Road trip story & Project thread: 2001 Titanium Silver e39 M5

[DeathTrap]

Excellent video. It will become more polished with time. How many hours did you have in editing it?

[johnrando]

Good stuff!

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[Sreten]

Waiting for the outside possibility of "what have I done? Let's just scuttle the whole thing and do it as a tax write off"

Jokes aside, loved the video

Lol, thanks, Will! Much appreciated.

Normal person would probably be pulling its hair out right about now, I see it as a challenge and can't wait to go to the garage and work on it. It has good bones and deserves to be saved. So far, knock wood, everything looks fixable.

If you remember the E46 325i M Sport Stratus gray that I bought to flip quickly, now that was a "what have I bought" moment. The tie rods were rusted so badly that alignment couldn't be done, I wanted to go underneath it to have a look and I started to lift it by the left jack point -- I just heard rust crunching and jack pad sinking, the immediate reaction was Nope, not touching this rusty garbage anymore.

I sold it disclosing that and the guy who bought it stays in touch and has started to sort it out. He removed the side skirts and there is soooo much rust.

Excellent video. It will become more polished with time. How many hours did you have in editing it?

Thank you! Absolutely, I'm a novice with editing and it should become better with time.
If the sound is one of the shortcomings you noticed, you see me walking around with a microphone but it's actually not working because I'm dumb and realized that too late. My stupid phone needed a special TRRS cable in order for the microphone to work so everything up until the outro is phone mic. I was so pissed after realizing that and I'm an IT guy...

Well, not really sure as I didn't account for the hours, I'd say I spent about 3 weeks playing with it, trying out different things and learning beginners editing. That said, I didn't spend every hour editing, last 5 days while I was on vacation back home were the most productive ones. I also got sick in the meantime, my stupid voice changed and I had to wait for it to pass as I sounded like a completely different person in voice-over, lol.

Good stuff!

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Thanks, John!

[Sreten]

Btw, still waiting on @704sw & @ZHPizza for feedback.

[ZHPizza]

Btw, still waiting on @704sw & @ZHPizza for feedback.

I'll get back to you when I find 15 minutes to sit still

I'm eating like week old pizza right now so might have an opportunity later tonight if this cheese is overripe

[az3579]

I'm eating like week old pizza right now so might have an opportunity later tonight if this cheese is overripe

Thank you so, so much for that.

[holyc0w]

Holy crap, LMAO

[Sreten]

I'll get back to you when I find 15 minutes to sit still

I'm eating like week old pizza right now so might have an opportunity later tonight if this cheese is overripe

Dude, no sweat. I was just hunting for an amusing post from your side and I got one!

That sounds awful. 2 words for you: Frozen ZHPizza.

[racer2086]

FCPEuro is that you?

I kkeed...I keed

LMAO

Nothing like dropping $800 buying control arms, coolant, o-rings, etc and getting one big flimsy cardboard box, retaped by the shipping company, with a hole like a grenade went off, and some baggies of small parts hanging out. I mean, I'm cheap and chose economy shipping but what's a couple extra pieces of tape cost or a thicker box?

Btw, some gems in this thread..."overripe cheese" bahaha

[ZHPizza]

Dude. Two frozen quesadillas later, I've finished the video. My thoughts:

1. Your accent is dope. It makes everything more fun.

2. Loved the pure joy at finding working cupholders

3. And knocking out the c pillar lights

4. I need a cocaine table in my car

5. Did you ever figure out what the smell was?

6. The whole run through of the busted interior was really fun

7. "Wee 12" is funny to hear - Germany has ruined you

8. Thanks for bleeping that f bomb my virgin ears can't handle such profanity

9. Needs more schiesses


Overall, I LOVED IT

It was like one of your stupid long posts but you read it to me and added action shots. I couldn't ask for more.