[Hoody007]

Both in. In daylight it matches the color of the xenons really well. They’re definitely not LEDs though - so it doesn’t look like the newer BMWs. A good middle ground.

[StradaRedlands]

Originally Posted by E93Seattle (Racerbruce)

greetings strada,

https://burgertuning.com/collections...s-cowl-filters

this is a fair weather car and never wash it using water; i use meguiars products that suspend the dust particles and then just wipe it off;

https://www.meguiars.com/automotive/...26-26-oz-spray

wanted a "less is more" appearance by performing the cowl trim (which still allows any water to channel into the cowl tray and is directed as designed to the drains in each corner near the hood hinge) and wanted to remove the humongous oem cabin filter piece; the bms cowl filters allow a touch more mechanical sound to the cabin which is welcomed.

Thanks for the link! My car is an all-season DD, so water intrusion could be an issue, but I sure love the idea of those filters!

I do waterless as well, using Optimum Opticlean... same idea, and I love it!

[E93Seattle (Racerbruce)]

Originally Posted by StradaRedlands

Thanks for the link! My car is an all-season DD, so water intrusion could be an issue, but I sure love the idea of those filters!

I do waterless as well, using Optimum Opticlean... same idea, and I love it!

thank you strada,
totally understand; i know redlands gets snow (and rain); you and i connected on the redlands discussion recently when i said my brother lived there decades ago related to work.

well done to you - using a waterless wash saves water and saves rusted rotors (unless you first spray them with hyde's serum) and water intrusion and potential rusting; great to see a fellow enthusiast using this product that works so well.

[StradaRedlands]

Originally Posted by E93Seattle (Racerbruce)

thank you strada,
totally understand; i know redlands gets snow (and rain); you and i connected on the redlands discussion recently when i said my brother lived there decades ago related to work.

well done to you - using a waterless wash saves water and saves rusted rotors (unless you first spray them with hyde's serum) and water intrusion and potential rusting; great to see a fellow enthusiast using this product that works so well.

Works great and so much faster... just have to keep up on it every week or so to keep anything heavy from building up. I try to do a proper wash & wax twice a year... due for that now but lazy!

[StradaRedlands]

Originally Posted by Hoody007

Both in. In daylight it matches the color of the xenons really well. They’re definitely not LEDs though - so it doesn’t look like the newer BMWs. A good middle ground.

Hi Hoody, I'm curious about what you're using to fill the license plate holes in the bumper cover. Looks like color-coded inserts... is that a thing???

[E93Seattle (Racerbruce)]

Originally Posted by StradaRedlands

Hi Hoody, I'm curious about what you're using to fill the license plate holes in the bumper cover. Looks like color-coded inserts... is that a thing???

greetings strada,
while we await hoody's update, this is the company i've used successfully for filling bumper license plate holes - really a great product:

https://bumperplugs.com/bumperplugs/...RoC9-kQAvD_BwE

[StradaRedlands]

Originally Posted by E93Seattle (Racerbruce)

greetings strada,
while we await hoody's update, this is the company i've used successfully for filling bumper license plate holes - really a great product:

https://bumperplugs.com/bumperplugs/...RoC9-kQAvD_BwE

Mind. Blown.

Pricey but amazing product! My wife got a fix it ticket a few months ago for not having a front plate. Way over-zealous parking patrol. So we threw it on to get signed off on, then removed at ASAP. Any idea if these plugs are easy to pop off and reinstall a few times as necessary?

[K9Leader]

Originally Posted by E93Seattle (Racerbruce)

greetings strada,
while we await hoody's update, this is the company i've used successfully for filling bumper license plate holes - really a great product:

https://bumperplugs.com/bumperplugs/...RoC9-kQAvD_BwE

Or go to the hardware store, get some of these and use your touch-up paint:

[Hoody007]

Originally Posted by StradaRedlands

Hi Hoody, I'm curious about what you're using to fill the license plate holes in the bumper cover. Looks like color-coded inserts... is that a thing???

Originally Posted by E93Seattle (Racerbruce)

greetings strada,
while we await hoody's update, this is the company i've used successfully for filling bumper license plate holes - really a great product:

https://bumperplugs.com/bumperplugs/...RoC9-kQAvD_BwE

Those are it!

Wouldn’t recommend removing and reinstalling. For one thing you need to drill a slightly larger hole in the bumper to get them to fit, and they have barbs to hold them firmly in place.

[nuron]

Originally Posted by Arturas

Replace worn gearbox mounts. Genuine E90 out, E30 gets in

Interesting..what are the benefits of going to E30 mounts?

[StradaRedlands]

Originally Posted by Hoody007

Those are it!

Wouldn’t recommend removing and reinstalling. For one thing you need to drill a slightly larger hole in the bumper to get them to fit, and they have barbs to hold them firmly in place.

They look great, I love that someone came up with painting them to match! I think I need something that would be replaceable though... might be able to put a hack together using some sort of threaded insert... need to think on this!

Originally Posted by K9Leader

Or go to the hardware store, get some of these and use your touch-up paint:

I'm inspired... great idea, I know exactly what those are!

[GnomeChild]

Originally Posted by Arturas

Replace worn gearbox mounts. Genuine E90 out, E30 gets in

Never knew about these! *adds to the modlist*

Originally Posted by E90Has

Let me know how this goes for you.. as far as I’m aware on the e90 with xenon’s no matter what year. Orange looks best as it’s the only one that reflects properly. Learnt this the hard way after spending like £150 on bulbs…

Unfortunately it's the price you pay for the brilliant white LED look new BMWs have. From an angle, the outer bigger Angel Eye fades out because of the nature of the fibre-optic light passageway but from dead center in front of the car, they look phenomenal. I just upgraded to LUX 189s after running 180s for a while and the way they upgraded the LEDs to be angled helps a bit more with the "evenness" of the eyes but it's true that nothing compares to how optimally the traditional bulb works in e90 LCI headlights

Originally Posted by MidWillamette335d

$12 AliExpress steering wheel cover. Took 17 days to get here...pretty happy for what it is.

Looks insane for $12 lol
People spend more on Amazon for those dumb covers that go over the wheel

[MidWillamette335d]

Doing some contrast on my doors. Got more parts from China, overall I'm very satisfied with the value / quality of the parts. The only thing so far is the speaker cover...the locking tabs weren't "keyed" correctly, still worked tho. If anybody is on the fence and doesn't mind waiting a few weeks I say go for it. These parts were about 110 to my door...

[MidWillamette335d]

Originally Posted by GnomeChild

Looks insane for $12 lol
People spend more on Amazon for those dumb covers that go over the wheel

Exactly. It was a $12 gamble I was willing to take (first AE express order, testing the waters out), and it paid off. 60 on Amazon for basically the same thing...

[GnomeChild]

Originally Posted by MidWillamette335d

Doing some contrast on my doors. Got more parts from China, overall I'm very satisfied with the value / quality of the parts. The only thing so far is the speaker cover...the locking tabs weren't "keyed" correctly, still worked tho. If anybody is on the fence and doesn't mind waiting a few weeks I say go for it. These parts were about 110 to my door...

Looks good, the slight splash of black is definitely an improvement and works to break the tan up a bit; especially with the A section of the dash being Black, it works well

Originally Posted by MidWillamette335d

Exactly. It was a $12 gamble I was willing to take (first AE express order, testing the waters out), and it paid off. 60 on Amazon for basically the same thing...

AE has surprisingly good stuff if you DYOR beforehand and you know what you need. I've bought similar stuff like connectors, door pulls, etc before and you'll start to look down your nose to aftermarket companies charging a 10000% markup on items you know they just sourced of AE for the same exact thing lol

[E93Seattle (Racerbruce)]

Originally Posted by Hoody007

Those are it!

Wouldn’t recommend removing and reinstalling. For one thing you need to drill a slightly larger hole in the bumper to get them to fit, and they have barbs to hold them firmly in place.

greetings hoody,
when i purchased my 335is e93 this past dec, i removed the oem front license plate frame to prepare to assess the 2 holes drilled into the bumper to hold the plate frame in place; regrettably, the stealership that prepped the car for initial sale in may 2013 drilled THREE HOLES....b/c the two holes they drilled were not even close to being parallel or "level" with each other....so i can't install any engineered/painted plugs as it would look like crap; an appx cost to fill and respray the front bumper is $500-$700, so i have had to leave my front license plate on the car (at least for now).

it's interesting, one would think that bmw would provide a paper template or something to prevent the lot-boys and girls at the stealership from drilling holes in new car bumpers until they get it right (or wrong).

[Donethat]

Did oem m3 side skirts last week. Probably won’t keep them, fitment was a b#!ch.
Maybe go with aftermarket.

[cmbe92guy]

Originally Posted by cmbe92guy

Installed the Fuel-It stage 2 LPFP on my n55 e92 xdrive. Gave myself a nice headache from the gas fumes…forgot to open the garage. Now I’ve got to air out the house too 😒

After a day of running the MHD stg 2+ pump gas map to make sure I didn’t botch the install, I flashed the e50 map today. Really opens up the top end. Will definitely run this map for the rest of the summer. Had no idea I was missing out on this much fun.

I beat a stock manual mk 7.5 golf R on the stg 2+ pump map. What cars could I compete with on the e50 map? E92 N55 xdrive

[lowrydr310]

Originally Posted by E93Seattle (Racerbruce)

greetings hoody,
when i purchased my 335is e93 this past dec, i removed the oem front license plate frame to prepare to assess the 2 holes drilled into the bumper to hold the plate frame in place; regrettably, the stealership that prepped the car for initial sale in may 2013 drilled THREE HOLES....b/c the two holes they drilled were not even close to being parallel or "level" with each other....so i can't install any engineered/painted plugs as it would look like crap; an appx cost to fill and respray the front bumper is $500-$700, so i have had to leave my front license plate on the car (at least for now).

it's interesting, one would think that bmw would provide a paper template or something to prevent the lot-boys and girls at the stealership from drilling holes in new car bumpers until they get it right (or wrong).

I'm not sure how anyone with half a brain can screw up installation/alignment of an OEM license plate frame on an OEM bumper. When I got a new front bumper for my 330 I ordered a brand new license plate bracket because I wanted to run a front plate to avoid problems (even though I drove around for 6+ months without one and had no issues.) The BMW branded bracket has two hooks on the bottom that line up with slots in the bumper, then the top part swivels forward and you simply screw in the included self-tapping screws in the holes in the bracket. There's no way you can mess that up.

The 325 I had before was a different story. I didn't have the OEM bracket and re-used the generic one the car had on it. First attempt the holes were in the wrong spot and the screws were contacting the metal bumper reinforcement, so I double checked and raised it up a bit and it's fine, luckily it wasn't the other way around. But yeah, I learned from that and that's why I got the BMW bracket when I did the 330.

[RealJ22]

I’ve always done all red tails on my cars, so I decided to try this before painting.

This was $2 film from the store on my spare set.

[K9Leader]

Originally Posted by E93Seattle (Racerbruce)

greetings hoody,
when i purchased my 335is e93 this past dec, i removed the oem front license plate frame to prepare to assess the 2 holes drilled into the bumper to hold the plate frame in place; regrettably, the stealership that prepped the car for initial sale in may 2013 drilled THREE HOLES....b/c the two holes they drilled were not even close to being parallel or "level" with each other....so i can't install any engineered/painted plugs as it would look like crap; an appx cost to fill and respray the front bumper is $500-$700, so i have had to leave my front license plate on the car (at least for now).

it's interesting, one would think that bmw would provide a paper template or something to prevent the lot-boys and girls at the stealership from drilling holes in new car bumpers until they get it right (or wrong).

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Mmm, three plugs or even three holes would look better than a front license plate . . .

My wife's Toyota Venza it had four holes (two sets of top holes, one set being off center and not level - not sure why) so I used the commericially-available plugs. Very nice but very expensive. When it was time to plug the two holes on my 128i, I did the DIY hardware store hole plugs. I did learn not to hit them with the pressure washer, though, as you will then have to redo them.

[Hoody007]

Originally Posted by E93Seattle (Racerbruce)

greetings hoody,
when i purchased my 335is e93 this past dec, i removed the oem front license plate frame to prepare to assess the 2 holes drilled into the bumper to hold the plate frame in place; regrettably, the stealership that prepped the car for initial sale in may 2013 drilled THREE HOLES....b/c the two holes they drilled were not even close to being parallel or "level" with each other....so i can't install any engineered/painted plugs as it would look like crap; an appx cost to fill and respray the front bumper is $500-$700, so i have had to leave my front license plate on the car (at least for now).

it's interesting, one would think that bmw would provide a paper template or something to prevent the lot-boys and girls at the stealership from drilling holes in new car bumpers until they get it right (or wrong).

I wonder if your car originally was in a non-front plate state. The BMW PDI people seem to do a good job. Dealers on the other-hand…