2mAns Daily Driver Thread - who knows what it is today...

[twright]

If you have trouble getting that plug out with a torx, try using a hammer and chisel.

Put the chisel on the outer edge of the drain plug and orient it tangentially, and then hammer it out. I've done that on diff drains before. It works pretty well.

[MrBurgundy]

I can tell from the pic of the plug the socket was not sitting in all the way. hehehe Always tap your allens in until you hear it smack the end. It's a 21 ft lb torque spec fyi.

Also, something may have been torqued to 18 ft lbs, but that doesn't mean it takes equal force to remove it a year or so later.

[2mAn]

You probably should have hammered a torx socket in and called it a day, leaving the next oil change to the next guy.

Thats how its coming out, and though it only needs ~18ftlbs I dont want to roll the dice and make it even worse trying to put that much torque on it when Im tightening it...

New Drain plug should arrive today. I might be the next guy changing the oil soooo dont want to screw future-2mAn by lazy 2mAn antics

[roguetoaster]

You probably should have hammered a torx socket in and called it a day, leaving the next oil change to the next guy.

[2mAn]

Service schedule came up but looks like it was just for an oil change and I’ve done that once or twice in my life so I thought I’d tackle it myself. Bought a factory change kit from bluntech and set about getting to work...



Things seemed to be smooth flowing, until I went to drain the oil. At ~34k and 5 years old I’m guessing this has had 1, maybe 2 changes. Whoever the last person was who changed the oil must not understand what a torque spec is because I put at least 50lbs of force through the ratchet before the 8mm Allen took a spin, but not the drain plug itself...


Today I ordered a new drain plug and also a few of the trashed ‘neoprene nuts’ for the engine lid... I’ll get this oil change done...eventually lol

[2mAn]

If you sold it tomorrow I wouldn't be surprised...

I was just on carvana looking around at i3s and saw some reasonably priced ones with about 50k on the clock.

haha its definitely not going anywhere anytime soon. I have zero interest in letting it go... right now lol

Mine had just under 26k when I got it, I think Im close but not yet to 30k

[MrBurgundy]

If you sold it tomorrow I wouldn't be surprised...

I was just on carvana looking around at i3s and saw some reasonably priced ones with about 50k on the clock.

[2mAn]

When I started to look, prices werent insane hovering around the mid teens. My hope was to sell the wagon and use that to pay cash for the i3, but that didnt work out. I ended up setling the Wagon for less than $12k, and the i3 I bought was around 17k. I paid a little more because I figured I wouldnt be able to pay for it completely in cash and I also hated that 90% of the cars are white/gray/black and I wanted to avoid those colors. Carmax/Carvana/ shift/ etc have all cornered the market so I couldnt get a private party purchase. When this one popped up on CarMax I 'scheduled' my appt to prevent anyone else from being able to see it/ buy it before me. Once I saw the color in person I was sold. I already have driven one and liked em.

Overall, Im happy with the car, not totally happy with the way the financials all worked out but all said, Its a great DD that I expect to keep around longer than the typical 12 months.

Place your bets! November is 1 year! haha

[DEV0 E30]

i3s a couple years ago were mostly hovering around 15k IIRC

Yeah, that's what I thought. I was shocked to see them nearing 30k.

[MrBurgundy]

i3s a couple years ago were mostly hovering around 15k IIRC

[DEV0 E30]

I too think I recall the one from that group.

I'm guessing they are expensive right now... because of Putin lol

I was curious too, only thing less than 20k I'm seeing has a salvage title. Weren't these i3's all less than 20k like a year ago? Sigh.

I've been thinking I don't REALLY need 3 cars, so while I didn't expect the Si to remain forever, it may leave my hands soon.

E30 goes back to main focus and getting to where I want it, LX remains as the truck, and soonish my wife's 9th gen Civic gets sold for a hybrid crossover or something.

[Northern]

Leaning more toward a Plugin hybrid as an Outback replacement in a year + from now. Something like a Volvo V60 Recharge?
Rebates here make up for the difference in cost over the gas only equivalent, so the extra ~150ftlb of torque and 60km electric range for the city is basically free.
With the ICE, it can still do the 600Km drive to the wife's parents' place in the boonies in one shot.
I've never had a "New" car payment, always just 10-15k shitboxes, so that's currently a hard stop until everything else is paid for.

[2mAn]

I'm guessing they are expensive right now... because of Putin lol

[Northern]

Not going to lie, I searched up used i3s this past weekend after someone posted theirs in the Anti-BMW BMW Club Facebook group.
Probably going to just limp both of my shitboxes along for at least another year, but who knows.

[2mAn]

Yea who knew that matching the hood to the rest of the car was a 'mod' haha Once you see it, you will notice how bad every single other i3 out there looks lol

I wonder how much better a white one would look color matched. Which one of you is next to join my "i3's are the new E30s" nonsense