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Looking to treat our 3 cars with some restoration / correction of the paintwork… Looking to some good tutorials on how and when to do it.. Internet littered with many but would like something that the ‘experts’ here would concur with…

Coming back from first serious potter with CherryM I ran into a submerged pot hole with an all mighty bang on Sunday… Limped home and after taking the front wheel off discovered dent in inside rim..what a 326M would have done in the situation who knows.. I’m down at a wheel doctor...

Despite spending much time and money on my Zed I’ve not given the paintwork any love … As a preemptive I decided to give it a quick polish prior to the NC500 trip next week. Noticed areas when running my fingers on the paint on the bonnet especially where it’s rough to the touch. Previous Zed...

Well with the fitment of an aftermarket exhaust system I think I’ve now removed everything that would have defined the car as a 35is apart from the VIN and this.. Any 35i owners want a 35is upgrade ?

As part of improving the gas flows through the engine I’ve bitten the bullet with this German Fox stainless system with lovely big collector pipes, a nice large mixer and some polished stainless cans with bazooka exhaust tips… Will be interested to hear how it goes with no ‘quiet’ exhaust...

My tame tuner for my upcoming TTE500 turbo upgrade requested a health check of the current engine and its systems prior to applying a custom tune for the new configuration. So for those not au fait with this I thought I’d show a sample.. You can go to my website to see and play directly with...

Just buttoning up the interior after fitting CarPlay and the c/f trim..thought..hey let’s fit a fresh cabin filter… Naturally looked at new TIS shows filter on RHS under glovebox…so looking under the steering column ..I know I’ve had eye operations but can’t seem to see it? So where the fcuk...

No..because in theory you are supposed to disconnect the main power connector and MOST connection as part of the firmware upgrade…so the remote access to the micro SD card is not your only issue…hopefully the product is now ‘mature’ so it won’t now need any firmware updates…we will see...

Another B21 shaped hole I dug myself into. I fitted a Wagner Evo 1 FMIC to replace the stock FMIC on my 20i when I remapped it past 300bhp. It turns out that the 18i/20i/28i FMIC is the same as the 35i/35is FMIC. Prior to selling the car I re-installed the OE FMIC and transfered the Wagner...

My recent daly with the surgeon made me reflect on mortality and a time when for whatever reason driving a Zed is no longer an option. For those of us who have embarked on the more fringe areas of rarity and or modifications I was pondering about using an agency like Bonhams.. Just seen a...

There was a burst of activity a couple of years ago headed by Silverstar and Nitrix in using genuine carbon fibre to over lay on the E89 interior trim areas. I bought from Silverstar a set of interior trims and some panels that had been carbon fibre’ d and then epoxy resin coated.. For various...

It may be a while before it’s sorted…

I’m mounting a Garmin Mini 2 dash cam…on the rear bulkhead facing rear wards… https://www.garmin.com/en-GB/p/731428 It’s designed to be hung from a windscreen so its articulation arm when inverted has insufficient movement to allow it to be mounted standing up. A way around this is to mount...

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When I tried to get the steering geometry set up we found that the toe in couldn’t be set to perfection due to limitations in adjustment of the stock rear trailing arm to chassis brackets. In addition they observed that the trailing arm bushes fitted only a year earlier were showing signs of...

: More divine enlightenment ! :thumbsup: 🤣 I did feel ‘deprived’ that my unit says ‘CD’ whereas my 2012 20i said ‘Media’ :tumbleweed: But even for me changing the unit to go from CD to Media was just a bridge too far..

So after a day of testing the CarPlay side works well, subject to some bugs with audio stopping haphazardly when changing apps but…the big issue is that the CIC display glitches very badly when accessing BMW side of things..so MMI display is rock steady and clear..the BMW native side is pretty...

Quite so 🤣 I did think long and hard on this one…..whilst I’d stick to my overall thesis I’m not one of those that states ‘the 2011 version only was fitted with a 17.65mm widget in confuscious grey and it’s a travesty to see a 18.35 widget in pearl black fitted’” type person… I do object to...

I see there are several for sale on eBay and Ali Express…may be I was unlucky, it definitely was tacky from an engineering perspective…push fit with no positive lock and two sided adhesive tape… As to cosmetic upgrades you then get into a philosophical debate on how much do you change the car...

I thought I’d put these items as they may prove useful to others… So I’ve been irritated by the bezel surrounding the iDrive controller knob…for some reason the bezel had partially separated with a sharp edge that would snag your finger / finger nail if you placed it in the wrong position...