BMW E46 330d SE Touring
Discussion
I missed some things I had on my old 330. Sports seats and Individual sill trims being two.
I don’t like standard seats in the E46 and have had a saloon which I put manual sports seats in and the last touring had a Coupe sports seat then electric Nappa seats.
I decided some sort of sports seats were needed. I’ve gone for M3 Coupe seats. They are Nappa which is nice.
Fitting in the touring is a simple job, swop one rail from a saloon/touring seat. I bought a pair of beige standard seats for 99p for the rails. If anyone wants them for anything over 99p send me a pm!
The individual sill trims are very rare. I couldn’t find any. Instead I have the even rarer “Edition 33” trims, fitted to mainland Europe special edition E46s built to remember 33 years since the first BMW Touring was built.
I don’t like standard seats in the E46 and have had a saloon which I put manual sports seats in and the last touring had a Coupe sports seat then electric Nappa seats.
I decided some sort of sports seats were needed. I’ve gone for M3 Coupe seats. They are Nappa which is nice.
Fitting in the touring is a simple job, swop one rail from a saloon/touring seat. I bought a pair of beige standard seats for 99p for the rails. If anyone wants them for anything over 99p send me a pm!
The individual sill trims are very rare. I couldn’t find any. Instead I have the even rarer “Edition 33” trims, fitted to mainland Europe special edition E46s built to remember 33 years since the first BMW Touring was built.
No bolster adjustment in the seats. Mpg on the new car is still a way off the old one. That was averaging 50mpg, the new one is doing 44 so far.
It goes well so I don’t think there’s any problem with it. I may do an air mass system test to be sure. I read through my M57 training material and a reason for the better mpg of my last car occurred to me.
That was converted from an auto to a manual, only the auto had an egr cooler, I left it on. This cools the recirculated by 100 deg C, hence the improved mpg. That’s my theory.
I may retrofit an egr cooler later to see if my theory is correct. This also explains why the old car used more fuel and performed worse with an egr delete.......
Or maybe an egr delete would work with no egr cooler? I’m not sure as when I tried it on the old 330 it put the air mass readings out, hence the fueling would be out.....
It goes well so I don’t think there’s any problem with it. I may do an air mass system test to be sure. I read through my M57 training material and a reason for the better mpg of my last car occurred to me.
That was converted from an auto to a manual, only the auto had an egr cooler, I left it on. This cools the recirculated by 100 deg C, hence the improved mpg. That’s my theory.
I may retrofit an egr cooler later to see if my theory is correct. This also explains why the old car used more fuel and performed worse with an egr delete.......
Or maybe an egr delete would work with no egr cooler? I’m not sure as when I tried it on the old 330 it put the air mass readings out, hence the fueling would be out.....
Edited by helix402 on Thursday 8th February 21:36
Today’s jobs, new battery and M3 Seats:
The battery fitted was a tad weak, it went flat whilst I was fitting the new window regulators. It recharged ok though even without testing it I knew it wasn’t giving enough juice out.
M3 seats and Edition 33 trims are in (there were 333 Edition 33 E46 Tourings made):
Yes, I know the interior is dirty! The seats are rather lovely and grip you nicely.
I Phone made my pictures upside down.
The battery fitted was a tad weak, it went flat whilst I was fitting the new window regulators. It recharged ok though even without testing it I knew it wasn’t giving enough juice out.
M3 seats and Edition 33 trims are in (there were 333 Edition 33 E46 Tourings made):
Yes, I know the interior is dirty! The seats are rather lovely and grip you nicely.
I Phone made my pictures upside down.
Paint’s a pretty good match. Not bad for a £40 used bumper!
The fan stumped me briefly. I put the new one on and it didn’t work, checked connection, good. Cleared DDE fault memory, the fault came straight back. I then checked the fuse. Fuse 37 50a. It had been removed, once refitted I activated the fan via old school DIS (it was closer than my ISTA laptop). All working.
The fan stumped me briefly. I put the new one on and it didn’t work, checked connection, good. Cleared DDE fault memory, the fault came straight back. I then checked the fuse. Fuse 37 50a. It had been removed, once refitted I activated the fan via old school DIS (it was closer than my ISTA laptop). All working.
helix402 said:
The ones I bought are genuine. The vendor is a BMW dealer and they supply a receipt. There are a lot of fakes out there though.
I'm impressed for that money then. Noticed they're the plaques only, but they've superceded the original style caps with modern full dome versions, so I can see why you've gone with them.Gassing Station | Readers' Cars | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff