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A few updates,
Got the new license plate in. Fitting for the vehicle.
Put the winter setup on then hit a semi tire that got flung into my lane on I94 heading back to Wisconsin from Minneapolis. The question is should I spend 1600 on a new lip or find a one piece CF rep and send it?
Pic of my two cars together at my place before I put the M3 in storage. (Its washed now don't worry)
Feels bad.
Well, this was an interesting twist.
For those of you who don't know I recently graduated from UW Stout with a Real Estate property management degree. I was running my small business through college and graduated with 0 debt thanks to selling euro clocks and various rare BMW parts.
The business is strictly going to run as a side income as I recently just accepted a new job as a Commercial Property administrator.
Doing so, I was looking for a new daily to treat myself. I was wanting an E70 X5 Diesel. I went to look at one in Minneapolis when the dealership owner hit another car with it in his warehouse. Sunroof didn't work but he wouldn't take 1500 off the price.
Disappointed in that, I went home and kept looking, later that night this 2014 F15 X5 M Sport popped up down near Lake Geneva for a really fantastic deal. I messaged him 20 minutes after he posted and made sure to wake up at 6 am to try to convince him to let me come and buy it without anyone else stealing the deal from me.
He agreed that he would take my word and there was no deposit needed to wait until Friday for me to come, take a look, and hopefully buy the truck. All my friends have jobs and school just had started the day before so nobody was free.
As soon as I walked into the garage I could tell this beauty was coming home with me as the price was unbeatable.
Here are the specs!
2014 BMW F15 X5
Alpine White over Mocha Brown, came with 2 sets of wheels ESR summer wheels and TSW Winters.
The X5 is lowered on Silvers coilovers and has EVERY M performance option minus the big brakes and exhaust.
That list includes. CF front lip, CF rear diffuser, CF mirror caps, black lip spoiler, CF interior trim, door sills, pedals, black grills, door projectors, rocker panel film, and the M performance power kit. So over 10k in optional extras the original owner speced this beast out with.
I bought it from the 2nd owner who bought it from Carvana in Texas for 32k in 2021.
The truck also has a Dinan tune, Burger motorsports intake, stealth hitch system, and IND painted roundels (They are definitely cooler in person)
Needless to say, I am pumped that I came home with a way newer vehicle than I was expecting to purchase for not much more than an M57 E70. As for the future is just maintenance and drive. I have purchased a few things I'll be adding to this to make it more practical and clean up a few flaws. There aren't many.
For those wondering what is happening with my M3. I plan on keeping it as it was my childhood dream car with my dad being an E46 owner my whole life. I am going to store it early at @pynacls house for easy access as I don't want to spend $250 a month in parking. (I have to clean his garage out) Guess he gets a free M3 garage ornament without having to worry about another set of rod bearings...
Those are some of the worst wheels I have ever seen put on an E46 m3. That poor car.
I got really tired of the exhaust setup I had, the drone was just getting unbearable with this joke of a muffler. At first I thought it sounded good enough that it'd be fine since this is a weekend car, but it just turned me off from driving the car. I swapped back to the stock muffler for now to get the drone under control. For now I have Fabspeed catless headers, stock section 1, STG x pipe section 2, and stock muffler. I'll be on the lookout for a Rogue Engineering El Diablo muffler soon. Finally can hear the induction noise of the S54 again!
Big words for a guy who doesn't even put 1k miles on his car a summer.
Im still slacking with @rampelsauces gift. Sorry. Ill have it out Monday. Its packaged up sitting on my desk.
Must ignore the overwhelming urge to purchase this for an ice racer
I don't think there will be any ice racing this year.
Got mine in the mail the other day, Need to get my gift out and post pics once I get back from Vacation. Sorry, I'm slacking this year.
The "FAWK" at the end
Another fantastic update. The dealership that has my car just reached out yesterday saying BMW had sent them a replacement EWS module. 1 week later the new module showed up and after they installed it the car is still completely dead stick. Keys and EWS have no communication whatsoever. They now have to reorder the original kit including ews/locks/keys/ignition that took them almost 2 months to receive in the first place. Lets just hope I will get to drive it a couple times before it ends up stored again next winter lmao
Hope you negotiated a loaner lol
Literally took 15 mins to get the engine from outside and bolted up inside. Extremely fast!
The tensioner I had was from SLG (think it was a PRD one they just resell) the shitty URO part wouldn’t have even worked with their included diagram/instructions for where to drill - @Rekpoint is my witness for that garbage
Can confirm was a shitty URO part, Wasn't going to work unless modified either URO is never the answer anyways.
Live look at the abandoned m3s battery tray 
So happy you finished this. What's next? Putting everything else on?
So I assume he got his car back?
Car still missing. He was arrested because @basedspiderrecorded the phonecall.
Any update on this?
IDK How often he visits. This is the only update as of yesterday.
So Hardys new album is pretty sweet. Not really a country guy but, his new album is extremely good.
Hardlines are finished
Next up is s52 stuff I think
This done yet?
KONI shocks are a ton better then Bilsteins.
Legend has it this car was abandoned in an unfinished garage and not driven last year. 
I’m going to need to pick up a good E-Torx set for maintenance on this car, any recommendations?
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-1-4-3-8-1-2-in-E-Torx-Socket-Set-HETX13PC/206031060#overlay
