Minirotty

Fixed it myself mate today, changed air bag and suspension all done.

New tyres arriving tomorrow so will be back on the road, will put new pads on ASAP also.

I got told by some fellow BMW owners not to touch it and send it in to BMW, I think most BMW owners are scared to touch the mechanical side of um lol

RichieST

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Glad it's sorted without too much fuss! Nothing beats cracking on with it yourself, just when it's a shonky old ford and bolts start snapping etc that you get into trouble!

Minirotty

I've had a food look undernieth mate and looks mint

From what I can see as most it is covered up, flat bottomed cars aint they.

Minirotty

The offending dead air bag




All fixed with new tyres and cleaned off...

Glenn_

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Owwwwww checky boy.

Glenn_

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I thought bms were soposed to be good lol .Flad you got the suspension sorted.

Csm

Even with faults there still 100 times better than ford

Glenn_

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Well not all of use can afford posh cars.

Minirotty

Lol

Cheers bud

I missed it all week lol as i was having to drive my van which then also caught on fire

It's not that posh mate lol

Glenn_

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How did the can catch fire.

Minirotty

Battery wasn't secure and welded itself to the bonnet pmsl

Dave aka Wizzisat114 saved the day though.

RichieST

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Fuck about! Could've been nasty!

Same thing happened years ago to a mate when he was doing a burnout in his nova

Managed to shake the battery loose and it shorted the live terminal to the body, we only noticed there was something wrong when the smoke coming from under the bonnet was green and actually made your lungs burn. Blew the side of the battery out

Minirotty

Pmsl

I was at a T juction just after a bridge when smoke started flowing out the bonnet lol i opened bonnet and started blowing it out pmsl in the end I put it out with my hands, mocked up an earth and drove it home very slowly lol

Csm

What engines in your bm matey ? Its a 520d tourer im looking at

Im looking at one of these to replace my mondeo originally next year but been looking on auto trader and found a stunner m sport with 1 owner and has sub 60k thats tempting me to speak to the bank for the funds but i really should wait till next year.

Fed up of ford and if paying a loan on one least it will be worth a lot more than a ford even with high miles LOL i do over 20k in my car for commuting

Minirotty

Mines 525d but 3ltr engine mate, well as far as I've been told by PMW and others.

Not sure what a 2.0 one would be like as they're quite big cars, my freind has a new shape 5 series saloon in 2.0 and its quick but the body is all alloy iirc so lighter cars.

Mark_

Kev, What do you think of Accellera tyres?

How do they feel on the BMW? I know they are budgets but my mate has offered to do me a full set for Ł220 on my Cupra R, 225/40/18.


Be interested in what you think?

Minirotty

Only had um on a week now mate but seem fine, I only fit budgets to my daily's as they only get used for going to work and back and even though it's motorway I am not breaking the sound barrier so I am happy with um.

Got the rear two for Ł200 fitted, 275/30/19

Mark_

They are seriously wide, lol

Minirotty

They look stretched as well mate, I'm sure 285 would suit better tbh.

The fronts are 245 lol

boost monster

I have a 520d se; it goes pretty well (remapped) and returns good mpg; for me it's a good allrounder for my daily. I'd rather have a 535 msport if I had the funds.

Minirotty

Quick update, MOT'd this week, flew through but I noticed the new rear tyres were starting to scrub already

So I jacked it up and adjusted the camber and added more poisitve as it's just an off centre bolt, will get it in to be done properly when I have time but at least it'll stop the scrub for now.

Three staged polished the BMW today because looked like a cool day, until an hour in when I sweated so much I could of filled a bucket lol

some pic's...























Got trigger happy taking pics

Glenn_

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Its still looking good matey.

Maxwell

My mate just bought an E60 and decked it on X5 wheels. Looks great.

Minirotty

Cheers Glenn.

Got any pics mate?

Maxwell

Pic removed

Minirotty

Oooowh looks good, need more pics mate!

Are they 19's?

Maxwell

Yeah 19"s

TIFF

Wheres the pic????????

Minirotty

why's the pic gone?

Minirotty

? Strange that.

Maxwell

Pmd Minirotty

Minirotty

You think we ever get to old for fixing cars on drives? just the stubbornness of not wanting to pay BMW to work on my car lol

I developed a massive, extremely massive creak on the car last week, that loud I had other drivers flagging me in traffic telling me the car was sounding broke like I was deaf and couldn't hear it for myself!

Very embarrassing to drive like it was, after a bit of research I found another common fault and it's known by BMW as a ball joint, which it isn't, it's a bush! sits in bottom of rear hub which then connects to rear swing arm.

BMW forum use a special tool to remove bush in situ without having to place hub on a press, as that'd mean removing drive shaft from hub which sometimes seize in.

I was going to buy one then asked a few spanner friends and one had a brand new pressing kit he hadn't even used yet lol he borrowed it to me.

managed to do it after work tonight and only tuck an hour, not to bad for an old school mechanic with a bad back who now pushes pens and staff for a living lol

I had been told injecting grease into it would shut it up but after seeing removed, you can see the noise was because it was dead.

New and old -







All fixed and test driven now, I like the car again... I have hated it all week! the noise has been immense!

New rear discs and pads next, some life left in them but I want new after seeing them tonight.

RichieST

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Good work, I thought BMW's were supposed to be reliable and built to take the miles. Should have stuck with a Ford

Minirotty

I know mate!

I am hoping my "common faults" have stopped for a while now.

All cars are the same sadly lol

Minirotty

Woke up this morning to find it slammed on its arse! sensor issue I had knacked whilst changing yesterdays bush, thought the hydraulic pump had packed up for a minute lol

Minirotty

I still have the 5!!! lol


Been a couple years now too...





All my mates have been taking the piss as I own two of my own garages now and never got time to MOT my own car, a friend who also has a garage MOT'd my car for me this week as he collected key off my wife pmsl


Whilst he was at it, he refreshed my front light units








He is also quite a wiz kid at reprogramming and writing programmes so he wrote some codes into my iDrive and got my new Aux cable working etc...




I am also a bit of a BMW fan now too as got some cheap ones and started drifting!

Tuck a 5 salon out -







Was good fun, but I wanted a 3, so got this tourer to take out next time I go.







Cheap car, weld diff, strip it out and off ya go lol

RS Grant

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That E36 looks too good to drift!! ...they're getting rare too. I'd always fancied a 328i Sport Touring but could never find one.


Cheers,
Grant

furry

still looking good bud, given mine a fresh look with some gloss white wrappage!!

Minirotty

Yeh the E36 is tidy but hard to find a shitter tbh and this one was cheap enough too, its on the road until end of Jan as a mates using it till then.



Cheers, how much was wrap? wouldn't mind a red one lol

Glenn_

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Your starting to turn to the dark side owning all them bms lol.