Bavarian autosports?

[ultimatebohab]

Anybody ever bought anything from BAS? I was going to get some gaskets and a hood emblem. Is there stuff good quality? They don’t say what the emblem is made of it kind of looks like plastic from the DIY video. Any experiences with them?

[robisconfusedd]

Most of their stuff is OEM, so yes, it's good quality. Their website is known for having quality stuff that's just sometimes overpriced compared to autohaus, or pelicanparts, ect..

[slocar]

Purchased plenty of emblems from them before ... they were BMW OEM ... in other words same thing you'd buy at the dealer.

[ultimatebohab]

ok thanks, the emblems and stuff seemed pretty comparable as far as price goes, the only place I found it cheaper was AMAZON, but all the reviews say there junk so ill just get my few needed parts through them.

I was also planning to get the Bavarian autosports performance coil set but it’s around $600 for my car. Do you think it’s worth it?

[ezbmr]

What the heck is a performance coil??? And no, I don't think so. The factory coils are pretty damm good, it isn't like when we had wires and you had a set of 6mm that had 50k on them

[ultimatebohab]

Ok that’s all I needed to hear I was kind of thinking the same thing the only reason I even considered it was because one of mine burned out and now I have a hard miss and in the ad it said that I gives you more horsepower and better gas mileage.

[BoldUlysses]

Ok that’s all I needed to hear I was kind of thinking the same thing the only reason I even considered it was because one of mine burned out and now I have a hard miss and in the ad it said that I gives you more horsepower and better gas mileage.

Stock coil-on-plug ignition systems are rarely lacking. The timing precision and strength of spark they deliver is light-years beyond what older ignition systems could achieve. Maybe if you had an old distributor with points and mechanical + vacuum advance you'd benefit from a better coil, but your car being what it is there are much better ways to spend $600. When's the last time you did a full tuneup, for instance, and replaced all the fluids, filters and wear items?

-Matt

[ultimatebohab]

Stock coil-on-plug ignition systems are rarely lacking. The timing precision and strength of spark they deliver is light-years beyond what older ignition systems could achieve. Maybe if you had an old distributor with points and mechanical + vacuum advance you'd benefit from a better coil, but your car being what it is there are much better ways to spend $600. When's the last time you did a full tuneup, for instance, and replaced all the fluids, filters and wear items?

-Matt

Since I bought the car never. I put new spark plugs in when it started to miss, besides that I’ve never changed anything. I do have an oil change but have not changed it yet. I only drove the car for a week (about 140 miles of driving) before it broke down and the repair shop that I took it to tried to rip me off big time, the guy tried to charge me $812 just to flush the transmission and radiator, and all together his bill was over $4500. So needless to say I told him where to stick it! :lol But it’s all good now because as we speak my car is in the shop with a real mechanic who is fixing everything for a little over $200. So... when I get the car back I’m going to flush and replace everything. So that’s my story and it’s why I was looking for a few new parts. Since its going to snow on Saturday I won’t be driving it much anyway because of the salt.