BMW E46 330dA Touring
Discussion
Rangeroverover said:
Slightly off topic,interested to know what made you change your mind about buying a house, have you been affected by the leave vote?
Sorry, I have only just seen this. We have now sold our old house and are buying a new one. We just had a nightmare with chains collapsing multiple times, I don't think it was anything to do with Brexit. Ended up moving into a rental to get the kids into the school for the start of the year, so took a beating on our old house to get rid of it. The sale was then incredibly stressful too for reasons I doubt the buyer would want me mentioning here. vsonix said:
SuperVM said:
I've recently sold my E39 M5 and bought an automatic E46 330i Touring, they're just so cheap at the moment and we were meant to be buying a house, which the leave vote has well and truly killed. I told myself I wasn't going to do anything to the 330, but so far I've replaced the wood trim with carbon and done a double DIN conversion with an Erisin Android unit. I've also bought a set of Eibach springs as the front of the car is comically high.
Yours looks great! :-)
Do you still have the wood trim? I wouldn't mind replacing my scruffy metal cube trim with something elseYours looks great! :-)
Arch repair continues:
The small round hole is where a grommet was. Rust has crept under the underwear/grommet join and enlarged the hole. The hole will be welded up. A free bonus was this:
This is a first for me, a stress crack in the n/s/r suspension turret. There are actually three. There are several panels joined together at this point. It'll be repaired. My rear suspension set up is: Sport springs, standard dampers, M3 top mounts, Eibach 21mm anti roll bar. Car has covered 237000 miles. I've never seen or heard of an E46 cracking here. Has anyone else?
The small round hole is where a grommet was. Rust has crept under the underwear/grommet join and enlarged the hole. The hole will be welded up. A free bonus was this:
This is a first for me, a stress crack in the n/s/r suspension turret. There are actually three. There are several panels joined together at this point. It'll be repaired. My rear suspension set up is: Sport springs, standard dampers, M3 top mounts, Eibach 21mm anti roll bar. Car has covered 237000 miles. I've never seen or heard of an E46 cracking here. Has anyone else?
"My guys" are me and a friend! I'm a trained BMW Technician, though now work in a different field. My friend is retired and once restored classic cars for a living. Doing the work ourselves keeps the costs down, it's very labour intensive to do it properly.
My costs are £30 for a wheel arch repair panel, £25 ish for new clips and fittings and a little for paints etc. Afraid I'm not sure how much a body shop would charge.
My costs are £30 for a wheel arch repair panel, £25 ish for new clips and fittings and a little for paints etc. Afraid I'm not sure how much a body shop would charge.
I cleaned the floor up today and found two free bonus holes! One is around a grommet, the other is around the jacking point. The grommet hole will be plated. We've made a plate to repair the jacking point. All this floor rust is around holes or seams. The under seal or seal sealant has cracked then water has sat in the seams.
Edited by helix402 on Tuesday 28th March 18:49
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