<![CDATA[Indycarscene.com - Projects & Builds]]> http://indycarscene.com/ Share your project or build with the rest of us. en Sun, 20 May 2012 02:28:55 GMT vBulletin 60 http://indycarscene.com/images/misc/rss.jpg <![CDATA[Indycarscene.com - Projects & Builds]]> http://indycarscene.com/ Tinkering With A BMW http://indycarscene.com/f48/tinkering-bmw-9327/ Fri, 04 May 2012 03:45:51 GMT I feel like it's about every 2 months I post a new thread saying "the new project blah blah blah". I just simply get bored and have one of the worst cases of vehicular ADD. So the new project is now officially a BMW. Now I have always been a hater of the European cars and proclaimed them to be the least reliable vehicles on the road. I had owned my Yukon for about 8 months or so and was getting kinda bored with it. This BMW was traded in here at the dealership along with a z3 roadster. It seemed like a pretty clean car, had low miles and came from what I would assume to be a "BMW Loving Family" so to speak. I had wanted to play with a wagon for a while now and this is no M3 so the only real route to go with it would be low, aggressive wheel fitment and somewhat of a "stance" type of look. Before I go any further, I have already been called every name in the book for wanting to build a "stance" inspired car and also heard plenty of support for it so to each their own and I still hate Bob either way. I like to think Gizzmo might be little proud of the car despite it no be a Subie. Maybe not, who knows. Now to the build:


This is completely stock


obviously not a photo of the actual car but I neglected to take any photos before starting in on it so this basically sums it up. 2003 325xi (awd) wagon, tan leather interior, heated seats, roof etc.





The roof rack was promptly removed and window tint applied soon after:







When I bought the car it had an issue with the front grill falling out. It seems like I have seen this happen on multiple E46 BMW's that have come through the dealership. I picked up a set of carbon fiber accents to cover some chrome and got the grille held tight back into the hood.
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