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Did the same thing. Bought a very slightly used Coby wheel and swapped it out for a leather one very soon after. It was too stressful. That's also why I swapped my alcantara interior.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sockethead
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I really like the feel of alcantara, but as others have said, leather's just easier to deal with on a day-to-day basis.
Is that rearview camera blocking the trunk release button?
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Originally Posted by slater
I just ordered this wrap to try out. I like the idea of a cheap wrap so that I don't care about beating it up. New leather wheels/shift knobs/etc are nice, but I spend too much time worrying about them to enjoy driving.Quote:
Originally Posted by az3579
Yeah, a bit. I got used to it pretty quickly, though. You have to either pick a side to press the switch or open it like a ninja turtle.Quote:
Originally Posted by BMWCurves
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It's worth it to me to have the camera perfectly centered. Our wagon has the camera offset by about 8 inches and it makes it useless for aligning into a parking spot or curb.
Haha, I always get a good laugh reading the updates! Keep them coming!
I now want TMNT oven mitts.
Spens said you got married today. Congrats, or whatever.
https://i.imgur.com/wVOA96q.gif
My condolences
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Congrats to ya!!
Congrats
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Haha thanks dudes. My latest mod adds weight and isn't going to do any favors for the leather steering wheel. Not sure if it's worth the expense...Quote:
Originally Posted by Vas
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Congrats Nate!Quote:
Originally Posted by ZHPizza
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Man, that will mess with your aerodynamics.
Congrats
Eventually, that ring will embed itself into your finger and become one with your hand LOl. Congrats!
Weight reduction, and interior friendly:
http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-cult...ilicone-rings/
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Thanks guys. It's taken a week to learn that I can't touch painted surfaces with my left hand. Luckily the previous owner was married so he already wore in the driver's side door handle for me!Quote:
Originally Posted by Sockethead
The wife is supposed to be ordering a silicone band for me as I've already been mashing my hand into heavy machinery trying to get some degloving going. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...900748f424.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by 704sw
I've seen enough pics from my sister's time as an ortho resident during her hand rotation to say no thank you to anything restricting around my fingers while near machinery.Quote:
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Congrats!
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That word is to me what "moist" is to women. First experience with the word, I wondered why all these people had gloves on when they were working with machinery... can't unsee.Quote:
Originally Posted by BMWCurves
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Went to rotate the tires and noticed that the left rear wheel bolts weren't all that tight...then got to the right rear and couldn't get the socket on one of them...ah shit.
https://i.imgur.com/aj3VsiF.jpg
But then I'm like wait...that's a wheel bolt...it's not even tight!
Then I high fived myself for leaving that one loose too. Smart thinking.
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It only took one beer to victory...well two if you count the mission accomplished beer.
Now I just add a single wheel bolt to my next ECS order and we never talk about this again. Cheers!
Got u fam. I’ll drop one in the box of stuff to bring to you.
It was actually one of the longer bolts for the 10mm ECS spacer. Now I'm thinking that's the real culprit as I would never leave a wheel untorqued...buuut I would also go several months without checking the torque on wheels with aluminum spacers between them and the hub.Quote:
Originally Posted by 704sw
My guess is that the hundreds of heat cycles from driving caused enough expansion/contraction of the spacers to slowly loosen the wheel bolts.
And then one broke...
And I didn't notice...
ha. well... you DID notice. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by ZHPizza
glad you got that sorted out. did you pull the spacers in the meantime?
Yep! Spacers are off since I'm now a bolt short.Quote:
Originally Posted by slater
The main reason that I wanted to get the car on the rack and rotate the tires was to check the rotors as I was getting a "wub wub wub" noise from rear when braking to a stop. It wasn't causing vibration, so I wasn't thinking warped rotor, but maybe some cooked on pad material in a spot on a rotor.
Turns out it was a loose wheel...
Glad it let me know before it fell off!
yeah!! somebody is looking out for ya... :)Quote:
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Time for an update!
So I had about two hours to spare one night and decided to do a big fluid change, starting with the engine oil and moving my way back as time allowed.
For several weeks, I was getting the yellow oil level warning light on the dash after shutting off the car, then it started coming on while driving. It was erratic, though, and the dipstick always read dead in the middle, so I assumed failing level sensor like any good e46. I went ahead and changed that ass out for the Hella branded sensor (see: BMW part with BMW emblems milled off).
https://i.imgur.com/swbIpEY.jpg
It was only after changing the sensor that I noticed that I had drained <6 quarts from the engine...hm...might not have been a bad sensor after all?
Whatever, I got shit to do. Let's change that tranny fluid:
***NO PICS OF THE TRANSMISSION SERVICE BECAUSE EVERYTHING WENT WELL AND WE'RE ON A TIME CRUNCH HERE LET'S GO FOR THE TRIFECTA AND GET THE DIFF DONE TOO***
Y'all know what's about to happen, right? It's getting late. I've got to hit the road early the next morning. I just had two smooth, successful DIY's go perfectly to plan. Recipe for disaster.
>Broke the differential fill and drain plugs free. They didn't even put up a fight. Too easy.
>Got my catch setup in place: funnel in the oil jug, elevated on a box, just like I did for the transmission without spilling a drop.
>Started to unscrew the drain plug. Stinky gear oil is running right into the funnel. Damn, I'm good.
>Dropped the plug into the funnel. No problem, happens all the time. I'll just get it after it's done draining.
>Nope. Somethings not right. Problem.
>During its fall [more like perfectly executed olympic dive], the drain plug rotated to the perfect angle to land straight down in the funnel, thereby doing its only known job of, well, being a plug.
So here I am, my face going from :-) to :-( in real time as I hold a plugged funnel, which is now effectively a cup, as stinky old diff oil fills over the edge and dumps allover my arm/my garage/the local floodplains.
The aftermath:
https://i.imgur.com/uqaENaU.jpg
It doesn't look that bad in the pic because you can't smell it.
It's been one month since the spill.
My garage still smells like rotten trash.
I flew too close to the sun.
You did hear me when I told you the exact same thing happened to me, right? Except I didn’t have cardboard under the tray...just newspaper. The foulest of odors.
I knew this sounded familiar.Quote:
Originally Posted by 704sw
Ugh... old nasty gear oil nothing worse.... well maybe burnt automatic transmission fluid...
My garage smells like burnt mineral oil from smoke testing the crap out of my car... that's pretty nasty too. I need a smelly cigar to even it up :)
it is. truly.Quote:
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and nate, at least it landed on your arm.... i somehow got it IN MY MUSTACHE. and i had a full beard at the time. no amount of washing/degreasing/rinsing with acid would make the smell go away... my wife wouldn't kiss me anymore.
gear oil:1
beard: 0
nasty stuff.
Yeah...I meant to warn you about that when you borrowed the tools for the diff...but.....ya know.....I didn't.Quote:
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My garage is on the bottom of my townhome, so the smell followed me up two floors to the kitchen and the wife thought I walked in there and shit myself.Quote:
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dude.Quote:
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no.
so true. had to shave it off.Quote:
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I was wondering if it came to that...Quote:
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As the temperatures have dropped, the chirping from my blower started back up.
I mean, I like the chirping.
I really do.
It makes me want to run the car into a lake, but I like it.
So that got added to my to-do list before the wife and I covered 500+ miles over 9 hours in the red car this past weekend. I got really, really fricken lucky with an ebay purchase and snagged a new [very well balanced] motor for $50 shipped.
Got the old one torn out (for the 3rd? 4th? time), set the new one in, and dag gummit the black cage piece was rubbing on the housing. Great.
https://i.imgur.com/TD1YkQp.jpg
Pulled it out ready to start a return through ebay and sat them next to one another to see what the difference was...
https://i.imgur.com/jXkL7d8.jpg
Do you see that? The black cage is just a few mm further out on the shaft than the OE blower. Welp, might as well hit it, right?
https://i.imgur.com/TafEbjc.jpg
GOT EMMM
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Reinstalled it and drove through freezing temperatures in the mountains. No squeaks. No vibrations. Perfection for $50.
Holla at a playa
When you see him
In the streets
I looked at the pricing of the genuine and BEHR units. :spit
Nothing better than a cheap blower
So very true.Quote:
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Originally Posted by holyc0w
I enjoy your updates. They're like small vignettes of the 2000s, but with a disposable income and "adulthood"
Well done. Lmao.Quote:
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