Boot lip spoiler on, a small subtle mod that brightens the rear end up a bit, ordered off ebay, comes pre painted in the colour of your choice, colour match is bang on, took only 4 days to arrive from taiwan and cost just 21 quid, that'll do me!
Style 44 17" rims (cost me £50 from a mate) are now looking less like they were owned by a professional kerber and are filled prepped and ready for paint, im bored of silly coloured rims now so it'll either be oem wheel silver, or titan silver metallic to match the car, or possibly white, not sure which to go for yet, either way tomorrow is spray day.
Then a few days wait for the tyres to arrive, again, arranged through a mate, full set of 4x 205/50/17 continental sport contact 2 all with between 4mm and 5mm tread left, for £100 delivered, they say that part worns arent the ideal option, and i somewhat agree, but when decent rubber would cost near on that amount per tyre it really has to be done.
Ze beemer is coming along nicely, visually anyway, although performance wise, yeah, not so much...
It is still much slower than i think it should be, and those who have also driven it agree that something must be up, its been on a machine and there was a code for faulty MAF and also an EGR valve fault code logged too, so i fitted a brand new MAF, and removed the EGR and cleaned it as per the DIY guide on one of the BMW forums, so i then went and had the codes reset again (driving home from the original diagnosis obviously caused those codes to re appear and be logged again after he cleared them the first time), then re checked 2 days later and they hadnt re appeared, so according to the car there is no fault anywhere, yet its still gutless, i just cant work it out, i might be wrong, maybe the 136bhp ones are just this slow, but having had 2 mechanic mates take it for a run, and there reactions both being along the lines of ffs dan, whatevers the matter with that, wheres the torque gone!?!?!? makes me think its not just me.
