"Tripper" (tripe46)
04/18/2019 at 15:00 • Filed to: None
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"Tripper" (tripe46)
04/18/2019 at 15:00 • Filed to: None | 5
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There have been a few excitement posts on Oppo today, and I’m jumping on board with my own.
Radnor Hunt Concours 2017
I haven’t posted about the M3 in a long time mostly because I haven’t been able to drive it. At the end of last summer it popped a CEL. The codes were for exhaust and intake side camshaft position sensors. The sensors aren’t bad ($150 a piece) but you’ve got to strip it down to the valves and the intake side sensor is very difficult to get at. I had plans to replace both sensors, do a valve check/adjustment, and do the VANOS preventative maintenance.
Then it got cold, so I stashed it back in my parents garage, which really put a damper on the motivation and logistics to do it myself. Next I had to spend $1500 on the Ranger as I was leaking a lot of coolant out of the timing chain cover. After that I bought/imported the 1502, then spent a bunch of money on it to take care a few little issues that amounted to a large bill.
So needless to say I have neglected the M3, I even thought about selling it a few weeks ago (which I do from time to time, for a day or so then I come to my senses). The car has been poking at my anxiety since I first saw that CEL, but last Sunday we were at my parents and I decided to go out and start it up and I got all the feelings!
This week I sold my Honda Grom, and just now I made the call to a new inde shop that has been highly recommended to me. They’ll inspect the M3, do the valve check/VANOS service, and obviously address the CEL. I’m sure it will eat all if not more than the money I made selling the Grom, but now I’m just excited to be able to drive it and take my daughter
for her first spin in a cool car!
Why does it feel like Friday?
Arrivederci
> Tripper
04/18/2019 at 15:13 |
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I’d have to buy something to take my daughter for a spin in a cool car - she always just falls asleep in the Lexus, and I can hardly blame her!
How’s parenthood going?
ZHP Sparky, the 5th
> Tripper
04/18/2019 at 15:33 |
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Beautiful! Glad you’re getting her taken care of.
I knew you had an M3 and have obviously seen your little avatar, but never connected that it was a real life phoenix yellow E46 M3! Gorgeous car, don’t sell!
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Tripper
> Arrivederci
04/18/2019 at 15:34 |
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It is awesome! She’ll be 10 months tomorrow, nearly walking, shes got mama, dada, and puppy down pat. She sleeps through the night and gets so excited when I walk in the door at the end of the day, it’s the best!
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Tripper
> ZHP Sparky, the 5th
04/18/2019 at 16:02 |
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Thank you! I don’t think I could sell it even if I really wanted to. I’ve owned it for 12.5 years and have put enough $$ into maintaining it to buy another one.
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ZHP Sparky, the 5th
> Tripper
04/18/2019 at 16:44 |
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What year is your car? Sounds like you’ve had it since almost brand new, if not entirely? Gotta keep it at this point - your daughter can inherit some pretty awesome BMWs one day.
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Tripper
> ZHP Sparky, the 5th
04/18/2019 at 20:05 |
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It’s a 2002. I bought it in early 07, I had turned 22 a month earlier. I traded in an 04 STi that I was 8k underwater on. I took out a loan for 8k more than the price of the car and made $836 payments for 5 years. Buying it pulled me out of a really bad spot in life. I owe it to the car to keep it.