The Phoenix: My Build Journal Excerpts

[PipeUy]

Congratulations on the new car! Looks really nice and I like your plans for the future. You could check this page https://bimmer.work/ to see all the options the car came with, M-textur is this one: Leder M-textur/alcantara/anthrazit (F2AT).

[Epoustouflant]

If you think about it, makes perfect business sense since he won't be losing money on it and he gets moderator blessings to continue commercial posting.

Congrats on the purchase and look forward to seeing your thoughts on comparing/contrasting the difference between the two.

I've always wanted one, EuroConnex or not. I'm grateful life is giving me options I didn't have a decade ago. Obioban didn't put any requirements to owning an E46 M3 on me, but I definitely broke the news in PM to him first ahah.

I'll be putting my thoughts down as I drive it before storage time and start the Winter project.

Congrats! That car in that color in those photos this time of year... looks poster car perfect to me!

Thank you! Definitely feels fitting. Only had a minute to grab these, I should do another over the weekend!

If this is a factory PY on M-texture it is 1/6 in the US/Canada

I'm heading straight to the dealership to find out tomorrow.

Indeed… another early GenXer and when I turned to the E46M it was a 4th “fun, shitzNgigglz car”… and it delivers that in spades… I have faster cars and collector cars, but this one brings a devil may care experience that those do not. It’s just fun to Fck around in.

Congrats on the buy, great color!!

maw

Glad to hear my take resonated with you. It's definitely an "inspiring" car - to do what? I don't know yet, but it hits proper creative cords.

Congrats man, happy to have you here! Excited to see what awesome products you can help bring to the community.

Thanks for the warm welcome!d

[m3nt0s]

Any plans to redo any of the E46M group buys? After all, you did miss out on all of them up until this point!

[Cglhut]

Congrats man, happy to have you here! Excited to see what awesome products you can help bring to the community.

[maw1124]

Check.....I'm fifty so early gen Xer who was a teenager of the eighties and all my dream cars were certain models within VW, Audi, Mercedes, and BMW. When the e46 m3 came out I definitely felt it to be the culmination of everything I wanted in a car even if I still couldn't quite justify the expense.

Indeed… another early GenXer and when I turned to the E46M it was a 4th “fun, shitzNgigglz car”… and it delivers that in spades… I have faster cars and collector cars, but this one brings a devil may care experience that those do not. It’s just fun to Fck around in.

Congrats on the buy, great color!!

maw

[Thoglan]

If this is a factory PY on M-texture it is 1/6 in the US/Canada

[Casa de Mesa]

Congrats! That car in that color in those photos this time of year... looks poster car perfect to me!

[jet_dogg]

Very cool to see! Excited to watch the build progress and will look forward to the content you post on this!

Should certainly flush away at least some of the expressed reservations towards your presence on the forum...time will tell!

If you think about it, makes perfect business sense since he won't be losing money on it and he gets moderator blessings to continue commercial posting.

Congrats on the purchase and look forward to seeing your thoughts on comparing/contrasting the difference between the two.

[PowerSax]

Congrats. Looks great from here. Also looking forward to the build.

[oceansize]

...Generation X poster car.

Check.....I'm fifty so early gen Xer who was a teenager of the eighties and all my dream cars were certain models within VW, Audi, Mercedes, and BMW. When the e46 m3 came out I definitely felt it to be the culmination of everything I wanted in a car even if I still couldn't quite justify the expense.

[keljos]

Very cool to see! Excited to watch the build progress and will look forward to the content you post on this!

Should certainly flush away at least some of the expressed reservations towards your presence on the forum...time will tell!

[Epoustouflant]

Well I guess everyone knows where that EuroConnex money is going 🤑

And now you know why the E46 is even more fun than the E9x. 👌

I wish ahah, this came out of the piggy bank.

It's a very different thing. The E9X is a surgical tool, the E46 is something else. I'll find the proper words soon enough.

[EthanolTurbo]

Well I guess everyone knows where that EuroConnex money is going 🤑

And now you know why the E46 is even more fun than the E9x. 👌

[Epoustouflant]

M-texture and impulse are often confused because people incorrectly call impulse m cloth or m tech. M-texture is a perforated alcantara layer overtop of a plaid m colour cloth, while impulse is a more traditional single layer cloth.

Front seats should be m-texture as well. Perhaps they were replaced with black leather at some point, or it is meant to be black leather and a few m-texture pieces were swapped in? Easy to check the vin and see what it is meant to have.
Either way PY on M-tex is an unusual and cool combo imo.

Yep, we'll get the VIN and options looked at the dealership next week.

[Thoglan]

I believe it's M-Texture, the doors and rear seats are M-Tech cloth, but the front seats are fully black leather. That's within normal specs?

I'll take more shots Saturday!

M-texture and impulse are often confused because people incorrectly call impulse m cloth or m tech. M-texture is a perforated alcantara layer overtop of a plaid m colour cloth, while impulse is a more traditional single layer cloth.

Front seats should be m-texture as well. Perhaps they were replaced with black leather at some point, or it is meant to be black leather and a few m-texture pieces were swapped in? Easy to check the vin and see what it is meant to have.
Either way PY on M-tex is an unusual and cool combo imo.