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Dragged it home last night.

It's not quite as nice as it looked in the ad pictures, the front bumper cover is cracked and could use paint. But it sure drives real nice.
 

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87manche said:
sure it's not N54 then?
n54 had more than it's fair share of teething issues.
Check it for rough idle or smoke on cold start, cause injectors. They also like to eat HPFP. and wastegate rattle/turbos.

hit me up when you want to toss the ancient CCC idrive in the trash and upgrade to CIC with a combox so you can get bluetooth audio. It's repinning some connectors and some laptop things.
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What's up with this cic swap? I don't care too much about Bluetooth audio but the old idrive is a bit clunky.
BCzuk said:
Only thing I can add about a BMW is that I love my M57 diesel X5. Its been deleted and tuned which has it sitting at 380hp/600tq and I can still average over 500 miles per tank mixed driving.
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ThePanzerFuhrer said:
My next purchase will be a X5d. Hopefully I can find a decent one around.

I love my 335d wife loves her 535d. Only one left to own is the X5d. We got probably close to 60-70k miles on them and no issues other than standard maintenance shit.
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I had a diesel f30 for a while. It was a great car and we like it a lot. We sold it off when we moved to AK.

Considered another diesel when shopping for this car, but decided against it because it's mainly staying local, my drive to work is only 15 minutes, and I wanted 3 pedals.
 
Don't? Is that an option? :flipoff2:

Helping my brother work on his GS300 (and seeing how much he pays for parts) makes my heard hurt and that's just a fancy Toyota.

Just make sure you have good insurance too, all those little brackets and plastic parts on luxury cars reeeeealllly hurt the wallet if you have to do any body/collision repair out of pocket. :eek:
 
ThePanzerFuhrer said:
My next purchase will be a X5d. Hopefully I can find a decent one around.

I love my 335d wife loves her 535d. Only one left to own is the X5d. We got probably close to 60-70k miles on them and no issues other than standard maintenance shit.
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got 'em
you'll hate them soon enough. You're in the honeymoon still.

granitestatedestroyer said:
What's up with this cic swap? I don't care too much about Bluetooth audio but the old idrive is a bit clunky.



I had a diesel f30 for a while. It was a great car and we like it a lot. We sold it off when we moved to AK.

Considered another diesel when shopping for this car, but decided against it because it's mainly staying local, my drive to work is only 15 minutes, and I wanted 3 pedals.
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you swap the idrive unit and the screen with a newer model one. You need a CIC unit, the CIC CID (screen), the CIC>CID video cable and the glovebox USB cable.
You repin the CCC connector into the new CIC connector, run the new video cable up the dash and plug it all in.
Then you get out a laptop and dcan cable and replace CIC unit FSC certificates with ones you sign that have your VIN in them.
So all the features work.
Then you grab the 1b file from it and generate your own FSC code for map upgrades and bit torrent the maps.
free maps, for life.
If you want bluetooth audio you have to buy a combox as well and rewire the TCU/MULF wires into another new connector, plug that all in and get out your laptop to make it all work. You will lose the SOS functionality, but it doesn't work anyway because it's 2g cellular.
I also upgraded mine to an SSD storage device and made an image of the 80GB HDD and put it away. Solving drive failure problems forever.

You have to get a CIC unit that's been upgraded to the c1a firmware, but pretty much all the later ones were. I bought one on ebay and it was. If you get one and it's not, you need an ICOM unit to upgrade it on the fiber optic bus. They're expensive. I don't have one.
Total cost was like $500.

This was recent combox upgrade. I'm too cheap/poor to spend another $50 on connectors to make the cables longer, so I hacked up the mount and moved the box to where it fits with it's new conector.
Of course that adventure started after the sunroof drain was plugged with a single leaf and kiled my amp with water.
so clean the sun roof drains.
 

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87manche said:
got 'em
you'll hate them soon enough. You're in the honeymoon still.
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Lol you must have mistaken me for someone who has a fleet of new shit that never has to fix anything. Everything I own is old and needs some kind of repair. I’m the kinda of person who really doesn’t get worked up about that stuff.

This probably comes from the business I’m in. Running a machine which from day one is destroying itself with a million moving parts. Every day is repair day lol.
 
ThePanzerFuhrer said:
Lol you must have mistaken me for someone who has a fleet of new shit that never has to fix anything. Everything I own is old and needs some kind of repair. I’m the kinda of person who really doesn’t get worked up about that stuff.

This probably comes from the business I’m in. Running a machine which from day one is destroying itself with a million moving parts. Every day is repair day lol.
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just wait until it does some new and strange never before seen fuckery.

but you know how I really feel. my mom's ford is just as complicated and it's not been basically open sourced by BMW nerds. At least I can get the software and shit for a BMW on the internet.
 
87manche said:
just wait until it does some new and strange never before seen fuckery.

but you know how I really feel. my mom's ford is just as complicated and it's not been basically open sourced by BMW nerds. At least I can get the software and shit for a BMW on the internet.
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That’s kinda it there will always be bimmer nerds. I don’t think there’s ever gonna be a Ford Focus nerd lol.

For what I paid for the cars if something bad happens they’ll get parted out . They were both cheap.
 
ThePanzerFuhrer said:
That’s kinda it there will always be bimmer nerds. I don’t think there’s ever gonna be a Ford Focus nerd lol.

For what I paid for the cars if something bad happens they’ll get parted out . They were both cheap.
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you'd be surprised.
I recently bought forscan and joined the forum.
highly recommend if you have ford junk.
fixed my brother in laws ABS unit with a $30 cable and some software. He was fucking amazed.
 
The correct answer here is E46 M3. All motor, all in a line. Fix the Vanos bullshit and let her sing. Aftermarket is plentiful to fix other issues and to keep it maintained. SMG issues are fixed with the three pedal version.
 
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granitestatedestroyer said:
Dragged it home last night.

It's not quite as nice as it looked in the ad pictures, the front bumper cover is cracked and could use paint. But it sure drives real nice.
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Did you drag it home from Newport News? Looks like a bad news car.... :mr-t:
 
westracing01 said:
The correct answer here is E46 M3. All motor, all in a line. Fix the Vanos bullshit and let her sing. Aftermarket is plentiful to fix other issues and to keep it maintained. SMG issues are fixed with the three pedal version.
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and do the rod bearings. and reinforce the rear chassis at the subframe mounts. then it's solid for another 100k miles

far and away the best car I've owned. but I spent $3k on the rear subframe repair, once the shop dropped the subframe it was way worse than just slapping reinforcement plates on. Did the rod bearings myself, and then sold it a month or two later. Guy bought it to track, wonder if my bearing job held out or not.
 
granitestatedestroyer said:
Dragged it home last night.

It's not quite as nice as it looked in the ad pictures, the front bumper cover is cracked and could use paint. But it sure drives real nice.
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N54 is a good motor, try to keep it that way. Use OEM oil filter! The o ring that comes with an aftermarket filter kit does not seal correctly and will leak oil. If leak is allowed to continue, oil will leak onto drive belt, drive belt shreds and slips behind crank pulley, shreds crank seal, gets sucked into oil pan and clogs oil pickup screen... so spend the extra $5 for oem filter.

Remove that plastic engine cover (should be 4x 5mm screws once you remove micro filter housing) and check the valve cover for a crack, they tend to crack by the oil cap. Just out of curiosity, look at the injectors and see what 'index #' they are. There are a bunch of part #'s but there will be a '-07 or '-11'. Those are all the revisions of the injectors, IIRC the last index is '-13'... hopefully you have the lastest index.

Also you can check the thrust arm bushings on a quick test drive. If the bushings are worn out there will be a distinct clunk when hitting the brakes. I think the part is listed as a 'hydrobearing' and there is fluid in there. When they wear out they puke a blackish/purple fluid and then you get that clunking/loose feeling in the front end
 
So how about '22 750i xdrive or 850i

N63TU3 I think
CPO sub 20k miles they are around $60k

Is it gonna fly apart in 3 years after warranty runs out?
 
N63s did have a reputation for being absolute dogshit. I dont know if tu3 fixes that. They were still shit as of tu2.

I would not own a bmw that didn't have a straight 6 and even then theres a few I would avoid.
 
This car didn't last long for me.

I sold it in preparation for a cross country PCS move last year. I needed the trailer space for garage stuff so down the road it went.

It was a damn fun car and I miss it.
 
CarterKraft said:
So how about '22 750i xdrive or 850i

N63TU3 I think
CPO sub 20k miles they are around $60k

Is it gonna fly apart in 3 years after warranty runs out?
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The internals are relatively stout, but BMW is still using cheap plastic components on that hot upside-down engine. I would rather have the reliability of an inline six, but then again you don't buy a 500+HP car for reliability. I can't wait to get an 850......................for $10K in 20 years. :smokin:
 
87manche said:
N63s did have a reputation for being absolute dogshit. I dont know if tu3 fixes that. They were still shit as of tu2.

I would not own a bmw that didn't have a straight 6 and even then theres a few I would avoid.
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the e39 m5 I had wasnt bad.
 
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