[colorado.e9x]

Replaced the broken AliExpress performance gear selector with another one, and put back the loose roof rack cap that I took off last year. Black duct tape around the slidy bit for some extra friction did the trick

[Efthreeoh]

Alright, $953 of parts just arrived for the Z4. Heat in the garage is fixed! Ready to do some wrenching over the T-day weekend. Getting back in the groove.

[Wolf 335]

Originally Posted by StradaRedlands

The check valves look okay? What was the mileage on them? I've considered doing them proactively, but obviously haven't yet...

StradaRedlands have a look at mine at 348,000km (216,000miles), never cleaned before. Doesn't hurt to check them. Considering you're pretty in tune with car's maintenance, I don't suspect you'd have any issues.

https://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1959216

[tcphoto]

I installed the new cupholder, I’ve owned it for over eight years and it’s never worked properly. I guess I rarely use it as I’m not eating, drinking and playing with the stereo or phone.

[StradaRedlands]

Originally Posted by tcphoto

I installed the new cupholder, I’ve owned it for over eight years and it’s never worked properly. I guess I rarely use it as I’m not eating, drinking and playing with the stereo or phone.

Cupholders are over-rated!!! Would rather have none than the fiddly over-complicated things on BMWs!

Originally Posted by Wolf 335

StradaRedlands have a look at mine at 348,000km (216,000miles), never cleaned before. Doesn't hurt to check them. Considering you're pretty in tune with car's maintenance, I don't suspect you'd have any issues.

https://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1959216

I think about cleaning them, and maybe even replacing them as they are just spring loaded, and it has to be getting weaker over time. But they haven't been a priority Looks not so bad @ 348k km!

[Onizukachan]

Did xDelete.
With an n52 amd 265s I couldn’t get it to do a burnout, but it did get more squirrelly than usual when punching it hard into a right turn off a stop sign.

Also the Dinan is glorious but fitment isn’t dialed in. The underbody e91 brace and the coupler for the rear section were trying to occupy the same space-time coordinates so to clear that it is a bit far in and to the hard right of the opening.

But the sound is absolutely all I hoped. That beautiful banshee howl above 4k, throbbing bass notes below 3k, just good presence without sounding like an open exhaust nor Honda-esque, nor like the annoying Mustangs with their sharp barky exhausts.


I do still have a mobridge with PnP harness, and also a pair of SWS sitting here, and will be glad to start a thread like we had in the f3x forum to share tune files with others one I get them installed and something worth listening to beyond the base /default tune.

However I am not going to be using the normal output assignments as I plan to run the rear flat panel /electrostat roof speakers in series off one channel as a rear center… , then use the other rear channel reassigned as front center, instead of rear stereo and using the 400w sub channel for front center. Both because I want to save that 400/800w amp channel for an external sub box, amd because in my experience flat panels REALLY don’t like a lot of extra power, first they get harsh and then the magic smoke comes out.

[chiam]

Replaced battery with an Interstate AGM. Friend with an Autel tool is going to register it for me on Monday .

Also found out my cheap parts store alternator has a bad diode, so that's on order for next week. Didn't even last me 5 months .