What did you do for your M3 today?

[1000hp]

Unfortunately those dimensions are more or less even, I'll need to troubleshoot further

Lame.

Wonder if they gave you two different springs?

[0-60motorsports]

Received my CSL kingpins a few days ago from the dealership.

[Bimma360]

Received my CSL kingpins a few days ago from the dealership.

So jealous. My order is still open with Schmiedmann, and its been a month.

[0-60motorsports]

So jealous. My order is still open with Schmiedmann, and its been a month.

Interesting. So i ordered these Mid October exactly and they were already here 2 weeks later but I was in the States. So i only collected them last week.

[Bimma360]

Interesting. So i ordered these Mid October exactly and they were already here 2 weeks later but I was in the States. So i only collected them last week.

Unfortunately, I think Schmiedmann is super slow with parts that they don’t physically have in stock.

[davidinnyc]

Received a core steering rack and started to disassemble to check the internals… only to discover the passenger capped end was so rusted that the c-ring lock had rusted to the cap and the steering rack tube. After some failed dremel work trying to cut the cap and the c-ring, I ended up cutting the tube in half to free the steering rack and access the pinion gear. Sad to lose a yellow tag, but at least I have a few spare items in case some yellow tags need rehabilitation.

[maupineda]

Made some progress. I applied the primer, I mixed it as a surfacer. Came out good with very few dust particles. Not concerned at this point as it needs to be sanded to make it flat. The area I repaired came out ok. Not perfect, but I think I can level the primer just enough to make it invisible once colored and cleared







And this is the side I repaired.

Continuing my bumper repair saga, I applied the base coat and for the most part it came out good, but fucking novice mistake I made resulted in some splatters which will have me back to sanding land

this has been a learning and frustrating journey but is almost there

I had applied black sealer to help with color coverage and better matching. Sealer was supposed to be smooth but it has some texture and did not want on my finish so I had to wet sand it. But the repair is imperceptible to most



and this is how it looks now. You can see the splatters if you look closely. The issue was that when I did some test shots, I was not pulling the trigger all the way and cause some paint to run out of the tip, which clogged on nozzle and I did not notice this until I saw the splatters but the damage was already done

[Cubieman]

Trying to find the source of my coilver issues, LH higher than RH, more than normal, camber plates in drastically different positions to achieve approximately the same the camber, so I just started taking shit apart.

Removed the control arms/kingpin and in the process I gakked up the threads/bent the shaft of one outer tie rod and made a small tear on a control arm boot. Was getting pissed and using locally sourced tools that I modified to "work". But damn were those tie rods in there.

Measured everything every which way and found nothing, must just be my chassis I guess.

I will be installing my refurbished yellowtag (thanks davidinnyc), new inner/outer rods, new control arms/lollipops and will still be in the same position.

Really unfortunate as I need to get this car off the rack to check out another vehicle and about a month from now I will be doing RB's.

I will be wasting CHF11, one time use HW (will reuse reinforcement plate bolts for now), and my time, kind of unhappy with this situation, but hey, its not always a fun thing.