Just got my CSL!

[mattCSLnut]

Aren't the wheels off an old 7 series?

I think these wheels are off a very early E46 SPORT (1999-2000) vintage prior to the first E46 mild facelift in 2001 ... Sad I know :whistle:

[Bounce]

Welcome to the nut house mate,

[jollerbarn]

Thank you for the welcome!

I've no idea where the wheels are from actually. The seller used them for track days and had recently sold his original 19's with the cup sports on to a regular M3 owner. We have quite a few "normal" E46 M3's driving around in Copenhagen, and some owners will apparently pay to "lend" the CSL VIN-number. The guy I bought it from told me this. When I ordered the original 19's in Germany they required that I give the last 5 characters in my VIN to validate that it was a CSL before I could place the order. I like the design of the 19's a lot more and will definitely get those on there as soon as they arrive next week.

About the tax, I bought the car without tax (notice the paper license plates?). I'm only gonna drive it during the summer - if you can call it that in our part of the world? So by doing that I lease the license plates for 6 months at a time and then keep the car garaged during the winter without license plates on. It's _much_ cheaper that way since normal Danish car tax is 180% of the car's value. This way I'm only paying tax for the months I use it for driving.

[MQP32]

11k km and the sterringweel looks so bad?:smt102

[jollerbarn]

11k km and the sterringweel looks so bad?:smt102

It needs a retrim. The previous owner did race it a bit with gloves on. I suspect that's the issue.

[phat///M3]

I've no idea where the wheels are from actually.

They look like the same 18" wheels I had on my e46 convertible when I first bought it, I think its called BMW Style 32.

[Dbs06msbm3]

Beautiful :drool:

[jollerbarn]

Hi,

So I just got the car out running last week with original 19's and new tires. The car runs absolutely perfectly now with zero vibration at the steering wheel. As you know I had some problems with the old tires not being balanced properly. Anyway, I gave the car a good wash and double wax coating. I'm gonna get the steering wheel retrimmed and get a set of 4 new original brake discs with pads and the car will be perfect imo. The disks are slightly warped in the front and somewhat rusty and it just bothers me, so I'm getting that done.

This is the result.

[jollerbarn]

P.S.

I updated the wipers to BMW's new "Evo flat" blades. They do work far better than the originals I must say.. and I like the design more as well.

[glendog74]

Very nice indeed - shiny shiny! :drool:

[double_r]

Beautiful, a very clean example, congrats!

[1cosmicboy]

lovely mate,nicest black one ive seen .

[shimmy]

looks great but the blue lights spoil it!:bigcry:

[cslgirl]

Stunning! And so shiney :thumbs:

[jollerbarn]

Thank you all :-)

The blue lights are masking tape from the waxing I did (you're probably pulling my leg, but sarcarsm is hard to pick up on forums :-))

I got brand new stock brake disks and pads installed earlier this week and this weekend I'll take some better pictures.

I did of course scratch my right rear wheel on day 2 after getting them fitted :-((