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No point spending £2k on brakes when the things that create friction between road/car are made of slippery cheese lol.

I think most new cars are built to a low cost tbh, certainly with BMW the quality has been reducing with each new model! You just have to compare an e36>e46>e90>F30 - yes, the dash looks prettier, but its made of much poorer materials :( Yes, i must admit, i was amused. Still, the engine in...

Car looks lovely!! But he really needs to spend less money getting you to polish his car, & more money replacing his front tyres.

So last Tuesday the fan came on again :mad: Pulled over, switched it off, then back on again (used to clear it), but no such luck, car stayed in limp-home mode. Unfortunately, that is where it stayed until this morning when i took it into BMW. The fan design has been updated again apparently...

Couple more bits fitted - LG trimming handbrake/gear stick gators. Simple things, but i think they look much nicer :cool: Also picked up an armrest with similar finish that will be fitted next weekend. Messed about with the settings on the Meister R coilovers as well, just to try & remove...

At the end of the day, its a 172 for a grand, you should expect it to be a heap. Cambelt wouldnt bother me tbh, its cheaper to put a new engine in than get the belts done lol.

It is yes. Some people expect too much lol.

Yeah they do, although that's involves paying someone to do it, & service don't hold their money like assets do :dapprove: So another weekend, another part fitted - 2 spoke steering wheel removed (will be killing it with fire later on in the week) 3 spoke JCW fitted :star: Had forgotten...

But it looks like a heap lol. Sell all 5 of them & buy a decent car :rasp:

No point selling it for much less than its worth tbh, just tinker with yours imho.

That wouldnt be that hard to change though. Probably £5-750 of "black" parts + your labour, then sell all the old stuff. Or kill it with fire.

Fixed that for you ;)

It does? :headno: For a "small" car, it also looks massive!!

With non-runflats, perfectly fine. There is a reason why 320d m sports are pretty much the stereotypical motorway mile muncher lol. If i didnt have the 135i, id have probably bought one of these this week. So much want lol: Diesel...

330d M Sport auto. Tbh, there might as well be no other car in the market as i wouldnt consider anything else. Apart from the 330i M Sport of course.

Lovely Sarah is fine thanks Tony!! She's missing watching the racing/doing track days as well though, so need to get something in the diary :D Another piece of the mini jigsaw fitted today. Car feels like mine now, instead of Richard's lol :o Although Sarah and her mum calling it Rory...

Manual = correct choice.

Yeah, that makes sense, just seems a little pointless for the owner to pay you to do half a job lol. In my opinion anyways.

Im no detailer, but is that door not still covered in minor scratches? (Shown near where the light is)

I thought the same. And i doubt he did lol.

Yup, i thought that when i had mine. Hated the look of them in photos (even mine lol), but in real life all the daft colours seem to work very well together! Miss seeing this combo every morning :dapprove:

Cheers for all the nice comments people :o lol. Cheers Tony. Seeing you reminds me actually, are you racing at Brands anytime soon? Would be nice to come & watch again! I do agree, although im currently having a moment of indecisive/tightness. Its going to cost me circa £350 to spray the...

Yup, no biters on here, but sold within about 10 minutes on Pistonheads. Was a lovely car, but by no means perfect. Id say that the one in the OP is a bit of a bargain if it looks as good in real life as it does in the pictures.

Another weekend, & some more work done on the wee beasty :cool: First up was the facelift rear lights, look a little nicer, bit brighter etc. Small amount of wiring changes required as per...

Look much better! Although the yellow indicator bulbs kinda spoil the look - any particular reason why you didnt change them at the same time?

Yeah, he's away until the 9th, then its another 10-14 days on top of that.

Yeah should imagine so, assume Chip will be organising/putting a thread up about it soon? Can't see me being about to keep up with you if you're S/C'ing yours though lol. Unless i simply adopt the Lewis Hamilton "last of the late brakers" technique ... Not too sure really, id imagine a decent...

Yeah, it'll probably go the way of the Trophy, so buckets in the front (either Bimarco Experts, or Corbeau Clubsports), harnesses & a rear bench delete. Daft as it sounds, i like to leave the backrest in so that i can still use the boot lol. Well, apart from for trackdays where i remove it/fill...

They're the Europa ones, currently very stiff (think Rich set the pre-load a bit higher than the 0 that is recommended for some reason) and too low so really not very forgiving at all. Going to raise them up a bit at the weekend & mess with the settings a little so will report back then on my...

Pretty much the last word id use to describe the VAG scene lol. Always looked like "dudes" to me, i.e. skate shoes, baggy trousers, baseball caps & hoodies. The chavs turn up to CS meets in Superdry & tracky bottoms ;)