What did you do to your e36 today?

[somebody5788]

Why does the bottom bolt keep vibrating out of my caliper?!?!?

Might have the threads worn enough to not hold tight.

[r33p04s]

Might have the threads worn enough to not hold tight.

Nah probably the wrong length bolt...I had a couple extras laying around, put some thread locker on this time, hopefully it fixes it because I only have 1 more to try n figure it out

[fahdyehia628]

Refinished my BBS RC304

They were extremely bad before

now they are as good as new

[MBR328I]

Installed new Eibach Springs with Bilstein Shocks and Struts at all four corners.

[DSM Loki]

Replaced the blower motor, blower resistor, blower relay, front control arms, installed powerflex LCABs, and some ADUS RTABs. Next few things on the list are another oil change before winter, acquire some snow tires, change rear diff fluid, and microfilter. It also feels like I need a bit more rear sway bar to improve the balance.

Damn that's a lot, you did that in one day?

Yeah, took my time and worked on it all day.
Probably next weekend I'll be putting snow tires onto a set of 15" bottle caps I picked up, replace the center support bearing, do a complete fluid service, microfilter, new pads, rotors, and brake hoses all around, and new parking brake shoes and hardware.

I bought the car for 1400 and I've got about that much into parts on fixing/improving things here and there. When I'm done with the next batch of work I'll be confident that it's ready to start hitting track days in the spring. Overall it's been a good buy that I'm enjoying as my first (probably of many) bmw.

I've found that most of the things that people seem to dread or find difficulty with have been the easiest things for me, whereas it has been the simple shit that fights me. RTABs only took about 30 minutes from the time I rolled the jack under the car until it was wheels down again.

[Rally Dave]

Painted my hood flat black with Rust-Oleum paint. I know it's cheesy and WAY over played, but much easier that trying to match factory paint.

[somebody5788]

Just wrapped my headliner and A, C pillars in suede. Finally no more sagging headliner.

[MADMAX3]

Swapped out the old 5 watt lamps in my depos for some clean LED day time running much better.

[imthegr8pr]

Primmed and fixed the broken wires in trunk area whiched fixed my tag light problem ive been looking around for 2yrs

[imthegr8pr]

[Chris951]

Replaced my mid HK door speaker. Finally I can listen to music loud without that speaker cutting out. Next is gonna be driveshaft center support and guibo. I have a nasty vibration in 1st and 2nd under hard acceleration.

[GasolineCologne]

I broke it.

Nasty clunking/grating noise from the front right corner of the rear subframe when accelerating, decelerating or going over bumpy road.

Combined with how many other little things are going wrong with this car I think I'm gonna put her down. It's been one thing after another. Didn't even make it past the 30 day temp registration.

On the bright side, the engine and transmission are solid, and I've got the donor parts for an auto to manual swap, which opens up a lot more options when I start shopping for a new one.

[Chris951]

Installed new Eibach Springs with Bilstein Shocks and Struts at all four corners.

Which eibachs and bilsteins did you go with? That's the setup I'm wanting to do. Prokit springs with either HD's or Sports. How does it ride?

[E36B1MM3R]

Installed my new steering wheel.

[bigMphan]

Installed my new steering wheel.

How big a job was that? Looks nice and I need to do the same.

[matlock328]

Got back into the blower motor to stop the rubbing noise. ..man there is zero margin for error in there..tightened the cages and glued a few parts....hopefully nice and quiet from now!

[Luth]

Drove it to a local BMW Motorrad dealer. A 2014 bimmer bike will be joining the ranks next year.

[fahdyehia628]

finally installed eibach pro-kit springs and Koni Str.t kit

Also installed eibach front and rear swaybars

and OH MY GOD

now my car handles

and it's very comfortable also I adore this setup

I might even have like a stiffer springs they are soft but the ride is excellent

I didn't drop 3cm like I was expecting it only dropped about 1.5 cm

but I'm expecting it to settle a bit

[SoCalianSD]

Installed tckline sa coilovers and m3 front sway bar.

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[MADMAX3]

After getting towed back home last week yesterday I was able to replace the bad starter and replaced the fuel filter along with the old fuel lines and Sea Fomed the intake manifold ports.



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After getting towed back home last week yesterday I was able to replace the bad starter and replaced the fuel filter along with the old fuel lines and Sea Fomed the intake manifold ports.

[GasolineCologne]

Pulled the engine and transmission out. It was a lot of work but really not as bad as I expected. Significantly less cursing involved than pulling an engine out of some other cars.



Gonna drop the rear end later this week. Then start posting everything for sale.

[somebody5788]

Pulled the engine and transmission out. It was a lot of work but really not as bad as I expected. Significantly less cursing involved than pulling an engine out of some other cars.



Gonna drop the rear end later this week. Then start posting everything for sale.

What wheels are on there?

[MParallel]

Put the wood trim from the M3 in the 328i. Although it's not some cool Individual type of the woods available, it beats the black plastic. I prefer the contrast between the black plastic trim/window switches and the console.

Recoded the cluster of the 328i so it now uses the M3 values for coolant temp curve. (less buffered, earlier to red zone).

[GasolineCologne]

What wheels are on there?

Stock ones. Style 13 I think.

[johnnybayonne]

Purchased APEX BMW 75mm Racing wheel stud kit for $104.99 & free shipping...Installed today!