1999 BMW E36 328i Edition - 2022 update

[mattn36]

Dec 11, 2020 9:52:59 GMT Ian said:

Style 32's are a great improvement over the Alpinas, I've never been a fan of them to be honest. Its is a really nice shape as a convertible as well.

I like genuine Alpinas, these were the BK Racing replicas with no centre caps though... they were also about as round as your average 50p piece.

Apologies for the drip-feed updates; the photos from my old BMW forum threads are only 800x600 so I'm having to find the originals and re-edit them before I can upload.

To say my ownership of this car didn't get off to a great start would be an understatement. About three weeks after leaving a deposit on the car my redundancy money came through and I arranged to go and collect it; on the Friday before August bank holiday in 2015. We'd left just after 9am with the hope of being in Guildford for lunchtime and then being able to get back before the usual Friday afternoon M25 carnage kicked off (the job I'd been made redundant from was driving and I'd spent a lot of time in and around London so knew exactly how bad it tended to be); it was after 2pm by the time we arrived. 

I had another look round the car: all of the agreed issues had been sorted but some of the stitching on the rear window had given way since I'd left the deposit so the seller very kindly knocked £100 off the price we'd agreed entirely off his own back. The paperwork was completed, money transferred, and I set off feeling pretty happy with my purchase; there was a coolant level warning on the computer display but I (very foolishly) assumed it was a dodgy sensor as the seller said he hadn't had any issues with the car. A whole 17 miles later on the M25...



The temperature gauge shot up so I got over to the hard shoulder and stopped. I'd taken out a temporary insurance policy to get the car home and had paid a couple of quid extra for RAC cover so gave them a call and then had to wait a couple of hours for them to arrive. It was quickly diagnosed as a leaking radiator; he could sell me a rad weld that might get me home but, knowing full well that the M25 was almost certainly going to be stop/start for at least another 4 junctions I decided to get the car recovered. Unfortunately I hadn't paid the extra 70p (yes, really!!) to upgrade the breakdown cover on my temporary insurance from roadside only to recovery, so it ended up costing me £200. I finally arrived home at about 8:30pm to a highly unimpressed girlfriend (incredibly now wife) who had come over as we were supposed to be going out.



With the car home I swapped the Alpina replica alloys that it came with for the genuine 18" AC Schnitzer Type IIs off of my old 323i as that car needed to be sold before I could do anything with the new one. Only a couple of weeks after this I unexpectedly had to move back to my parents' at fairly short notice which resulted in the 328i being abandoned  under a cover on my girlfriend's parents' driveway for the best part of 9 months.

[redblock]

Looks great on the Schnitzers, even if your start with this car was less than auspicious! Looking forward on updates to this one.

[mattn36]

The car ended up hibernating on the (now) in-laws driveway for the best part of nine months. While it was there I replaced the leaky radiator; something I was expecting to be straightforward having previously done the same job on the 323i but I hadn't accounted for the automatic 328i having a transmission cooler which is attached to the radiator with two fixings at the top, and two at the bottom. The top fixings were no problem at all but the bottom two were a bit of a nightmare on a sloping gravel driveway with no means of safely raising the front of the car, and ultimately ended up with the front bumper and various other parts strewn all over the lawn. I got it done in the end though.



I eventually got the car back home and over to the workshop to start playing. First up was replacing the thermostat and water pump so I knew they'd been done (BMWs aren't renowned for having strong cooling systems) along with the coolant level sensor which, as it turned out, was actually faulty which partially let me off the hook for the collection day breakdown! With the boring stuff done, the next priority was a bit of ride height adjustment which was achieved by swapping the suspension for a set of barely used Eibach Pro-Street S coilovers along with upgraded Bilstein B8 rear dampers which I'd bought off a fellow forum member who was fitting air ride to his M3 convertible. I also fitted Rogue Engineering rear shock top mounts which I'd previously had fitted on the 323i, as the standard parts are prone to failure.





The car was now sitting a lot better; too low at the rear but that was easily adjusted. The 328i Sport I also owned at the time is in the background.



The car looked great on the AC Schnitzer alloys but I wanted a change having had them on the 323i for a good few years, and also really wanted to go down to 17" rims on this car as they do drive better. I'd previously bought a very cheap (and very nasty) set of staggered 17" Style 32s from a Z3 with the intention of putting them on the 323i when I sold it so I could keep the AC Schnitzer alloys; in actual fact they came out so well when I had them refurbished that I didn't want to sell them, so that was sold on the less-than-round Alpina replicas instead. As I've previously mentioned the 328i Editions left the factory on 16" Style 32s so that combined with the fact (IMO) that Style 32s suit an E36 incredibly well, what better wheels to put on mine than the freshly refurbished staggered fitment 17" Z3 set.



Now the car was mechanically sound and looking a lot better I took a trip down to Beaulieu and the Vanity BMW event; I was understandably a little cautious but it performed flawlessly and was a joy to drive around the New Forest with the top down. Needless to say there were still setbacks to come but for now, here are a couple of massively flattering photos from the show.





Thanks for looking once again.

[mattn36]

I guess New Years Eve would be a good time to try and get this thread up to date, then I post updates as and when I make progress with my plans for the car.

Two months after the Vanity BMW event at Beaulieu, and pretty much a year after buying it and the collection day breakdown, I had the next setback. I was still back living with my parents at the time and my Dad had moved the car in order to get one of his off the driveway; not a problem except there was a row of raised blocks at the edge of the driveway and he’d managed to hook the corner of the front bumper over the edge. The first I knew about this was when I came to drive the car to work the next day.



It may not look too bad but it'd destroyed the side mount and fog light mounting frame (that I'd only recently fitted in place of a damaged one!) and I had no other vehicle to get to work in so had to pull it all off and cable tie the number plate to the crash bar. I had already purchased a replacement front bumper for the car as a previous owner had fitted aftermarket parking sensors and chosen to drill them into the face of the bumper, so the situation could’ve been worse but it still caused me to lose my enthusiasm for the car for quite some time; in fact, it ended up having a black front bumper for very nearly three years (I'd taken the number plate off for the photo, I never drive it like that!).



It wasn’t until 2019 (about two and a half years after the bumper incident) that I really found some enthusiasm to get the car sorted out. This was started off by the plastic rear window breaking when I put the roof down for the first time that year which was the final straw as far as the roof was concerned; the original magenta roof was, to be polite, knackered. It didn’t fold properly due to saggy tension straps, was very faded, leaked like a sieve, the headlining was constantly moulting it’s backing foam all over the interior, and the rear screen was pretty much opaque and stitched in by hand where the original stitching had failed. A bit of research concluded that a replacement magenta roof skin was going to cost in the region of £1,000; and then I’d still have the headlining and tension straps to deal with, not to mention having to remove the old roof from the frame and fit the new one myself. In the end I went with the far cheaper option of a complete and incredibly good second-hand black roof that I’d found on eBay for £250. I’d really wanted to keep the car original but the black roof looks so much better IMO, although I still need to sort out a decent headlining and a new rear screen would be nice but isn’t high up on the list of priorities.







This year has seen a number of jobs ticked off the list, including:

• E46 “purple tag” steering rack conversion
  
• Tired wood interior trim replaced with black plastic items (as it left the factory)
  
• Blown dashboard, computer and headlight switch bulbs replaced
• New OEM lighter socket fitted
  
• Front brakes upgraded to E46 328i 300mm discs with new calipers and HEL braided hoses
  
• Original 16” Style 32 spare wheel swapped for a 7.5J x 17” to match wheels on the car
  

I could go on for ages but you probably get the idea! I haven’t really done a huge amount to the car in five years but it’s definitely in the best shape it has been since I bought it, and I’m hoping 2021 is going to see even more improvements. For now I'll leave you a photo from MOT day back in July, and wish you all a very happy and healthy 2021.

[bmstew]

Lovely looking car 👍🏻
Had a few 328i cabbys myself- sold my last one last year and to be honest regret it now but was only using it 2/3 times a year so could not justify the garage rent, tax, insurance etc.
Keep up the good work - its value is only going up 👍🏻

[Alpina99]

I'm surprised that this thread is 2 pages and I haven't read it before, (must check more as I'm obviously missing some cracking motors,)
Beautiful looking car in a stunning colour,
Like yourself I've been a BMW fan for sometime, had a number of 5 series, a couple of E30's (still got an E30 320 Cabriolet "project" that I'll be moving on soon,) and an E46 Sport Touring, which, to date, was the best car I've ever owned,
Now starting to get into / used to an E39,
Please keep the updates coming as this is a great car,
Nigel

[mattn36]

Nov 11, 2021 6:29:37 GMT bmstew said:

Lovely looking car 👍🏻
Had a few 328i cabbys myself- sold my last one last year and to be honest regret it now but was only using it 2/3 times a year so could not justify the garage rent, tax, insurance etc.
Keep up the good work - its value is only going up 👍🏻

Thanks.

I get that - mine only does about 1,000 miles a year but is covered on my trade insurance and kept at work (I did have hopes of it living in the garage at home, but have now consigned myself to the fact that's just a junk store and the car is never going to fit!), so it only really costs me tax and fuel. That said, if it wasn't increasing in value it probably would've been sold by now.

[mattn36]

Nov 11, 2021 8:52:28 GMT Alpina99 said:

I'm surprised that this thread is 2 pages and I haven't read it before, (must check more as I'm obviously missing some cracking motors,)
Beautiful looking car in a stunning colour,
Like yourself I've been a BMW fan for sometime, had a number of 5 series, a couple of E30's (still got an E30 320 Cabriolet "project" that I'll be moving on soon,) and an E46 Sport Touring, which, to date, was the best car I've ever owned,
Now starting to get into / used to an E39,
Please keep the updates coming as this is a great car,
Nigel

Thanks Nigel.

I've had a couple of E46s (the 330Ci Sport convertible is one car that I really regret selling), but both times I've ended up back in an E36. I've never had a 5 but still kick myself for turning down an E39 540i Sport for £3,500 back in 2009, instead spending £1,500 more than that on an E46 330i Sport saloon.

I do need to update this as there's been a big change this year, but I'm currently struggling to find much enthusiasm for the car due to a couple of problems with it.

[mattn36]

2021 was a productive, but also frustrating year as far as the E36 was concerned. The productive side involved throwing all of this at it after several years of collecting parts (and making excuses for not doing it):



I've now done nearly 900 miles in it since "completing" the work but there are still a few bits to sort out; I'll write a proper update at some point.

[chandlergti]

That thing looks excellent, I have two e36 verts and my brother has an e30 Vert in a similar color To yours

[mattn36]

As the previous post alluded to, 2021 was the year I decided that nothing was going to get in the way of converting the car to manual. I'd originally collected the majority of the parts with the intention of converting a 328i Sport coupe that I'd previously owned but, as this is the only BMW that remains on the fleet, I decided to do this one instead. I bought this car because I wanted an Individual and this colour combination in particular, and from what I've seen they were all autos. Although it drove quite well as an auto, I thought I would get more enjoyment from it as a manual (an hopefully an improvement on 22mpg, which isn't funny even with the small amount of miles I do in it); aside from that I had some suspicions that there may be some transmission issues brewing after 133k miles.

I already had a ZF 5 speed gearbox from a 328i Sport that I'd broken after a mate ran out of talent on a greasy roundabout and wrote it off. I recalled that it had suffered from the gear lever not self centring from the 5th gear position which is a known issue on these gearboxes caused by the detent pins sticking due to insufficient lubrication where they sit in the gearbox casing. From the outset the gearbox conversion had to be done on a "do it properly, do it once" basis, so I started with a minor gearbox refurb before even thinking about taking any tools to the car.

First the gearbox was drained and cleaned up as it was pretty grimy after 143k miles, quite a few of which looked like they'd been covered with leaking output and selector shaft seals. This was done with Bilt Hamber Surfex HD, a variety of brushes, and a jet wash.





The next job was to deal with the sticky detent pins; this is a well known fault with these gearboxes and the repair is covered in two BMW service bulletins, as well as several places online. I bought the necessary parts from BMW, some of which are a revised design, and had a set of tools made up by a local engineering company from drawings found online (there should actually be 5 tools, but two of them are only used for refitting sealing plugs so I substituted using suitably sized sockets as drifts in their place).





With the detents dealt with, I also replaced the output and selector shaft seals, selector knuckle, and propshaft guibo (even though the original, 1996 date coded part was in surprisingly good condition). At the engine end of the gearbox, I replaced the clutch pin, and the release bearing guide tube.

[mattn36]

Feb 13, 2022 16:05:08 GMT chandlergti said:

That thing looks excellent, I have two e36 verts and my brother has an e30 Vert in a similar color To yours

Thanks, photos do flatter it a bit but I keep chipping away, and it's certainly in much better state than when I bought it. My Dad has an E30 vert that started this all if I'm honest; he says he's selling it this year, which could result in some difficult decisions being made (or the deployment of man maths!!).

[chandlergti]

[mattn36]

With the manual gearbox prepared, it was time to get the car up in the air and start taking it apart. Amazingly the engine sump is dry as a bone with not even a hint of an oil leak, the transmission not so much.



My first job was to drain the transmission and remove the cooler and hoses; I think it's safe to say the fluid was well past it's sell by date!



Then the exhaust, heatshields and prop came off, allowing the box to be dropped out. It all came apart incredibly easily: only one exhaust stud and one strengthening brace bolt gave any trouble, and they just sheared off and were easily drilled out and replaced. The bolts across the top of the bellhousing were a bit of a curse word to get to, requiring the engine and box to be tilted as far back as possible, and then using about 3 feet of various extensions and wobble joints to get in over the top of the box.



The size and weight difference between the two was significant.



With the box out, I moved inside the car and stripped out the centre console and gear selector.



At this point disassembly was pretty much finished apart from swapping the pedal box, but I had another job to do before any reassembly to begin.

[mattn36]

Apologies for the drip-feed of updates: I'm having to find all of the photos and resize them which means using my laptop, which rarely gets switched on..

Brake pipes - two words that strike fear into many owners of older BMWs! It is possible to replace these without dropping the fuel tank (I've done it on two of my previous E36s) but it's a bit of a curse word and, as the exhaust and prop shaft were already off for the gearbox conversion, it made sense to drop it out and do them while I was in there. While the brake pipes on this car weren't the worst I've seen and had never been commented on at MOT time, it turned out there were some pretty scabby sections hidden above the fuel tank so I'm glad I adopted the belt and braces approach.

New cupro-nickel pipes fitted:





E46 BMWs have a convenient joint in the front-to-rear brake pipes; E36s however don't which makes replacement somewhat more difficult. In previous E36s I've cut the pipes and just replaced the rear section but, with the gearbox out, I had pretty decent access to the ABS unit from under the car and so I replaced the whole pipe on both sides.



With the brake pipes done, I turned my attention to the rear brakes which received new Brembo discs, Textar epad ceramic pads, HEL stainless braided hoses, and painted calipers, all of which match the front brakes which I'd done the same to in 2020. I also replaced the hand brake shoes and adjusted that - anyone who says BMWs have curse word hand brakes doesn't know how to adjust them properly!

In the next update I'll actually start putting things back together. Thanks for reading.

[mattn36]

As I mentioned before, I've been collecting the parts to do this conversion for years. I already had the gearbox from a 328i Sport but annoyingly hadn't kept and other transmission parts off the car; fortunately an ad for somebody breaking a 323i Sport touring about half an hour away had popped up on one of the old forums, and he accepted an offer of £100 for me to go over and basically remove everything else myself. This bagged me the propshaft, gearbox crossmember, gear linkage (although I ended up replacing that with all new parts), pedal box, brake fluid reservoir, and clutch hard pipe.

First in was the pedal box and clutch hydraulics. The pedal box is straightforward: just a bolt, four nuts and a clevis pin and the old one was out. The holes for the clutch pipes were already in the bulkhead, I just had to cut out some of the sound deadening in the footwell (helpfully marked, thanks BMW) and remove a couple of grommets. Fitting the clutch hard pipe was a bit of a curse word as it runs along the bulkhead behind the engine: in the end I had to unclip the brake pipes that route across the bulkhead and disconnect them from the master cylinder so I could pull the servo forwards and get enough room to feed/wriggle the pipe in (his was probably the hardest part of the whole conversion). Then it was just a case of putting it all back together with the new pedal box.



Back under the car, I fitted a spigot bearing into the crankshaft and changed the cover plate that gets sandwiched between the engine block and gearbox for a new manual one. The latter wasn't strictly necessary as it only deletes the access hole through which the torque converter to flex plate bolts are accessed, but the new manual one was less than a tenner from BMW! Flywheel and clutch next: these cars had a dual mass flywheel from the factory but I never had any intention of fitting one of those. I was originally going to go down the M20 flywheel route as I had one removed from a completely rotten E30 I'd acquired, but it sounded like machining of the flywheel and an E21 323i clutch release bearing were required, as well as having to swap the starter motor for a M20 part which all sounded like a lot of hassle. In the end I lucked across a Valeo single mass conversion kit comprising of flywheel, bolts, and 3-piece clutch kit, (again advertised on the forum) second hand but new and still in the box for £250: a bit of a bargain considering the £6-700 they were listed for on a certain well-known motor parts suppliers website!.



Next up (literally): the gearbox.

[mattn36]

With the gearbox fitted, the next job was to tackle the gear linkage. With the exception of the gear lever, this was all replaced with brand new parts with the hope of removing slack and getting the best gear change possible, not something manual BMWs are generally renowned for. A couple of parts were also upgraded with this aim: a powerflex shift arm bush, and a UUC double shear selector rod (pictured below with the original BMW part for comparison).



Gear linkage in place:



With the gear linkage sorted I turned my attention to finishing the clutch hydraulics, fitting a new slave cylinder and HEL braided clutch hose. The original BMW setup has a hard pipe which comes out of the slave cylinder and goes round a couple of bends before connecting to the hose via a restrictor (or clutch delay valve as it's known), both of which went straight in the bin: the hard pipe because the HEL clutch hose hangs too low if it's retained, and the delay valve because it's removal is an easy way to improve the drive of a manual BMW. The HEL hose comes with an adaptor which allows it to be connected directly to the slave cylinder, but I didn't like the way this put the end of the hose hard into the transmission tunnel sound deadening so made up a little cupro-nickel pipe to angle everything a bit better.



The final job before I could fit the new propshaft, and refit the heatshields and exhaust was the wiring for the reverse light switch. I'd cut a short tail of wiring off the donor car and this allowed me to de-pin the plug, and rewire it with new terminals from BMW and some new cable in the correct colours. This was clipped on the gearbox and routed up through the old automatic gear selector cable hole.



With that done and the brakes and clutch bled, the propshaft, heatshields and exhaust were fitted and the car was ready for it's first drive round the farmyard. I hadn't dealt with the automatic inhibit switch which stops the car from being started unless it's in park or neutral at this point, so just plugged the old gear selector back in temporarily, put it in park, and stuffed it in the front of the centre console.





Aside from a couple of instances of the clutch pedal going to the floor and not returning (which strangely fixed itself, although I did bleed it again) all was good! I then did the necessary wiring to deal with the inhibit switch (only temporary, but it enabled me to remove the automatic gear selector and refit the centre console properly), and took the transmission warning bulb out of the instrument cluster as it was permanently illuminated. Nearly 500 miles later the MOT was due, at which the only comments were about what good condition it's in, and the neat installation of the gearbox; which, given that I was aiming to make it all as OEM as I could, I'll take as a win!



It took me a couple of months to do in the end as I had to work around paying jobs which unfortunately meant I missed the best of the "summer" but I still managed to put another 500 miles on it before putting it away for winter (E36s certainly don't need wet, salty roads to help them rot!). The conversion isn't technically finished as I've still got to make the inhibit switch wiring permanent and sort out the reverse lights, and at some point I'm going to have to get it connected up to my diagnostics laptop and tell it that it's now a manual, but it's perfectly usable as it it.

[mattn36]

With the gearbox conversion put to bed for now, there are just a couple of other updates to bring us fully up-to-date.

Firstly a little touch that I'd considered a while ago, but was reminded of when somebody I follow on Instagram did the same to his car: replacing the M emblems on the door mouldings with custom "Individual" items. BMW did a few different emblems for these but never "Individual" and I felt they were more fitting for the car, as it is a BMW Individual car, than the M badges, which are wrong on anything except a proper M-car! The new emblems came pre-fitted to some rather horrible quality 3D printed backing plates, so I dug the old M badges out of their backing plates and replaced them with the new inlays. They may not be to everyone's taste, but I think they're a nice touch.



The next one isn't so good and, combined with a strange and rather annoying noise which has been plaguing the car for a while (although I have now found the cause), really dented my enthusiasm for the car.



Yes, that'll be the second broken rear window in my ownership of the car! I had been debating replacing the window as it was getting a bit cloudy, but I guess that decision has now been made for me; I'll most probably be looking for a good quality aftermarket screen though, as BMW want nearly £400 for one even with my trade discount. I suppose on the plus side this roof is worth replacing the window in; last time it happened I ended up changing the whole roof.

Finally a friend/customer bought a new car late last year and I had it in for engine oil and transmission fluid changes; I know his car is like a land yacht, but it really made the E36 look small!



Thanks for reading if you made it this far!!

[mattn36]

Another year, another update! I know this probably isn't particularly interesting compared to a lot of threads on here, but it's nice to keep a record. Compared to 2021, the last 12 months haven't seen a great deal of progress; in all honesty I didn't think I'd even be putting the car on the road this year with the price of fuel, but actually ended up covering the second highest number of miles between MOTs since in my ownership. 

The first job will be familiar to many E36 owners: the infamous brake light switch. This has been causing particular annoyance for the last couple of years but, rather than fix it, I'd disabled check control on the OBC to stop the constant "brake light circuit" error messages. I not sure why I didn't replace the switch when I did the manual conversion and had the pedal box out, but for some reason I didn't, resulting in the job being 10 times harder than it needed to be.



Just a random driveway photo after cleaning the car; the colour really pops in the sun; I just wish it was as clean in real life as it looks in photos!



The roof was treated with an Autoglym Soft Top Clean & Protect kit; not the most enjoyable job, but water now beads nicely, rather than just soaking in.



The biggest improvements this year have been to the audio system. I've had several different head units, most recently settling on a Pioneer DEH-X8700DAB which I took out of my VW T4 before I sold it, mainly as I could set the display to match the rest of the interior illumination; it was a good unit, but a bit modern for the car. I tend to drive the car with the audio switched off, unless the roof is up, so I'm not really bothered about connectivity or smartphone compatibility; I'm quite happy to burn a CD of MP3s (remember those?), so I really wanted something that looked like it belonged in the car. My car was optioned with a CD43 BMW Business CD unit from new and, in an ideal world, I would've liked to put one back in it, but they're stupidly expensive.

There were a few options I looked at: Blaupunkt make some nice, period looking units, but the top-of-the-range Bremen looks a bit too dated and more like it should be in an E30 than an E36, and the display colours put me off of the others. The next was Becker: the 7993 Grand Prix has been an favourite for E36 owners for as long as I've owned them for it's OEM appearance, and red illumination similar to the BMW amber. These are now old units and not cheap when they do come up for sale, but they're very high quality, German built and, compared to the aforementioned BMW CD43, considerably cheaper, and far better. In the same family of units as the 7993 is the 7969 Indianapolis: visually identical, but with on-board navigation and, of most interest to me, BMW branding and the correct amber illumination. The 7969 was actually specified by BMW (to a slightly lower spec than the aftermarket, Becker branded Indianapolis), and sold through their dealerships as an optional extra; it's even listed on realOEM and has it's own BMW part number. A well priced one turned up on ebay, so I bought that and then sold a couple of my stash of old headunits, and an amp that I realised I was never going to do anything with to pay for it. The only slight gripe is the positive LCD display, but the fact it's an original BMW option means my OCD can live with it!



With the head unit sorted, the next thing to deal with was the sound quality, or lack of. My car has the Harman Kardon audio which comprises an amplifier, 10 speakers, and a subwoofer; at the time, this was the best audio system you could have in a 3 Series, 23 years later it was horrendous, and sounded like most of the speakers had blown. I narrowed the problem down to the mid-range speakers in the front doors, which are actually still available from BMW if you're willing to pay £150+ each for them. Some reading online revealed that some of the E46 HK speakers were virtually identical, and I found a pair of those on ebay for just over £70; I swapped them in when they arrived, and the difference was night and day. At some point I'll modify the original E36 speaker housings to fit the E46 speakers and re-silver the HK lettering, but for now it's actually possible to listen to the audio system without wincing at horrendously distorted vocals, and in all fairness it doesn't sound bad for a 23 year old BMW sound system.


Original E36 speaker on the left, "new" E46 speaker on the right.


No wonder they sounded awful: both of the old speakers were in this state.

Finally for this update: the monthly classic car meet at Earls Barton held a BMW night to mark 50 years of BMW M in July, so it would've been rude not to go.



Thanks for reading, and wishing you all a happy new year.

[Alpina99]

I know, and totally accept, I'm "Beemer biased" but that is one beautiful looking car,
The colour, the wheels, the stance - perfect,
Only thing I can fault it on is it's not mine !! 😁😁😁😁
Nigel