Oil change time, how exciting!
Trip to BMW to pick up some bits. Raising the bar in the car park amongst all the beaver toothed M4's and other ugly rubbish.
These bolts (for the rear arms) were £10 each...
Some strongflex red polybushes for the rear arms and the rear beam.
We are dropping the whole rear subframe out this week / next week to de-scale and paint it (and the floorpan above it) and replace the bushes. It is looking a little worse for wear back there, and I want to knock this out before its MOT. There doesn't seem to be any excessive movement, but I'm sure the tester would at least raise an eyebrow. Would rather avoid the possible fail.
(also you can hopefully see why I pre-emptively got new nuts and bolts)
Painted my replacement exhaust manifold. Looks pretty decent if I do say so myself. The one currently on the car is fine, but it is technically the wrong one. This will tidy it up a little, and avoid any future confusion when trying to buy gaskets etc.
And went for a little drive...
Very peaceful round here. Didn't encounter another car or person, only a couple of muntjac deer and some hares. You have to take it steady and really pay attention at dusk when the animals are moving around.
