New member from Belgium

[mauro23]

Hello guys,

i am Mauro, 33years old in a couple of days and working in a videosurveillance IT company. I am quite passionate of cars, mainly because my dad worked the past 30years in a garage. Now it is for me more a hobby to work in his place.
I am having a company car, which is currently a BMW 320d F30.
I privately own a BMW 320d as well, but a E46 (mainly for my girlfriend).

I love to retrofit options on it :).

the cars is from 03/2003
247000kms
This is the list of options :
http://img15.hostingpics.net/thumbs/mini_217996listeoptions.jpg (http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=217996listeoptions.jpg)

I currently replaced the following parts :

- Front and rear suspension
- Front wishbones
- new front and rear brake
- full maintenance, filters and oil 5w30

Retrofit and repair done or planned:

- water in trunk fix (done)
- M wheel with remote installation (done)
- Right gimbal replacement (done)
- Xenon headlight repair (done)
- LED plate illumination installation (done)
- Eonon D5150Z installation (done)
- OEM BMW flashlight installation in glove box (done)
- foot well light installation (done)
- NCS Expert installation (done)
- Sun visor with light installation (done)
- Angel Eyes SMD (done)
- M2 bumper installation (planned near September/October).
- TPMS installation (work in progress, obviously done for JupiterBMW)
- Harman Kardon installation (all parts received, i just need to find the time to do it)

Hope the presentation was in line with the rules and clear :) and here some pictures of my car :

http://img11.hostingpics.net/thumbs/mini_457114IMG20150614105907.jpg (http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=457114IMG20150614105907.jpg)

http://img15.hostingpics.net/thumbs/mini_510537image3ed8060b0a213a6bb6384a9f28a1882618 1273cb43b432a7a8200fe233e1d8d0V2.jpg (http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=510537image3ed8060b0a213a6bb6384a9f2 8a18826181273cb43b432a7a8200fe233e1d8d0V2.jpg)

http://img15.hostingpics.net/thumbs/mini_331707imagece00a09e8cfbde259f966b867ce57ada34 20c7f0092142e19364fc09d38b0c1bV2.jpg (http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=331707imagece00a09e8cfbde259f966b867 ce57ada3420c7f0092142e19364fc09d38b0c1bV2.jpg)

[Vas]

Welcome.

Post some pics if you can

[johnrando]

Welcome. Great list. Definitely please post pics of your car (s).

[danewilson77]

Mauro,

Welcome to the Family. Lots of good work done. What are "triangles"? Side markers?

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[mauro23]

Hello guys,

thanks for the warm welcome :).
I modified the first post and put some pictures of my E46. I will try to find some of my F30 tomorrow, i don't have anything in my computer right now.
@danewilson77, sorry triangles wasn't the good word in English, but in French. I replaced the wishbones in fact.

Hope i won't do too many mistakes, English isn't my native language :) I will also put some pictures of the different modification i did when i will have few minutes free.

[Johnmadd]

Welcome. Triangles would be known here as control arms I believe. Nice e46 touring you have there.

[ELCID86]

Wilkommen.


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[Oli77]

Bienvenue l'ami Belge. Great color. Je suis Français, mais j'habite dans le Kentucky.

[fredo]

Welcome from Austin Texas USA! You will like this forum.

[WOLFN8TR]

Welcome...

[brettbimmer]

Welcome to the mafia. Don't worry about your English - you probably have it mastered more than some of us anyway...and it is our primary language so we have no excuse!

I have a friend who lives in Belgium who is a Porsche guy...but we still speak on occasion for our love of German automobiles even if they come from different parts of the country... 😉

[Rovert]

Bienvenue à la Mafia! Une semaine prochaine je étais en Ghent, Antwerpen, et Bruxelles! :) It was an amazing time to see all the cars you drive in Europe. I wish we had the selection of engines, trims, options that you guys have! In order to have a fancy BMW we have to purchase a bigger engine. To have the smaller engine here, it means we get a a lot less fancy options.

[mauro23]

Welcome. Triangles would be known here as control arms I believe. Nice e46 touring you have there.

I meant this part :
20376
I changed both completely (not only the silent-bloc)


Wilkommen.

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Danke schön :)


Bienvenue l'ami Belge. Great color. Je suis Français, mais j'habite dans le Kentucky.

Merci ami français. Wow, et tu es né aux états-unis ou tu as bougé là-bas ?


Welcome from Austin Texas USA! You will like this forum.

Thanks, i don't know why, but i am pretty sure you are right that i will like this forum ;)

Welcome...

Thanks :hi


Welcome to the mafia. Don't worry about your English - you probably have it mastered more than some of us anyway...and it is our primary language so we have no excuse!

I have a friend who lives in Belgium who is a Porsche guy...but we still speak on occasion for our love of German automobiles even if they come from different parts of the country... ��

Thanks. Of course you can't mess up discussing things about Porsche or BMW ;)


Bienvenue à la Mafia! Une semaine prochaine je étais en Ghent, Antwerpen, et Bruxelles! :) It was an amazing time to see all the cars you drive in Europe. I wish we had the selection of engines, trims, options that you guys have! In order to have a fancy BMW we have to purchase a bigger engine. To have the smaller engine here, it means we get a a lot less fancy options.
Thanks ;). Really ? I didn't know that there were so much differences about options and engine size in between Europe and the US ? Quite strange, but i guess it is a question of making more money by forcing you to purchase bigger engine, as you can't really go in another country to buy your car like we could do if, for example, the car would be more expensive in Belgium, we have 200kms to do and we are in Germany ... Of course, this is only a guess.

I do have a question, if i want to show all the retrofit i have done so far, is it the right place to do it or shall i create another subject in another section ? I haven't found a section like "present your car" or so ??

[Oli77]

You can start a new thread under BMW Ownership - Maintenance; or BMW Ownership - projects.


J'ai demeneger ici a quinze ans avec mes parents. J'ai maintenant 50 ans!

[mauro23]

You can start a new thread under BMW Ownership - Maintenance; or BMW Ownership - projects.


J'ai demeneger ici a quinze ans avec mes parents. J'ai maintenant 50 ans!

Thanks for the feedback, i will create a new thread in projects, as i will show more retrofits than maintenance :).

Another small question for you guys, i assume that you also use WDS for some of your project to check out the wires, but i do have an issue with all of them that i can't follow the hyperlink to a connector to see the pinout and the location for example. Do someone have a clue about that ?

Ha ok, ça fait un bail. Un peu comme mes parents, arrivé en Belgique a 13ans environ, ils ont maintenant presque la 60aine ...

[wsmeyer]

Another small question for you guys, i assume that you also use WDS for some of your project to check out the wires, but i do have an issue with all of them that i can't follow the hyperlink to a connector to see the pinout and the location for example. Do someone have a clue about that ?


Welcome from Los Angeles!

The links have never worked for me either. I just enter the connector part number into the search and find it that way.

[mauro23]

Welcome from Los Angeles!

The links have never worked for me either. I just enter the connector part number into the search and find it that way.

Thanks wsmeyer. I wasn't sure if it was a missing plugin or whatever. I was also doing it like you describe, thanks for the tip :thumbsup

[ELCID86]

Still out there?


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