God, I may have been a bit lapse with this thread... I sort of forgot about it. And the A3. lol
Thanks for all the well wishes about the White M3. That did indeed meet a very sad demise. Most of you will have seen it as many are on Facebook, but one of the BBS replicas that were fitted to the car failed. I was just driving along having pulled off, got to about 25 - 30 MPH, and heard a loud bang from the **** end.
Unfortunately as I was thinking 'What the f**k was that', the car started going sideways - to which I responded with some opposite lock and a bit of boot. This made the situation 10 times worse as the driver's side rear wheel had snapped off at the hub, leaving only 1 driving wheel.
The driving wheel span up when I gave it boot and span the car through about 270 degrees, taking out a post and writing it off. A bit of a bummer.
Naturally there are those that have their opinions about the circumstances, and those people **** me off, so I kindly ask them to keep them to themselves, as I couldn't give a cold jar of p*ss.
Anyhow, car was all kinds of smashed up - photos below:
As you can see, the damage externally was relatively minor, it was the damage to the suspension that was bad.
Pretty much everything snapped, as you can imagine the bill from BMW was rather excessive, meaning she was written off.
Insurance paid out without any issue which was good - they paid out £6900, even though I had paid more than that for it.
They took a week to sort it out, and I borrowed £7000 off my old man to go and buy it's replacement from Aldershot - photos:
The guy selling this didn't really know what he was selling to be fair. It's got a Gruppe Simota carbon induction kit, which is very nice. HSD coilovers front and back, all the carbon goodies, and a CSL bootlid. All those little additions add up really quick.
It's also been mapped I'm pretty sure as it substantially more aggressive than the previous white one - I will find out for sure one day.
Anyway - enough about BMWs - the track car.
What have I been doing for the last 3 months with it?
Precisely sod all. Two reasons. Cold and frankly horrible weather. A tiny garage that it's in, which is very badly lit and always wet.
Oh, and I ran out of money as well!
The engine is built and complete, now fitted. To be fair, to get it running I really need to do very very little. I need oil lines and a PAS pipe. And to fit the timing belt. And that's it.
Downpipe is made, and fits. Just. It is so so so tight in there you wouldn't believe. So, once it warms up a bit I will get on and get her running me thinks.
The cold has completely made me lose all motivation. It's quite funny how different it is working on a car that you don't need to use to get to work the next day...