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Classic car - living outsideChasR
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give it a good waxing and make sure none of the windows leak and you should be good to go This is the way. If the car is in good nick, the paint is well protected and all the rubber parts and such are taken care of by using some care products, I wouldn't worry. One of my cars always lives outside, whichever I want to drive currently - both of them have received heavy detailing and protection, however. I also regularly wash them so the dirt does not have a chance to really stick. I'd additionally also caution to make sure all drains on the body are clear and unclogged so there won't be any moisture traps. What these two said. -Getting the paint clean and putting on a good wax, and occasionally throwing something onto it to keep that protection every few months (Bilt Hamber Touch-On is pretty good as a quick solution) -Blasting every bit of dirt away, so that it doesn't get a chance to attach itself to the car, or create rust issues (i.e dirt in wheel arches) -Ensure it is on ground where the water or moisture doesn't sit and it drains away well. -Ensure the car doesn't leak, and any drains in the car are kept clean. Those things will help with the preservation of the car, short of putting it into a garage. I'd chuck a mini dehumidifying thing inside the car as well for good measure. Covers IME can damage paintwork, which is more of a problem with non-gloss finishes (i.e Satin or Matt). With a gloss finish, it's fine, to a point, as you can polish things up more, albeit keep losing the amount of paint you have to play with. On a Satin car, it will polish up potentially wherever the cover touches, and once it's began to shine up, that's your lot. It's something to consider if your car has satin bits on, like Merc W124 semi-facelifts with their bumpers and Sacco panels (door claddings). The other choice you have is something like an outdoor carcoon, which would be as good, if not better than a garage in many respects.
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There some some good choices mentioned. Is there a reason you don't want a Derv dropped in? If it's the emissions class switching, fair enough, as I can appreciate that can be trickier abroad to do. I'm aware diesel is significantly cheaper out there too (For us UK folks, it's around 20 cents cheaper a litre when I last went over to Germany). I was going to say a BMW M57, which would do the above well, bar being a diesel. An M54 may do the job well, which would cover most of your bases, if the shoe would fit. The ML is a good shout, regarding a swap. I'm almost tempted to say to drive either an ML or a Cayenne, and consider those as a replacement, unless you have to have an RRC .
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That's a very honest ad bud (y).
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Some nice work!
It looks like you've been busy with the car, but it's overall, got good bones.
As for the springs, quite a few cars have differing setups, but it tends to be on Estates. The ones that come to my mind are
-Ford : Vans generally were different, favouring leaf springs on the rear like the Escorts did. Estates also tended to have different suspension setups, no doubt to win more boot space : Mondeo and Focus had separate spring/dampers, compared to the strut assemblies that hatch and saloon came with -Merc Estates : Not massively different for an estate, but different enough.
It's odd that the saloon is different, that's for sure. But I suppose Saloons were more 'executive' back then.
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Bubbles in header tankChasR
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Leakdown test will show you what's leaking, and where I'd second this.
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Bubbles in header tankChasR
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Has the system ever been flushed out? I've seen this before, but only when someone put screenwash into the header tank (no, really).
The other thing is, how good are the heaters? If the BX is like 205, 106s an 306s, they really do need to be bled properly, so as to remove airlocks. The biggest giveaway tends to be a poor heating system.
Best way to do it on a 106 and 306 is to brim the coolant right to the neck of the header tank, with the car facing nose up on an incline. Then hit the bleed points as follows:
-Thermostat (an allen head screw) -Heater matrix (tends to be a thumb screw) -Sometimes the rad has one, but that tends to be BMWs IME.
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These are cool in a semi-unknown way.
It's good to see you are having fun.
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A cool buy this. I remember when these came out, I quite liked them. I didn't know of many folks with them however, and the one I did know with one, has his for a while, with some audio gear (a chap called Erksine Fenty, or EF Max for those who remember his handle during the car audio days). It's good to see you are getting stuck in. Whereabouts in London are you? I ask as I go to Croydon now and again from the West Midlands, and I have access to a VCDS lead, which I'm happy to scan the car with, if you can meet up on the way. I'd be careful with aftermarket MAF sensors. IME, if they are not what the OE specified (i.e Bosch for Bosch, Hella etc.), things can be made worse ; this was the case for the: -Merc CLK CDI 270 : It was OK, but it smoked more with the cheapy MAF -Mondeo 2.5T (T5) : It always had a 'shuffle' issue, I think all of them do. My mate bought a cheapy and returned it, as it made the above, and other running bits of the car worse. So he just cleaned the old one with IPA (not the beer ). It's good to see you're having some fun with it (y).
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BMW E46 M3 : That's the ticketChasR
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Have I forgotten about this? Not at all. However, as H0twire was saying on his thread, leaving the car in a garage on a charger can almost make you use it less, and this did not get used over winter at all. The body condition is one reason, but I also had the 325d to put to that use anyway. However, I have noticed that the M3 has aged well. It does look old however, compared to most BMWs on the road today. Did the E91 looking like a Primera not help? Have BMW lost their way on the new cars? I'll let you decide. Maybe the ambers on mine have dated it. However, I planned to date the the car a little more. No, not like that! Make it look more in keeping to its time. So I went a little 'HubNut', as dollywobbler would say. Wiper blades. Mine was on Bosch Aeros for the last 8 years. If I am being honest, they were past it ages ago, but they were good enough to get through MOTs and light showers. However, the time came to change them, and I had a problem. The prices had gone up. Alot! E46 blades (not M3 specific) utilise a 23" driver's blade, which now seems to be a hen's teeth size. This means you have the following options: -OE Option 23"/20": A 'hybrid' old school blade, which are custom-fit wipers, made by Bosch. They wipe the best, and to some, look the best. These have been NLA by BMW for some time. I'll come back to these later . They appear to be normal blades, but they are not. -OE 'revised' Aero offering 23"/20" : The above, but as aero blades to fit older style arms. Some folks love these, others don't. These are now also pricey, with it appearing it is almost only BMW who offer these sizes. -Aftermarket : Bosch no longer offer a 23"/20" combo, and when folks do find Aero offerings, they are around £50+, or you get put onto a waiting list. Bosch and others now offer a 22"/19" combo, which sweeps less of the screen, but to most folks, it's not notable to be of concern. Me being me, I thought the above was a load of tosh, and couldn't understand why folks were saying wipers became hard to find. So off I went and got a 22" blade and a 19" blade, but as old style arms. After all, it's what Bosch says fits. Errr. No, Bosch state Aero options only. As a result, I had blades that didn't remotely fit the car: I couldn't figure it out. They hit the arm and were miles away from the windscreen! Bending the arms would probably create other issues. With this, I checked out a few M3 threads and then one day, I saw a car, where all became clear. To go stock, I needed to -Get original blades -Get originally sized aero blades No other choices. I'll let the photos do the talking: In short, the Bosch blades previously offered were a bespoke fitment to the E46 ; the E46 arms were never designed to take an aftermarket 'normal' blade ; the wiper blades are contoured to the arms ; It explains why folks said they couldn't fit certain blades on the wrong way : I couldn't get the statement until I saw this car. This is why many E46s are on Aero blades now. Hybrid arms. Who'd have them? Then began the search of OE blades. I kept an eye out for 2 months. Eventually, a local motorfactor had a set. Out of pity, the price went from £59 to £45. Madness, but at least I have blades where the inserts are replaceable in the future. Another M3 owner got a set ; I'm told I got one of the last 5 sets in the country. With this in mind, it was time to fit them. To be fair, you could see where the quality went with these. Maybe they were worth the silly money I paid. Before I fitted them, I tried a set of 22/19 aero blades I got and forgot about, for a LHD car ; not the first time I've done this ; the spoilers on the retro blades were the wrong way around ; so much for me loving a £15 bargain ; fear not, they are now on the Saab. I had a new problem. The 'Triangle of Doom HubNut goes on about: Less was visibly swept as well with the 22/19 combo: So now, the work would begin. Firstly, I refitted the 23/19 aero combo the car came to me with, for comparison, and whichever person is as sad as myself to want to see a before and after. Then came the time to fit the new blades. The clips were very substantial on the new specific blades. I was surprised; were they done for autobahn musing?: It was then time to fit them: I also had another bonus. Although it may not look it, the edge actually wiped perfectly for the first time I owned the car: Another bonus? More of the screen swept. Perfect for those wet days I will get caught out in:
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I tend to use U-Pol power cans for satin black. I find if you do thin coats to build it up, at the right temperature you get a good proper satin finish and no real patches. My experience is when I rush it, and its cold during spraying and curing it goes patchy. If you're having issues with the paint. Can you vinyl wrap it in satin black? ebay vinyl black wrapSpraying in the height of the summer doesn't help either. There really is a sweet spot as to how to paint satin. But that is basically the technique (y).
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Did I forget to update this? Of course not! The above is the second time I caught Covid. I suppose large family weddings, small venues, and AC'd ones at that during one of the hottest days of the year didn't help. With me being stuck at home, I thought I'd turn my attention to 2 things: -Tidying up the house at my leisure -Mopping the BMW I know this is a marmite area for RR, so I will try not to dwell on it. Personally, I hate starting to 'detail' cars. It reminds us that we are sad folks, it's time consuming, and a pain to do. However, like any task, you eventually build up a rhythm in doing things, and I always learn something more from the last time I picked up a polisher. Seeing the car finally done eventually makes it worthwhile. Oh, and the car becomes miles easier to clean. What did I do to clean it? -Wash it with Meguiars Carnauba Wash and Wax ; I no longer use this, as I use the BH products -Clay mitted it -Hit a panel or two a day in the garage. After all, it's not like I was going to take the car anywhere. So it just stayed in the garage. -The panels were polished as follows: -Compound : Meguiars 105 or Ultimate Compound, as I was running out of the form, with a cutting pad -Polish : Meguiars 205 with a polishing pad : Lake County White from memory. -Clean the heads out of both, as residue control -Wax the car with Collinite 476S It's also something I dabble with at work, so that's an interest for me. It may not look better in the photos, but I can assure you it did pop alot more in reality. The sunlight really made it sparkle, and showed a brown/gold flip in the paint I didn't know Graphite Grey had before. Suddenly, the Grey looked brilliant: I had to go to a dealer to assist with a couple of things. One, a big job this car would end up undertaking, the second was a new part for the car. However, for those wondering part of what 'pre-LCI and LCI means', here is a shot of my car next to a colleague's 325d LCI ; it's not a 318d . The shine of the grey however is pretty slick I think you'll agree. The wheels did not change between models (his is on 4 cylinder M-Sport 17s), but other things did, including: -Rear lights and tailgate -Interior touches, to remove some 'modern classic' touches from inside ; the improved iDrive was the biggest change -5mm less offset on the hubs, meaning LCIs have a more agreessive stance ; more on that later. -Different bumpers, on both SE and M-Sport models, along with the mirrors. It's funny, Ford do things a little differently. They had MY changes, but in old money went with '90 spec etc. with partial facelifts being involved (89 spec being a good example on 89MY cars for 1 year only) Once I stopped comparing two models I would give this car its identity back. It gained a badge someone removed a while ago. That said, there are limitations to how cool a BMW estate can look. This would become apparent as I recovered, and offered my help to a very good friend of mine. Here is a taster of what is to come:
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I did wonder when you would get around to putting up the thread. i’ve always wondered how these would play out as a daily i know there are a lot of issues mainly engine as far as forum info goes , IMS , tensioners etc but at that sort of money is it worth taking the chance ? This is essentially my daily driver, I work from home though so it isn't like it gets used every day, but it is what I take to the shops. The dog just about fits in the back, but we'll usually use the other car for dog based trips. Generally speaking IMS and stuff shouldn't be an issue any more, it was always a small percentage and at this point either they would have gone, or they will have been replaced with a better bit. I budget about £1,500 a year on average for servicing and bits (but then I get garages to do my services and stuff). I've very much enjoyed my experience with it (garage bills not withstanding), and reckon a good Boxster would be a pretty decent way to have some Porsche shaped fun. I'd avoid very very cheap, or if it is cheap I'd look for a full service history. Service history above all other things is the import part of buying something like this (even better if it is all main dealer, but that is now rare at the age and even more unlikely in a cheaper car). The Porsche specialist I know said a similar deal about the issues a while ago. I used to dread over similar issues when I had the 944 Turbo, and the S2 did bite me, albeit it was a lucky escape. Your point about expenses and downpayments is pretty true. A fair budget to have every year IMHO, but that goes for any car really, depending on the faults you want to live with. It's funny, we all live with cars longer than we planned these days. Maybe when you got the car is when prices of most things began to go up. I do certainly miss the days of cheap E38s, and cars in general. To quote someone cleverer than me: "A £15,000 down payment on a £10,000 a year subscription" Maseratis aren't the money pit many would have you believe, you just need to follow the rules of most/all high performance cars when buying. I've had 5 and none of them remotely ruined me financially. Sourcing parts for the older coupes is becoming more of a struggle due to total lack of availability as Maserati are very poor at supporting older models. GranTurismos are becoming cheaper by the day and few cars beat them for the exhaust note and drama/experience when driving IMO. I can believe that. I suppose, there are some folks who don't spend a load on cars, or simply run them into the ground as far as they can, which can skew things. Speak to Clio 172 owners for example, and there is a big swing of running costs, depending on: -The quality of parts they buy -What they are willing to replace : I knew of folks who replaced arms and exhausts every couple of year to avoid dealer costs. Madness IMO, but I can see why some folks did it.
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Rustival 2024ChasR
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What's the story with the Rustival meet?? Looks like a good diverse selection. In essence, anything went, as long as you owned it and liked it. Too new? Doesn't matter. Too niche? It's welcome. Too curse word? If you love it, it's fine. It really was that free in its approach. A few folks did worry it would be a bland show, and some friends of mine did not bother going, thinking it would be a show of malaise and stuff that wouldn't make the cut at FOTU There was no banding of cars to areas, it was in essence, a free for all. A few of us did wonder if pigeon holing cars would have been the way to go, but it's fair to say, keeping things free did help the diversity. It was a good day. Before it even started, the day was over, it seemed. I have a few shots, which I'll put on here later 👍
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Always like your threads Chas. You do things right, and the car is all the better for it. Many thanks bud. I do try to do right by the car, but I also am aware that issues can soon build up on a car, leaving you to wish to sell them. We'll see how long it is until I crack again! Regarding the BMW, with me working on and off the BMW, some would argue that I could have seen better views, but they could certainly be worse: With the car fairly well sorted, I put it to work, and got a set of tyres for a very reasonble £40. They were winter tyres. Riken branded, with them being owned by Michelin. I'd see how I got along. The Asymettric tyre in the shot is the Run-Flat removed from the rear of the car, which I sold on to a mate, well I sold him the pair of tyres. I'd service the transmission, with a new sump pan on a mate's ramp, which was handy. I'd also remove some of the last chavvy details. The LED side repeators. Besides them looking like they belonged in Ilford or Soho Road in Birmingham, They also did a 'check' flash every time I started the car up. However, one of them would die. I debated getting DEPOs but I was aware that I also needed bulb holders too. With that in mind, I just got a pair from the dealer, where they were not too stupidly priced. The wiring thankfully had not been cut, but the bulb holders had corroded unsurprisngly. I then grabbed the new ones. While the difference is not obvious between genuine and DEPOs, the DEPO units IME don't tend to have mirrored internals. Not a massive problem on a side repeator, but it's something to bear in mind. Finished! I think they look a little better. However, the car was starting a little slow at times. Besides this it had other issues. -It lost 30 minutes a week on the clock ; Amazingly, it never really did the --:-- on the dash, or not that I remember. -The rest function on the heater almost never worked -If you put the radio on the dash, without the engine running, it would turn off after 5 minutes, with a low battery (amber battery light) on the dashboard, complete with the 'gong' -Other silly things. With that in mind, I got another battery. If the date on the battery was to be believed, it was the original battery the car came with. It was an 800Ah battery, with 460Ah left. Not bad, but not great either. I could get away with it in the summer, but not the winter. I also could not be bothered to live with the above issues. With that in mind, I got a new battery. A friend of mine works for a battery place, and gave me a returned OEM Exide AGM battery for not alot of cash, which was lucky. On the tester, it was basically new, which was handy. It was then a case of comparing it with the old battery, and putting it in. The black box on top is the CANBUS box for the towbar. Was I done? Of course not. I had to code the battery. Many claim you don't, but considering a friend and I have removed some electrical gremlins like I had, but with a good battery, I simply coded the battery. Because it was a like-for-like replacement, it was simply a registration activity ; that is telling the car it has a new battery. It's interesting as I've seen the voltage drop to 12.8V in the summer when I accelerate hard, and then go up to 14.6V on the overrun. I have seen the alternator charge almost as high as 15V on a cold engine and a cold morning. It seems BMW used this for: -Emissions; many crumbs make a cake ; lots of little things make a big difference -Power : as above, albeit limited -Demand on electrics ; this car has a few features like the walk me home lights, rest function -Weight : I suppose if you can get away with a smaller batter via a fancy management setup, little changes here and there all add up. This car doesn't even had a spare wheel. For those who are bored, here is more info on the BMW IBS setup. That's not Irritable Bowel Syndrome : atlanticmotorcar.com/casestudies/bmw-ibs-intelligent-battery-sensor-what-is-it-what-does-it-do/Anyway, the car never thought it saw another battery. With that seen, I simply registered the new battery, and went about my way. Did the car treat me right? Of course it didn't! The scene should now be pictured. Folks were coming out of Covid, so there were plenty of weddings, social events, and work just went ridiculous. It didn't help that I started a new job that year. The 325d also had an MOT due. How did it reward me? With a blown damper. In record time, I worked on the car whenever I had spare time, hating using the M3, as -It wasn't a daily -£1.70/80 a litre on Super was getting boring quite quickly, especially with family engagements of a close wedding (a cousin's daughter for those wondering) would potentially have the M3 racking up a load of miles. Luckily, I got it changed in time with a Sachs M-Sport damper. With it repaired in record time, and with a ticket on it, I was good to go for the wedding. The car performed well, and must have clocked up almost 1,000 miles that week. It was one of the hottest weeks of 2022, and my mental state with alot of weddings, along with folks at family asking 'when will you get married' really began to take its toll on me. Spending a week with said extended family wasn't my ideal way of taking time off work, but I suppose it has to be done. How was I rewarded with going to a 550 person wedding in a slightly undersized, and very AC'd hall? Covid. The second time that year. I suppose however, if I was well, I could play on the 325d, right?
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IMHO, it will be one of the things the chaps above have suggested, most likely one of the cylinders.
Another cause it can be, but unlikely IMHO is that the car has a self-adjusting clutch, which needs resetting. How has the clutch been during your ownership of the car? The biting point would be low.
I only mention that as I recall the V8 has come out of a later Range Rover?
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In case you were wondering whats tipped me over the edge But that looks ace! Who cares when you look that cool. As David Freiburger almost said, sometimes, it is better to look good than it is to be good. On a serious note, I used to be this bad myself. For years, I've had runners, but many moons ago, I was lucky to have maybe 2 cars running in a fashion at a time. For me, these were the reasons why I bought other cars -Hope : You have issues with the car you have, so you either park it up, or you sell it on, declaring it when asked as to what may be needed. You then buy another car, thinking it doesn't need much, and you picture yourself driving into the sunset with zero issues after a few mini-hurdles If only. I've probably managed that with a handful of cars. -Costs and hassle : This probably has changed today. I remember selling an E36 323i because it had an oil burning issue at random I thought it was stuck piston rings, as the oil was pretty black, even after servicing it, but it was probably the PCV. That, and I thought engine swapping was too much work. So what did I do? Look to buy either tired Audi TT 225s, R53 Minis, even a Mini 1275GT as a daily, before I finally got a very clean low mileage Clio. Did it not need work, and did I save cash? Of course not! £600 later, after a cambelt, dephaser and aux belt change, the car to be fair was pretty good for the next two years. I remember selling cars as they may have needed £500 on a variety of stuff (tyres, some dampers, AC regassing etc.) and then bought something else, which took the cash anyway. -Boredom : This is probably the one which affects us all. I did used to get bored with cars. Not often, but often enough. The last car I got bored with was my E91 325d. It was too good, too competent, and just that! Funny really, as when I bought it, I adored the car as a daily. It was a step up for most things had owned. It was big enough for me, quick enough, frugal enough and simple enough to work on with a good OEM parts supply. I thought me driving the S124 230TE would make me sell it. How wrong I was. As good as that S124 drove, it was a little tired, with dampers being slightly chattery, it slipping about on the roads with Chinese tyres, and even doing burnouts in the wet, along with 'older' car stuff. Even with the M3, as much as I adore it, I debate selling it at times, to try something new. Driving the E91 afterwards may not have had the cool factor, but it make me appreciate refinement, pace, a bank balance driving around for work, and more. Out of the 50 cars I've owned, I can probably count on barely two hands the cars which were truly good buys. That said, there is something about thinning the herd and getting big ticket items right. Maybe having a house as a project hasn't helped either.
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Good stuff. Thanks for taking the time to write it all up. I am still half heartedly looking for one of these, you are helping me make my mind up! My pleasure. I'm intrigued to see if I've put you off! My car wasn't the best example but by far not the worst either. I think it goes to show that these cars do take some cash, like any iffy cars do. But then again, mine is in pretty good order these days, albeit still not perfect. But then it is a 15 year old car. Where was I? Aha, the thermostats. This car had an issue with the thermostats, and it has two of them, like all M57s have from when they left the factory: -The main engine thermostat (88 Degrees) -An EGR thermostat. (72 Degrees) I'll have to double check the above, but it's something like the above nos. The car would warm up reasonably quickly, but it would not go beyond 70 degrees. I suspect the EGR thermostat, which is the lower temperature item of the two, was working, and semi-carrying the main thermostat. With that in mind, I got two new thermostats. I've played with pattern items in the past, and even 'OE' branded thermostats but they have never been as good as genuine thermostats. Even the design differs from what I've seen 90% of the time! I didn't also fancy doing the job again, and wasting more precious G48 coolant! Once I had them, it was a case of swapping the old with the new: Finally, they were all fitted I was left with an engine that warmed up correctly and quickly. Ignore the oil temp ; these don't have an oil temp sender. With this done, I celebrated that weekend by meeting up with a few mates, and having a mini-estate meet. OK, we met up for breakfast. That S124 looks familiar, but it was not mine at the time this photo was taken. As another bonus, I did not realise this at the time, but this car had a detachable towbar fitted at some point, complete with a CANBUS integration unit for it. A pricey, and handy thing to have on the car. The annoying thing however, was that it didn't have the towing neck for it. Thankfully, someone in the E91 circles wanted rid of theirs, which I was all too happy to take. For those who want to see the difference between pre-LCI SEs and M-Sports, here is a shot. It is basically the bumpers and wheels which differ between the two. It's also interesting how a colour can look very different when it's dirty. The Graphite Grey actually has a nice tint to it, depending on the lighting conditons: There is more to come, obviously! The next update is something I wasn't expecting to do.
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My 2001 325 Sport is compliant , Everything of mine is bar the most practical car
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ChasR
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motivation
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Er. anything made before 1984.. its RETRO rides remember.. Yawn. Calm down man Stuff when this forum was made was in the 18-30 club. It was rare that stuff was 40 years and older. That was almost 20 years ago on here.
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ChasR
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With regards to the question, I browse RR as the following:
-Browse with the phone alot, but rarely reply (60-70%) -Type out on the PC (30-40%)
While phones are alot better for browsing, I still find it simpler and easier to do it on a PC.
This has become moreso, when going from an iPhone to a Pixel. I don't know why, but Google seems to have a hatred of a clipboard, and access album photos, which are alot simpler on the iPhone, thus easier to grab photos you have organised. Samsungs I understand are better here, and do have a clipboard function for copying pics
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