What did you do to your car today?

[SSpeedracer]

Spent some quality time under the hood of my 322,000 mile Ti over the last several days:

Cooling system refurbished with all new rubber, abs plastic, gaskets $180
Swapped water pump $55
New vacuum/emission hoses $25
Cleaned ports, manifold, injectors etc (acetone and 5 cans brake clean) $35
Swapped starter with reman Bosch unit $85
Swapped alternator with 90amp reman Bosch unit $115
Replaced oil filter housing gasket, valve $13
New oil, oil filter and BMW (blue) coolant $40
New HVAC idler pulley $20
New ACC tensioner & pulley $55
Trickle charge battery overnight 35c

Car turning over first time Priceless



Very happy with results, albiet a little disappointed with quality water pump and tensioner.
The pump that came out was the OEM with Stainless Steel impeller (sheet that was cut, formed, and welded). I've seen plenty of water pumps, and this OEM unit was a work of art. Replaced with a POS Graff unit made with cast impeller. I had to dremel out flashing.
Tensioner will serve its purpose, but the aftermarket unit (can't remember brand) uses a torx50 bolt to hold pulley. The torx indent is very shallow and near impossible to grip while relieving tension and swap belts. Stupid design.

[1996 328ti]

Well this past weekend. Drove the crap out of the car.

[tiFreak]

started driving my E46, got a dead battery in the driveway leaving it on the trickle charger overnight

[SSpeedracer]

New front brake rotors

[FMD]

installed new kaaz diff & finally swapped to e30 axles

[Jean H.318TI]

replace the tranny fluid with royal purple for manual trans

[SSpeedracer]

Did extra brake light mod.

Swapped out hatch light switch.

[BimmerBum]

I gathered the parts for weekend work on the M50 club sport...

EvoSport Pulleys
Belts
Aluminum Thermostat Housing
88 Deg Thermostat
Silicone hoses
Oil Filter Housing Gasket
Stewart Water Pump

I will update the thread on that after the weekend.

[justmanson]

installed a new Climate Control light, both map lights, and a cig light. BMW cost... $78.00 .... ouch. I bet i don't even use the map lights EVER. lol.

[SSpeedracer]

Originally Posted by justmanson

installed a new Climate Control light, both map lights, and a cig light. BMW cost... $78.00 .... ouch. I bet i don't even use the map lights EVER. lol.

How difficult was the climate control light?

[reason]

well after a treacherous summer of no a/c, broken hatch parking light, no radio, no drivers side window, the climate control panel broken.. i go into the winter with just headlights to add... i present to you lucifer.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpioU...2eA&feature=BF

to show you how bad the light was... usually it was dangling.

[ti-billy]

took my headliner and a-pillar mouldings to the trim shop

[ti-billy]

just got the call this morning that my headliner and a-pillar mouldings are finished, i can't wait to see how good it's gonna look!!!

[reason]

I got fed up with the headliner and went to cvs and thumbtacked it up... Just got a email about a m50 2.5l for $500..

[vsonix]

Originally Posted by bob///M

gutted to sell my E36 but im loving the e46 so much right now

i still have the bonnet bra (for sale)
i have angel eyes the all in one unit (for sale)

I know what you mean man, I thought long and hard about getting an e46but I could just about get a base 316ti in bad shape for the same price as my fairly clean '00 e36 and I just can't get to love those Rover-esque headlights no matter how hard I try. If only it was as simple as replacing the tail lights.

I know Bangle's designs were controversial but whoever signed off the e46/5 must have been still drunk from Oktoberfest or something.

have PM'd you about the eyes, mine need an upgrade

oh, and back on topic, last week I took out the stock radio/cassette and put in an Alpine head unit with iPod/iPhone connection in the glovebox (also handy since I use the iPhone for satnav at the same time as playing music), next week or the week after, the front component speakers are gonna be swapped out for some new ones (also probably Alpine) then after that I'll look at either a sub or some 2-ways in the back.
tomorrow am changing the wiper blades