What did you do for your M3 today?

[antknee]

Replaced belts and tensioners then went for a drive, threw back my stock intake (was running AFE for years)

[dutchhome]

pull the pad off the car and take a look see, sometimes that piece fails (it doesn't like taking loads from floor jacks) not the metal itself

It turns out our car's jack pad supports were failing. We reached out to Lewis Ford at WeldTech Bristol (https://weldtechbristol.co.uk) and bought some of their jack pad support brackets. I had my body shop install them while they were installing my Vince Bar. The car is now rock solid and will never have a failing jack pad problem again.

[heinzboehmer]

It turns out our car's jack pad supports were failing. We reached out to Lewis Ford at WeldTech Bristol (https://weldtechbristol.co.uk) and bought some of their jack pad support brackets. I had my body shop install them while they were installing my Vince Bar. The car is now rock solid and will never have a failing jack pad problem again.

Sounds interesting. Do you have any pictures?

[racee78]

Replaced the old worn in odd places front carpet. Now need to source some rear carpet.


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[usdmej]

The bearings looked pretty good at 112k miles
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this is encouraging to see, i'm at 143k miles and want to do bearings but the oil reports keep saying i dont need to

[ridebikes]

Installed AFE intake, sounds great!!

[jet_dogg]

Does that make any power?

[DJAM3]

this is encouraging to see, i'm at 143k miles and want to do bearings but the oil reports keep saying i dont need to

Yeah, I was a little surprised how good they looked. I don't have a recent oil report to post because I planned on doing it regardless. My last report maybe a year or two ago did not indicate significant wear.

[antknee]

non-M3 content.....going for a diff look on my E30. Bought some Depo crosshairs (can't justify paying $1K for Hellas) for 1/4 of the price. Resealing them with silicone with hopes it doesn't leak. Transferred my HIDs and bulbs over. Will Lamin-X once silicone dries.

[ridebikes]

Does that make any power?

Probably not much, but keeps me CA legal and sounds 100% better is good enough for me

[PowerSax]

Changed to H&R sports and Billies. When I disassembled the date coded factory front there was blue and white plastic donuts. Looked it up and they are shipping rings for transport, 15 years later, wow. 1 strut was dead.
Any reason to save the stock springs?

[loudspeaker69]

Changed to H&R sports and Billies. When I disassembled the date coded factory front there was blue and white plastic donuts. Looked it up and they are shipping rings for transport, 15 years later, wow. 1 strut was dead.
Any reason to save the stock springs?

I’ve driven, at that time, new 2001 E46 M3 that rode incredibly rough. Years later I realized it probably had the shopping spacers still inside.

That car went thousands of miles with them on.

I think some early cars didn’t have the PDI done correctly / maybe it was just the tech?


Drove a 2002 M3 years later and it felt incredibly smooth compared to it.

[LatinSkllz]

Removed all seats and did a leatherette treatment. Some say all the work involved could be considered snake oil, but it truly does change the feel of the leather; softer. My seats were in excellent condition before but feel even better now.

Baking in sun for first couple hours. I ended up leaving product on for about 48hours.



After.




Carpet cleaned all of flooring and mats.




Also, re adhesived a peeling c pillar and spray dyed the faded rear parcel deck.

Before


after



I am enjoying the refresh.

Did you use the leatherique rejuvenator oil? I’m planning to try that.


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[Fresh6390]

Did you use the leatherique rejuvenator oil? I’m planning to try that.


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Yes and the pristine clean. I did the entire interior and I still have half bottle left of the 16oz. So if you want to save a few bucks just get 8oz bottles.

[LatinSkllz]

Yes and the pristine clean. I did the entire interior and I still have half bottle left of the 16oz. So if you want to save a few bucks just get 8oz bottles.

I cleaned the interior with g2 techniq tri-clean so will use that’s again. Thanks for confirming. I’ve heard that the oil is hit or miss


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