[Kali]

TOPIC UPDATED: 14/08/2018

FACTS:
- 127,000 miles on the clock.
- It had 2 owners before myself.
- 85,000 Miles when bought on 17/09/2014.
- Fiste registry on August 2008.
- Buy price: £8,800.
- N47 engine: (Remaped by Ecotunes Scotland)
228 HP
342 ft.lbs 470 Nm
- 6 speed Manual

GALLERY

(20/09/2014)






(25/03/2015)


(11/04/2015)


(04/04/2015)



(09/04/2015)


(27/01/2016)



(27/04/2016)



(25/03/2017)


(09/05/2017)


(22/07/2017)




(15/08/2017)

MODIFICATIONS:

• M Sport styled pedals including footrest (£25)
• LEDs all round [Doom light, map lights, door lights, foot lights, glove box, boot] (£50)
• LCI Headlight switch (£35)
• Leather wrapped M3 style central console (£30)
• Gloss carbon wrapped trims (£100)
• LCI Cup Holders (£35)
• Leather colour change & refurbish - Coral Red (£150)
• LED tinted side signals (£25)
• Heko wind deflectors (£20)
• 6000k HIDs (£45)
• Gloss black quad pipe diffuser
• 3D Carbon clean look number plate (£25)
• DEPO LED Tail lights (£120)
• DEPO headlights (£290)
• BMW Performance Kickback carbon spoiler (£120)
• Carbon roof spoiler (£100)
• Medium window tints (£50)
• Eibach Pro-kit springs (£100)
• Red calipers (£30)
• CIC (£1000)
• Sound deading mats on door cards and doors its self (front+rear) (£100)
• Loom for the amplifier (£30)
• Styledynamics quad exhaust (£300)
• Ecotunes Remap (£350)

SERVICE/MAINTENANCE:

• Passenger & Driver side wheel bearing changed (£300) (01/10/2014)
• Black Slotted EBC USR Series rear brakes and Greenstuff 2000 Series Sport Pads (£200) (01/01/2015)
• Cabin filter (£20) (11/04/2015)
• Mobil 1 New Life 0W-40 Engine Oil (£40) (15/04/2015)
• Oil & Fuel Filter (£45) (15/04/2015)
• BMW Wipers (£40) (15/04/2015)
• Left and Right front Sachs shock absorbers (£150) (25/04/2015)
• Left and Right front Sachs bump stops (£25) (25/04/2015)
• Left and Right front Lamforder top mounts (£50) (25/04/2015)
• EBC Yellowstuff rear pads (£50) (25/07/2015)
• K&N filter cleaning & oiling (£10) (15/10/2015)
• 2 x 265/30/19 Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 2 (£300) (10/12/2015)
• Varta 100Ah H3 12V Battery (£90) (18/12/2015)
• Stock Air Filter, for winter (£10) (07/12/15)
• New rear passanger & driver caliper, painted in red (£200) (20/01/16)
• Bilstein B4 rear shock absorbers (£110) (27/01/16)
• Febi rear upper top strut mounts (£10) (27/01/16)
• SACHS shock absorber bump stop kit and shocker dust covers (£20) (27/01/16)
• Febi shock absorber lower mounts (£50) (27/01/16)
• Febi Rear Lower Top Strut Mounts (£10) (27/01/16)
• LUK clutch & Dual Mass Flywheel (£450) (02/08/16)
• Mobil 1 engine oil (£50) (02/08/16)
• Oil filter, Fuel filter & Cabin filter (£40) (02/08/16)
• EBC slotted and drilled front discs and yellowstuff pads (£260) (23/09/16)
• Yellowstuff rear pads (£60) (23/09/16)
• Mobil 1 engine oil (£40) (20/07/17)
• Oil filter (£20) (20/07/17)
• Rear upper wishbone control arm (£20) (15/08/17)
• Front lower track control arm (£25) (15/08/17)
• Drop links (£25) (15/08/17)
• Cabin filter (£10) (15/08/17)
• Radiator (£100) (15/08/17)
• Water pump(£100) (15/08/17)
• Belt tensioner (£50) (15/08/17)
• Drive belt (£40) (15/08/17)
• Brake fluid (£20) (15/08/17)
• Monroe top mounting kit for rear shocks (£30) (15/08/17)
• 2 x 225/35/19 + 2 x 255/30/19 Kumho Ecsta Le Sport KU39 tyres (£390) (15/08/17)
• Rear lower ball joint mount bush (£15) (17/10/17)
• Bilstein B4 rear shock absorber offside only (£50) (17/10/17)
• Bosch wipers (£25) (12/01/18)
• Engine oil + air filter (£70) (10/06/18)
• Front brake pads (£40) (10/06/18)
  

All prices are for parts only, labour costs are excluded.

THANKS.

[dy63]

try and re size those pics if you can!

[simmo1985]

Welcome. Nice to see another Carbon Black Edition M Sport!

If your sticking with the style 216 bmw motorsport wheels you gotta space out the rear.

Any lowering/styling changes on the cards?

[E90325iM-SPORT]

Very nice car mate. Good luck with modifications.

[Kali]

So, plans changed a little. I decided to go for a bit better sound system and are installing an JL AUDIO CLEANSWEEP CL441dsp with k2 100KRS Focals and a zapco amp. To that I will purchase 2x8" Earthquake SWS-8X under-seat bass + maybe a 12" in the boot in the future. Also planing to get some focals at the rear deck at some point as well. Ofcourse a good sound deading is going all way in this. Sadly dont have photos of the sound deading progress but will try to get some once installing the system.


Got some plans for the car also after the audio system so subscribe. :thumbsup

Some pics:

Originally Posted by simmo1985

Welcome. Nice to see another Carbon Black Edition M Sport!

If your sticking with the style 216 bmw motorsport wheels you gotta space out the rear.

Any lowering/styling changes on the cards?

I want to buy the 313 19" BMW Performance alloys and get a set of Apex coilovers to lower the car. I might go 5mm all round spacer or just the rear, I dont want to space out too much.

Originally Posted by RomanWheelman

Very nice car mate. Good luck with modifications.

Cheers mate, got very big big plans for the car as planning to keep this car for a while!

[Kali]

So, got the Focals installed. This is just temporary, soon I install the amp and the JL audio cleansweep. Shortly will be able to save up for some modifications and got few things in mind













Thanks,
Damian.

[Somerset Jim]

Originally Posted by Kali

So, got the Focals installed. This is just temporary, soon I install the amp and the JL audio cleansweep

Is it me or do the magnets on the focals look a lot smaller than the Oem speakers? How do they sound in comparison to the standard speakers?

Love the colour and the wheel combination.

[magic77]

Nice car and best wheels for E90 IMO

[Kali]

Originally Posted by Somerset Jim

Is it me or do the magnets on the focals look a lot smaller than the Oem speakers? How do they sound in comparison to the standard speakers?

Love the colour and the wheel combination.

Surprisingly they are sort of smaller but much heavier and material quality is amazing. These focals were reasonably priced for what you get, as my further plan is to upgrade to morel's, but have some other plans to do before.

Well, to get actual good sound out of them, they need to be played 60-70% of volume for around 30 hours? And obviously an amplifier, but how it its now vs oem? Well not much louder (because no amp) but much much clearer and more bass. (those sound deading sheets seem to do the job) It suits me as I listen to Rap etc.

Originally Posted by magic77

Nice car and best wheels for E90 IMO

Thanks, I love those wheels with that colour but planning to get some 19" 313 Performance Alloys next season to go with my matt white wrap of the whole car.

[simmo1985]

Do us a favour though. Please resize your pics so they aren't 3 times wider than the screen. lol. Its difficult to get the full picture...when you can't see the full picture.

[Kali]

Originally Posted by simmo1985

Do us a favour though. Please resize your pics so they aren't 3 times wider than the screen. lol. Its difficult to get the full picture...when you can't see the full picture.

Maybe its due to Im using different web browser / different screen size and it doesn't effect me. Anyway, Ill be attaching files, from now on.

[Kali]

So sine had a couple of sound deading sheets left, I decided to stick them onto the rear doors and door panels. Took me a while and 14 sheets for the doors and 8 for the door panels.

Love the result! Doors are much heavier and shut with much less force. They have much more "premium" feel to them. Surprisingly road noise is reduced and most importantly music is now hardly heard from outside the car, where before it was waaay to loud from outside!

Car also had a nice interior clean and you can see the new pedals and LED's which are pure white!

My old car is getting sold now, which will help me with funding few of new mods I planned. Nothing big as yet, but I was thinking of maybe saving up for the new CIC iDrive upgrade. Will see.

Thanks,
Damian.

[E90325iM-SPORT]

Where did you buy led interior bulbs from. I looked on ebay but there are loads of them and I don't know which seller has best ones.

[jwilliams]

Whats the difference between an edition M Sport and an M Sport?? Looks the same to me.

[dy63]

Originally Posted by jordon335

Whats the difference between an edition M Sport and an M Sport?? Looks the same to me.

majority come small screen satnav and motorsport edition wheels

[E92Dan]

It was a special edition that included different alloys and Sat Nav.

[Kali]

Sold my old car, so now Im closer with spending money on this car. More coming soon!

Originally Posted by RomanWheelman

Where did you buy led interior bulbs from. I looked on ebay but there are loads of them and I don't know which seller has best ones.

I bought it from here. They are nice but I think I will be buying THIS set as this is much more LEDs and should give even more light.

Originally Posted by jordon335

Whats the difference between an edition M Sport and an M Sport?? Looks the same to me.

Like people stated. Motorsport alloys, small sat nav and not sure if all come with leathers and to be honest I think my colour which is Carbon Black, only came with this version as well.

Thanks, Damian.

[Wacky]

Hi, lovely car mate, i have the same howeve in gunmetal grey, where did you get the front white sidelights from? Any links? I did buy a pair in the past but it kept throwing up the error message despite being canbus sidelight bulbs.

[jwilliams]

Oh right. So as a special edition it comes with a smaller sat nav than usual and alloys. Fair enough. Never knew that. I learn something new every time i come on here.

[Kali]

Originally Posted by Wacky

Hi, lovely car mate, i have the same howeve in gunmetal grey, where did you get the front white sidelights from? Any links? I did buy a pair in the past but it kept throwing up the error message despite being canbus sidelight bulbs.

I had them spare from my old car, I can't remember where I bought them from but they did throw the error message anyway and now one of them stopped working.

Anyway, bought few parts for the car plus good EBC brakes for the rear. That's it for this month. Will be saving up for new years eve as planning to get either new exhaust or new xenon headlights with the AE. Hoping to start the install of rest of the audio system and finish sometime next year as still need to get rear deck speakers, 2 x 8" bass for front and maybe 12" bass in the boot. First, amp and the jl audio.

Will post photos of the new items soon.

[Kali]

Got few packages today.

Received my EBC Brakes which I should get round to fitting soon.



Received and installed the 6 cylinder dials to check and they do work with my car! Mileage is copied and all seems to work, except the oil level and rest of the maintenance checks but maybe needs a sample re-code? Dials will go in permanently soon, just need to clean them out and sort out the coding, but they do look great with the bigger display as well!


Also got my gloss black kidneys that I got round to fit straight away.
Before


After



Love that new numberplate LEDs with the 3D Carbon numberplate.




Cheers,
Damian.

[E92Dan]

Car looks good with the black grills. What's the difference between 4cyl dials and 6cyl?