 » Site Navigation | | | | » Recent Threads | | | looove 04-16-2024 01:18 PM 04-16-2024 01:18 PM 0 Replies, 1,972 Views | |  |  |  | |  04-17-2012, 09:28 PM | #1 | | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Florida Posts: 404 | 
I've been here for awhile but haven't uploaded anything on my Ti yet! So here we go! My first car was a 2000 Honda Civic EX. I found it at a used car lot and fell in love with it. I was already into tuning and stuff and the car was sick. Was white and already had a set of enkei rims on it, aftermarket tails, and coilovers. Alas after I had fallen in love I find out it was manual. I had never driven manual before but I liked it so much I decided I would learn. We bought it for about 4k. Very discouraging at first thought I wouldn't be able to drive my car. I learned though and it became second nature. I loved the little thing. I could rip on it all I wanted haha. It was a Honda after all! I started to become interested in drifting... This is when my love for my car started to go. I still appreciated the transportation just wasn't as fun to drive anymore. Well on my way to band practice one day I was in somewhat of a hurry. I pulled out in front of somebody leaving my neighborhood (didn't double check my left :/ ) and they hit me on my drivers side wheel. Car was toast. I'll have pics up. So in search of a new car I was searching for stick shift and RWD. After searching through loads of POS 240's and old mustangs and 300zx's and finding nothing in decent shape for my price range of 3000 tops. My mother finds a 1995 BMW 318ti for 2000. Had 175k miles, manual 5 speed, and working A/C. Our original plan was to look at an MR2. But this was much better. We checked it out test drove it and bought it. It has been a great car. So far we have had some steering work done to it for about 1k because it had steering wobble on the left. One day I got a little frisky with the slideways action and bent a rim on a curb. Now I'm not really hard on my car just a little bit of spirited driving every now and then, and RARELY any sliding. Anyway after driving around on a crap rim for awhile I decided to upgrade out of my own pocket. The steering wheel would lock up after being shut off and after starting you would have to jiggle it to break it free and then could drive. So mom bought a steering column from a fellow member on here, and I bought new rims, tires, and lowering springs. It's been in the shop for a long time but our guy is busy. It should be done in the next 2 weeks though. He only gets to do a little here and there with all the customers he gets. Anyway I'm done rambling. Here's what you really want.
Last edited by Breticus; 04-17-2012 at 09:32 PM. |  |  | | 04-18-2012, 11:35 PM | #2 | | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Florida Posts: 404 |
Nobody interested?  | | | | | 04-19-2012, 12:16 AM | #3 | | Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Ft Defiance, AZ Posts: 686 |
i like the spoiler  __________________ 1999 BMW 318ti
2005 MINI Cooper S
 | | | | | 04-19-2012, 03:12 AM | #4 | | Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 2,451 |
Looks nice! what color is that?  __________________ 
1998 318ti Sport - "Cali" Schwartz II/Schwartz sport interior, Cali top
1998 318ti Sport - "Max" Schwartz II/Schwartz sport interior, S52
1997 318ti Sport - "Tiny" Schwartz II/Schwartz sport interior
1995 318ti Active - "Blanca" Alpineweib III/Schwartz leather interior
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1994 325i Sedan - "Jade" - Sold
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Quote: Originally Posted by BlackBMWs  Looks nice! what color is that? | Looks like Cordobarot. Nice car!  | | | | | 04-19-2012, 05:29 AM | #6 | | Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Ft Defiance, AZ Posts: 686 |
i agree with cordobarot, but those contrast strips always get me  may i suggest something like this?  http://www.318ti.org/forum/showthrea...ght=trim+paint __________________ 1999 BMW 318ti
2005 MINI Cooper S
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Thank you guys! And yes! It is cordobarot I do believe. I plan on doing some touch ups when I get it back. | | | | | 04-19-2012, 10:50 PM | #8 | | Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Scranton/Wilkes-barre area PA Posts: 454 |
please tell me that is your car with the flames. __________________
***Derek***
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Pioneer radio/ Pioneer 6-Disk CD Changer/ JBL 601.1 Grand Touring Amplifier/ Bilstein Sport shocks/ Bilstein e36sedan springs/ Green LED Courtesy Lights
Accident Counter: 3...  | | | | | 04-20-2012, 04:44 AM | #9 | | Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Potomac Falls VA DMV Posts: 1,794 |
Your aftermarket tails on the civic looks god awful. Please do the Ti right. Does it have an LSD? __________________
Im guessing im the youngest member on here with a S52 power'ed Ti at 16 years old! | | | | | 04-20-2012, 05:31 AM | #10 | | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Florida Posts: 404 |
Quote: Originally Posted by slow_ti Your aftermarket tails on the civic looks god awful. Please do the Ti right. Does it have an LSD? | I bought the civic like that. After getting more into cars I started hating those tails more and more. I absolutely HATED them. haha. There is no way I'm going to rice out my beautiful BMW! I am going to do the Ti right! :] Keeping the tails that are on it. I love them. I'm going to tint the top of the tails, I want to paint the car grey. I THINK it has an LSD. It doesn't get the ass out in first but in second it does very easy.
Last edited by Breticus; 04-20-2012 at 05:34 AM. Reason: More info. | | | | | 04-20-2012, 12:09 PM | #11 | | Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Potomac Falls VA DMV Posts: 1,794 |
I seeeeee. Well if you have an open, drifting is a PITA. If your going to be JUST drifting it. Save some money and get the open diff welded. If you have an LSD, well you got lucky haha __________________
Im guessing im the youngest member on here with a S52 power'ed Ti at 16 years old! | | | | | 04-20-2012, 11:41 PM | #12 | | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Florida Posts: 404 |
Nah it's gonna be a daily driver too. | | | | | 04-21-2012, 04:48 AM | #13 | | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: asdfasdf Posts: 10,002 |
Quote: Originally Posted by Breticus I want to paint the car grey. | I wouldn't. Cordobarot is actually a somewhat rare color, 95 was the only year you could get it on the ti. just give it time, it'll grow on you  | | | | | 04-21-2012, 06:38 AM | #14 | | Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Vancouver, B.C. Posts: 131 |
Quote: Originally Posted by tiFreak I wouldn't. Cordobarot is actually a somewhat rare color, 95 was the only year you could get it on the ti. just give it time, it'll grow on you | I agree 100% with this, I love the color of my car and wouldn't change it for anything. Cordoba will grow on you, some call it red, some burgundy, some call it purple. I call it an awesome color!  __________________ -Alex
1995 Bmw 318ti - Cordoba rot | | | | | 04-21-2012, 01:19 PM | #15 | | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Florida Posts: 404 |
Haha I got time to see if it will grow on me. I don't have enough money for much of anything right now. Haha. | | | | | |
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