learn from my mistakes…
It’s been a while blog… Here’s a quick entry regarding a little disaster I had recently. Driving along one day and I get a “low oil” message on my display. This isn’t the first time I’ve seen it, it’s been about 5,000 miles since my last oil change with a few autocrosses mixed in so…
Foreward: Full disclosure, my brake fluid was way overdue, like 2 years overdue but better late than never I guess… This was a very straight forward, a bit tedious but wasn’t bad at all. There are a few different ways to accomplish this. I asked a few friends/neighbors if they had a power bleeder but…
Foreword: By request! Here’s a super simple maintenance task that will save you some out of warranty money from the dealer. Not much to say about this one, super easy, only 2 tools needed, hardest part is bending to get under the dash to get to the nuts and torx screws out. Prerequisites: T15 torx…
Foreward: Ever have one of those projects where you get to that point of no return and say to yourself “do I just let the professionals handle this?” This one did that for me. I watched the few Youtube videos out there, looked at forum posts, etc on the topic and the general feeling I…
Foreward: I thought I blew my subwoofer… Keyword there is thought. On my way to an AutoX event back in November I was driving on the highway to the event, listening to news radio at a low volume. All of a sudden I get a “passenger restraint system” warning on the screen… It goes away pretty…
Foreward Sooooo…. I had an unfortunate incident with a parking spot stopper thing. You know, those concrete things that stop you from pulling up to far… Yea, went over one that had a piece of rebar barely sticking out of one of the 2 holes in it… It was just enough to easily pass under…
Foreword It’s an oil change DIY. Not much more to say. It’s really straight forward but I enjoy writing these, so why not. Prerequisites Make sure you have the tools needed for the job: 7 liters of the oil of your choice (I use the standard BMW Twin Power Turbo 5w-30) New oil filter…
Intro Attended my first auto cross this past weekend and had an absolute blast! I’m totally hooked. I was in run group 3 which means I worked first. Working means you are out on the autocross track doing something. My job (along with 2 others) was to pick up murdered cones in the slalom area….
Foreword: Finally got a charge pipe installed in my car. This is a long overdue upgrade as I really don’t trust BMW’s plastic charge pipe that comes stock with the car. There are countless posts on the forums of charge pipes failing on modified cars or not, this is definitely a peace of mind upgrade…
Foreward: This came to my attention after a member on bimmerpost posted his concern about his belt tensioner jiggling prior to a track day. I took a look at mine and below is what I saw. The tensioner is not suppose to “jiggle” like it does in the above video. It’s suppose to maintain a…