New Car - BMW 320i

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Lovely choice of car man - a veritable bargain!

After driving an e46 320d SE for about 300miles, the only thing that would stop me from buying one are the seats - I found them to be really really uncomfortable compared to my 530 Sport.
 
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I'm still debating about this one. Our lass wouldn't like it so would have to get it as a second car but then it'd cost a fortune to run.

Also my insurance quote was £700 on it :(

Just done a Glass' guide check on it. It's £2470 in excellent condition.

Might try and get him down to £2000 :p

Fox - opinion please? :)
 
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mrk said:
I'm fairly slim person so even in the sports seats when going around bendy roads I tend to slide around a few inches either way because the bucketness is not bucket enough for someone of my slimness.
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hell i'm 18 stone and the sports seats don't hug me :p they stop me from falling off the edge when i get to it, but they are far from hugging me, the e90 sports seats with inflateable side bolsters are FAR better, they even can hold my other half who is a 5'3 size 6/8 in place! I wonder if e90 seats will fit O_o
 
I find my sports seats to be excellent and very supportive. The only time they've ever been 'slippy' is when I used a crappy leather cleaning wipe, but it went back to normal in a few days.
 
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I find my sports seats to be excellent and very supportive. The only time they've ever been 'slippy' is when I used a crappy leather cleaning wipe, but it went back to normal in a few days.
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But don't you wear rough studenty clothes though that would not really slip, you said you wear hoodies and stuff in another thread once :p
 
Oh noes the dreaded E46 rear light cluster power supply failure is upon me.

Basically the 'earth' pin has ate away at the multisocket (literally burnt it away)

This is quite a common problem with the E46 Facelift, don't think that non facelift are affected.

It requires the wire stripping and then a new earth being made. I'll more than likely strip the wire and crimp it up to the bulb holders metal as an earth, annoying!
 
You mean the rear light clusters? It was a common problem on the prefacelift because my saloon had that problem! I thought they fixed it in facelift though!

Though this may be in 2003+ models the same as the passenger airbag sensor mat/loom failing issue which is also common though less annoying than having abig orange car light up on the dash and red lights behind it!
 
Indeed I'd rather not get pulled by the 5-0 for bad lights so I need to sort this quick. I believe BMW charge 150 but they can get stuffed.

How did you sort it mrk?
 
I took mine to BMW 3 times and they cleaned the rough wiring and mounting plate metal bits (also gave me new bulbs!)which solved it for a few days before returning again. This was all at no cost to me. Kudos to Autoteknic!

I then got fed up and left it, the lights worked perfectly fine, just the dash would indicate they were not working. they said this was due to a resistance fluctuation within the light cluster housings and was a common problem usually the earth connection erodes or another connection/wire erodes etc.

I confirmed this with some Googling.

Funnily enough though after I left it a few weeks it went away and never returned again which was bizarre so it pretty much fixed itself.

The airbag light though...another story, I just bought a reset tool to reset the mat sensor every time it de-activated which was once a month saving me £40 to get bmw to do it each time then sold the tool for £50 before changing the car :p
 
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Here is more about the issue

http://forum.e46fanatics.com/showthread.php?t=533309&highlight=melted+tail+light

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I suspect they had be failing for a while, nearly all E46 are affected by this issue.
 
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