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Did you change the bulb bearings? It's not the car's fault if you don't maintain it.
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I mean it lasted 11 years but I try to avoid touching the brakes ever, since they're so expensive to redo (except while sitting still at stoplights to prevent idiots from driving into the back of my car). I would have thought Superior German LEDhesives would have kept me going another 20-30 years. Harrumph I say
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Somewhat Heroic posted:Follow your heart and buy an M3 my son. My original budget to replace my ZHP was $14k. I somehow convinced myself to go up to around $22k because I'm an idiot, but that's really the edge of my safe fun money that I won't regret spending. That prices me out of really good examples of M3s, otherwise I would. I keep seeing okay-ish examples at that price point that I have to yell at myself to ignore.
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Cojawfee posted:Did you change the bulb bearings? It's not the car's fault if you don't maintain it. lol
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Well there's always a first time in life but yeah, I actually gave up on the oil separator for the crank case ventilation. Don't buy N46 Just don't.
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meatpimp posted:Why aren't you guys talking about xDelete? It's beautiful. If this works on E70 X5Ms, that could result in a lot of cheap lols. Torque vectoring on 315s sounds like my kind of stupid.
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I'm clearing some space in the shop so I can put the E90 on the lift tomorrow and get the intake manifold off. Also found a quite nasty hydraulic leak on the power steering line, but it looks like it's just the hose clamp giving up. Hopefully the new oil separator will fix the nasty smokes, the alternative is the valve stem seals which is something I will not touch on a valvetronic unit.
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Combat Theory posted:I'm clearing some space in the shop so I can put the E90 on the lift tomorrow and get the intake manifold off. Also found a quite nasty hydraulic leak on the power steering line, but it looks like it's just the hose clamp giving up. Wow, a BMW with a power steering fluid leak?
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I'm constantly amazed how incredibly bad this E90 is to work on. It appears it has been strategically designed to annoy you in every manner possible when trying to keep the car alive. Maybe it's just a very unlucky combi of chassis and engine and the other motorisations are better but this is absolute nightmare fuel.
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Bape Culture posted:Do An donut I was screaming "THIS IS FOR ASH WITH A 5" when I did it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lHvgj2THB8
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meatpimp posted:I was screaming "THIS IS FOR ASH WITH A 5" when I did it. Disabled comments. Pfffffffffffffffffft
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Mischa did an M3 taxi running costs video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLaSiXmCA94 cliffs, assuming an 8 minute lap time to get to hours Front pads - $450 - 50-60 laps (~6.5-8hr) Front rotors - $1600 - 80 laps (~12hr) Rear pads - $250 - 120 laps (~16hr) Rear rotors - $250 - 400 laps (~54hr) Driveshaft - $3400 - 350 laps (~47hr) Rear Hubs - $1100 - 175 laps (~23.5hr) Tires - $1100 - 80 laps (~10.75hr) Fluid Changes - $7/lap or $56/hr His total for running costs per lap was $65, or about $490/hr. Not included was a misc replacement listed at an average of $22.5k / year. Also note that gas was not mentioned.
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$3400 driveshaft every 50 hours? Wtf
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Hello. I have never before considered a BMW, but this feels like a very tempting WRX/Golf R alternative? https://tinyurl.com/y62a6hvp Can anyone tell me how much of a grade A moron I would be to buy this? It will be my only vehicle and I'm trying to stay out of repair shops.
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Buy it and do a burnoot. F30s are pretty reliable and don’t tend to do old BMW things, at least not yet. It’s a very solid only car and that one seems well optioned to me, though Paradoxish knows F30 options better than I do. Also estoril is the correct F30 color (mine is mineral gray and I wish it weren’t). The mileage is high, but below $20k USD is on the cheaper side. If you’re worried about the mileage, you could spend a little more for one with fewer miles.
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Yes, buy an E9x M3. And when the A/C evaporator goes out and the dash has to be pulled to get to it, you’ll have the pleasure of forking over $2700 for the pleasure. fml
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Ugh you guys are going to give me cold feet for when I check out this e90 on Saturday. A 10 year old used German car sounds like a terrible idea when I write it out.
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Residency Evil posted:Ugh you guys are going to give me cold feet for when I check out this e90 on Saturday. A 10 year old used German car sounds like a terrible idea when I write it out. Nonsense. 
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Pull it out and save the money and weight ftw
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Residency Evil posted:Ugh you guys are going to give me cold feet for when I check out this e90 on Saturday. A 10 year old used German car sounds like a terrible idea when I write it out. try a 18 year old used german car 
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no buy a 29 year old German car with hidden rust issues
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Seik posted:Hello. I have never before considered a BMW, but this feels like a very tempting WRX/Golf R alternative? https://tinyurl.com/y62a6hvp If you're looking at Golf Rs then I don't know that an F30 is really going to be significantly more unreliable, although maybe a little bit more expensive if something goes wrong. The N55 engine seems... okay. A Golf R is honestly probably a more fun car than an F30 335, so maybe drive it before you get your heart set on it. They're still really fun cars, though. Also, I'm insanely jealous that you've been able to find a perfectly optioned manual 335 for less than $20k USD, and a 2014 no less. The mileage is high-ish, but the price for those options is crazy good. Older cars with higher mileage, more common colors, and worse options are going for like $5k more than that anywhere near me. If you like it, try to have a pre-purchase inspection done just because the miles are a tad high. If that car were in the US I'd be buying it today fwiw. edit- the last car I actually saw in person was a pretty much entirely stripped down 2013 with almost 100k miles that the seller wanted $22k for. And it was silver 
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User Error posted:no buy a 42 year old German car with massive rust issues
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I DD a 23 year old German car and my "new" garage queen is a 17 year old German car. Age is but a number.
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Do NOT buy a golf. Buy a mini if you want a fun hatch
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Pr0kjayhawk posted:Yes, buy an E9x M3. And when the A/C evaporator goes out and the dash has to be pulled to get to it, you’ll have the pleasure of forking over $2700 for the pleasure. fml That is...not ideal. My air conditioner doesn't work great, but it does work. The evaporator on this car is not big enough I think.
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Alright this E90 N46 is officially the creepiest engine I have ever worked on. Car is consuming 1 liter of oil per 1000km, when hot: emits massive blue smoke after stopping and accelerating again (like an actual cloud of smoke that stands in the air) Intake valves are absolutely clean, intake ports are clean Engine has full compression. poo poo idle and misfires under acceleration when cold. New spark plugs (they are also clean after 2500 km which is the weardest part) New ignition coils New crank case ventilation and oil separator. Also found a rusting vehicle frame below the air filter box (luckily in time) I have a 27 year old e34 and a 20 year old e39 and their issues are absolute peanuts compared to this abomination. My last guess is a blown oil ring on cylinder 4 that for whatever reason doesn't result in massive sud on the spark plug but I'm not taking this thing apart again that deep. Also blown oil ring after 130000 km and proper service history sounds very unlikely. Or the Valve Guide seals are pissing oil without depositing it on the actual valves. Rest in peace you poo poo bucket. Combat Theory fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Feb 14, 2019 |
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Seik posted:Hello. I have never before considered a BMW, but this feels like a very tempting WRX/Golf R alternative? https://tinyurl.com/y62a6hvp For what it’s worth, my current daily is a 2017 340xi with M-sport. I also recently owned a 2017 Golf R. The 340 is punchy off the line and very comfortable. The Golf was funner to drive and better in snow. Better handling in general. The 340, even with M-sport, has terrible suspension. Way too soft and floaty. If you get that plan on a tune to improve top end performance, some suspension upgrades, and replacements for the runflats.
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Somewhat Heroic posted:That is...not ideal. My air conditioner doesn't work great, but it does work. The evaporator on this car is not big enough I think. On the I6 cars there’s a panel that can be removed to get to it. On the V8 it was covered and they probably said gently caress it but in German. I was going to wrap the car because Space Gray is literally the most boring color but now I get to spend that on functional A/C. On the plus side someone’s side view mirror hit my front bumper and hood on the highway doing $1200 in damage. That’s a plus because I get to fix rock chips, a hood dent, and get to switch to a black grill.
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Pr0kjayhawk posted:Yes, buy an E9x M3. And when the A/C evaporator goes out and the dash has to be pulled to get to it, you’ll have the pleasure of forking over $2700 for the pleasure. fml Oooooh, that felt like a nut-punch. I paid $3200 at an independent mechanic to fix an evaporator leak on my M6 just before I sold it. That loving hurt.
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I've driven 2 e30s and my current e36 and none of them have had working AC for any appreciable amount of time. I just operate under the assumption that no BMW has working AC and my e46 AC working is a fluke.
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My ZHP's AC was just always mysteriously really lovely even though no one could ever find anything wrong and in the whole time I owned it it never got better or worse.
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Anyone know if the E90 M3 DCT trans is roughly equivalent in size to like an E36 ZF?
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E34 is still running its R12 filling in the AC the e39 blew out its denso compressor, replaced with a used one for 50 Euro, works again like a charm.
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I should probably unfollow this thread it is giving me bad ideas like turn in my 83k mi 135 that needs a little work and combine that with my signing bonus for something new and more expensive so it can collect dust all week while I'm gone m-th every week for work.
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