What have you done with or to your M3 today?

Scharbag wrote

AkraGTS wrote

Dave, in my opinion if you want the best possible job for the best price, take them to Greens Wheel Repair in Richmond. They'll do any color you want and restored my 359Ms to factory black and they're absolutely the perfect sheen.

$1,000 for four wheels, took the tires off the wheels, repaired rash, painted, remount and balance.

I think the centre right wheel in your garage photo is the correct finish.

Cheers

Greens was who refinished the one front wheel and it is no where close to the OE Hyper Silver. That said, I did only send them 1 wheel to be finished as Hyper Silver.

As you can see from the photo, the refinished wheel is soooo much brighter... Not even close.

Such is life. I will figure this shite out.

The square setup does look nice though!! Even with a bit of 255 stretch on the front.

Cheers,

The standard recommendation is to have the two wheels on the side of the vehicle refinished at the same time.

That being said OEM hyper silver has a depth that most powder coats don't have. Your refinished wheel looks pretty close. The silver refinish on my 359s doesn't look near as good.

After doing A LOT of research online and in these forums I joined the E93 club last week 😁. Just got my account validated to post and have the new family member a much-needed wash.

Scharbag wrote

I wanted a square setup.

And I have non-stock color on my existing staggered setup. Sooo...

Now I need to figure out what to do with 4 9" 359s...

I also purchased an additional set of 359m to create my square 19x10 set.

I was able to sell my 19x9 square set to the owner of an e92 335i. Took a couple months to sell, but got $1000 for the set.

SAMM3Y wrote

Cleared the calipers with the decals. The stickers are too big really had to off center them to fit but good enough for brakes. Cut the spacers for the backing plates and mounted them, you can rock the car with them, they're stout af, Cleaned up the old bearings and painted the middle.. just waiting for new hardware now for the ducts and bearings.. then on to the rest of it..

Who makes the carbon back plate for the ducts?

turbo_joe wrote

SAMM3Y wrote

Cleared the calipers with the decals. The stickers are too big really had to off center them to fit but good enough for brakes. Cut the spacers for the backing plates and mounted them, you can rock the car with them, they're stout af, Cleaned up the old bearings and painted the middle.. just waiting for new hardware now for the ducts and bearings.. then on to the rest of it..

Who makes the carbon back plate for the ducts?

They were made by Turner for their GS racecar way overkill for me but they were cheap and I enjoy little projects like this.

SAMM3Y wrote

Cleared the calipers with the decals. The stickers are too big really had to off center them to fit but good enough for brakes. Cut the spacers for the backing plates and mounted them, you can rock the car with them, they're stout af, Cleaned up the old bearings and painted the middle.. just waiting for new hardware now for the ducts and bearings.. then on to the rest of it..

i don't understand what you did... but it looks great

I have retrofitted my e90 M3 alpin white with LCI tail lights!
Did the coding myself, first time ever coding a BMW with NCS Expert, all ✅

Tomorrow lci tailgate paint job, cant’t wait! LCI light looks so much better!

O I almost forgot, Fitted a OEM 359m wheels with PSS 275/255-35 tires with 12mm spacers

djschmitt wrote

After doing A LOT of research online and in these forums I joined the E93 club last week 😁. Just got my account validated to post and have the new family member a much-needed wash.

Welcome. I also recently picked up an E93.

Clean car, dirty garage.

Repainted my E88's

After many years, finally ordered painted reflectors.

Going to purchase a BMW Sun Visor?

The covercraft one is the same price as the BMW one. I read they make it for BMW anyways.

Power steering pump broke on Friday afternoon, new one delivered today and just finished installing and flushing the system. Thank you FCP Euro

Bartledoo wrote

Power steering pump broke on Friday afternoon, new one delivered today and just finished installing and flushing the system. Thank you FCP Euro

Must have paid for that expedited shipping! That's my one gripe with FCP, it feels like if you pick the free shipping option, they purposely don't process your order for a few days which is weird really for a business..

SAMM3Y wrote

Bartledoo wrote

Power steering pump broke on Friday afternoon, new one delivered today and just finished installing and flushing the system. Thank you FCP Euro

Must have paid for that expedited shipping! That's my one gripe with FCP, it feels like if you pick the free shipping option, they purposely don't process your order for a few days which is weird really for a business..

With Covid at least one place seems to be shipping every other day.

Bpark1977 wrote

neilum wrote

I'm on the fence about these paint matched grills. Didn't pop like I expected it to.

They took 1hr 15 minutes to put on in total, complete pain in the arse to get the originals out.

https://i.imgur.com/UE2v13Vl.jpg



https://i.imgur.com/uSeA7VQl.jpg

I like it.

neilum wrote

I'm on the fence about these paint matched grills. Didn't pop like I expected it to.
They took 1hr 15 minutes to put on in total, complete pain in the arse to get the originals out.

https://i.imgur.com/UE2v13Vl.jpg



https://i.imgur.com/uSeA7VQl.jpg

Looks so much better though. How did you end up getting them out?

I'm thinking about the same mod.

SAMM3Y wrote

Must have paid for that expedited shipping! That's my one gripe with FCP, it feels like if you pick the free shipping option, they purposely don't process your order for a few days which is weird really for a business..

I've only experienced this once with FCP. Usually it ships out the same day or next day.

Left the office just after 5 before the curfew (riots), and just my luck had a fully flat right rear tire. NOTHING was open near me, so I for the first time pulled out that BMW tire inflator in the trunk, damn that thing is legit... never knew it was there. Was able to pump up it up, and fly 20 miles to another city with a discount tire. Got a plug, but found out the rears are toast (PS 3 a/s).. they offered me a deal on two new P4Ss on the rear for $250 each..idk why. Since my fronts are fine for now, would it be dumb to have 4S on rear, and PS 3 A/S on front until they go out? probably a dumb question, I know nothing about tires

wfdeacon88 wrote

Left the office just after 5 before the curfew (riots), and just my luck had a fully flat right rear tire. NOTHING was open near me, so I for the first time pulled out that BMW tire inflator in the trunk, damn that thing is legit... never knew it was there. Was able to pump up it up, and fly 20 miles to another city with a discount tire. Got a plug, but found out the rears are toast (PS 3 a/s).. they offered me a deal on two new P4Ss on the rear for $250 each..idk why. Since my fronts are fine for now, would it be dumb to have 4S on rear, and PS 3 A/S on front until they go out? probably a dumb question, I know nothing about tires

Summer in back and all season in front isn’t ideal at all

ItsGary wrote

I've only experienced this once with FCP. Usually it ships out the same day or next day.

With free shipping my order is in my hands in 24-36hrs. CT to MA

Installed an Arma speed intake - fitment sucked! Had to trim the radiator surround, plastic near the top of the filter and the carbon parts.
(For the life of me I can’t get the photo the right way up:lol:)

It looks pretty, though.

wfdeacon88 wrote

Left the office just after 5 before the curfew (riots), and just my luck had a fully flat right rear tire. NOTHING was open near me, so I for the first time pulled out that BMW tire inflator in the trunk, damn that thing is legit... never knew it was there. Was able to pump up it up, and fly 20 miles to another city with a discount tire. Got a plug, but found out the rears are toast (PS 3 a/s).. they offered me a deal on two new P4Ss on the rear for $250 each..idk why. Since my fronts are fine for now, would it be dumb to have 4S on rear, and PS 3 A/S on front until they go out? probably a dumb question, I know nothing about tires

I think you'll be fine. Don't track it like that hehe