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I drove it! I was home sick last week, and didn't get a chance to get out after applying the stage 2 Active Autowerke tune. It felt good. Next up, intake manifold swap.
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Splizwarf posted:This is why I picked up homebrewing. I'm not even that good at it yet and I'm getting $45/case beer for about $25/case. I went all grain and buy it in bulk from a distributor in NY, and I can make a solid American Pale Ale for ~$10 for 5 gallons, just need to reuse the yeast to lower the per batch cost. Much like car hobbies the "hey I can save money!" quickly turns into "Oh god, I have two chest freezers and 30 homebrew kegs". At least when I preemptively replace my water pump and thermostat I'll actually be saving money compared to waiting for it to fail and having it towed to the only BMW dealer in the state.
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May 9, 2012 15:43
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Removed the CDV on my 2009 3 series. I had done this on my 2006, so the factory restrictor was driving me insane. Also changed the oil and put on snow tires. I had done the oil on the 2006 at my normal time, and got lucky with finding the 2009, and had to do it again. 
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Dec 8, 2012 22:52
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some texas redneck posted:That wheel is repairable. The tire, not so much. Some states, like Vermont, won't let it pas inspection with repaired wheels. In fact, there aren't even any shops left that do wheel repairs here. You can repaint, but no straightening.
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Dec 12, 2012 18:44
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If you're near Philly, I'm sure someone will help make the rest of the bumper match. :/
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TacoHavoc posted:Changed the trans fluid on my e90, took all of twenty minutes. Then decided to be cute and remove my clutch delay valve while I was in there. One failed pair of vice grips later, I'm swimming in brake/clutch fluid. Then I spent two hours with my pissed off girlfriend in the drivers seat while I turned an 11mm bleeder an eighth turn at a time. Removing the cdv on both of mine went fine, other than the week with the newer car until I had time to remove it. When we did my dad's, well, I got a face full of brake fluid. I didn't have the spring clip all the way on, and using the pressure bleeder popped it off. Better while I'm under the car than when driving it though! It definitely feels like a real car afterwards though.
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Aug 25, 2014 14:20
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Replaced the serpentine/accessory belt on my 328. The Contitech kit had a big printout of WARNING PULLEY HAS A BOLT RETAINING CLIP. REMOVE CLIP BEFORE INSTALLATION. Guess what I found on the pulley I took off the car? Yep, the retaining clip. Pretty sure the dealer changed this when they sold it as CPO. Good times. Also, put all seasons on and got an alignment. Good thing too, the RF was a good bit out of spec. The tuning shop doing the alignment also had to use the impact to break the tie rod free. I'm kind of guessing the local dealer didn't adjust that last year, since PA isn't bad enough to lock something like that up in less than a year. Kind of explains the odd wear though. Next up is the HVAC blower cage, the bearing is wearing and making noise. That part arrives Monday. Still doing pretty good for 92k. Only unexpected bit lately is the passenger seat occupancy sensor, and that wasn't completely awful, other than local dealer's estimate of $1k, and the coding price to their competitor for $250 after installing it myself.
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Jan 24, 2016 20:32
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Replaced the blower motor in my E90. It had that lovely worn/rusty bearing squeal that slowly drives you insane on the drive to work. Turns out, you only need one tool for this job - a Torx 20. Remove passenger lower dash panel, held in by two screws. Rotate, jiggle, pull, jiggle, and BAM. Hey look, it's rusty. Moved the resistor pack over to the new one, using the aforementioned T20. New one is nice and quiet. Not bad for $100 and 30 minutes. Only four screws! German engineering is getting lax. Also did new wiper blades because the chatter is also a terrible noise.
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Feb 5, 2016 04:56
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Wife's car. But I put on the spare so we can drive it to the shop to get the winters put on, since one of the all seasons has a screw in the tire. gently caress lug nut covers forever. Two came off, one stayed on, and one is on with my 3/4" socket. Fucker. Technically still a success. 
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Oct 31, 2016 22:48
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Ford, but when I sent the pic to my Dad, he said his Suburban originally had that type too. And yes, I'll be replacing them.
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Nov 1, 2016 04:42
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:Negative Ions now has all of the trim it's supposed to have. The paint is pretty rough on it - the clearcoat is fine, but there's a lot of chips in it all over the place. Even on the roof. I tend to drive more than most folks, though less than you do, and I've gotten stone chips on every panel of the car. Roof rails, trim, trunk, one rock even thoroughly dented the trim (and flaked off the paint) on my 06 3 series. I got pretty good a touch up painting. Vermont had a fair amount of rocks and rock salt mixed in their road treatments. -.- Brine coats everything on the car, sand/salt is like bead blasting the car. 
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Apr 24, 2018 04:09
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(and some dickhead sanded the spoiler down to bare plastic) Still, looks a lot better with all the trim. Previously it was missing the door frame trim (where you'd expect the B pillar), and the trim along the driver's door window was coming apart.
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Imperador do Brasil posted:Couple of things to a couple of rides. When I went from stock to Apex wheels on my 328 with non runflats, it made a huge difference in handling and driveability. It'd probably be less noticeable on a 335, but putting those summers on was such a relief. I think I also dropped a similar 7lb per corner. Looks good!
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Aug 8, 2018 20:19
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You can just knock the center out of that and put it back in place. Much easier that screwing around with the lines. I have a 66% success rate on bleeding the lines though, that part is pretty lovely.
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Nov 11, 2018 06:08
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Yeah, it's extra "safety" for the transmission at the price of burning through the clutch faster.
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Nov 11, 2018 17:06
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fknlo posted:My M3 needed the biannual brake flush and I don't have the stuff to do that so I took it to a local shop. It also needs an oil change so gently caress it, they can do that too. I bought the motiv pressure bleeder a few years back to do the clutch line when taking out the drat CDV. I've now used it on No shame on paying someone to do work you're not interested in though. I paid AWE to swap the manifold on my second E90 out of sheer disinterest in doing it alone without my dad, his garage, or his tools.
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Nov 3, 2020 00:41
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Motronic posted:Eastern PA goon in my area spotted. I'm a bit west of RTT Tuning, had them do my alignment. They had to use the impact for quite a bit on one bolt (probably from living in Vermont with that car before), so apparently BMW of Devon didn't adjust poo poo previously. They're super nice, they asked if I really wanted to keep the alignment it had, and I said it was a 328 and I drove mostly highway, make it make sense. :P No wonder the one set corded on the inside... I bought the 335 from Thompson BMW, so I'm basically chasing you up and down Bucks County. You lot don't do much as a group. The SE PA TFR group at least pretends to go to a range and finds a restaurant worth stopping at in each direction!
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Nov 3, 2020 06:24
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Imperador do Brasil posted:From having done this before: gently caress this job. I did both of my E90s just fine, but when we went to do my Dad's, we could not get it to bleed correctly. Worked great after overnighting that pressure bleeder. Pretty sure his E90 was when I got a face full of brake fluid. The motiv bleeders aren't too expensive and it made flushing the fluid on my F30 a really easy job.
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Mar 24, 2021 23:40
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ThirstyBuck posted:Cursed, did your temps go down post filter replacement? Unclear. I found lots of info on rebuilding the ones for the M54(?) For the E46. Did not find much on the N52 ones. I have several used ones I got from eBay for like $75 each, uh, somewhere. I eventually just bought new ones for my last 328, and still have the used ones, which I've never tried
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Apr 24, 2021 18:53
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fknlo posted:Replaced the cold side charge pipe on the M3. How are the temps? I've had the ER pipe for my N55 on the shelf for a while, thinking I should finally install it soon. Since I've put it off, contemplating heat wrapping it first. Also waffling on getting a bigger intercooler, I only have the M performance tune, but since I'm out of warranty mhd is calling me
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Jun 19, 2021 22:48
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IOwnCalculus posted:That's exactly how the filter on my Canyon is. I just loosen it up as one of the first steps to break the internal seal so it drains the contents back to the pan before I drag out my drain pan / wrench. Well if you do the oil first and spill it, spilling diesel afterwards is really just helping clean up the first mess, right?
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Jun 22, 2021 20:01
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Motronic posted:If that breaks down on you (it usually does) get some felt. That's the "pro" way to do it from what I've been told and I've had it last for a very, very long time. The official BMW solution in several spots, notably the seat belt latches, is the fuzzy half of Velcro with adhesive backing attached to the spot.
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ThirstyBuck posted:I swapped out my single stage intake manifold for a three stage manifold and replaced the oil filter housing gasket. This necessitated changing the oil and the coolant as well. It took me the entire day but I got it done. I only needed to replace one coolant flange that broke unexpectedly and the BMW shop in a corn filled around the corner had one so that didn't hold me up too much. Very nice! I did the 3 stage swap the first time, and without my Dad's well lit garage and tool supply, paid a shop to do the second one. I like my current car, but definitely have a soft spot for the N52 in the E90
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Both manuals. The 06 was lighter due to no power seats, I miss that car. I don't know that xhp works for the older autos unfortunately.
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Thanks Mercedes, your "captive" nut for the battery hold down could use some help staying firmly upright and ready. Eventually wedged a small screwdriver in there to help it stay up so I could finish. 
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Jan 15, 2022 22:52
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Oh it had one of those, the bottom was really unenthusiastic. It's very, very German. Wait, what were we talking about again?
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I washed and waxed the daily because I'm guessing it hadn't seen good treatment much before I bought it based on how vigorously it collected water spots. Of the used BMWs I've bought, it doesn't have the worst paint, that honor stays with the barbera red E90, but man, it's not all that far off.  Sadly, the stick shift version did not manage to detail itself via proximity.  I'm probably going to have the bumped resprayed on the black one, and I'm starting to wonder if I should just do the hood as well. 100k miles of mostly highway is harsh.
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Jan 14, 2023 22:28
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Is the area around the coolant cap crusty? I got a low coolant warning or two on the B58, and the cap was clearly leaking. Topped off and a new cap, no issues since then
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Aug 8, 2023 00:06
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You need some dollies for moving those wheel/tire stacks around. My Dad gifted me some with basic plywood and large free spinning wheels that have been really great. Though, given plywood costs they're probably not cheap anymore.
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Little bit of nice weather in PA and the summer cars come out. I took the manual car to get the kiddo from school on Thursday, and people definitely noticed the difference between Estoril Blue and black, the double takes were pretty funny. It does remind me to clean the interior of the daily, the fun car is super nice inside since the kids really don't go in it. Much like Powershift, the front of mine looks like a trail car.
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