1997 540i/A: High mileage ballin' on a budget.

[Dominic540]

Snap said:

OE german exhaust systems be cray

Is this what Dominic did to his car as well? That car sounds glorious

Thanks Snap! I removed both "tanks", not just the dead end one

[rampelsauce]

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[Earl]

[rampelsauce]

So my passenger side front window regulator got all messed up at the Gefrorenfahrt. I had to drive all the way home to Port Washington with the passenger window open. So I parked it in the garage because I didn't feel like messing with it til today. So here's what happened.

So I took my factory tool kit and fingers and put the cables back in their little tabs.  FIXED! 

So now I don't have to worry about it ever again!  Unless, that is, I decide to roll the window down.  This is a spring to do list item.

PS:Don't bother clicking on the thumbnails.  They are huge and out of focus.

[Earl]

Didn't you have it up before you drove past me? Haha

[rampelsauce]

Nope, it was 2/3 of the way down all the way home. Good thing it was pretty warm out.

[rampelsauce]

So I decided that I should clean out my cabin air filters and do some cleaning up under the hood while I was in there. I cleaned out the cabin filters/housings and cleaned out my air box as well.  I removed the intake silencer as an experiment, see what kinda sounds it makes without it.  

I may just go ahead and replace my windshield washer pump while I'm at it.

Also, I left my key in position 1, so my battery is dead.  My girlfriend is out and about, so looks like I'm stuck at home today.

[B C]

At least this year the dead battery happened AFTER the ice event

[rampelsauce]

I liked your comment more before you edited it.

[B C]

i realized it may have not been chronologically accurate.

[rampelsauce]

I'm doing my transmission filter, trans flush/fill today. Pictures to come.

[rampelsauce]

rampelsauce said:

I'm doing my transmission filter, trans flush/fill today. Pictures to come.

Never did this.  Couldn't get lift/shop space.  Fuck.  On top of that, I need to drive to Minneapolis today for a work conference.

If it will make it around the block, it will make it around the world.  Right?

[jc43089]

rampelsauce said:

Never did this.  Couldn't get lift/shop space.  Fuck.  On top of that, I need to drive to Minneapolis today for a work conference.

If it will make it around the block, it will make it around the world.  Right?

Just giver, I took my family on a 2k mile round trip to Alabama with an e30 which I had just bought and done a manual swap.  Only put around 500 miles on it before the trip and it ran flawless.