» Site Navigation | | » Recent Threads | 1999 M3 Swap 09-07-2023 10:10 PM 06-01-2024 03:04 PM 7 Replies, 409,541 Views | | My 318ti build 05-21-2024 04:48 PM 05-28-2024 06:42 PM 1 Replies, 3,295 Views | | OMG!OMG! 05-28-2024 08:53 AM 05-28-2024 08:53 AM 0 Replies, 1,266 Views | | | | | | 12-05-2018, 03:53 AM | #16 | Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: SF Bay Area Posts: 315 | Quote: Originally Posted by BMWannabe The 99's had all the options on them already? Do you have a picture of yours to share ? | Not sure what you mean by "All the options" but it does have the sports options on it. However, it is an automatic and has the goodies mentioned. I just realized that I don't have any pics of it on my phone or computer and its not here at home since my youngest son drives it to work. __________________ 01 740iS Cosmos Black 97 318ti Boston Green 99 318ti Titanium Silver 13 X5 3.5XDrive Cosmos Black 97 318ti Alpine White (gone but not forgotten) 88 325iC Schwartz Black (sold) 97 740iL Schwartz Black (sold) 84 633csi Schwartz Black (sold) 96 318ti Alaska Blue (sold) 08 X5 4.8i Titanium Silver (sold) | | | 12-05-2018, 04:54 PM | #17 | Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Greenville, SC Posts: 9,356 | Quote: Originally Posted by 740isport Not sure what you mean by "All the options" but it does have the sports options on it. However, it is an automatic and has the goodies mentioned. I just realized that I don't have any pics of it on my phone or computer and its not here at home since my youngest son drives it to work. | I don't think a 99 had all options. My guess sport suspension color matching mirrors M-tech trim sport seats fog lights cruise and OBC probably optional as they were standard in actives, not the sport. Only other option would be leather seats. __________________ ...steven BMW CCA #146825 1996 BMW 328ti • 2003 MINI Cooper S • 2016 M235i www.bmwcca.org | | | 11-22-2019, 12:06 PM | #18 | Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2019 Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada Posts: 24 | Quote: Originally Posted by BMWannabe | I am lucky enough to have one of them. The 99 had a slightly more bored out engine (1.9L vs. 1.8L) and came with the M-Sport kit incl triptronic autoshifter for performance mode. Thing grips the road like an addias shoe. It has a bit of a phantom mode, I call it grandma mode, where it drives just like a POS stock Civic. But when you punch it hard, it lights up and growls like a monster. Torque band really kicks in at 3500-4000RPM, M-Sport mode lets the engine rev higher than in standard automatic. Hard as hell to find used parts for this year. AllBMWParts.com seems to be able to find anything and everything albeit not at the best price, but beats marching around one Euro pick-a-part after another hoping to find the correct part. Also worthy of noting: The 99 has a different dimmer switch. Mine failed. It's a complete pain in the neck finding a replacement one. The older versions had one under the left side of the steering wheel, seperate from the headlight switch. In the 99 it's integrated into one switch up the dash. At this age, the rheostat can fail due to moisture or corrosion. Price I got for a replaement was 75 bucks - only 25 bucks less than both drivers' side windows. Owning a car this rare (the 99, anyway) is expensive but it's definitely worth the extra punch and M-sport kit with steering wheel. | | | 11-22-2019, 12:08 PM | #19 | Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2019 Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada Posts: 24 | Quote: Originally Posted by 1996 328ti I don't think a 99 had all options. My guess sport suspension color matching mirrors M-tech trim sport seats fog lights cruise and OBC probably optional as they were standard in actives, not the sport. Only other option would be leather seats. | Mine came with all the options. Cruise, OBC-2, computer, all that. The rear suspension is trailing arm, unlike the M3 which is higher end, but it allows you to put on a lot more rim types. Seems to handle awesome so it's not anything I'm crying about. | | | 11-22-2019, 09:51 PM | #20 | Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Dodging potholes in SoCal Posts: 454 | Quote: Originally Posted by mr-canada I am lucky enough to have one of them. The 99 had a slightly more bored out engine (1.9L vs. 1.8L) and came with the M-Sport kit incl triptronic autoshifter for performance mode. Thing grips the road like an addias shoe. It has a bit of a phantom mode, I call it grandma mode, where it drives just like a POS stock Civic. But when you punch it hard, it lights up and growls like a monster. Torque band really kicks in at 3500-4000RPM, M-Sport mode lets the engine rev higher than in standard automatic. Hard as hell to find used parts for this year. AllBMWParts.com seems to be able to find anything and everything albeit not at the best price, but beats marching around one Euro pick-a-part after another hoping to find the correct part. Also worthy of noting: The 99 has a different dimmer switch. Mine failed. It's a complete pain in the neck finding a replacement one. The older versions had one under the left side of the steering wheel, seperate from the headlight switch. In the 99 it's integrated into one switch up the dash. At this age, the rheostat can fail due to moisture or corrosion. Price I got for a replaement was 75 bucks - only 25 bucks less than both drivers' side windows. Owning a car this rare (the 99, anyway) is expensive but it's definitely worth the extra punch and M-sport kit with steering wheel. | All M44s were 1.9L from 96 on. My 96 has the interior light dimmer switch you mention, it's the headlight switch left of the cluster. Getting one at a junkyard will be cheaper __________________ '96 318ti California Edition- Montreal blue '68 1600-2-Caribe blue | | | 11-23-2019, 02:26 AM | #21 | Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2019 Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada Posts: 24 | Mine is an E36 But good to know. Its just a headlight / dimmer switch, I'm certain if it's close to the same year a Mickey Mouse solution would make it work because it's a standard Bimmer plugs attached to the darn thing. I bought mine with a window fail, rain probably destroyed the switch. Im getting some electrical contact cleaner, going to blast the sh*t out of it see if that works on the rheostat but if not I'm stuck with another switch/knob. Hard to drive at night have to drop the visor to engage the vanity headlight just to change the gears, pretty sketchy. Last edited by mr-canada; 11-23-2019 at 02:32 AM. | | | 11-23-2019, 02:41 AM | #22 | Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2019 Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada Posts: 24 | But anyway, not to digress too far from the OPs post onto my Dimmer problem, yes its a 20 year old car but mine still runs like a champ after 340,000 kms. Just be prepared to fix age-related problems. Its a sexy Bimmer, I don't like the eyebrows on the headlights in later models, comes across a bit pretentious. Thing flies. 318ti also has fold down rear seats. Talked to a BMW tech and a BMW parts guy and they said they could fit a whole 700 series car in the back almost with the seats down. Unladen, thing is light, there's almost nothing to it, no rear doors, no trunk, its a bit shorter. So when you punch the gas to have some real big fun it definitely delivers. Mine's 1.9L cranks it out way harder than my 3.7L Jeep Liberty. Don't get me wrong, the Jeep is a damn fine SUV, but I bought the 318 for fun on the highway and the Jeep for fun in the dirt. Best of both worlds. Wouldn't want to do too much dirt driving in the 318. I've seen a lot of videos of 318s rally racing and they do quite well. Just be careful squeaking the tires on hard turns with the gas fully depressed, the tires will get expensive. But it is a hell of a lot of fun so it's hard not to want to do it. Haha | | | 11-23-2019, 02:52 AM | #23 | Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2019 Location: Ocean Shores Posts: 21 | Seems like most of the parts from other years fit fine in the 99 though. I haven't had problems with anything I've ordered... Only oddball things I've done to mine were - put manual windows in (weigh less, and they don't jam up like the electric) and the security pin was broken in my steering column... So I rewired it to a push start | | | | | Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | | Posting Rules | You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts HTML code is Off | | | |