Show Us Your Motors!

[Dorje]

Looks tidy

Fox is gonna rip you for the ///M badge and no interior pics though

 

[Darryn]

Didnt take any kind of mount with me and my hand-holding ability is slim to none, next time i go out ill grab some interior photos, but you wont see much, ive no buttons, flat plain cloth and a totally dull interior.

 

[[TW]Fox]

WTF is an ES doing with an M badge on it?!

Or even having those silly little ¨M¨ badges or daft things like that...

Oh the irony

 

[agw_01]

The B & W badges fell off.

 

[Darryn]

At a guess, i suspect someone that owned it previous to me wanted to disguise the fact they had bought the bottom of the range, with some stick on tat... I personnel wont be looking at the back of my own car all that much, so it doesnt both me. Im going to give it a good clean and wax tomorrow to find all the minor scratches and stone chips, i might have a go at removing the ///M badge if it offends me too much.

 

[mrk]

No buttons? so you have *strokes beard* twisty knobs for stuff???!

 

[InvaderGIR]

No buttons? so you have *strokes beard* twisty knobs for stuff???!

No, he has levers!

 

[mrk]

Yay my 318ci is no longer what some would call "worst bmw ever"

 

[[TW]Fox]

At least you deserve the M badges on yours

 

[mrk]

The day I put an M3 engine in there is the day an M badge goes on the boot lid.

So that's a never

 

[InvaderGIR]

The day I put an M3 engine in there is the day an M badge goes on the boot lid.

So that's a never

:/

Leave 318 on there if you do that, then it's a sleeper.

 

[[TW]Fox]

The day I put an M3 engine in there is the day an M badge goes on the boot lid.

So that's a never

Don't pretend you dont have M badged door sills, alloy wheels, gearnob and steering wheel

 

[mrk]

No no, hidden quad exhausts under the diffuser!

Edit*

The M badges that came from the factory don't count!

 

[Tom|Nbk]

One happy, hypo 1CE!

Simply awesome.

At a guess, i suspect someone that owned it previous to me wanted to disguise the fact they had bought the bottom of the range, with some stick on tat... I personnel wont be looking at the back of my own car all that much, so it doesnt both me. Im going to give it a good clean and wax tomorrow to find all the minor scratches and stone chips, i might have a go at removing the ///M badge if it offends me too much.

Easily sorted, borrow a hairdrier and will come off easy as.

 

[iaind]

WTF is an ES doing with an M badge on it?!

The M badge needs to go, soon.

I have to ask though - how on earth do can you tell it's an ES rather than an SE from the outside pictures? Just curious.. I always thought the poverty spec E46s had black door handles - I see quite a few like that round here.

 

[mrk]

Prefacelift ones had black door handles but even then the non ES models had body coloured handles and black too.

It's an ES because it has no climate control - as far as the description goes (no buttons!)

 

[[TW]Fox]

I could make up some really geeky explanation about the wheel style but.. he told us in another thread

 

[iaind]

I could make up some really geeky explanation about the wheel style but.. he told us in another thread

That would make more sense!

I always think these look so naff with black door handles - its one thing buying a poverty spec BMW when only BMW nerds will know, but when you dont even have colour coded plastics, the whole world knows what you've done

Still, this one looks like a smart, solid and practical car - the 320d is never going to set the world on fire but its better than the equivalent Ford/VX/Pug/Renault engines - probably better than the VAG one too

 

[Qu3]

Quite old but...

 

[mrk]

Did you reverse into a bloke who promptly flew off leaving his shoes?