work in progress history of the car

Smashing car Mike. Well done. Amazing amount of work. How is that leather centre console holding up? Did you get any more of the dash covered in leather?

Also, how much did the HID lights cost and did you fit them yourself. With the darker evenings I'm starting to notice the headlights aren't the best.

MIKE 318IS wrote: for the past month i have had a knock through the steering over bumps thought it could be either the top mounts, but these was only replaced about 1 1/2 year ago or thought it could have been the ball joints, but these was replaced about a year ago turned out to be the intermediate steering shaft 45 minutes later all fixed and now the car feels a lot more direct and postive through the corners and only cost £40, was £120 but for some reason was reduced here is the part number 32 30 6 756 055

Im not surprised this part was cheap, it was supposed to be a BM recall a few years back.....iirc (could be wrong)

thanks

neil: yes mate it was ,but they only do a recall once, so i had to do it myself

Mike, love the attention to detail, how in gods name do you find the time! Do you do all the work yourself?  I can only assume you don't have a wife and kids that take up most of your time (like mine! lol)

The mods are so precise you can be sure your car is one of a kind and I bet you are really proud.

The only thing I think you may not see a great effect from is the induction kit as these tend to favour the larger, higher performance engines. The sound is much nicer though!

I do have one question where I have to satisfy my curiosity though....... why, if you are going to spend that kind of money, did you only get a 318 and not a clean 325 or 328 instead? Surely you can have more fun with performance rather than shiny polish?

Just a thought!

Mike

Fair play to ya mate! The best kinda hobby a car enthusiast could have, nice one!

Mike

BTW, if I ever need to get rid of my V8, I'll give you a call!

after hitting floors in car parks and hitting kerbs, i smashed one of my gt corner splitters

sorry about the crap pictures

o well time for a change now,

when i first got my i pod i had a mobile phone holder to fixed the ice link for the i pod on

i always hated it there , but could not find anything i like, so i made my own

took the ash tray out and made it out of some mdf and some leather which i got from sleeper [ cheers mate ]

it not perfect, but it was my first go at leathering

easy reaaly

it all plug and play

plugs into the cd changer input on the headunit

and you have to wire up to power it which is not hard

you spend the most of the time routring the cables

the i pod was on shuffle thats the reason for that song on there

its was

i had faithless on before