Recent content by caius

Sounds like starter motor solenoid to me, had very similar behaviour previously on the 3.0si. Motor's under the intake manifold right rear of engine bay, access is slightly tight but it should be possible to pull the plug off the starter and test for 12v on the trigger wire when the key is...

Blue E89 going the other way in North Wales this morning, late waves from both of us

What faff? Drive faster 🤣

There’s a E85 on Facebook somewhere with speedster style humps that looks amazing. And an MX-5 ND RF is pretty sweet, especially in soul red. 🤪

They’d look better if they met the top of the hoop and were smoothed into the lid a bit better at the bottom. I don’t hate them that much as is though.

It's an old BMW, it's been doing that old BMW thing of burning oil on the exhaust for the last little while. Due to there being oil in spark plug sockets 3 & 4, I thought it might be the valvetronic gasket leaking. Looked a simple enough job, safe to do early in the week before a weekend away...

First one was insured for 6k/year and I only came near that in one year of ownership. It was the third car, and we didn't do that many runs/weekends away in it. I had other cars I'd pick for motorway work ahead of it too. Within 6 months of having the 3.0si I had to ring up and bump the...

I fitted Lesjofors M sport springs with Bilstein B4s to the 3.0si. Don’t think it rides as nicely as the 2.5i did on Suplex standard springs (not M Sport) on B4’s. Also 18”’s vs 16”’s though so not a totally direct comparison. It rides okay to be fair, pretty flat, no real shake through the...

Keep it high in the rev range (2nd, 3rd, 4th) and it'll dip down to 26-27 mpg quite happily in a non-M 😜

3.0si ticked over 142k last month. Think I've done more miles in this than I did in the 2.5i, in about half the length of time owning it. Few more trips planned this year too!

Ironic, given IE is just a reskinned Chrome now.

Looking at that it'll be easier to replace both. You could try heat and/or PlusGas to get them to move but they often won't. (My previous alignment place refused to touch BMWs unless they'd both been replaced recently.) I found ordering Delphi parts saved me a bunch over anything BMW-branded...

Had one on the 2.5i, sounds great unless the roof is up at (pressing on) motorway speeds then it droned terribly. Roof down it was great. Suspect with a 6 speed it would've been better (different rpm at motorway speeds). Fitment was okay, hung down low a little bit in the middle and would catch...

Pfft, I remember working on that when I was in a Fintech and I left there in mid-2018. Definitely been around under many successive governments its just taken them that long to actually get the damn thing working and enforced.

Nice, probably similar to you it's an idea I've had on my todo list for years. I much prefer it when someone else builds it so I don't have to bother though 🙃 Will stick it on my list to have a play with