What have you done with or to your M3 today?

Helmsman wrote

Wow, the whole car! Must cost pretty sum?

Worth every penny!

shimmy23 wrote

What's the point of ceramic coating on top of the xpel?

Protection on protection. It looks incredible in person.

hgahn0325 wrote

Hello
Palisades Park??
Did you purchase this car from DCH paramus?

Yes I go to the gym there (fitness factory) and no I did not.

Took the traction control off in the rain and nearly wrapped it around a telephone pole. Imma good driver.

Got a day permit yesterday, had a blast driving the car. Got to do 250km. Makes you appreciate the car a lot more after not driving it for a while.

LakeSurfer wrote

Took the traction control off in the rain and nearly wrapped it around a telephone pole. Imma good driver.

Smart.

3 weekends ago I did my 7000 mile oil change using Liqui Moly

2 weekends ago I did my baby's brake job

and this weekend I switched out my old nasty stock shift knob for a nice new BMW F10 M5 Illuminated ZHP Knob. Came out great and big difference in how it feels shifting.

LakeSurfer wrote

Took the traction control off in the rain and nearly wrapped it around a telephone pole. Imma good driver.

what made you want to do that?

Took possession of my new (to me) house



Then kitchen and living room have the best view.

Helmsman wrote

Ripped out the blower motor, cleaned, lubed and back in. Nice and silent again...

Hmm...what sort of noise was it making?

Washed and filled up with Costco gas

Couldn't resist the $4.04/gal for 91.

I've been having an issue with my steering wheel vibrating for the last 3 months. I went to replace my strut mount and noticed my end link was bent. That wasn't what was causing the vibration but thank God I discovered it. I replaced the end link today and all is right in the world again. Replacing the strut mount fixed my issue and I'm really happy about it. Getting a tune this week too.

Timujin wrote

Washed and filled up with Costco gas

Couldn't resist the $4.04/gal for 91.

Depending where you live, Costco gas is usually supplied by Shell

ItsGary wrote

Timujin wrote

Washed and filled up with Costco gas

Couldn't resist the $4.04/gal for 91.

Depending where you live, Costco gas is usually supplied by Shell

Interesting, I was always under the impression that Costco Gas has no additives or detergents in it. Do you think it's Shell's same formula with v power?

PACarGuy wrote

Hmm...what sort of noise was it making?

Noise of some sort I didn't recognise... turned out there was part of some rubber seal in the fan, couldn't figure from where. Fan was clearly needing lube regardless, hard to tell what the noise was coming from but now gone. Happy again!

Washed her up to get ready to sell unfortunately...

MaximusB wrote

Took possession of my new (to me) house

Clean home and car, congrats!!! A home like that in Vancouver proper trumps any car.

PTRAN wrote

Is this a pain to install?

M3_Jay wrote

PTRAN wrote

Is this a pain to install?

Easy as making a cup of coffee if you have the knowledge.

M3_Jay wrote

Is this a pain to install?

Dpc2u wrote

Easy as making a cup of coffee if you have the knowledge.

Very very easy. Autocouture installed along with the IND “Limited Edition” Push start button and eisenmann race. Took fairly quick


I wear cycling gloves to keep the steering wheel mint

M3_Jay wrote

Is this a pain to install?

15 mins.

Flathead to both sides to remove airbag, a 15 or 16mm bolt holding the wheel on, a few torx holding the faceplate, buttons, paddles. Keep the car turned off or it might throw an airbag code (a little harder to get rid of).

M-button just involves taking apart that right side button cluster.

Good time to refinish or replace a faceplate if that soft-touch is peeling

chocstraw wrote

M3_Jay wrote

Is this a pain to install?

15 mins.

Flathead to both sides to remove airbag, a 15 or 16mm bolt holding the wheel on, a few torx holding the faceplate, buttons, paddles. Keep the car turned off or it might throw an airbag code (a little harder to get rid of).

M-button just involves taking apart that right side button cluster.

Good time to refinish or replace a faceplate if that soft-touch is peeling

https://i.imgur.com/BQ1XHZR.jpg

I'm on round 5 of trying to refinish my wheel trim... I have two trims, so when I got a new wheel, I changed the original to the lightly used backup... Well, I scratched the soft touch trying to take out the airbag and didn't realize until after it was reinstalled, so I tried to wrap the other backup in vinyl.... installed and, a few days in the sun two months ago, the wrap starts peeling/warping where the M sticker is located due to its sharp sides... last try this weekend.. spent a long time and sanded the backup down as I watched football, took forever (to me at least). After it was sanded and ready, painted it with flat black paint per the recommendations on here.. some sort of shit got in the wet paint literally seconds later. ruined. I would just pay OEM all day long, but I he damn OEM trim blows.

MaximusB wrote

Took possession of my new (to me) house



Then kitchen and living room have the best view.

One of the few draw backs with owning an M3V8 - you can't afford furnitures...

Grip Addict wrote

LakeSurfer wrote

Took the traction control off in the rain and nearly wrapped it around a telephone pole. Imma good driver.

what made you want to do that?

Grip Addict wrote

LakeSurfer wrote

Took the traction control off in the rain and nearly wrapped it around a telephone pole. Imma good driver.

what made you want to do that?

I always feel like I'm a better driver than I actually am. It was a show off fail, for sure.