Shock Horror, Sir_Dave buys a Diseaseal ...

[Nickson]

Prevension is better than a cure...

Good work sir.

As above.

Good work!

 

[philmots]

Interesting stuff.

You got anything showing the egr more clearly?

 

[Ian_182]

Do you think you'll map it at any stage...???

 

[Sir_Dave]

Do you think you'll map it at any stage...???

Was tempted earlier on in the month, but decided against it for the time being! The extra power would be nice, but then it would be similar pace to the Trophy, which would kind of defeat the point of a 'quicker' car for the weekends ...

So, after removing the swirl flaps, swopping oil breather, pollen/air/fuel filter etc last month, i finally got around to doing the oil service on Saturday. Nothing unusual about that really, except that well, a 320d takes 5.5 litres of oil to do a change, but the dumbar5e that serviced it last had overfilled it a wee bit. Ok, so thats a lie, the car was positively swimming in oil, i got 6.8 litres out of it!!!

Now filled up with 5.5 litres of Castrol's finest, and seeming to run a little nicer. Placebo FTW. I also cleaned it, purely as i had forgotten it was blue, & Sarah told me that as its a nice car (unlike the clio apparently) i have to take good car of it

Mild whoring.

Should finally get my plate on it this week as well, which will obviously make it 1 million times better

 

[Christopher]

Looks great.

 

[Scrooge]

Very nice that colour is niiice!

 

[Sir_Dave]

Number plate on

Ah Sarah & Davy J. His & hers private plates FTW

 

[Christopher]

AH52RAH's car looks nice.

Great colour, Estoril.

 

[Rob]

Very nice indeed. I really love the colour.

 

[Sir_Dave]

AH52RAH's car looks nice.

Great colour, Estoril.

AH52RAH's car definately needs a clean lol!!! Its also a fairly nice colour under all the dirt & brake dust ...

 

[Gally]

Proper rep mobile now with that Plate.

I was never a fan of borders/badges on no plates though. Plain FTW.

 

[Sir_Dave]

Proper rep mobile now with that Plate.

I was never a fan of borders/badges on no plates though. Plain FTW.

I R Financial Sales Rep, so its ok

Know what you mean about the plates, but we go over to Europe a fair bit & well, my cars never clean so the stick on GB badge would scratch the paint ...

 

[jon_r]

Looks lovely mate.

 

[Christopher]

I R Financial Sales Rep, so its ok

Know what you mean about the plates, but we go over to Europe a fair bit & well, my cars never clean so the stick on GB badge would scratch the paint ...

F*ck off!! LOL!!

 

[Sir_Dave]

Looks lovely mate.

Have you got yours mapped yet? I've now managed to up my average mpg up to 45, seems that bad traffic has a serious affect on the amount of derv i use ...

F*ck off!! LOL!!

Lol, i've got to look after one of the cars, Trophy now has FailSport scratched into the boot FFS

 

[Gally]

I R Financial Sales Rep, so its ok

Know what you mean about the plates, but we go over to Europe a fair bit & well, my cars never clean so the stick on GB badge would scratch the paint ...

I actually thought that mate after I posted, I remember you mentioning it before.

F*ck off!! LOL!!

He's like Roy, a convert.

 

[jon_r]

Have you got yours mapped yet? I've now managed to up my average mpg up to 45, seems that bad traffic has a serious affect on the amount of derv i use

No, I bought a 172 as a project instead. I think i'll leave mine alone for a while, though I've bought an OE ipod kit so all the dash trim is in the boot at the mo. lol

 

[Sir_Dave]

With it being sunny yesterday, i finally managed to swop the rear bushes on the front wishbones. They'd been gradually getting worse since i bought the car, so really needed to sort it out!!

Symtoms - shakey steering wheel at 35-45mpg, 'loose' sensation around the straight ahead & lots of vibration when braking (similar to warped discs).

Solution - change front wishbone rear bush to either OEM BMW ones, or purchase the uprated Meyle ones from C3BMW. I chose not get the Powerflex ones as i couldnt be bothered with getting the bushes pressed into the 'lollipops', the Meyle ones come ready to fit, & are uprated over standard, so should last longer.

As per usual, i had access to one of the fantastic guides from bimmerforums: http://www.bimmerforums.co.uk/forum/f3/how-to-fit-e46-front-wishbone-rear-bushes-t20306/, and had bought a new bearing puller for the job.

The following video gives a more detailed overview of the issue & the remedy:


2 hours later and i had gone from:

To:

Total cost, inc. bearing puller = £100.

 

[Sir_Dave]

Now on just under 112k (June 20th), so done just over 9k in 4 months.

Averaging 45-48mpg depending on how much traffic i have to sit in, giving a tank range of about 650 miles.

Still very pleased with it, tempted to upgrade to a 330cd Sport at some point in fact. Really is a perfect daily.

 

[Ian_182]

You might lose out on your mpg,infact you will.Father in law used to get a combined 40mpg out of his 530D

 

[Waitey]

Now on just under 112k (June 20th), so done just over 9k in 4 months.

Averaging 45-48mpg depending on how much traffic i have to sit in, giving a tank range of about 650 miles.

Still very pleased with it, tempted to upgrade to a 330cd Sport at some point in fact. Really is a perfect daily.

FML

I've done 12k in 4 months in the TT averaging 28.

 

[DanielJames]

but the dumbar5e that serviced it last had overfilled it a wee bit. Ok, so thats a lie, the car was positively swimming in oil, i got 6.8 litres out of it!!!

 

[.Adam.]

Pwned!

 

[DanielJames]

Out of interest Dave, what was the mileage at that sevice? Presumably around 105k? (going by that you bought it a month before with 103k?)

 

[_Tom]

haha classic.

 

[daveski]

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[DanielJames]

Looks like the oil will be getting changed this weeked lol, 14k is too much for me on the same oil

 

[Sir_Dave]

Looks like the oil will be getting changed this weeked lol, 14k is too much for me on the same oil

Yeah, was about 105k (think i wrote it in the book) so yeah, probably needs a change now lol!!

Mind you, the schedule says roughly every 18k iirc.

 

[DanielJames]

I remember you saying the oil filter doesn't need replacing, is that because it's the vortex type?

 

[Sir_Dave]

I remember you saying the oil filter doesn't need replacing, is that because it's the vortex type?

Yeah, the oil breathers fine, it was a vortex already, but i changed it anyway as id already bought the part ...