Bimmer Evolution, blee edition

[Nick M3]

Originally Posted by bren

yeah, I'd probably swap out the black bits, except maybe the bumper plugs. The corners don't look right because no "egg yolk".

That's it!

[Jeff_DML]

Originally Posted by bren

yeah, I'd probably swap out the black bits, except maybe the bumper plugs. The corners don't look right because no "egg yolk".

Yeah plus no orange reflector

[wdc330i]

I'm not a fan of the tinted look, but I understand its practicality--especially for a black car.


E46 M3s still turn my head.

[Theo]

The one Jeff posted looks like it has black headlight bezels. Where those stock?

[wdc330i]

Mine. With no mods. Not sure if the convertibles were speced differently.

[Nick M3]

Originally Posted by Theo

The one Jeff posted looks like it has black headlight bezels. Where those stock?

Yes. Only 330s got the weird silver headlight bezels.

[blee]

Originally Posted by Nick M3

How many miles do the bearings have?

To my knowledge the bearings are original, which puts about 103k on them. The car is a 7/03 build, IIRC, and therefore not part of the recall. The car sounds great and the oil analysis came out fine, but a) I don't know how many miles were on the oil before I changed it, and b) I have rod bearing scars. All of this puts bearing replacement higher on my job list than VANOS or suspension.

[blee]

Originally Posted by wdc330i

Mine. With no mods. Not sure if the convertibles were speced differently.

Grey interior FTW! Eventually, so many people will re-dye or swap out their grey interiors that ours will be the rare ones.

I admit that the car looks good with the original chrome pieces. I kind of have a philosophical thing against chrome-plated plastic, though, and I also am kind of digging the fockin' blacked-out look. To the point where I've contemplated a set of wheels in black/anthracite.

[clyde]

Looks nice.

I washed my car tonight after a quickie hailstorm rolled through. Not a detail like this. Been contemplating paying someone to do a thorough detail. Been thinking about it for over a year.

[wdc330i]

Originally Posted by blee

Grey interior FTW! Eventually, so many people will re-dye or swap out their grey interiors that ours will be the rare ones.

I admit that the car looks good with the original chrome pieces. I kind of have a philosophical thing against chrome-plated plastic, though, and I also am kind of digging the fockin' blacked-out look. To the point where I've contemplated a set of wheels in black/anthracite.

I don't LOVE gray interiors, but, oddly, I've had three cars with them. The color was fine for the convertible. Helped keep the seats cool. What I didn't like were the gray plastic bits, because they tended to look yellow over time. The other benefit of the gray was that it masked bolster wear more than darker colors. Black tends to show it more than any other color.

My M240 has a mix of the black wheels and chrome bits. Hard to know which way to veer were I to change any of it. Current style is to go "carbon" on all the accent trim. Had I speced this car from the factory I might have split the difference with the "Ferric Gray" wheels--which are neither chrome nor black but somewhere in between.