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BMW E46 330d Build Blog: November 2011
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BMW E46 330d Build Blog. This Blog will follow the progress of my BMW E46 330D as I restore, refurbish, modify and upgrade it. Tuesday, 29 November 2011. Probably not at the top of everyones' upgrade list, but I saw one fitted to another car and thought they were a good idea. As I often have to drive wearing a suit, the jacket can look a right mess when I arrive. The coat hanger arrived and on inspection was pretty well made, as you would expect from BMW (and the price). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). When ...
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BMW E46 330d Build Blog: November 2012
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BMW E46 330d Build Blog. This Blog will follow the progress of my BMW E46 330D as I restore, refurbish, modify and upgrade it. Friday, 23 November 2012. Site A-Z Feature Live. Understanding that Blogger's Blog Archive feature is not the easiest navigation tool to find older posts, for example if you want to find a specific post but can't remember or don't know when it was posted, I wanted to implement something a little more user friendly. The result is a new page, Site A-Z. Monday, 19 November 2012.
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BMW E46 330d Build Blog: September 2012
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BMW E46 330d Build Blog. This Blog will follow the progress of my BMW E46 330D as I restore, refurbish, modify and upgrade it. Thursday, 20 September 2012. The side repeaters were looking quite sorry for themselves, all misted over and generally just old looking. I originally ordered a new set from aceparts.com with my LED Sidelights and Xenon Fog Lights. They were just copies of the OEM style in clear plastic. After this disappointment, I decided it was best to go for OEM quality parts. So I ordered...
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BMW E46 330d Build Blog: June 2014
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BMW E46 330d Build Blog. This Blog will follow the progress of my BMW E46 330D as I restore, refurbish, modify and upgrade it. Tuesday, 3 June 2014. LED Number Plate Bulbs and Carrier Refurb. Its not very often you look at the numberplate lamps, probably once a year at MOT time? Which, as it happens, is exactly when I took a closer look at mine. One of the bulbs wasnt lighting up and after taking a quick squint it was immediately clear why. For those interested the part number was 482110120. An unsettlin...
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BMW E46 330d Build Blog: Speaker Upgrade Front and Rear
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BMW E46 330d Build Blog. This Blog will follow the progress of my BMW E46 330D as I restore, refurbish, modify and upgrade it. Monday, 6 April 2015. Speaker Upgrade Front and Rear. I'd toyed with the notion of replacing the standard speakers and installing a full sound system upgrade numerous times: amp powering all speakers and a subwoofer etc, but I'd knocked the idea on the head as I simply haven't the time (or disposable) to do a decent job of it. Even some iPod headphones would have been an upgrade,...
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BMW E46 330d Build Blog: March 2013
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BMW E46 330d Build Blog. This Blog will follow the progress of my BMW E46 330D as I restore, refurbish, modify and upgrade it. Tuesday, 12 March 2013. MOT - 2013 - Pass. I had a bit of a scare when sifting through my box of receipts and documents for the 330d, I had a quick scan over last year's MOT. My eyes were immediately drawn to the date 24/02/12. I was hoping for a pain free MOT. I pulled up to the test centre and handed over my keys and got settled for the nail biting 30min wait. Servicing the 330...
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BMW E46 330d Build Blog: April 2014
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BMW E46 330d Build Blog. This Blog will follow the progress of my BMW E46 330D as I restore, refurbish, modify and upgrade it. Wednesday, 23 April 2014. Bosch Retro-Fit Aero Wipers. It's pretty fair to say we had a rather damp start to the year here in the UK, with many parts of the country under water for at least a month. Dramatic headlines were commonplace in the press, such as this one from the BBC:. As you can see from my trip to Reading's Oracle. Shopping centre, rivers were a little. I can't fault...
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BMW E46 330d Build Blog: March 2012
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BMW E46 330d Build Blog. This Blog will follow the progress of my BMW E46 330D as I restore, refurbish, modify and upgrade it. Thursday, 29 March 2012. Rear Inner Tail Lamps Replaced. Each time I washed the car I could see water streaming down the inside face of the inner rear boot lid tail lamps. Green mould was now starting to form in the outer top corners of the lamps, which looked rather unsightly. So I turned to BMW Genuine Parts, expecting a cringe-worthy quote to which they didn't disappoint,.
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BMW E46 330d Build Blog: February 2012
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BMW E46 330d Build Blog. This Blog will follow the progress of my BMW E46 330D as I restore, refurbish, modify and upgrade it. Saturday, 25 February 2012. MOT - 2012 - Pass. Yesterday was the first MOT under my ownership of the car, I was more than a little nervous about it due to the 130k miles on the clock. Booked it in and went to get it tested, a painfully long wait later and I was told the car had failed. Not good, fearing a wallet bashing I asked on what. The list read;. Tuesday, 21 February 2012.
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BMW E46 330d Build Blog: April 2015
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BMW E46 330d Build Blog. This Blog will follow the progress of my BMW E46 330D as I restore, refurbish, modify and upgrade it. Friday, 10 April 2015. Headlamp Auto Levelling Failure. When you turn the key in the ignition of an E46 3 series the car goes through a test sequence for the headlamp auto levelling feature. The headlamp adjusts to point fully downwards then back to straight ahead position. Thats the idea anyway. Tuesday, 7 April 2015. Battery Replaced and Uprated. Cast your minds back to last su...
