Yes, another MMC from me

The 330 went yesterday, and I got this to replace it - a BMW 530d MSport Touring with a rare manual, 6 speed box

Its the later 231bhp engine, with 360ft/lb torque and itdoes go quire well as well as returning, so far, an average of 46mpg











Future mods - well, it needs a towbar. It will also be getting a remap to take the power to 270-280bhp and 430ft/lb which should also improve the mpg

...at some point, Ill prolly also be looking at getting some tints....

You forgot the 3 children mod for your rich German family car...they may fit in das boot

Liking the new toy matey good tow car that

It doesn't look so "middle aged man grey" in those pics

Maybe the name change should have been Boris or Hans or Heinz or Adolf

Nah - Beaker is perfect

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I didn't know Stu could sing. Was that down the British Legion?

First things first, does it do good burnouts?

Nice, who's doing the remap?

The wheels look tiny in them arches.

A company called Emaps have been highly recomended to do the remap work. My dad has also just bought a new car, so hope to get a discount for getting them dones together

Unfortunatly no LSD, so burnouts and donuts wont be happening - If I want to do that kind of thing I have the race car

Looks very nice,

Cheap 5/7 series alloys can be found easily as they fit feck all else..

I never bother with BMW rims as they can be hard to shift

These are genuine MSport wheels - not sure of the width of the wheels, but they are 245/45/18 "Runflat" tyres all round

Could try this company Stu, www.evolutionchips.co.uk they have a distributor in St Helens called Diva Motorsport, some of the stuff the owner Stu is creating is superb.

Cheers Phil, but Im going off reputation from the BMW forums. A lot of remappers buy the maps and run round sticking them on cars, emaps actually develop their own maps

Emaps are also nearly £100 cheaper

I can see both your points their Stu, here's some write ups off the site's owner..

http://www.motorsport-developments.co.uk/stus.html

Shame some companys pass off their maps off as their own when their not, suppose some people are more interested in making money than actually helping people.

Excellent diesel engines they are mate - my old man has a 535d and its a fantastic drive.

Love the touring shape too.

Tis a nice motor, but that dash is horrific.

Get rid of the carbon fibre crap and get brushed aluminium

LOL @ joe, I think its nice !

It isnt carbon, it is aluminium

Thats even worse then, fake, takky carbon fibre crap!

Maybe think about submitting your pics here

....Says me with my klingon steering wheel

Nice BMW, right colour as well.



That barryboys site is a good laugh



Never seen a Kingon steering wheel !! - pics ?

Its white... cracked... and looks like Aliens designed it on a pissup one night out

Pics somewhere in this topic

oooh errr

Not quite my cup of tea... sorry Joe.........

I think you need one of these to go with the wheel Joe...

MMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmm Stormtroopers!!!

I rather like the steering wheel

Westfalia detachable towbar now fitted

Rear of car with bumper insert fitted...



Cover removed - electrics plug pivots so as to tidy it away when cover is fitted...



Towball fitted - this takes seconds to fit / remove....

very nice stu, believe i knew the guy who fitted this

Well, I didn have a word with your old man whilst I was there - as he had the keys....

yea he said he made a comment about ur plate! lol

When I saw this the other night, it looked pretty mean - have you changed the headlight rings?

Xenons make a huge difference, god knows why the rents didnt spec them on the 535, it has pretty much everything else.

You never do that kind a shit anyway, ls or no lsd

Now if i was on lsd you'd see al mannor of crazy stuff!

You mean youre not on LSD all the time

It does get the TC and DSC turned off and being a manual I can drop the clutch

Yeah, Ive changed the sidelights, for LEDs, not fitted HIDs just yet though...

And I recommend you dont, unless you want me to fall out with you

Blinding everyone else on the road for the sake of a few more metres vision? Tut Tut

Its on self levelling air suspension, so no chance of that

It was also a BMW option, so you just retro fit them

Set about removing the swirl flaps on the BM today. Its a common problem that the screws come loose which hold the flaps to the spindle, and the flaps then drop in to the engine

So, eventually, I got round to buying a set of blanking plates to remove the flaps!

Not sure how I felt after removing the flaps....... An inspction showed them to be fine, allbeit covered in black sludge, though it does not give me peace of mind for the future

Here are the flaps I removed...













It not that bad to do, I just found it time consuming (2-2.5hours, inc 30mins cleaing the EGR valve) as the scuttle panel has to be removed to get the inlet manifold off and I gave that a good clean around the drainage holes where quite a bit of muck had gathered!

looks like a job worth doing, are these things on all diesels?

No mate.

They are designed to speed up air flow at low rpm (they are closed) and then they open at higher boost / rpm.

Drove the car to work today - cant feel any difference in performance, though a small flat spot has now gone, but that may have just been that the EGR needed a clean...

You should put them in the old DIY electrolysis.

They sit under the manifold, so you cant see them when fitted

This is the article that shows where they are, problems they can cause, and where the blanks are fitted

PBMW Magazine article