 » Site Navigation | | | | » Recent Threads | | | |  |  |  |  03-27-2008, 03:28 AM | #1 | | Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Virginia Posts: 12 |  Saying Hello from the Mountains of Virginia
Hi, I just wanted to toss my information out there in hopes of communicating with the experts. I bought myself a 1995 318ti (black, gray interior, manual) as my college graduation present to myself as I found it with only 30,000 miles on it. I still adore the car 90,000 miles later. I new that it was my "baby" but I had no idea there was such a following until we had a car show at the park where I work and some gentleman asked me why I had not entered my car. Anyway, he later mailed me some magazines and so forth and here I am hoping to communicate with other 318 fans.
I have my car at a local place now having a bit of stuff done to it, making use of that tax return. The material around the gear shift had split and they could not find the gray color that I assume was original and instead put a black one in. Any comments? All of the window controls and everything are black and it doesn't look bad, but is it going to stick out like the sore thumb as they say?
I lost one of the covers for the area where the fog lights go, passenger side. They ordered one and could only get it in black but that area of the car is more of a dark gray. Any ideas?
Also, were the plastic vents for the sunroof original or is that an aftermarket piece. The rubber gasket came out of mine and you have to replace the whole unit. But I am thinking about taking the whole thing off. I am to some extent trying to get the original look. I have even replaced the headliner and all the trim around the windows and doors that had started to age. And replaced some of the plastic trim where the doors close that had started to age.
Thanks for any info! |  |  | | 03-27-2008, 03:32 AM | #2 | | Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Fort Collins, CO Posts: 1,305 |
not quite sure what you're talking about with the sunroof but welcome aboard and let's see some pictures (dave?)!!! i went to school right up 81 from blacksburg. | | | | | 03-27-2008, 03:35 AM | #3 | | Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Denver, Colorado Posts: 3,212 |
yea...  | | | | | 03-27-2008, 03:44 AM | #4 | | Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Fort Collins, CO Posts: 1,305 |
right on cue! | | | | | 03-27-2008, 03:52 AM | #5 | | Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Virginia Posts: 12 |
You guys must have missed the part about it getting some special attention from my BMW guru in Roanoke. I promise pics after she gets back from the beauty parlor. | | | | | 03-27-2008, 03:54 AM | #6 | | Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Virginia Posts: 12 |
Quote: Originally Posted by PettitWC  not quite sure what you're talking about with the sunroof but welcome aboard and let's see some pictures (dave?)!!! i went to school right up 81 from blacksburg. | Where did you go to school? As for the sunroof, when I bought the car it has this plastic vent shield on the front of the sunroof, I guess to divert the wind or make it quieter. But someone told me that they thought it was aftermarket and if so I will probably just remove it rather than having to buy the entire assembly just to replace the rubber gasket. | | | | | 03-27-2008, 03:55 AM | #7 | | Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Denver, Colorado Posts: 3,212 |
haha we are just messing around. I usually put those smilies on every new member that doesn't post a pic. It's more of a habit now.  | | | | | 03-27-2008, 03:58 AM | #8 | | Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Fort Collins, CO Posts: 1,305 |
Quote: Originally Posted by Hokie318 You guys must have missed the part about it getting some special attention from my BMW guru in Roanoke. I promise pics after she gets back from the beauty parlor. | hahaha, nah man, we're just messing with you. Quote: Originally Posted by Hokie318 Where did you go to school?
As for the sunroof, when I bought the car it has this plastic vent shield on the front of the sunroof, I guess to divert the wind or make it quieter. But someone told me that they thought it was aftermarket and if so I will probably just remove it rather than having to buy the entire assembly just to replace the rubber gasket. | i went to vmi up in lexington but spent some time down in blacksburg playing some club soccer and drinking some oh, i got you. yeah, that sounds aftermarket. | | | | | 03-27-2008, 04:00 AM | #9 | | Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Denver, Colorado Posts: 3,212 |
chris i don't think this is a dude. Quote: Originally Posted by Hokie318 My license plate on my 318ti is N8RGRL. (That would be nature girl not anything to do with Nader.) :-) | | | | | | 03-27-2008, 04:09 AM | #10 | | Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Virginia Posts: 12 |
Yeah, you got me, not a dude at all. As a matter of fact I did my undergraduate at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton so I know all about the Keydets! Ha ha.
And yeah, I read the posts earlier where you had gotten some other newbies for not having pics! | | | | | 03-27-2008, 04:22 AM | #11 | | Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Fort Collins, CO Posts: 1,305 |
well jokes on you, 'cause i'm illiterate...wow, this just seems to happen all the time these days Quote: Originally Posted by Hokie318 Yeah, you got me, not a dude at all. As a matter of fact I did my undergraduate at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton so I know all about the Keydets! Ha ha.
And yeah, I read the posts earlier where you had gotten some other newbies for not having pics! | ouch, don't hold it against me | | | | | 03-27-2008, 04:25 AM | #12 | | aka Stabby Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Mead, CO Posts: 5,336 |
it appears they've moved up to tag-teaming, look out! lol
so it was the shift boot that they replaced with black instead of gray? may or may not look bad, guess we'll have to wait for pics. __________________ 1996 318ti, California package, 267k miles
current mods: bilstein sports, bavauto springs, e30 m3 LCABs, solid metal ball joints, bavauto RSMs w/reinforcements, e30 3.73 LSD & halfshafts, supersprint cat-back exhaust, turner rear sway bar reinforcements, IE poly subframe & RTABs + camber/toe kits, powdercoated e36 32x front calipers, sport mirrors, H&R 28mmF/19mmR sway bars, x-brace, auto solutions SSK w/poly bushing upgrade, BMW CD43 head unit, DICE HD Radio w/iPod integration and "stealth" HD antenna, staggered style 68s, orange electronic TPMS, leather arm rest, JT Designs metal undertray
acquired and awaiting install: heated seat kit, cali top switch relo, lumbar support kit, park distance control kit, heated washer nozzle kit, m-coupe rear subframe, trailing arms, differential, and halfshafts, m-coupe front/rear brakes with master cylinder, under hood light kit, mud flaps, rear sun blind, auto-dimming rear view mirror, tilt steering wheel retrofit, apexcone 5000K HIDs with 55W ballasts
2002 X5 4.4 Sport Package, 53.5k miles
Current Mods: e46 m3 steering wheel | | | | | 03-27-2008, 04:53 AM | #13 | | That's not Millpoint Blue Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: BNA Posts: 3,161 |
Quote: Originally Posted by Hokie318 I have my car at a local place now having a bit of stuff done to it, making use of that tax return. | Hey, if you need any help spending that tax return, I've got some wheels for sale. (info in my sig) Welcome to the site! __________________ Real men know how to SEARCH!
THIS IS A MILLPOINT BLUE INTERIOR
Mods 'n' stuff: Star Spoke 43 wheels - X-Brace - Mason Engineering front strut brace - CF gauge overlay - ZHP shifter knob - Racing Dynamics cat-back - Doubled brake lights - M-tech rear spoiler
From Page 68 of the 1997 Owners Manual: "Vehicles equipped with ASC+T remain subject to the laws of physics." | | | | | 03-27-2008, 11:29 PM | #14 | | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: asdfasdf Posts: 10,002 |
Quote: Originally Posted by PettitWC well jokes on you, 'cause i'm illiterate...wow, this just seems to happen all the time these days | it's okay Chris, I call girls "dude" all the time (I wonder why?  ) btw, Hokie, if you want too see a black shift boot in a grey interior, check thesk8nmidget's photo gallery, if you don't like the look, try Bavauto, they sell shift boots in all different colors and they also have the foglight delete covers in dark-grey (unpainted), welcome to the "org"  | | | | |
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