JimmyB
05-03-2019, 07:50 AM
Hey everyone
Got my 330xi back in February ... having sold my 996 last year I needed another project / fun car, and the e46 had been pretty high on my list for a while. Found my car neglected and unloved on craigslist, struck a deal and then the work began.
It’s a 2003 xi with somewhere around 205,000 miles. Had the Dinan Signature 1 package from new ... I know opinions vary on this stuff, all I’ll say is that while I probably wouldn’t have paid the thick end of five grand for it when it was new, it’s a nice bonus and I like the exhaust note ;)
I spent my first month with the car chasing down vacuum leaks and other under-the-hood stuff, which lead me down a massive “while I’m in there” rabbit hole. I ended up doing cooling system, belts / pulleys, ignition, OFHG, Vanos and a few other bits and pieces, along with an M56 valve cover. Then a bit of bodywork and an Eonon radio to bring the interior up to date.
I came over here to ZHPMafia looking for coding info - the cluster in my car had been swapped at some point, resulting in an odo reading that was somewhere around 25k north of where it should have been. I got a ZHP cluster off of eBay and, with the help of various posts on here, got everything coded to get rid of the tamper dot and ABS/DSC lights. Yesterday I even managed to do the tire-scaling thing to increase the mileage of the “new” cluster to reflect the true mileage of the car - all thanks to posts I’d read on here.
Brakes and suspension are next ...
Cheers
JB
PS obligatory pic:
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/33857877468_48a513b6bf_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/TzUto5)
Got my 330xi back in February ... having sold my 996 last year I needed another project / fun car, and the e46 had been pretty high on my list for a while. Found my car neglected and unloved on craigslist, struck a deal and then the work began.
It’s a 2003 xi with somewhere around 205,000 miles. Had the Dinan Signature 1 package from new ... I know opinions vary on this stuff, all I’ll say is that while I probably wouldn’t have paid the thick end of five grand for it when it was new, it’s a nice bonus and I like the exhaust note ;)
I spent my first month with the car chasing down vacuum leaks and other under-the-hood stuff, which lead me down a massive “while I’m in there” rabbit hole. I ended up doing cooling system, belts / pulleys, ignition, OFHG, Vanos and a few other bits and pieces, along with an M56 valve cover. Then a bit of bodywork and an Eonon radio to bring the interior up to date.
I came over here to ZHPMafia looking for coding info - the cluster in my car had been swapped at some point, resulting in an odo reading that was somewhere around 25k north of where it should have been. I got a ZHP cluster off of eBay and, with the help of various posts on here, got everything coded to get rid of the tamper dot and ABS/DSC lights. Yesterday I even managed to do the tire-scaling thing to increase the mileage of the “new” cluster to reflect the true mileage of the car - all thanks to posts I’d read on here.
Brakes and suspension are next ...
Cheers
JB
PS obligatory pic:
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/33857877468_48a513b6bf_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/TzUto5)