How does it take for a car to feel “yours”?

[SimonAW]

I’ve had my E86 for a couple of months now and I think I have found all that the car has to hide, which thankfully is mostly trim and cosmetic issues. Other than a noisy clutch release bearing (I think) the drivetrain seems solid.

So the car is starting to feel “mine” now, as I’m not noticing little things I missed when I viewed it and I wonder if that’s just me or do other people go through a transition period with a used car?

Maybe I’m odd …

 

[Mr Tidy]

My first two Z4s felt like they were "mine" straightaway.

But my current one took nearly 18 months because it was on coil-overs and had been slammed! I started off getting it as high as it would go so it didn't ground on speed-bumps, removed all 4 spacers to save my arch-liners and swapped the 19" CSL Replicas for OE 18" 224s then it really felt like it was mine.

 

[SqerrNipz]

I suppose it depends on how you put your ‘stamp’ on it. I wanted 3 things when I bought mine - style 107’s, m-sport seats and a sportier exhaust note. Was only once I’d sorted all 3 that I felt it was properly mine and I was satisfied.

I’ve played with my cars, until I got them the way I want them, since I was about 19. Even my X1 ‘family car’ has about £2500 of stereo in it! One day I’ll grow up… maybe

 

[TOMGREEN413]

After a long drive, full detail inside n out and a few personal mods my E86 definitely felt like mine.......problem is finding the balance between trying to get the Coupe back to its showroom look or just to a nice drivable reliable standard......if prices were climbing I'd probably go totally overboard with it as I just love these Coupes.

 

[TOMGREEN413]

Yours it the best colour in my humble opinion

 

[mmm-five]

Mine was almost new when I bought it, so didn’t take long to be mine…then spent the next 14 years making it ‘more’ mine

 

[enuff_zed]

I made mine feel mine by putting a MY …. ZED reg on it. So it must be mine