[ADEe92]

Hi all

just thought I'd introduce myself. I'm from South Australia and have been driving, and tinkering with BMWs for the past 20 years. I've recently purchased a very late, one previous owner (40k miles) e92 as a replacement for a heavily modified e30, which I've been daily driving for the last 10 years. In the time honoured BMW tradition of creating 'editions' at the end of the model run to try and keep the cars moving against the tide of a new model - the e21 originally started it with the Edition E and Edition S at the end of the run in 1982 - it's a 1/2013 built 320d Sport Plus Edition. I realise in the US, the e9x didn't get the N47, but I'm still hoping to learn plenty about the e9x from the board, and contribute to the community. Hopefully I won't need to do too much wrenching initially asides from interim oil services between dealer services. The brake pads need doing soon, so I'll probably do those, and since I'm intending to keep the car for the long haul, I'll probably swap out the lifetime fluids in the gearbox and diff for Redline products in a while.

I've been tinkering with BMWs a long time - originally I ran a couple of e21s, one of which I rebuilt the 2.3L M20, did a manual conversion and converted to EFI, and my e30 went from a 320i automatic with a humble 2.0L M20 under the hood to a M30B35 swapped manual with a laundry list of mods (looked OEM+, but nothing went untouched underneath the car). The plan for the e92 is to keep it stock and just maintain it as I'm keeping the e30 as a weekender on historic registration, so I can scratch the modding itch there if need be. The e30 is about to hit 400,00km on both the chassis and M30B35.

Anyway, a few details of the car - it has no sunroof, is space grey with anthracite dakota leather + blue stitching, anthracite bamboo trim and headliner. Wheels are 18 inch style 313s. The fuel economy of the N47 is quite stunning after daily driving an M30 for almost 7 years!

Been active on r3vlimited for a few years, so some people may know me from there (and the old EUROCCA forum if there's any Australian members from then lurking here )

Cheers
Luke

outside


inside


...with my e30

[Socket]

Nice ride mate, looks clean

Welcome aboard

I have a couple of bottles of redline for sale in the classifieds if you need some cheap

Get yourself over to the Australian sub forum, say hello to the locals

[ADEe92]

Thanks Socket. I'll repost my intro there.

[ptpending]

there are many diesel cars in europe, more than 50%, so you can read some experience from UK ppl here