NCGreasemonkey (12-21-2016)
Rick, if you are doing it, I am bringing my NB up to your house and doing it right next to yours. I have been looking into this swap for a while and I have funds waiting to go.
HarryB (12-21-2016),NCGreasemonkey (12-21-2016),theothersawyer (12-21-2016)
Yup. Car rolled 92xxx miles. I want to stay ahead of the maintenance because my wife drives it mostly.
I bought a new set of torx bits. I replaced the idler pulley, serpentine belt last spring, but didn't know about the AC pulley until I got the belt off. Someone else had pulled the belt before. The torx bolt on the hydraulic tensioner was pretty chewed. I have a replacement for that too.
theothersawyer (12-21-2016)
Haven't updated this in forever! Been really busy lately. Graduated college, started my career, and moved out of on my own. Life got in the way of things.
Over the summer, I had to get new front tires on the car. Discount Tire scratched the hell out of my BBS's. I have a picture somewhere, but can't seem to find them. Had a phone break and lost some pictures so it may be lost. Anyways, I have a really good friend that works there, but he wasn't able to work on my car, and it got damaged. He felt terrible, but I knew he would make it right. So they sent the wheel off for repair and if it didn't look right, they were going to order me a new one. Well, it came back totally the wrong color and the paint was garbage. Dirt in the paint with a ton of orange peel. It was bad! Only picture I can find of it at the moment:
The driver side front is was way too silver and not enough nickel/charcoal or Diamond Black as BBS calls it. You can even see it with the Killboy watermark in the way!
Ended up getting a new wheel and it was definitely shinier and nicer than the 3 wheels that have probably 120,000 miles on them, but its WAY closer than before. I'm happy with it. The average person would never see it, but I do.
I've had RCR tail lights sitting in the garage for years now. I bought them from a member on here, but the trunk lights were too dirty for my liking and so I cracked them open to clean them. I noticed that the reflective surface had been worn out and it wasn't too my liking. So I got a set of trunk lights and swapped the lenses over.
At the same time I put on some fresh new BMW roundels since the front and rear decided to fail at the same time! Here is a nice before/after on the rear.
MUCH BETTER! The car also got a wash, clay, and wax between those photos! Wish I would have done that when I got these years ago! It makes the car look so much newer.
Agent☣Orange (05-06-2018),MiataQuest (05-07-2018),oldgrayleather (05-07-2018),RotorNutFD3S (05-07-2018),tsingson (05-07-2018)
Yesterday was the 4 year anniversary of owning this car. It is officially all mine now too! Paid off! Woo!
Agent☣Orange (10-05-2018),HarryB (10-05-2018),Martin (10-04-2018),MX5Wisher (10-06-2018),RotorNutFD3S (10-05-2018),tsingson (10-04-2018)
No better feeling than paying something off, especially a huge credit card debt, car or house!
No todo que es oro brilla.
RotorNutFD3S (01-10-2019)