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Old 11-30-2005, 05:29 AM   #1
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Smile Hello, new member and proud 318ti owner.

Hi everyone,

First of all, let me introduce myself. My name is Márcio (and my nickname is WuDoo) and I’m 27 years old brazilian living in San Diego – CA. I’ve moved here in the end of April… and in Brazil I always loved BMW… but there I never could afford one.

Not even a month has passed since I bought my 318ti, since the day I bought it I already went looking for a bunch of stuff related to the car. Parts stores, dealers near where I live and also forum.

My 318ti is a 1998 Artic Silver, pretty much stock. From what I know only the wheels were changed. The car has now around 93500 miles, and I'm (and my girlfriend) are loving it.



This is the car today. The bad part: It's a salvage title. Was hit in the rear left. Well, I had around 5k to spend to buy me a car, and was looking mainly for an economic one, like Honda's Civic and alike... so when I saw this 318ti being sold for 6k I had to give it a try... and got a deal for 5k.

Oh man, the story is getting to long… so I will stop here and tell more on a later post.

This is really a nice community, I’ve read a lot… got a bunch of tips from older posts and still have some questions and suggestions to ask…

Regards,
Márcio “WuDoo”…
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Old 11-30-2005, 05:47 AM   #2
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Old 11-30-2005, 05:51 AM   #3
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looks good márcio! what size are the wheels/tires? they look like they fill the front wheel well near ideally.

welcome to the club!
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Old 11-30-2005, 06:21 AM   #4
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Welcome!! Those rims are nice
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Old 11-30-2005, 06:25 AM   #5
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Thank you DustenT and cali-ti !!

The wheels are 18" with 225/40 R18 tires... and they do fit nice, but the rear ones I think would need some suspension/shocks adjustments (or change them), cause they are the stock ones and are really near... when the car is in full load they rub a little doing turns and such.

I'm glad to be here!

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Old 11-30-2005, 06:27 AM   #6
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Welcome!! Those rims are nice
Thanks CirrusSR22!
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Old 11-30-2005, 06:29 AM   #7
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Hey welcome enjoy they site and the free exchange of information.
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Old 11-30-2005, 08:38 AM   #8
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definently welcome to the site man! nice looking car too! this website is full of useful information for pretty much anything!
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Old 11-30-2005, 10:09 AM   #9
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thats a nice tidy looking car!

i like them with minimal mods. just wheels and a nice exhaust. that'll do me.
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Old 11-30-2005, 08:28 PM   #10
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Thank you AlaskaBlue, robcarync and davep-uk for the welcome!
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Old 11-30-2005, 09:40 PM   #11
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Congrats on your purchase and welcome aboard....

Those rims make your car look very nice...
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Old 11-30-2005, 11:12 PM   #12
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Thanks Tyler!
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Old 11-30-2005, 11:28 PM   #13
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Welcome! As everyone else has said: nice rims! I hope that you can learn something useful from us "ti" bums
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Old 11-30-2005, 11:57 PM   #14
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Thank you m-technik_ti...

And everyone: you guys have incredible ti's... all the galleries I've seen makes me do so much in my car , but I'm going to take a while.... spent almost everything I had to buy the car; plus insurance, smog, registration … but I’ve got a lot of cars to get inspiration from.

Congratulations everyone, AMAZING cars!
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Old 12-01-2005, 01:31 AM   #15
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Nice looking Ti. I got the exact same one as you except the bumpers and skirts are not painted yet.
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