What have you done with or to your M3 today?

irokwrx wrote

Followed another members method for changing PS fluid. Super easy, small mess. I used a water bottle with a vent hole as I was doing this solo. If you haven't done this in a while I recommend doing so.

does that make steering felt lighter than before?
could you please share the PS power fluid changing method?

irokwrx wrote

Followed another members method for changing PS fluid. Super easy, small mess. I used a water bottle with a vent hole as I was doing this solo. If you haven't done this in a while I recommend doing so.

Nice! So far always went the easy way and sucked it out. You force me to rethink for next time around mate. Checked a few links, mind posting the one you felt best?

Cheers

Helmsman wrote

Nice! So far always went the easy way and sucked it out. You force me to rethink for next time around mate. Checked a few links, mind posting the one you felt best?

Cheers

I did this one. I went with a new Reservoir and used my own vented water bottle trick. I ran a full bottle threw system until it was new green
https://www.m3post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1162286

E90325M wrote

does that make steering felt lighter than before?
could you please share the PS power fluid changing method?

Steering did not feel lighter but smooth like silk.
https://www.m3post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1162286

After tons of cold rain in NC, felt great to get some sunny driving in to cars and coffee. My buddy's slicktop, red, zcp, speed cloth, no nav, 6MT. Met another E90 owner with the space gray.

Finished pedal install - Bimmer Jakes in Europe. You'll note the foot rest section is a touch short compared to OEM which is going to annoy me pretty much forever. These are available on eBay without the M flag etching for about $30. I put the gas pedal right over the OEM rubber pedal. For the brake I pulled off the rubber and drilled through the metal backing. Note: the 'auto' version of this on the website comes with the BMW wide brake pedal. They had to send me the small brake pedal separately. I think purchasing the manual set would work for both DCT and manual e9x m3.

CamasM3e93 wrote

Finished pedal install - Bimmer Jakes in Europe. You'll note the foot rest section is a touch short compared to OEM which is going to annoy me pretty much forever. These are available on eBay without the M flag etching for about $30. I put the gas pedal right over the OEM rubber pedal. For the brake I pulled off the rubber and drilled through the metal backing. Note: the 'auto' version of this on the website comes with the BMW wide brake pedal. They had to send me the small brake pedal separately. I think purchasing the manual set would work for both DCT and manual e9x m3.

Yeah, how could they not do the rest long enough to cover..?? Ah well, still looks nice.

Blindside_137 wrote

After tons of cold rain in NC, felt great to get some sunny driving in to cars and coffee. My buddy's slicktop, red, zcp, speed cloth, no nav, 6MT. Met another E90 owner with the space gray.

Beauties...

CamasM3e93 wrote

Finished pedal install - Bimmer Jakes in Europe. You'll note the foot rest section is a touch short compared to OEM which is going to annoy me pretty much forever. These are available on eBay without the M flag etching for about $30. I put the gas pedal right over the OEM rubber pedal. For the brake I pulled off the rubber and drilled through the metal backing. Note: the 'auto' version of this on the website comes with the BMW wide brake pedal. They had to send me the small brake pedal separately. I think purchasing the manual set would work for both DCT and manual e9x m3.

If they're going to annoy you 'pretty much forever' why not just buy the proper OEM dead pedal?

It was such a nice day, I finally installed my Christmas present, Apex Racing stud kit and wheel spacers!

Made my M3 sleep outside cause we are doing paint correction on some nice cars.

jiggz wrote

If they're going to annoy you 'pretty much forever' why not just buy the proper OEM dead pedal?

And not have them match??? Are you insane??? LOL My Adrian Monk persona would never allow that.

My plan is to move the dead pedal down and black out the top.

Put up my E92 for sale yesterday, and today this view makes me wonder if i'm out of my mind...

Scharbag wrote

First wash after graphene. Seems to work!!

Getting another car ready for coating tomorrow.

Love it! Which graphene coating did you use? How do you like it compared to a proper ceramic coating (not those spray variants)

New rubber.. smells so good.. and ceramic coated the wheels, love Adams, it's good stuff...excuse the rogue sock, damn gnomes...

SAMM3Y wrote

New rubber.. smells so good.. and ceramic coated the wheels, love Adams, it's good stuff...excuse the rogue sock, damn gnomes...

Haha, seems fair size on those gnomes! Oh, and wheels look great...

SoCalRPM wrote

Scharbag wrote

First wash after graphene. Seems to work!!

Getting another car ready for coating tomorrow.

Love it! Which graphene coating did you use? How do you like it compared to a proper ceramic coating (not those spray variants)

We used Ethos graphene coating. Polished with Meg's 105/205. I don't have any experience applying typical ceramic coatings so I can't say if it is much different. The Ethos product seemed easy enough to apply. You just had to make sure you got it all off within a reasonable time or it clouds up and needs to be polished off.

We will see how long it lasts. We applied 2 coats so here is hoping a few years. Not sure I believe the advertised 5 years.

I've been storing and moving around the Gigantic cardboard box that my ESS supercharger came in for about 8 years now. It takes up almost a cubic yard of space but, if I ever want to sell the kit, I'd have it for the next guy.

Who the hell was I kidding.. I'm never selling it! I hacked up the box. Going to hang the factory air manifold on the wall..

A couple weeks ago I swapped my Karbonius intake back to stock for smog. Took it for a drive and managed to get all readiness sensors ready on my first attempt.

My paranoia about stuck fuel injectors got the best of me, so I purchased some brand new Bosch units and installed them today. Very straightforward DIY and nice fuel rail design from BMW. The old injectors at 40k miles didn't look terrible, but not great either and I could definitely tell the old seals were dry compared to new. I'll be tackling the thermostat and coolant temp sensor before I reinstall the Karbonius.

Finally got my small coolant leak fully sorted. After my indy replaced the water pump and gasket and one of the expansion tank hoses, another small leak appeared a few weeks later. Turned out the thermostat o-ring had perished, which is surprising since it had been replaced in Dec of 2018. Maybe it was installed improperly back then, but a new thermostat and o-rings (for good measure) went in, and all is sorted now. Woulda done it myself but I hate dealing with coolant all over the garage floor and making a huge mess.

With this great weather we're having this week in the Northeast, getting antsy to pull of the winter wheels and get rippin'...

kcdedric wrote

A couple weeks ago I swapped my Karbonius intake back to stock for smog. Took it for a drive and managed to get all readiness sensors ready on my first attempt.

My paranoia about stuck fuel injectors got the best of me, so I purchased some brand new Bosch units and installed them today. Very straightforward DIY and nice fuel rail design from BMW. The old injectors at 40k miles didn't look terrible, but not great either and I could definitely tell the old seals were dry compared to new. I'll be tackling the thermostat and coolant temp sensor before I reinstall the Karbonius.

Looks very clean and nice under the plenum! You take time cleaning under the plenum I guess?

PACarGuy wrote

Finally got my small coolant leak fully sorted. After my indy replaced the water pump and gasket and one of the expansion tank hoses, another small leak appeared a few weeks later. Turned out the thermostat o-ring had perished, which is surprising since it had been replaced in Dec of 2018. Maybe it was installed improperly back then, but a new thermostat and o-rings (for good measure) went in, and all is sorted now. Woulda done it myself but I hate dealing with coolant all over the garage floor and making a huge mess.

With this great weather we're having this week in the Northeast, getting antsy to pull of the winter wheels and get rippin'...

Curious, one of the pipe o-rings or the actual Tstat seating that started to leak?