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Not much progress other than sub box ready for carpet and made some brackets to lock sub into place. Went to order speakers last week but the focal K2 es100ks have gone up 50% since Black Friday and are closer to $1k a pair. Were $650. So would be roughly $2.7k for 2 pairs plus underseat woofers. I don’t think the price / performance is there with the focal k2s at new prices so looking at alternatives. Amazing how small 100mm component speakers are at a price premium.

Reduced to $390 . Need to fund my car audio project 😀

The AMP can just be seen behind the CD stacker rack. Just found some old pictures from my build of factory speakers to give you an idea of what you have. First is front door card , second rear parcel shelve , third is the factory speakers , fourth rear mid range , Fifth is BMW verse the PPI's The factory mid bass drivers use a foam surround which rots away. Replacements speakers can't be too deep. Rear deck speaker basket also limits speaker choices as basket tappers. I had to mod mine to fit speakers with larger magnets,.

Speaker wise ran PPI which were ADS brand. Very nice sounding speaker but only available second hand. Options such as focal , jl audio entry morel , cdt audio sound good. Bavsound also drop in and eBay has some overpriced Dayton drop in speakers as well.

10 channel amp should be left side in the boot next to external vent. Roughly 20 watts x 10 channels. Speakers front doors 2 x 6 inch ( metric equivalent ) plus mid and tweeter mounted by door pull 2x 6inch in rear parcel shelf 2x mid ranges in rear side car area. I did a system in my m3 a number of years back. Ran 5 1/4 passive component speakers front and rear with a sub. Roughly 100x4 rms and 600rms on bass. Time aligned and 1/3rd octave crossover on every channel and tuned for drivers seat. Sounded very good. Front doors do limit mid bass due to shallow door card air space. These e46s really need a sub

Always been temped and no doubt at some stage may get menoporsche.. Great story btw , hope you really enjoy driving it and ownership.

Welcome and sounding like BMW is in your family 😀 Im probably a bit like your father , Got my first BMW as a 21 y/o in 1988 (1981 e21 323i ) and 35 years later have owned 7 models and driven 700,000 kms in them. Last couple have been M cars which are a real hoot to drive, The model range has evolved into something for everyone Hopefully you can find a model that temps you into ownership. Do watch for some of the google says the car is really bad and will cost sqillions to repair and will ultimately end up exploding type posts. Seen may people talk themselves out of ownership as a result and mids out on owning a great car ( eg e46 M3 SMG which was a fantastic car to own )

Very smooth on the steering wheel. What an awesome sound 😀

550i e60 in Wellington. Tinted out , straight pipped , burble and pop tune. Pplate of Iran or similar. Car load having a bit of fun , on the gas / off the gas. Was torn between laughing and crying 😀 I must be getting old 🤘

Guessing you’d be really pleased with the time. Well done, that’s flying

2017 will either be ID5 or ID6 so can run CarPlay in software rather than needed an extra / aftermarket MMI module.

The old sub is certainly still very capable even these days and runs neodymium magnets, which makes it lighter that triple stacked subs (12kg verse 20kg plus ) Roughly has the surface area of a 13 inch sub. Has a massive 3.75 inch cone travel ( on a ported box ) and with 1000 rms can lay down mid to high 130 dbs. It can move some serious air. I’m running it in a sealed box of 1 cubic foot which is more sound quality aligned rather the running a ported enclosure . To help with bottom end below 45 hz also running a passive radiator which is a speaker without a motor. This helps with the bottom end and the F3 -3db point becomes 23hz rather than in the 30s. Gives a nice flat response on the low end. Needed to make some minor adjustments to the enclosure. Adding 6mm to the bottom as the sun will sit against the backseat. By doing so the top will sit high enough to be against the boot cross member. In addition looking to anchor the sub to the boot tie downs. With the F80 seat backs being a basic frame Want to ensure that the subbox can’t break through the back set in an accident situation. Also used a router and opened up the sides of the enclosure to vent the bass when up against the back seats. Need to find some speaker carpet to match the f80 boot or some other wrap

Stink ☹️ Would argue that it’s an OEM part and available via dealer. Otherwise guessing Tuner Motorsport or ECS tuning for replacements.

I’d brought these modules to install in my old E46 M3 . Mine was imported from Japan so had no Alarm or DWA Alarm wiring loom. Was going to make one up using realoem and work out connector pins etc. Sold the e46 before doing Some e46s are pre-wired for Alarm and will have a sticker on the boot carpet liner. Note that many of these modules are also used on e39. Located in Wellington Alarm modules for e46 Includes Boot tilt sensor module Interior ultrasound module and brackets for coupe, sedan, hatch but not convertible Brand new Motorsport headliner module cover Bonnet Switch Under bonnet siren and brackets Spare DWA interior mirror ( has the led that flashes when alarm set. DIY guide link here. BMW pdfs are also in link. Alarm needs to be coded to activate and there a different mode options. Connects to BMW GM5 module to work with car lock unlock functions. https://www.e46fanatics.com/threads/e46-oem-alarm-retrofit-install-instructions-for-non-prewired-vehicles.1202929/

SOLD Have 2 x E46 M3 rear rims for sale. $525 These are 18x9 ET:26 . Was looking to have these tidied up and run a square setup on my E46 M3 . Have since sold the car. Please note that previous owner had tried to recreate shadow chrome on the rim edges so these would best be repainted. Located in Wellington

Like the bonnet line and the windscreen rake. E46 M3 esk . Rear csl boot looks good too.

Been looking into the subwoofer aspects of the build. F80 doesn’t have ski pass system of e46 or e90 but the back of the seats aren’t solid metal backed like the old car. Keen to reuse the old Boston Acoustics SPG555 and looked into a false boot floor build. Whilst the underfloor area has enough volume it’s not deep enough for the spg555. False floor would need to sit 15 cm above current level. Tried the old box from the e46 and it fits quite in the f80. Will modify the old box a bit as speaker face the rear seats. Deep is ok as I’d still be able to use under boot floor storage area if needed.

It’s the first version with showa. Engine spec is close to 748RS with quite a bit of corse internals. These also run titanium conrods amongst other goodies 😀

Project is a Mk1 classic mini that was a circuit car in the 70s -90s. The idea was to convert to road based Motorsport and my take on a 60s classic racer. Power wise it has a 1275cc a series engine with a turbo and race gearbox / lsd. I got caught with re-vin process before getting everything certed for road legal use. Bike is a 2001 Ducati 748r which previous owner built it for track racing. I brought it after 3 races / 200 km and put road bits back on. It was mainly used for leisure riding, but also speed trials and hill climb competitions. Has an amazing sound and quite a bit of power for a 750cc Ltwin.

Thanks for the post but I did trade the e46 m3. My choice was basically around the space and also around what vehicles I keep and also the m3 is used as a daily. I did start the list of things that you’d do to a e46 with 180,000 and had just had all the stone chips and bumpers done to bring paint back to a high standard. Car had been BMW serviced since I brought it at 48,000 km and did anything that came during that time. Ironically car had recent set of PS4S and I’d also done front rotors. Would have meant moving on a limited addition motorcycle and a project that’s on my bucket list to finish. I had a health scare earlier this year that’s made me determined to do certain things. Riding again is one of them and the bike brings a level of enjoyment that I don’t get driving.

Door trims arrived today. Been looking into more details for front door components. Looks like enough room to mount crossovers within door card which is promising. Also looking at active speaker options. Looks like F series only run one set of speaker connections to door, but it looks like there is a spare socket available on the front doors to put in two quad lock sockets and pins in. So if I run another set of speaker wires from boot location to doors I would have the option of running active front speakers. Ironically the quad lock connectors / sockets will only run .75 mm cable which at 4 meters gets a bit marginal at 60 watt RMS at 4 ohms. I’m debating this in my mind as there is also an area in the door connector that a speaker wire could run through. Front door speakers would will either be 3 or 4 ohm 100mm components rated at at least 60 rms. Compared with e46/ e39 / 38 BMWs which are wired for active 3 way speaker cables and have a decent mid bass speaker wire gauge the F80 wiring is quite underwhelming.

14 e46 M3s on trademe at the moment. Must be some kind of record

Yes , one of these need to be tapped into the top bus wire white with yellow from memory. Also needs 12 volt and ground. A person in bimmersport wrote a program to read the ibus and do some basic programming about 10 plus years back “search “jochen ibus” I think there are also some more recent programs also 0n gethub. https://shop.ibus-app.de/en/ Edit nav coder http://www.navcoder.com/

Have a read from page 18 on the I/K bus for a further understanding http://www.e38.org/bussystem.pdf

The cd changer power connector also has ibus wire. The audio system can keep the car from going to sleep , but it’s normally via telephone module thinking a phone call in in progress which in turn keeps the tuner module running. Tuner module controls the power on / off signal to both the amp and aerial amplifier. If your car has a telephone in the armrest type disconnecting the cables to it under the arm rest. However, if you’ve disconnected the tuner module and amp I doubt this will be causing the ibus bus to stay awake,