*RIP* Another Bimmer Hey picked this up just over a week ago. Just over 143ks on it. Quick Specs... Model: 540i Gearbox: Tiptronic Seems to have every option available for a non-m sport model and everything works except tape player. Needs a couple of little things done to tidy it up but otherwise very happy with it. To do list... - Replace rocker cover seals (one done, other one to be done when I get time) - Think i'll do the sump gasket sometime to as it's got a wee bit of oil on it. - Clean up headlights, may clean the lenses up but if that doesn't work il have to source something cos they are truely awful in their current state. - get front left wheel cleaned up, bit of curbing on it, nothing major but annoys me. Future stuff/Being fussy - M sport steering wheel - Exhaust (got priced today should be on within a couple of weeks) - Respray front lip, clearcoat coming off on drivers corner from smackin something as you can see in pic - Something with the stereo, the standard sounds let the whole styling of the car down. - Vinyl wrap the woodgrain in silver Otherwise I think il leave it alone, have enough other things on the go and just want a reliable tidy daily. And a pic from wednesday
Very nice pickup my friend I wish I had the money to go the 5 series route for my daily a couple of years ago, they are very nice cars.
Cheers. Yeah it is very nice to drive, handles pretty good for a tank and not to bad on gas either. Haha engine looks like a right prick to work on but nothing to scary in there. 1998, so it's missing the angel eyes of the later models. But all in good time!
Snow is fun! But I hate abs, takes away all feel of braking on ice, not that you aussies would know what that word means
Awws nothing stopping you getting the vn out for a bit of snow fun lol Sent from my DesireS using Tapatalk 2
Small update, sent it to painters today to get the front skirt reprayed, a couple of scratches on back bumper and passanger side wheels "decurbed". Pics on wednesday hopefully
Very nice pick up. The 540s have such a nice shape. Hope it goes well for you. If you're handy with a polisher, the polycarbonate headlight lenses won't give you too much grief in cleaning them up. Give them a good wet sand with 2000 grit, finishing with 2500grit, then it's just a matter of polishing out the sanding marks. Just need to UV coat them then so it doesn't happen again. Takes a little while but it's not a difficult process. Just make sure you mask around the lights so you don't sand anywhere you don't intend to.
Thanks. Forgot to say that painter is going to have a go at the lenses (actually I think he hinted he'd get his mrs to) if they dont turn out good I'll look into replacements more seriously. Thanks for the advice anyway.
Haha, love how it's titled bimmer and most people in Australia call it a beemer. You can even hear the accent in your typing! Really nice ride though mate, I bet you it's comfy as hell...
I have no idea what it is but there is a very thick clearcoat on it so wrapping should be simple enough. Been done plenty of times before. Haha I dunno if its an accent thing cos your eeeeeeeeeeeeees are more eeeeeeeeeeeeeee than our I's. It sounds right in my head anyway! And yeah it is comfy, pretty good considering the state of our roads
Back from painters, headlights are better but still not great. Rest looks mint. Very happy. Sorry about pic quality
You'd still be able to get those lenses a lot clearer with a good sand and then refining with a polisher. Would be a slow process though. But unless you UV coat them, they'll haze and yellow again very quickly. But they do look much better with the yellow polished out of them.
