Nothing wrong with rave chicks, or raves for that matter, cant think of anywhere id rather be than rocking on the dancefloor
Right, back to cars, the beemer, im happy with it, coz i did get a very good deal on it, but there are a few niggles...
The MAF doesnt work properly, well, thats the most likely cause of it feeling like it does from what i have been told and have read online, feels like a non turbo diesel anywhere below about 2750 - 3000 rpm, especially when cold, go below 2000 rpm and it literally will not accellerate at all, and evenonce its warm i dont think its got the full amount of pull that it should have, it still seems a little flat to me, its a lot slower than my dads 2.0 hdi xantia anyway.
The window washer jets are messed up and deliver no water to the windscreen, a quick google suggests i need to take them to bits and makes sure the sealing washer and spring are seated properly, apparently after a while the sealing washer moves or something.
i have an airbag sensor light permanently on, the low water level light is permenently on (which could be the reason is why the engine fan is always on too) but the water is fine, and the low oil level light (orange one)comes on and goes off whenever it wants to, although the oil level is fine.
It feels a bit weird round bends and i was blaming the wind as its really breezy here at the moment, but my mate (whos a mechanic) drove it about a mile or so earlier and after a few bends he said well its obvious, feel the way it dips when you turn left, drivers side rear spring is broken you donut, and he's right, the car sits a good 2 inches lower on that rear corner.
So on sunday its off to the aforementioned mates dads garage to be plugged into the diagnostics machine they have (his dad isnt there sundays, which means the plug in will be free) to see what im up against, then off to see a guy that has put his e46 all back to standard and sold it, which means he has m3 springs and many other parts available.
Plus the In Phase IPS248BT head unit confuses the life out of me, seems to have a mind of its own, its nice to be able to connect my iphone to it wirelessly and play all my music that way, but CD's are a bit more interesting, as i listen to a lot of mixed sets, they are usually one constant mp3 track, and depending on what mood its in, it will either carry on from where it was when you last drove the car, or go back to the beginninig, or start 10 minutes in, whatever it wants to do whenever it feels like it, plus the display does my head in too, if you had a 1 hour set on a disk, surely youd like to see where in minutes you are into the cd at all times, not so with this, it does this thing whereby the display will reset back to 00:00 and begins to count up every time you turn the car on, as if the disk has been restarted, eventhough it hasnt, but then you are stuck, coz say you know the cd (as i do most of mine) its lets say 30 minutes into the set and i know that in about 2 tracks time is the one you want to listen to, you have to just wait, becasue if you fast forward it 5 minutes, when you let go of the FF button the disc will then match up to whatever time is on the display, so if you were at 2 minutes on the lcd and ff'ed it to say 7 minutes in then the disk restarts to 7 minutes in, and not a few minutes forward from where it was like you wanted.
It also has a very top notch sub and amp combo in the boot, 1500w amp and 3600w 15" sub, i have heard this same setup in a golf and the bass quite literally makes your balls shake and proper punches you in the chest, really gets the car vibrating, big bad bass, and it is in this car too, well, it is when you open the boot, a few tones give a little rumble but you cant hear it most of the time, apparently its a common issue due to the e46 saloons construction, all metal with no folding seats, effectively a sealed boot compartment, the bass just cant get into the car, looks like ill possibly be selling the boot setup to go towards paying for sorting out all the other stuff.