What did you do to your car today?

[oldtin]

Wiper got stuck to the windshield with ice - so I managed to strip the driver's side wiper arm :-(

[rochey6957]

Just finished installing my Christmas present. A brand new oem Roof Rack. Hoorahh!

[Michael_M]

Just got myself a new head unit which is the Pioneer X6500BT, Bluetooth, USB, Aux, you name it.. waiting for its arrival to install! Love Christmas..

[trikzta]

Originally Posted by rochey6957

Just finished installing my Christmas present. A brand new oem Roof Rack. Hoorahh!

Where you get it? An how much was it

[1996 328ti]

Pulled all rotors. The rears were a bitch. Can't remember the last time I had them off.
Needed to drill one retainer screw and whack the crap out of them to get them loose.
Even with a generous spray of PB Blaster.

Next replace rear parking shoes. I haven't had a parking brake in probably 10 years.

Replace rotors. The rotors don't look bad now that they are off the car.
Fronts have a lot of spider cracks though. They can probably last another year but figure I'll replace them since I need new track pads. The rears are old.

Then diff fluid.

And finally oil suction tube.

[Michael_M]

Finally the weather today was good enough to be able to detail the engine bay from all the oil that has been there from the valve cover gasket, discovered that I have 2 brake lights that were blown, and my trunk switch is acting up and cause a battery drain so need to order a new one!

[UberWagen]

Originally Posted by Michael_M

Just got myself a new head unit which is the Pioneer X6500BT, Bluetooth, USB, Aux, you name it.. waiting for its arrival to install! Love Christmas..

Just put a new headunit in mine. Tried printing a wiring diagram from Mitchell, and it didn't tell me what actual wires go from the headunit to speakers, just what wires fed into the amp.

http://www.modifiedlife.com/1997-bmw...-wiring-chart/

That will save you time. What I found out on my own though, is that it does have an illumination wire that if I remember correctly was yellow. Be sure to hook up your white wire to the powered antenna wire out of the new unit.

[1996 328ti]

Front rotors, pads. Done.

Still to go.
Rear parking brake shoes, rotors, pads.
Diff fluid.

[Michael_M]

Originally Posted by UberWagen

Just put a new headunit in mine. Tried printing a wiring diagram from Mitchell, and it didn't tell me what actual wires go from the headunit to speakers, just what wires fed into the amp.

http://www.modifiedlife.com/1997-bmw...-wiring-chart/

That will save you time. What I found out on my own though, is that it does have an illumination wire that if I remember correctly was yellow. Be sure to hook up your white wire to the powered antenna wire out of the new unit.

Actually I find an easier way, I grabbed that from ebay it should be arriving here in a day or two, just connect it to your ti stock connector and match colors with the your new player.. you won't have to cut the original wires or do anything which saves a lot of time and keep things original in case you sold the car

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/METRA-70-8590...ht_1782wt_1397

[FunElan]

Painted my steelies silver yesterday, the car looks a lot less like a beater! Now to fix that front bumper situation....

[1996 328ti]

Finally finished up rear rotors and parking shoes.
Next up, replace rear wheel studs. Need to find a 5.5mm hex socket now.

[teetime4one]

Installed new Kenwood speakers in my kick-panels. And, finally got around to putting the four black door speakers in the door panels that Justin gave me. That only took 8 months to source those for Zippy. But, it's done!

[spidertri]

Installed a motion motorsport underpanel and radiator baffle yesterday. Quality piece, it really strengthens the whole front bumper/fender liners. Install was really easy, the ti has all the holes already in the frame rails so no extra drilling.

My stock stuff broke after hitting 1 cone at autox, lol.

[jca]

Originally Posted by FunElan

Painted my steelies silver yesterday, the car looks a lot less like a beater! Now to fix that front bumper situation....

I did the same thing. Think about getting a set of OEM dog dish hubcaps to go with your silver steelies. I posted pics of mine a page or two back on this thread. PM me if you want the part number for the caps. Cheers! John

[1996 328ti]

FINALLY got the car off jack stands.
Finished up replacing rear wheel studs.
One got stripped and I ended up removing the rotor AGAIN to remove it.
Instructions called for installing with double nuts.
They should have come with higher quality nuts to do the install.

Get to drive it again.