SoCal General Chat

[E30SPDFRK]

Looking to buy diffs, open or lsd, making noise or not. Let me know what you have.

[Balleristic31]

Anyone have some spare treehouse style CABs laying around? Last piece I need to get my swap car on the road.

[2mAn]

What size rivnut do you need?

The article says M6, but thats with the OEM hardware, the hardware I have might need an M8

[Chilezen]

I'm looking at getting adjustable sway bars soon. There's a kit from Ireland Engineering and Garagistic. Is there any reason to choose one over the other?
On my car already, I have reinforced the front subframe tabs and the rear trailing arm tabs. And I have the M3 front strut brackets and endlinks. So with those all done, I'm just looking at getting the bars.

[E30SPDFRK]

What size rivnut do you need?

[2mAn]

Anyone got a rivnut or nutsert tool? I have these Cabrio bars from a Mini that Glenn ( glnr13 ) gave me years ago. Mine didn’t have the predrilled holes so I just drilled them but it turns out I drilled into a double walled thing and I don’t have access to the other side. Whoopsies!! Haha

[2mAn]

Next up: a pull-up!

whoa whoa whoa.... lets not get ahead of ourselves!

[Chilezen]

Next up: a pull-up!

I'm also still working. Daily life hasn't changed. Feels nice, less traffic out there.

[2mAn]

glad to be working... I have read zero books though. On the flipside Ive done a few pushups and even a situp or two

[glnr13]

thought i was going to be doing a bunch of stuff on the e30 during this stay at home thing. company furloughed half of the work force so my work load is up by 200%. grateful i have job, sad i don't have time to work on the car.

[azael325i]

Sup guys.. it’s been a long time..

[2mAn]

Sup

[Sh3rpak!ng]

Thanks all for the recommendations!! My friend is thrilled to have a handful of shops to check out and is extremely appreciative of the community for being so willing to support one another. Thanks!

[randywalters]

Hey folks. Friend of mine has a newer x5 that we suspect has a bad head gasket (losing coolant, pressurized coolant, white smoke out exhaust). Any recommendations for a shop in the Gardena/Carson/Inglewood/Long Beach general area?

The best independent BMW shop in the area is:

South Bay Independent BMW Service
18020 S. Vermont Ave
Gardena, Ca. 90248

(310) 532-3145

The owner and his brother are BMW Trained and previous worked at BMW Dealerships.

They're also open most Saturdays by appointment. They're Honest, Capable, and Affordable.

[Tom_T]

Hey folks. Friend of mine has a newer x5 that we suspect has a bad head gasket (losing coolant, pressurized coolant, white smoke out exhaust). Any recommendations for a shop in the Gardena/Carson/Inglewood/Long Beach general area? Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

Hans Imports is in Huntington Beach - which is close next to Long Beach, which I mentioned above. Hans has many X5 customers.

714-536-4000, 714-960-9000 - ask for Hans Sr. or Larry, tell them Tom T with the blue `88 Westy van in there right now referred them. I've been a customer since 1975.

Cheers!
Tom
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