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  1. Bro, its a series 2. Point made. BTW, I love the line "I have been advised this car is worth $50,000". I love that. My dog just told me my E39 is worth $100k. Send your offers.
  2. FWIW I'm not a huge fan of the grey but there'd be a lot to change if I started changing colours.
  3. I love where you're going with this!
  4. Yeah its a good idea, I wonder if I can find some vinyl that will match the colour.
  5. Alcantara all the things!
  6. These arn't them, but these are the pieces. I dont think hydrodipping would work. Also, the plastic is very old and brittle, the trims are out of the car atm getting some mounting holes jb welded.
  7. 100%. There's gotta be better options.
  8. They're hard plastic the parts I want to paint. Not soft touch or vinyl @GTSBoy.
  9. The E39 has some pretty poor condition plastics with big scratches and fading colour. The problem is that the trim is grey and I've done some research and found a rustoleum colour that matches, but the paint is enamel and is for wood and metal. I was hoping I could thoroughly clean the parts and use a plastic primer or adhesion promoter and then spray with the enamel. I kinda feel like the rough looking, old and scratched trim would look better than a shitty respray. Getting good quality interior parts is hard and expensive. These two pieces that hold the chair controls are about $300 delivered if you can find a good pair. I have too many nightmare memories of a young PranK spraying interior panels and then buying replacements when they turned out terribly. Thoughts on interior trim spraying?
  10. @niZmO_Man let me know if I can help here. Maybe I can assist in helping with hosting or something ?
  11. Dang. I love the little 'oil used' bingo card on the side. 🤣 Well, now they can use a box and an oil-filled goon.
  12. I have removed the restrictions on your account @svenskalice. Usually this happens automatically after 15 posts but happy to do it manually when a new user has proved that they are a user.
  13. So, I've been a little busy on this car. I replaced the bonnet struts which is always satisfying but very confusing that nobody else on the planet seems to do this. Its just my routine first thing I do on any car I buy. The boot struts for both the tailgate and the separately opening glass window was a bastard. And, I found a fair bit of rust in the strut cavity. I filled it with rust converter and cleaned up as much of the dirt as I could. There was so much dirt. One piece of the trim was barely hanging on and so I've left it off. I'll try to get a replacement. You can see how disgusting and dirty it all was in this thread; I had to remove the little clips that hold the struts on the ball. The ones I took off had no clips and it was impossible to get them on with them in place. Fingers crossed they stay put. So, I turned my attention to the headlights, they were in a bad way and likely would stop rego. I took the headlights out and found the adjusters were all just loose. So, I fixed those and unclipped the lenses to clean them up. Couldn't believe how easy it was to take all this apart compared to the E90. I also cleaned up the stockies which was awesome, these are super cool with lug nut covers. They're in good nic but the tyres are shot. I was going to use these for rego but in the end got a fresh pair of rubber for the 17's on the front of the car instead. The front bar of this car is from a late(r) model one. I don't think it's quite LCI but who knows. I'll need to find out. Anyway, the bar was missing the fog lights and the wiring and plugs were for the original ones so I got new plugs and some cheap fogs. I wasn't sure if missing original equipment would hamper my blue slip attempts. Had a couple of these little fellas helping out. But not Ben who got stuck behind the pool heater .... How embarressment. I ordered new speed sensors for all corners because I knew one was out. I just got cheapies and will replace them with Bosch items when I can find Bosch items. Again, this was just for rego. Alas, it seems the blue speed sensors are not the same as the grey ones. Back they went and replacements ordered. In the end, with my new scan tool, it was just rear left that was shot. Replaced it and cleared the codes. All good now. Lastly, my aux (thermo) fan is being a bit odd. Its powering up at strange times and NOT powering up when I think it should (100C). While this can be caused by a few things, the most likely (for me) is the ambient temp sensor. Given mine reads -40.0C regardless of the temp, I figured it would be good to replace it. In the end, the sensor wiring was abysmal with (terrible) attempts made by somebody to fix it. I fixed this all up but the sensor is only attached using pins into the wires. The plug is not there. Despite trying and trying to connect it securely it wouldn't work so a replacement sensor and plug is on the way. Oh, I also ordered a replacement piece of trim for the part missing here at the bottom. Ordered from Latvia for $70 delivered. I took a bit of a leap of faith because I didn't have the exact part number and, as usual, there were eleventy billion pieces of trim that looked to fit. Nailed it. Well, its not totally perfect but I think its more a 28 y/o car problem than a trim problem. And, as of today ..... I have bought the workshop manuals 2nd hand off a guy in tassie. 1000+ pages of E39 goodness, hopefully it helps me with the fan. I also have a new temp switch on the way incase its the problem. Stoked.
  14. Welcome! What do you drive? What are your plans?
  15. The brakes are all stock bar some DBA slotted discs and the EBC pads and braided lines. The car has brake ducts as standard but they're kinda pointed in the general direction of the brakes rather than really getting at the heat source. I guess I should hit it with an infra red thermometer after a session and see what they're at. 100%! Its just a curiosity more than anything. As I said, high temp brake fluid was such a track day rage back in the day. From people I speak to at the track and threads on here everybody has their own take on it but I'm not gonna scoff at spending a few more bucks. OH, a quick side question - would you use brake fluid from an opened container even if the lid has been on? Eg, if you have a bottle that you opened last time you flushed, it's been tightly closed, is it still good?
  16. The brakes are all stock bar some DBA slotted discs and the EBC pads and braided lines. The car has brake ducts as standard but they're kinda pointed in the general direction of the brakes rather than really getting at the heat source. I guess I should hit it with an infra red thermometer after a session and see what they're at. 100%! Its just a curiosity more than anything. As I said, high temp brake fluid was such a track day rage back in the day. From people I speak to at the track and threads on here everybody has their own take on it but I'm not gonna scoff at spending a few more bucks.
  17. In all the track days I've done over the past few months I've only had 1 issue with braking and thats with my current EBC pads (can't remember the colour, but they're not a track pad). I don't *think* I have had issues with brake fluid getting too hot, my understanding is that when that happens you will have quite noticeable brake loss - which I haven't had. I'm using just regular ol' Penrite Super DOT4 fluid. I use this fluid in everything and my cars always seem to stop so I see no reason to change, except ... for the 335i. I need to do a fluid flush and was thinking about my fluid of choice and wondering if I should consider using something more high temp? Its not a super fast car by any standards but I'd hate to do a flush and then find myself with no brakes when I get. to Wakefield. I guess, my question can be summed up as "How fast do you need to be driving to need higher temp brake fluid?" I remember high temp fluid was considered a must have back in the day when I had my GTR.
  18. My extinguisher mounted like this unscrewed a little (Maybe from the chair sliding forward) and dumped a bit of white on my mats. I'll need to get a more narrow one for future.
  19. Yeah mate, no probs. Just swap the email addresses?
  20. Balance to the force has been restored.
  21. Nice. Its a shame I have to squeeze in behind the E39 on the driveway. I'm worried about how it will feel after being impaled.
  22. So, I found my cover. And 12 hours later the replacement arrived. 🤷‍♂️
  23. Yeah, not so easy. The front number plate mount goes into the opening to partially attach. You can see in this pic. Yes! I'll go handlebars around the plate.
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