Also, found this, I don't appear to be missing anything.
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Also, found this, I don't appear to be missing anything.
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Hmm me either so. It just seems surprising BMW would rely on a plastic cover to retain the battery.
In other news, I replaced my headlight adjusters. All 4 broken!!! I was lucky enough to pick up a xenon headlight in the breakers, with cracked brackets, for free, so I could play with it to see how to do them "for real" on my car.
I can see how one of them is replaceable through the rear, but not the other.
So I fired up the oven, baked the lamp at 110 degrees for 5-6 minutes, and took the front off.
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Old adjusters
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It was one of those jobs that was easier in the execution than the planning!
FYI, they were oe Hella lamps, 2002 build date.
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Tristan, is it easy enough to get the lens off after baking it?
Kudos on the sparkling oven - must have been taken before the Turkey went in...
Lol no turkey in this oven!
It came off handy enough, I reckon another few degrees or a minute more would make it even easier.
The main thing is to apply steady pressure easing off the lense, not to jerk it. A wide chisel or scraper helps.
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Bloody Nora, 2.5 months and no update? Not good enough!
Although my Dad having a surprise heart attack which required emergency stents, then a triple bypass the following day may account for that... All good now though thankfully.
In less important news, tipping away at the "Big Girl". 'Cos, well, big girls need lovin' too.
New front pads to compliment my freshly skimmed front discs
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Quinns were good enough to throw in a lovely poster and diary.
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Inner pads have left and right, made by Textar.
Front discs were noticeably out of true.
Not easy to machine, so Adrian in MecTec.ie made a special spindle to mount them on. I kept it, could be handy.
Took off the front bumper to remove the aux fan..
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Of course, because I'm an eejit, I only decided to do that AFTER I'd replaced the dodgy front pdc sensors.
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While the bumper is off I'm going to paint it. The last time it was painted I'd say Stevie Wonder was on the job, utterly shocking job, they even masked around the number plate! Like wtf!
The bumper is perfect in structure aside from a small crack on the underside that I repaired easily.
And with the bumper off I looked at the (bizarrely) unused brake air ducts.
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Two plastic ducts to the front grille from an "M" sport ordered, and the inner arch liners opened up to let the air pass to the brakes.
Before..
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After..
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Note to self, clean inner arch area...
Lastly, I finally changed the other dodgy rear pdc sensor, the inner one. Managed to do that by loosening the bumper, unbolting one side and had just enough room to get my fingers in.
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As a happy byproduct, I got the bumper fitting nicer too when tightening up.
Now, with the front bumper off, are there any benefits to modding the air Box intakes?
Not that I feel I'm struggling for power mind...
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She'd have come from the factory with openings on the lower wheel arch liner. But because every single M sport and M5 has a low nose, they invariably got smashed and replaced by ones without the openings. I've had to make holes on any replacements I've ever got (and I've gone through a fair few in 15 years driving E39 M's lol).
Yea? Interesting. I'd read elsewhere that the 520 and M5 were the only ones without the inner arch holes.Quote:
Originally Posted by 318is-joe
Just need to figure out a neat and simple way to attach the scoops to the front mesh.
Oh and to open out the blanked off sections.
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The aluminium scoops kinda hang from the chassis leg / wheelhouse - yours looks kinda bent (like everyone else's from the arch liner getting a wallop - the screws / quarter turns of the liner should lock on the bottom of the scoops.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tristan
Doubt that the 520 and M5 are without holes, I mean if any car is going to need cooling the M5 is - I'd use a file to square up and open up the openings you've made, or are you talking about something else?
Some of the dinan / big brake upgrade kit's come with trumpet's that are integrated into the bumper mesh and flow more air to the cooling ducts / wheel arch.
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I beg to differ
It's reported on lots of forums and boards how the M doesn't have them. Hence different arch liners too. Realoem doesn't show the plastic ducts for my chassis number either.
The consensus seems to be it has something to do with high speed aerodynamics.
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My aluminium scoops aren't bent tbh.
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