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What's the craziest thing you've ever done for your car?
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11-09-2018, 03:18 AM | #1 |
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What's the craziest thing you've ever done for your car?
I'm just curious to see if anyone else cares about their decade old BMW as much as I do lol.
To start things off, I once covered the front end of my then 10 year old 330i with blue painters tape to "protect it from rock chips" on a 9 hour drive from San Diego to Monterey. I've also pulled over just to clean bird poop off of my hood because I couldn't wait until my next stop. My friends and family make fun of me, but she's my baby. Anyone else this up tight about their ride?
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11-09-2018, 10:07 AM | #3 |
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Many years ago I once found bird crap baked onto my headlight. I was about to drive and meet some friends. In 20 minutes I restored the headlight and was late.
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11-09-2018, 10:08 AM | #4 |
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11-09-2018, 10:51 AM | #5 |
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I'd say it was the recent steering wheel wrap and plastic trim repaint around the airbag. From start to finish it took a good 10hrs, but I'm very happy with the results on both.
The steering wheel had an ugly wear spot at the 2pm position from a previous owner apparently never varying his grip, and the trim had the typical peeling 'paint' problem they're common for near the buttons. I wet sanded the peeling crap off the trim piece then sprayed the same black trim paint that I used for the peeling circular trim ring around the start/stop button because I knew the color match was spot-on. Leather wrap quality is outstanding with a great feel to it. Got it from these peeps: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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11-09-2018, 11:04 AM | #6 |
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Detailing the undercarriage . . . a SoCal thang (sickness).
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11-09-2018, 01:47 PM | #8 |
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Paid $2K out of pocket to repair my totaled, 350,000-mile 12 year old E90 after my 4th deer hit.
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11-09-2018, 02:41 PM | #10 |
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11-09-2018, 02:51 PM | #12 |
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I put a new engine in mine less than 2 months after buying it. I had never done an engine job on any type of car before. It was intimidating starting my experience on a N54 wrapped in an unbelievable amount of confusing electrical and plumbing for air, water, and oil.
Oh, and the engine was for a different N54 than mine. And I don't have a lift. I'd say that's pretty crazy for me. |
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11-09-2018, 03:50 PM | #13 |
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My friends dad owns an after market turbo company, for an entire summer I would drive around California to let my car be used as a show car for his company (The 335i I own used to belong to Lee takagi of Rotora Brakes who took it to SEMA) just to get a free turbo upgrade
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11-09-2018, 04:02 PM | #14 |
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Not this car, but I used metal clothing hangers to hold my full 3" straight pipe exhaust to my old Pontiac.
Of course it didn't last and the entire exhaust fell off 2 miles from my house haha |
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11-10-2018, 03:00 PM | #15 |
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Haha that sounds like me!
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11-10-2018, 03:03 PM | #16 | |
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11-10-2018, 03:04 PM | #17 |
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350k! That's crazy.
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11-10-2018, 03:08 PM | #18 |
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I used remove my wheels and use Sonax wheel clean, 4 different types of scrub brushes then wax each wheel twice a month. Some times once a week if they got dirty enough.
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11-10-2018, 03:30 PM | #19 |
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dumping as much money on mods as the value of the car knowing that its completely stupid. dont regret my decision and probably never will.
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11-10-2018, 09:17 PM | #20 |
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Did you have to buy it back from insurance company or deal with a salvage title or anything?
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