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[SMD]

How many of you ex MLR guys will be at the next MLR day at Spa? Date is almost sorted, would be good to see some of you there

Hi nathan, yes might be up for it depends on dates tho! :thumbs:

[benCSL]

Welcome to the site ! :thumbs:

enjoy with this amazing car!


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[Windowlicker]

Welcome Windowlicker!!!! :thumbs:
Good to see another CSL in the North East!!!! :-D

Cheers ears, they will be getting common as muck round here :whistle:

Welcome Windowlicker
Enjoy! :beer:

Thanks, :thumbs:

Hey - welcome along :thumbs:

I think all us ex-high powered Evo owners have been blown away by the CSL, i also thought i might be left wanting but it simply isnt the case - i just wish i had bought the CSL years ago :beer:
Enjoy! ( Not that you need telling by the sounds of it :hahaha: )

Thanks Rich, loving "The Event" which every trip feels like so far :smokin:

[Windowlicker]

Welcome to the site mate
Lovely looking CSL you have there, very tidy. I too have come from a Japanese car, was an R34 GTR, like you said earlier, the CSL is a great car, just to get in and use, without worrying about computers breaking down/turbos blowing up lol, i'm thrilled to be in double figures MPG now too :-D
Hope your enjoy the car more and more mate, the noise will never get boring boring though :smokin:
James.

Thanks James, its quite a release/relief actually, not having to check wastegate bolts and flange studs every other drive, no scanning boost guages, fuel/oil pressure guages and knocklinks. Just look where i am going ,what gear i am in, and occasionally the speedo, depending on whether i have just scared myself or not :hahaha:

Tbh mine feels similar aswell! At first I wasn't sure if it was me as I haven't driven RWD for over 4years :gayfight:

I have never had a rear drive car, and i cant believe how lively it is, much respect due me thinks, and the DSC will be staying on for the mo, though i am impressed at how the standard traction control and the M Mode work, either nothing but a wiggle with it all left on, or a nice little step out in M mode, need a bit of clear space to see what she is like with it all turned off .

[Windowlicker]

How many of you ex MLR guys will be at the next MLR day at Spa? Date is almost sorted, would be good to see some of you there

Not very likely for me dude, family/work takes the majority of my time, dont think it likely i would get the nod to bugger off to Europe and play in my car :bigcry:

Welcome to the site ! :thumbs:

enjoy with this amazing car!

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Thanks Ben, i will try :beer:

[Jaw_F430]

Welcome to the site :beer:


Looks like I made the right choice then to buy a CSL over an EVO 9 MR FQ360 :thumbs:

[Windowlicker]

Welcome to the site :beer:


Looks like I made the right choice then to buy a CSL over an EVO 9 MR FQ360 :thumbs:

Cheers. :-D

If the right choice relates to re-sale value when you are going to change again, then yes the right choice was made, as the arse has completely fallen out of the market on the majority of performance cars,especially ones where there are multiple variants of one model, though seemingly not with the CSL,as there was only the one, great for resale , bit of a bugger if buying though :banghead:

[dave1]

How many of you ex MLR guys will be at the next MLR day at Spa? Date is almost sorted, would be good to see some of you there

im hoping to be :thumbs:

[RichW]

Nathan - as above, but been an expensive year for me and its looking like 2009 is also going to be, that combined with less work on a.t.m. we'll have to see.

I havent missed an MLR Spa trip yet though and hoping not to in 2009!!!

[2bar boost]

How many of you ex MLR guys will be at the next MLR day at Spa? Date is almost sorted, would be good to see some of you there

Me & Woolfy were talking this over today :smokin:

Heart says go for it! Head says... New baby due in feb.. not much holiday left for 09 with work :moan:

Will have to see how dates fall and funds etc

[Andyk]

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... New baby due in feb..

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Thats 4 of us on here with a baby due between now and March I believe....

Congrats 2bar boost.. :thumbs:

[the reverend]

Welcome to the fold. CSL's are wonderful cars and so anyone who can drive one should at some time in their lives.
really like the strut brace on yours btw and the AP's i'm sure make all the difference to the one area that the CSL is found wanting on. The stock brakes are like biscuit barrels.
The residual value is one of the leading considerations too - certainly the car has held on to its money well now they're at a certain level. God willing they'll stay there.
Enjoy the car. Heaven knows what I'll change mine for when the time comes!

[Windowlicker]

Welcome to the fold. CSL's are wonderful cars and so anyone who can drive one should at some time in their lives.
really like the strut brace on yours btw and the AP's i'm sure make all the difference to the one area that the CSL is found wanting on. The stock brakes are like biscuit barrels.
The residual value is one of the leading considerations too - certainly the car has held on to its money well now they're at a certain level. God willing they'll stay there.
Enjoy the car. Heaven knows what I'll change mine for when the time comes!

Thanks very much :beer:
Had Ap's on various Evo's in the past and they are great, though the red paint they use is shockingly thin and quite literally comes off on a cloth with a basic non aggressive polish, just got to be careful on the leading edges of the caliper otherwise it shows through the white primer :banghead: still find it bizarre that BMW released them onto the market with such average brakes, so finely honed is the rest of the package, why skimp in such an important area , stange but true :hahaha:
As you say, there are few cars nowadays that after 4 years since its introduction still retain at least 50% of its original value on the used market, i have seen so many cars , less than a year old, lose over half their value in the space of 1 year!! :119:

Cheers, Nick

[2bar boost]

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Thats 4 of us on here with a baby due between now and March I believe....

Congrats 2bar boost.. :thumbs:

Thanks Andy same to you and any other expecting register parents :beer:
Will be athrilling experience transporting 2 children in the back of my clean car :bigcry: will keep the ST tdci for family duties :wink:

[Windowlicker]

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Thats 4 of us on here with a baby due between now and March I believe....

Congrats 2bar boost.. :thumbs:

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Will be athrilling experience transporting 2 children in the back of my clean car :bigcry: will keep the ST tdci for family duties :wink:

You will be lucky :whistle: its a proper ballache getting them fed in to the baby seat, done it a few times with my little boy, you have to lie them flat and sort of feed them in to the car at arms length , then having got them in, step with one foot into the rear footwell, then try and lean forward and drop them in the childseat. :banghead:
Problem is trying not to scratch the seat backs and B pillars with jeans rivets and belts whilst doing all the above.
Best thing i have found with having the child seat in, is i can chuck my dinner bag in or milk i pick up from the garage on the way home.
Keeps it from rolling around under the seats. :hahaha:
Oh, and put a foam or rubber protector matt down first on the rear seats, strapping a baby seat in will make a hideous mess of the seat material. :thumbs: