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      04-20-2009, 03:33 PM   #1
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Tell me your modification plans for your car.

I cant stand the wait for the new car and I have allready started to make "changes" to the car....

What i want to do is.
1. starspoke 230 for summer tires and the 296 wheels for winter.
2. sports exhoust
3. the antrasitt woodtrim I want to paint in black sapphire.
4. the roll over bar would be nice in dim black.
5. shorter antenna.
6. short shifter.

probably more to come.

are you guys going to keep the car originale? I have to in the begining becauce the car is going to stand in front of our dealership(test drive, yeah right!!), but I have to make it a littel personal.
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"3. the antrasitt woodtrim I want to paint in black sapphire. "

Why would you do this? just curious..
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      04-20-2009, 03:54 PM   #3
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"3. the antrasitt woodtrim I want to paint in black sapphire. "

Why would you do this? just curious..

I dont like wood, but on the othe sider it looks really good to be wood.
I am not goring to replace it buy alu because many cars have alu now.

The white seats are probably gooing good with the wood but i dont want a mahogany table inside the car. A littel joke but I havent seen and i am a littel skeptic!

I have many plans but time will showe!!! I want the car tomorrow.
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      04-20-2009, 07:06 PM   #5
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Here's my suggestion.

1. Replace the hideous looking side markers with something else.
2. Paint the silver trims in front bumper black.
3. GP Thunder 8500
4. Wheels
5. JB+
6. Tint the rear glass
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      04-21-2009, 10:03 AM   #6
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whate is JB and the other thing?
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I will have the following done:

1. Shorter antenna (already ordered)

2. Roll bars painted in car color (orion silver - the normal silver looks uuugly combined with orion silver)
My dealer will do this for free.


Apart from that nothing planned.

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3. the antrasitt woodtrim I want to paint in black sapphire.
Argh.. Can I send you my ash wood in exchange and you paint that? I would love to have the anthrazit wood with black leather...



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6. short shifter.
What exactly do you have in mind?

Did you order an automatic? (I would be very much interested in exchanging the shifter on my 23i automatic)
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      04-21-2009, 10:18 AM   #9
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You are aware that BMW is monitoring certain drive characteristics and that they can deny guarantee if they find certain values exceeding the given limits...

In the German forum somebody claims that his dealer regularly gets calls from BMW informing him that no guarantee work is to be done for certain vehicles due to this.

Just my two cents.
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you can use Bavarian Technic
and delete all fault code

http://n54tuning.com/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=22
http://www.bavariantechnic.com/faultcodes.aspx

http://www.n54tech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3259
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An another audio head unit, much better speakers and subwoofer.

The 1 and 3 series car radio unit is also used in the E89, so an front panel frame to build in a DIN car radio is already available.

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Too much for me... I am out of here
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      04-21-2009, 04:15 PM   #13
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I will have the following done:

1. Shorter antenna (already ordered)

2. Roll bars painted in car color (orion silver - the normal silver looks uuugly combined with orion silver)
My dealer will do this for free.


Apart from that nothing planned.



Argh.. Can I send you my ash wood in exchange and you paint that? I would love to have the anthrazit wood with black leather...





What exactly do you have in mind?

Did you order an automatic? (I would be very much interested in exchanging the shifter on my 23i automatic)
we can try to send it!! I am not sure if i am going to do it. I havent seen ut but i am sceptic....

No i dont have automatic. i want something like the shortshifter they have for the 3 and 1 series in the performance "kit".
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we can try to send it!! I am not sure if i am going to do it. I havent seen ut but i am sceptic....
Let me know if you seriously start thinking about it. It would be a shame if you have the anthrazit wood and you paint it and I can't get anthrazit wood due the limitation from BMW (or I would have to pay 2000 CHF to get it as a spare part )

Don't know if sending stuff back and forth would really be worth the effort, but if you seriously consider painting, please let me know.

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Let me know if you seriously start thinking about it. It would be a shame if you have the anthrazit wood and you paint it and I can't get anthrazit wood due the limitation from BMW (or I would have to pay 2000 CHF to get it as a spare part )

Don't know if sending stuff back and forth would really be worth the effort, but if you seriously consider painting, please let me know.

I will do that!

I am not sure, but we have to see!! It looks goodd, but i never thought i should have wood inside one of mye cars!!
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I will do that!

I am not sure, but we have to see!! It looks goodd, but i never thought i should have wood inside one of mye cars!!
I have selected the ash wood and it will also be the first time I will have wood.

But then I am getting old


What is the alternative? We have aluminium in our E91 (my wife is driving it) and we have a lot of dents in it (from her rings) since the material is too soft.

I don't like the standard interior, so I had to choose wood.

If I had chosen an E90 I would have gone for grey (black) wood (from BMW individual) but since there is so little choice for the E89...
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I have selected the ash wood and it will also be the first time I will have wood.

But then I am getting old


What is the alternative? We have aluminium in our E91 (my wife is driving it) and we have a lot of dents in it (from her rings) since the material is too soft.

I don't like the standard interior, so I had to choose wood.

If I had chosen an E90 I would have gone for grey (black) wood (from BMW individual) but since there is so little choice for the E89...
the individual is easy to get dents and marks on aswell. A friend of my have it and we have now painted it wite a "super" clear paint that are supposed to be good. i am going do that IF I am going to paint the wood!

We just have to se. The code for my car is now 152 chassi!! I allready know the chassinumber and the guy that handels our new cars say that it are supposed to be har for the launche.... If nothing goes wrong...
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I will have the following done:

1. Shorter antenna (already ordered)

2. Roll bars painted in car color (orion silver - the normal silver looks uuugly combined with orion silver)
My dealer will do this for free.


Apart from that nothing planned.



Argh.. Can I send you my ash wood in exchange and you paint that? I would love to have the anthrazit wood with black leather...





What exactly do you have in mind?

Did you order an automatic? (I would be very much interested in exchanging the shifter on my 23i automatic)

where did you ordered the shorter antenna, any pictures or website info ?
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where did you ordered the shorter antenna, any pictures or website info ?
The shorter antenna from BMW available as an accessory. My dealer will order it for me.
It's about 2/3 of the size of the original antenna (28 cm instead of 42cm)

Not 3rd party.
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The shorter antenna from BMW available as an accessory. My dealer will order it for me.
It's about 2/3 of the size of the original antenna (28 cm instead of 42cm)

Not 3rd party.
I had a 1 series. i did the same thing with my car, but i did it my self! just cut 4/5 of it and put the plastic think back on the top.
Lokked good. Will do the same with this one!
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The shorter antenna from BMW available as an accessory. My dealer will order it for me.
It's about 2/3 of the size of the original antenna (28 cm instead of 42cm)

Not 3rd party.
Thanks a lot but it is little bit weird since the long antenna does not look good and bmw has a shorter antenna why they do not use the shorter one for production? I mean i believe a lot of people will get rid of that long antenna and order shorter one but BMW is a big company do they think to make extra money from shorter antennas
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Thanks a lot but it is little bit weird since the long antenna does not look good and bmw has a shorter antenna why they do not use the shorter one for production? I mean i believe a lot of people will get rid of that long antenna and order shorter one but BMW is a big company do they think to make extra money from shorter antennas
Forget the money. The short antenna is priced at 12 Euro or something like that. It is not a question of money.

There is a lot of discussion going on about this.

People assume the following reasons:

The standard radio does NOT have diversity and therefore relies on a single antenna which has to be longer in order to have good reception under all circumstances (even in rural areas).

People living in the city may have good reception even without an antenna.

People ordering a better radio (or navigation system) can end up with multiple antennas for radio diversity (though nobody really knows where the second antenna could be).

People ordering HiFi package could have an amplifier included which boosts the signal.


These are all remarks from the German forums (not my own thoughts).

Fact is: Nobody knows for sure what the reason for the longer antenna is.
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