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Other leather trick is Shaving foam with Lanolin , The lady that made my wife's motorcycle leathers told her to use it. The Lanolin is natures natural conditioner. Worked a treat on my Spyke leathers after 15,000 kms of adventure riding in South America.

And people give us SMG owners a hard time ...... No slop on the SMG gear lever action Car is looking great with a polish

Either way it's a shame. Ford verse Holden verse chev has given us years of fun in our family, Although I've been one eyed BMW for the last 25 years. Shame to see the aussie icon going.

Made the boot baffle board today. Trial fit wasn't too bad. Will add some foam rubber to the edges and carpet over the foam. Should give a snug fit. Next stage carpet to match boot and spray front enclosure baffle gun metal.

Your comments are interesting on the VW. Does it have time alignment compensation ? The M3 has mid and tweeter in the upper door. The mid doesn't sound to bad, but I'm not a fan of the tweeter, BMW sell blanking mid / tweeter blanking plates so I'd drop a tweeter into one of those.

Sub box has had a good dose of filler. All wood work completed. Needs sanding and carpet / paint. Also need to make up a front baffle board this weekend. The idea is to fill the boot gaps around the edges to force more of the speaker via the ski pass in a manner similar to a IB baffle board setup. Then next steps simple amp rack for / PC / Crossover to use area where gunk tyre pump sits. Last step will be working out what quadloc / amp spade connectors to working in with Nav Speaker loom if I can't get aftermarket speaker cabling into the front doors without butchering the door wire connectors. Tossing up trying door install for tweeters rather than my usual front dash /A pillar corner installs.

Simple delay relay between the remote power on input on the amp and the white cable that goes to the factory amp will stop the thump. Link A dsp can be added to the factory system via a box called a intravee and a sony pxa processor.Link or look out for a 3sixty.1 2 or 3 and do an RCA output mod to your factory tuner. I think the newer 3sixty.3 also accepts balanced audio so should be able to connect between the tuner and amps.

Might pay to buy a 5 channel amp or 4 channel amp plus 1 channel sub amp. I'm not sure how well the BMW amp would react to running rear speakers only in a mix in match mode. Put it this way ,not a mode that I'd run as you need to ensure that the factory amp doesn't go unstable without having a speaker load to run. Last thing you want is a amp smoking up behind trim panel.

Great project Allan , it's come along well since I last saw it. No doubt you've become a E46 expert out of merging the two cars.

SS was the road version.

Nice choice of colour ! Mate had supersprint on his M3 , added a nice sound without being ott. On light throttle the car was neighbour friendly. Nail it and the M3 sounded as it should. With the e46 M3 the leather covers can be taken off with a couple of basic leather tools. I did this when I changed over my rear seat back rest and transferred the cover to a ski pass unit. Keep an eye on Ebay as I've seen a full set of covers come up now and then. Could be another options for you either way.

Get crunchy to perform magic and have the worlds fastest m3 What about transplanting your 3.8 with a turbo ?

Bugger ... wanting a e90 m3 now ......

The balanced audio use is normally between the tuner / pre-amp and the amp. DSP can complicate adding aftermarket audio. I haven't done a lot of research on balanced audio car audio amps after I checked out a few and found the prices at the point where an audio processor made better sense. Cheapest amp found I found was a zapco which would roughly be $900 landed but maybe the installer above may know of a cheaper option. In the end I modded the factory tuner to use standard rca outputs and decided to reuse my small soundstream stealth series amps. link At around 2000 you tuner could either be a bm23/24 or a bm53 , either can be modded for rca output. The soldering is tricky as there are a lot of surface mounted components. Best to have a pro do it rather than a hobbyist. swautomotive or hotwire may be able to do this for you.

Would need to identify the tuner module in the boot to confirm aux or otherwise. Late model bm53 do , not sure about the bm24. What year is your e39 and does it have an orginal or retrofit sat nav ? Otherwise a device like a dice that logically sites between the cd changer and factory tuner module could be a way of adding iPod support. In terms of e ppi speakers do your research on the old models verse new. The tweeter on the old 355cs and 365cs have great clarity. The material on the newer 3.65 changed hence my question if anyone had listened to the newer series. In terms of amps you will either have to use an amp with speaker inputs that daisy chain of the existing amp or find and amp that can balanced inputs from the factory tuner model. Balanced inputs support is typically on higher end amps and may not fit within your budget. Another way is to get something like and audio control lci electronic crossover but again unless buying second hand they aren't cheap. Installer wise make sure you find someone that has worked on a sat nav integration install on an e39. You can easily spend 500-600 here.

Sometimes it can work out cheap by not combining postage. Remember that once it's over $400 with combined shipping then expect to pay GST Unless your planning on importing a high end sub then its actually cheaper to buy local. Freight on mine was $177 usd. Similar with amps again your going for high end.

Was the customer after a turn key solution including app setup or were you originally only providing an office server and two laptops plus base desktop build with MSapps? If the later then apologize face to face but point out that you where only originally providing an ICT solution excluding accounting software. You offered to help procure software as the customer purchased the wrong version as an act of good faith.Id point out what you where originally scoped to provide which you have ready and the additional software was being supplied due to customer mistake. They should cut you some slack. Point out they shouldn't be pining the whole deal on condition of supply based on late delivery of MYob In terms of the software it's normally activated by software key. The packaging / box / dvd aren't worth much. Get onto the MYob reseller and get them to advise MYob that the software has been stolen. If they aren't prepared to help take it up with Myob. Myob should be able to de-activate the licence so nobody is $1000 out of pocket should someone try and install it. This shouldn't become your problem and make you out of pocket. Also point out that through the poor process of dispatch to the reseller they have caused issues for your customer.

Now we are talking . Daughter still needs a 5 point as only just starting to sit up now. Maybe not , $1300 NZ shipped

Has anyone heard the Ppi 3.65 All so known as the soundstream ref series. These are the replacement for the ppi 365cs. I considered these for the fronts in the M3 but the magnet was to deep without cutting metal in the doors. Either way could be an option for the e39

or another suggestion while they can still be got. (ppi 355cs) http://www.rapidradio.co.nz/Product-Catalo...p;ProductId=878 Which are also available via http://www.amazon.com/PPI-355CS-Precision-...s/dp/B006U4TREA These are a mid 2000's design , but are a great sounding and like the DLS will appeal to audiophile type tastes. Sounds best with lots of power behind them.

Well done. Nice tidy install. The Boston get better / smoother sounding after 20 hours or so of music run in. You've end up with a lot of stereo for $1100 !

Excellent repair !

Been a while ! having a little one around the house certainly changes priorities and time. Started on the ski pass enclosure. Have been playing around with a number of box designs for while. Rather than going deep into the boot have build the box to go along the back seat and follow the 20 degree angle of the back seat. That way I can still get the all important Baby Jogger into the boot. Picked out a sub and a passive radiator again after having good experiences with Boston's old C110. This time will using a SPG555 and a SPG TR passive radiator. Main advantage is the it runs in a sealed box that's not too large. running 28 litre Pics below is the box trial fit. , the box as seen via the ski port and the all important check to make sure the baby jogger will fit.

I don't think the lucas alternator would be up to it somehow. Running about 600 RMS on the sub channel.

Have tested a motorcycle helmet at 130k and both the helmet and my head survived. They are possibly better on direct impact such as side window impact. Being full face they are better from a fire pov compared to some of the open faced car helmets. The key difference is they don't have anchor points for a hans device. The other issue is often they have aerodynamic aids. I find in the m3 with the road seat correctly adjusted the helmet clearance to headlining is minimal and the spoiler at the back of the helmet is very close to the headrest. PS , The most important part of buying a helmet is one that fits your head properly. Check out this video for more info