"What did you do to your E39 today V2.0."

[BimmrMeUpSnotty]

Hey Waters, I’ve been looking for an unmolested 9”rear style 66, bent one on a big assed pothole a year ago. Let me know what you intend to do with your 66’s.

[waters17]

Haha! The gypsy rim was quickly replaced with an old style 29 spare.

Hey Waters, I’ve been looking for an unmolested 9”rear style 66, bent one on a big assed pothole a year ago. Let me know what you intend to do with your 66’s.

I wish I could help you out, but it's going to depend on whether or not the m-pars are good. I was thinking of just buying a new rim, but then part of me wanted to go with 16" steelies with big tires, but that seems unlikely since the wife hates the car so much.

[scottieducati]

Can confirm, 16” wheels and fat side wall is a cushy ride.


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[computiNATEor]

Replaced the M-sticker. Much better!

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I used a heat gun to soften the adhesive for the sticker, and a plastic razor blade to peel up the corner. Thankfully, it came off pretty easily with a minimal amount of adhesive left behind. I used some Goo Gone to clean up the residual gunk, then sprayed some water on the badge and the sticker so I could position it just so. I squeezed the water out with a credit card, and warmed the sticker with the heat gun again. Good as new!

[airfitt]

Installed some new wiper blades. SCT Germany is the brand name. Cheap from Ebay. They work perfectly so far, and look better too. IMO.

[CarterH]

Started tracking down a power steering leak by cleaning up and bought a new O ring for the reservoir cap to stop it getting messy on top of it.

I also discovered the tape deck can figure out where the next song is on the tape, I pressed fast forward and it correctly started a new track each time I did! I never knew such a thing existed for cassette players! I'll still be upgrading the stereo at some point but this little feature is pretty damn neat in the meantime.

[Santaclaus4]

I also discovered the tape deck can figure out where the next song is on the tape, I pressed fast forward and it correctly started a new track each time I did! I never knew such a thing existed for cassette players! I'll still be upgrading the stereo at some point but this little feature is pretty damn neat in the meantime.

I personally know that's been around since at least the early 1980's. At least on my home cassette player. I'm not sure about the car players.

[CarterH]

I personally know that's been around since at least the early 1980's. At least on my home cassette player. I'm not sure about the car players.

It's pretty incredible for it to be in a car, I have a home cassette deck the size of a VCR and it can't even track select. I knew a guy that had a Japanese record player that could track select though, I have no idea how it worked really but I could only guess it scanned the record with a laser like a CD and saw the grooves? Who knows.

[1999 540i m]

Installed some extra padded Greatness,

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[ross1]

Installed my new/used Style 5's and new tires Before/After

Style 29, sir

[Olly84]

changed out all the spark plugs and coils on the 540it.

[scottieducati]

Re-seated the far back corner of my valve cover gasket. Had been chasing a leak and felt the back corner and it was wet. Left most of the gasket in place, rtv stayed put at the half moons and massaged it a bit. Best pic I could get but looks better and so far no leaks. Will have to monitor it over time...




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[atobe]

Got one of the elusive TEC cupholders.
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[BimmrMeUpSnotty]

It's pretty incredible for it to be in a car, I have a home cassette deck the size of a VCR and it can't even track select. I knew a guy that had a Japanese record player that could track select though, I have no idea how it worked really but I could only guess it scanned the record with a laser like a CD and saw the grooves? Who knows.

My God, you guys are such a bunch of peasants.... No offense.... lol
the tape decks that do it, scan to the next, or the previous song, had the head skim the tape lightly as it fast forwarded, or rewinded, when it hit the gap between songs, it would stop and play the next song. My reel to reel tape players all did that too, nothing special. Now it would have been cool if 8 tracks did that...

[JimLev]

I put an 8 track in a buddy's 2002 (not the year) for free if he agreed to take all the 8 tracks I had collected and didn't need anymore. I had an 8 track stereo in my Saab 99. Also had an 8 track cartridge that was an FM radio.

[scubajim20]

Installed some extra padded Greatness,

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I need to source one of those in grey. Looks good.

[Longroof]

Finally got around removing the old engine and building the new one ready to be installed on my diesel e39

[mattmar1]

ah i remember them...thought i was hot stuff when i added the FM adapter to my first car radio 8 track. and i so remember having to open up the 8 track cartridges when they started dragging and manually rewinding them (jethro tull thick as a brick was the most played so the most often rewound)

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I need to source one of those in grey. Looks good.

some guy outa lithuania sells em on the big eauction site, only took about 10 days to get mine. its so much nicer without having ones elbow sitting in the phone groove.

[geargrinder]

Thankfully I never did the 8-track thing. Funny weird system. I worked in radio in college so I am deeply versed in the origins of the 8-track cartridge, the broacast 'cart', which was the 'endless tape' cartridge used in radio stations for ads and promos and station ID's and 'drops' and whatnot until the advent of digital. Except a station cart was just stereo 2-tracks and much higher quality (aka near-reel-to-reel). We'd make them up out of empty housings and reels of raw tape... they could be any length you wanted really. 5-seconds, 5-minutes, whatever, just how much tape you reel up on it as long as it would fit.

As a DJ you'd pop it in a machine, hit the 'play' button and it'd run until it hit an end cue marker recorded on the tape and then automatically stop. The carts all were labeled with the time in seconds of the spot, and the 'out' - the phrase that was at the end, like "...your independent radio station!" so you'd know when to either hit the next cart or record or start talking or whatever. Crazy far cry from today where the whole radio program is computer managed, and you just talk when the computer tells you to..., and most 'radio shows' are pre-recorded anyway so a 5 hour 'radio show' like Alice Coopers classic rock thing is really recorded in :40 minutes on some random afternoon and he pretends he's playing the various songs, then the computer just splices it all together when its time to broadcast... So he can do a weeks worth of shows in an afternoon...

Ahhh I miss 'real' radio...

#oldtimerradiostationthreadjack

[1999 540i m]

I need to source one of those in grey. Looks good.

I got mine here https://www.m5board.com/vbulletin/pa...mrests-63.html

[mattmar1]

Thankfully I never did the 8-track thing. Funny weird system. I worked in radio in college so I am deeply versed in the origins of the 8-track cartridge, the broacast 'cart', which was the 'endless tape' cartridge used in radio stations for ads and promos and station ID's and 'drops' and whatnot until the advent of digital. Except a station cart was just stereo 2-tracks and much higher quality (aka near-reel-to-reel). We'd make them up out of empty housings and reels of raw tape... they could be any length you wanted really. 5-seconds, 5-minutes, whatever, just how much tape you reel up on it as long as it would fit.

As a DJ you'd pop it in a machine, hit the 'play' button and it'd run until it hit an end cue marker recorded on the tape and then automatically stop. The carts all were labeled with the time in seconds of the spot, and the 'out' - the phrase that was at the end, like "...your independent radio station!" so you'd know when to either hit the next cart or record or start talking or whatever. Crazy far cry from today where the whole radio program is computer managed, and you just talk when the computer tells you to..., and most 'radio shows' are pre-recorded anyway so a 5 hour 'radio show' like Alice Coopers classic rock thing is really recorded in :40 minutes on some random afternoon and he pretends he's playing the various songs, then the computer just splices it all together when its time to broadcast... So he can do a weeks worth of shows in an afternoon...

Ahhh I miss 'real' radio...

#oldtimerradiostationthreadjack

did radio in college as well...i remember when the DR DEMENTO show came in on 33 1/3 lp's, had to sign a statement that they were destroyed after playing. i think they might have all been destroyed by me, but then again might not have been. it was all live then, youre listening to fm XX.X XXXX, XXX's only live alternative fm stereo source.

[66.cobra]

Looked at both 540/6s. One covered up for the winter, the other on the lift needing some work to the rear sway bar bracket before driving season starts. The sway bar bracket had broken off in an accident some time in the history of the car and the body shop that did the super poor job or repairing it never put the bracket on. They just removed the rear sway bar off the car. The silver 540/6 revival project has been interesting. Whatever "pimp" had the car before I picked it up at the repo auction just trashed and abused it. I chased a rotating (once per revolution) clunking in the front passenger side for 3 months until I finally noticed some dumbass put a 10" wide wheel with the clipped on balancing weight on the outside edge on the inner lip of the wheel and it was hitting the strut every rotation. Ugh.... Some people don't deserve to own these cars and should stay with their Cadillac or Pontiac.

[geargrinder]

Not unusual to have the rear swaybar brackets and/or links break on these cars from a 'big hit'. BTDT more than once. For me it was links that busted, but often its the bracket too (maybe wagons are more succeptible to link vs bracket?)

[66.cobra]

Not unusual to have the rear swaybar brackets and/or links break on these cars from a 'big hit'. BTDT more than once. For me it was links that busted, but often its the bracket too (maybe wagons are more succeptible to link vs bracket?)

I was hoping to have the car ready for last years season but it was not meant to be. This is the last item the car needs to feel stable and solid in the turns. Have my son signed up for a HPDS in June at a local track and then we are both going to another one in August. The joy of listening to the tires screaming is almost here. I can't wait, I can't wait, I can't wait.

[justinca540i]

I was hoping to have the car ready for last years season but it was not meant to be. This is the last item the car needs to feel stable and solid in the turns. Have my son signed up for a HPDS in June at a local track and then we are both going to another one in August. The joy of listening to the tires screaming is almost here. I can't wait, I can't wait, I can't wait.

what organization do you use