my polaris silver e30 (light coloured car) Red car (darker colouring) with polished lip to offset with mid silver inners and flat black detailing. Perfect. You can change the colour of the car to say green, yellow, blue even darker grey and it will look amazing still. There are 1,000,000 people who have done all this stuff before hand and im sure you have a few meg of images saved at home of details you really like. on cars. The trick is picking something your _really_ like and sticking to it. Its what I do with all of my cars and how the modified ones turn out looking good.

you know what would be sweet? If we all went off and signed that email address up to a few hundread porn sites and other dodgy viagra schemes. create a spam loop >

It looks weird once going to an m3 bumper with no trim unfot.

sweet .. looks like you have the m5 front bumper

Sweet! you must be stoked. Good to see youre getting the guards done professionally. It looks so much better with the flat edge retained. The cars going to look awesome once youre finished. Just a note around coilover height and the front bumper. Things get real tricky real quick on approaching driveways and other carpark exists. Learn to hit everything diagonally and with your wheels straight. Maybe even after your bumper is done, look to get some 2mm thick rubber and attach it to the bottom of the bumper to help with scraping. Get some new bumper and side moldings and get them painted silver too, their farly cheap to buy new. Dont try paint the ones you have on there as when theyre re-installed the ripple.

Love it .. good to see your suttle mods and attention to detail. Another perfectly done vehicle.

Good stuff man, really starting to come together!

Happy birthday man! hope you have a good one.