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Old 08-04-2011, 04:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Stapler
Any idea on bottle size for 4 seats?
they say you should use 4 ozs per seat. i've always used 2-3ozs generally. Get teh prestine clean and rejuvinator. i would order the 32oz kit off of autogeek, and use "ago" as a coupon code for free shipping. shipping on the product is expensive.



getting the 32oz kit will alllow you to get a pretty decent amount of rejuvinator on the seats and other panels in the car. prestine clean is an amazing cleaner and slight conditioner and can be used for everything. supposedly prestine clean is a diluted version of the rejuvinator.
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Old 08-04-2011, 06:14 PM
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Old 09-20-2011, 10:58 PM
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Originally Posted by tmnhs81
Congrats! May I suggest the one and only upgrade (or "mod") 740i sport rims and you are set. Style 37 I think..

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I only had to drive 400 miles to get them, but gas included I snagged a oem set for about 600 less than I seen them go for in similar condition on ebay.
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Old 09-20-2011, 11:16 PM
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Best 7 series of all time!

+1 on keeping the phone. When I was shopping for my E28 I found one with a car phone in it, it was awesome!

Plus, nice pick up on the wheels! Need pics!
Old 09-20-2011, 11:29 PM
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Pics with wheels! Awesome car, looking great
Old 09-20-2011, 11:51 PM
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Very nice. I've always thought those wheels were timeless.
Old 09-21-2011, 12:05 AM
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Great choice of wheels. Someone in my building has the same car but decided to go with 20inch aftermarket chrome...
Old 09-21-2011, 07:25 AM
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Little late to the party, but great car and love the new wheels!!
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Originally Posted by Stapler
... He bought it at 80k miles and drove it up and down the east coast till it hit 228k.

Recently it has had a transmission rebuild and... Ok well pretty much everything has been replaced in the last 30k miles. At least I'm to the point where I can change a window regulator in under a half hour.

The engine is original and still doesn't use any oil, the seats seem to wear like iron ...
Nice car and good call on the wheels.

Those two things that I underlined above are the reason that I wonder why people get so worried about engine care and obsess about what engine oil they should be using. I have 150k on my car right now and I feel fairly confident that the engine will outlast everything else. I worry much more about how to maintain everything else!
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I'm dissapointed in the lack of transporter references thus far...

When will you install the coded ignition system?
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Originally Posted by te3point5
I'm dissapointed in the lack of transporter references thus far...

When will you install the coded ignition system?
I think a switch for the license plate to change will be more bad ass
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Nice car. If the motor ever goes a GM LS will fit nicely in that bay.
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Originally Posted by te3point5
I'm dissapointed in the lack of transporter references thus far...

When will you install the coded ignition system?
I'll work on the v12 6 speed from the stunt car first. There is a guy on youtube that has a pin activated ignition, but it looks like he only did it because his ignition switch is messed up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCdzrp3BX8w


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Great choice of wheels. Someone in my building has the same car but decided to go with 20inch aftermarket chrome...
Unfortunately that seems to be the norm, but it's not exactly a expensive car anymore. There is almost always one being parted out or modified in a strange and probably throw up inducing way. I saw one last time I went to the DMV that had been painted flat black , had all of the lights available on ebay, was slammed, no mufflers, and had chrome slugs for wheels.

Originally Posted by mattg
Nice car. If the motor ever goes a GM LS will fit nicely in that bay.
I don't know if you are joking because of the recent suburban thread, but that would be tempting. M62's seem to be on the expensive side to re-build. It is fairly easy to find a nice used one from a low millage car though (which would cost much less, and be allot less work than a swap). Honestly OBD era swaps scare me. I have no idea what is involved.
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No I'm dead serious.

http://legacygt.com/forums/showthrea....html?t=144502
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LS powered BMW's are definitely nothing new, but I think they are pretty awesome. There is a wealth of information on this swap on any BMW forum, but I think they are more commonly swapped in E36's.

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