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Before i mapped the 335i, i gave it a full service (oil/filters) and changed the spark plugs and coils - both being weakpoints when mapped. If you have a spare injector take them in case something goes wrong i guess?

Id argue that the 718 is still depreciating, wheras the 981 has been out a while, is arguably the far better car and has already plateaued depreciation wise, if not risen a little on this time last year. Mine was a 981S manual with all the right options, inc. the very rare LSD. I could have...

Why have you got capital and depreciation as costs? If the car was bought for £8,928 and sold for £4,928, its depreciated £4k. The only capital expenditure is the interest lost on said money whilst it was invested in the car surely? I feel like you've doubled your cost of ownership there, My...

Thats the thing, the main difference for me was the changes in the torque convertor lockup ... I mean in the ZF6 if feels like it doesnt do it till about 4k rpm sometimes 😂 the ZF8 is something daft like 800rpm so it already feels great.

Haha, sorry, actually had some work to do yesterday 😂 My only experience has been with the e9* platform so far, but for that, its a massive massive change, that is a ruddy old bo now though, the ZF8 in my M135i was light years ahead, so perhaps the law of dimishing returns applies for the F...

Feel free to sell it to me for £1k then. You beat me to it 😂

R53 Mini. Mine was absolutely epic on track. When it wasnt broken.

Its useful at the moment as the change bag/wet weather gear/shopping etc can all go on the buggy, also lockdown baby means we havent exactly been travelling around all over the place anyway :ROFLMAO: we were going to get a Babyzen YoYo, but decided that it was just a little flimsy for walks in...

We're at 6 months and i cant see any reason why we would need to change what we have for a very long time! Our buggy purchase was based solely around the need to fit in the boot of Sarahs TT with the seats still up, naturally (as with all my big purchases, i created a spreadsheet to compare...

I bought an 11 last year for that very reason!! Ummed and ahhed about the Pro for the telephoto lens but just couldnt justify it ... actually ended up getting Sarah an X a couple of months later for comparison. Glad i didnt pay the extra for the Pro tbh, literally never use the telephoto lens on...

Same. I do love these old ones. Also, they are at the kind of price point that when the engine does sh1t itself, you can have a go at rebuilding it yourself. Or dropping an LS in it. Excellent purchase @Jason_E Barring the interior. f**k my eyes.

Massive congrats to you as well @JD Lockdown babies FTW :ROFLMAO: :love:

Oh that is lovely! Have always fancied one of those V8 bathtubs :love:

So this sold yesterday to the chap that owns Millennium Heroes/Fast Classics/Octane Collection ... he rocked up in a mega mile '56 plate 335d touring that this will apparently replace, but i fully expect it to be back up for sale at eleventy billion pounds in due course. I cant complain...

I loved faceid, right up until the point we all started to wear masks all the time :rolleyes: Paying for stuff now requires a pin again, instead of faceid/thumbprint.

As theyre Mark Fish invoices theyre perfectly believable :ROFLMAO: :LOL:

Perhaps. But at least my estate works 😘 (i have asked for some bodywork quotes)

If anyone is interested: https://cliosport.net/threads/58-e91-335i-lci-sport-touring-18k-miles-%C2%A313-495.834562/ Am strangely enjoying wafting about in the X5 :rolleyes:😂

£32k at Mark Fish probs gets you a cambelt service lol. Its where people with more money than sense take their clios. Tbf, it will likely be a very high spec and well done, just not mentioned in the advert :LOL:

They sell thousands of cars, pretty sure they are straight from bca auction (or similar), so go in with your eyes open. Bargains to be had, but dont expect the car to be perfect, or there to be much in the way of aftersales ... you arent paying fancy showroom money though!!

Why would you want to delete the ABS if its a "show only car"? I could understand if it was a track/race car, but show car 🤷‍♂️ Easiest way is to pull off an abs sensor i imagine ...

I used a Vibe Powerbox 60.4, but Alpine do them as well. Helix Match DSP is the recommended BMW one iirc.

Awesome work!! I missed out on a 1 owner one on ebay last week lol. Only wanted it so i could buy the Rotrex kit in the classifieds and build something daft over the winter. To then break it and sell before doing any trackdays :LOL:

Damn. Those wheels, with that colour combo are :love:

I can understand some of that being done as something to do yourself over the weekend, but there is no way in gods earth i would be paying for all that to be done on what is, in effect, a 3-4 grand golf gti!!!

I'll let you drive the touring when we get back to normality, then you'll see what i mean (y)

Just to counter Mark's opinion, purely as he hasnt actually driven any "proper" M BMW's, so doesnt know what a very good RWD is supposed to drive like :ROFLMAO: 1. The M135i's rear end, on supersports, is twitchy as f*ck in the wet. It needs an LSD before any more power. Its more than ok on...

First - 106 Gti (back in 2004): Current - 335i Touring. 2020 requires more space from my "hatchback" ... Untitled by Sir_Dave, on Flickr

Yeah we all had them when JMS were trading, a mixture of futuras (for fatties) and experts (for beanpoles). Good seats, cost feck all direct from poland or wherever they were made, no idea how they fair price wise now though tbf.

Yeah theyre the ones, i got the silver ones off m3cutters, think they may be a little cheaper on there? Rears only gives the same as lci looks wise, so i just went with them. Id probs just bin off the lockers altogether, pretty sure the e90 key is the same for all cars, so the oem ones are a...