Nonsense Thread

[Northern]

I felt like my ESM wheels never looked quite right. I talked to a guy a The Vintage 10+ years ago who tried to balance a set on a brand new Hunter 3D machine and couldn't get it true. He apparently emailed EMS to let them know their supplier were fucking them with bad quality parts, the response was to threaten him with a lawsuit if he posted about it. That was my first and last set of ESM wheels, which was before they went extra cheap trying to sell 5x120 and 4x100 patterns on the same wheel. Super fucking sketchy.

Mine balanced fine/drove true, just felt really made the car feel bigger/clumsier than the RZs - I assume due to the extra weight. Maybe I just got lucky.
I don't like how my new Dekagrams look, but they certainly are light enough for me to look past it.

[2mAn]

Ive always been a "weight weenie" as Sh3rpak!ng calls me... but damn these wheels looked good







However, going from those ESM wheels back to my SSRs was a significant weight drop, -1" wheel width but man it was like night and day on that car in terms of performance.







I always prefer function > form

[McGyver]

I bought those ESM 007 CCW knockoffs back when they came out because my Euroweave/RZ set were all bent to fuck, the new wheels were like $100 each, and I was drunk.
At one point I threw the old wheels back on the car and was like "wait a second, these feel great"

I felt like my ESM wheels never looked quite right. I talked to a guy a The Vintage 10+ years ago who tried to balance a set on a brand new Hunter 3D machine and couldn't get it true. He apparently emailed EMS to let them know their supplier were fucking them with bad quality parts, the response was to threaten him with a lawsuit if he posted about it. That was my first and last set of ESM wheels, which was before they went extra cheap trying to sell 5x120 and 4x100 patterns on the same wheel. Super fucking sketchy.

[2mAn]

I assume fog lights?

LOL nope, not me

[Northern]

Time deleted my AC. I plan to replace the whole system over the winter though.

I've definitely made cars unpleasant for daily driving by lowing on too-stiff springs and installing solid plastic mounts. Now I just want the car to be responsive but also pleasant to be in.

Time deleted my AC in a sense - it never worked, so I ripped it out when I swapped. Maybe I could get AC working again, but there are a lot of interfering items in the engine bay, and I would need new R134a versions of everything anyway. Few regrets over this one.

Too low annoyed me. Car is high enough that it is drivable and fits real tires on the wheels. I only went solid on the steering guibo, CABs, Engine mounts, and Subframe/Diff, and I don't mind any of it yet. If I drove the car more, I might.

Don't forget gutting the entire mint interior "because racecar"

I have resisted fucking up the interior too much. I did destroy my carpet trying to get the sport seat to sit lower but still slide, and I can't really un-fuck that without a new carpet, but it's well hidden for now. I do need to eventually replace these sport seats because they really are just too small/weak for my fat ass. Someone needs to send some E82 covers into Lseat so they can template them and I can buy them without sending mine.

I think we all did the dumb cheap shitty mods because they were cool at the time, we didn't have better role models, couldn't afford proper mods, and because we thought the $1500 e30s would go on forever.

Thankfully a lot of us have learned from bad financial decisions, poor ride quality, and bad handling to make better choices and not modify things just for the sake of modification.

Nailed it. I wasted a lot of money on shit parts over and over before I was happy with various things. Others still need to be fixed.

The heavy wheel comment hits especially hard since I bought 19" style 351s for my e90 because they look sick (which they do) but I recently went to 17" DForce wheels and shed 80lbs of rotational mass off the car and now get significantly better fuel mileage

I bought those ESM 007 CCW knockoffs back when they came out because my Euroweave/RZ set were all bent to fuck, the new wheels were like $100 each, and I was drunk.
At one point I threw the old wheels back on the car and was like "wait a second, these feel great"

[Northern]

I assume fog lights?

[2mAn]

Details?

Not sure I want to spill the beans, especially because it does look like a complete fraud at this point.

TLDR: WTB Poster got scammed. User is banned

[McGyver]

Details?

[2mAn]

[roguetoaster]

Is his name Simon? I mean that guy just robbed some dude

[2mAn]

Any R3V detectives want to get involved with trying to hunt down a scammer? I'm bored and it looks like there was a legit person who suddenly has gone shady

[Simple_Smith]

I mean we're all guilty of some of that ourselves... AC delete, shitty shifter (short shifter, bro), heavy wheels because they look shiny, etc.

I've been trying to unfuck my car on and off for years now.

Don't forget gutting the entire mint interior "because racecar"

I think we all did the dumb cheap shitty mods because they were cool at the time, we didn't have better role models, couldn't afford proper mods, and because we thought the $1500 e30s would go on forever.

Thankfully a lot of us have learned from bad financial decisions, poor ride quality, and bad handling to make better choices and not modify things just for the sake of modification.

The heavy wheel comment hits especially hard since I bought 19" style 351s for my e90 because they look sick (which they do) but I recently went to 17" DForce wheels and shed 80lbs of rotational mass off the car and now get significantly better fuel mileage

[McGyver]

I mean we're all guilty of some of that ourselves... AC delete

Time deleted my AC. I plan to replace the whole system over the winter though.

I've definitely made cars unpleasant for daily driving by lowing on too-stiff springs and installing solid plastic mounts. Now I just want the car to be responsive but also pleasant to be in.

[MrBurgundy]

A/C delete and ABS deletes are wild lol


-5* camber, no abs on Ling Long tires just barreling down the highway. Hanging their quick lock steering out the window..

God help us, or just smite all of us already

[varg]

Speak for yourself I'd say the most "ruined" mod I've done to a street car was the F&$#%! squeaky Condor RTABs in my E30, and that wasn't my fault because I was told they wouldn't squeak. I've helped undo AC deletes that boy racer POs did and talked someone out of an ABS delete not too long ago. Wanted to "clean up the engine bay", yeah a cleaner engine bay is gonna matter when you lock them up in the rain because some human cattle in an SUV pulled out in front of you, threshold braking is fine for living your Räikkönen fantasies at track days but I'll take functioning ABS on the unpredictable crap conditions of the street 10/10 times. Hell I wish I had it on my motorcycle too, but I don't really like new stuff.