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      01-05-2018, 03:42 PM   #1
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New Owner - 2011 Space Gray E90 M3

Hi. I'm Brandon and this is my 2011 E90 M3.

I bought her yesterday after months of searching and seeing potential cars sell to other people. It's a huge accomplishment for me. I've been driving a 2004 Camry for the last 6 years (which I still love). I couldn't be happier with this car. One owner car that was very very well taken care of w/ tech and premium packages.

Only things I don't like are:
- Wood trim (If anybody wants to trade their carbon trim, lmk)
- USB doesn't support my iPhone X (typical but fixable)
- Bluetooth only for making calls (again, fixable)

Other than that, everything is perfect and just how I wanted.

If anybody has a way to fix the USB/Bluetooth issues, please lmk before I take it to a BMW tech place. Trying to figure out if I need my iDrive updated.

I have big things planned for it and I'm happy to finally be an owner of one of these cars.

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UPDATE: PUT SOME SWIFT SPRINGS ON:



UPDATE: WRAPPED THE ROOF/ADDED LIP:





UPDATE: 02/14/2018

WING IS HERE! BIG THANKS TO JBSPEED









UPDATE: 02/03/2020

It's been well over a year since the last update and 2 years since I’ve owned the car. She now has 112k miles and shes still going strong. I have a Velos tune on the car now and it’s great! I also deleted my secondaries and did the 4 pipe mod. Absolutely love the way it sounds. Eventually looking to get a Corsa rear section. Future mods include a new front lip, side skirts and I’ll end up wrapping the car too.

Decided to resurrect this since I'll be doing more to the car.

UPDATE #1: The car started making that cowbell noise in the driveshaft. Turned out to be the Center Support Bearing. We replaced that and it went away.



UPDATE #2: My car had been giving me a steering wheel vibration issue. Couldnt figure it out. After road force balancing my tires 6x, countless alignments, new control arms, new tires, new brakes, and new strut mounts, it turned out to be a faulty front right strut. So I finally got a set of coilovers. I went with BC BR's. For the price, can't beat it. I only daily drive the car so these are perfect. They ride great. I personally will miss having the EDC functionality, but for now, I’m very pleased with the BC’s. Check out the video and photos below!











UPDATE: 02/07/2020

It's been a week since I had my coilovers installed. I let the suspension settle and I took the car in for an alignment at Euromotive Perormance. The absolutely nailed the alignment. The car drives amazing!

I also went down from a 15mm spacer to a 12mm spacer in the rear. No more rubbing!

Check out the video of the alignment below!



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      01-05-2018, 04:58 PM   #2
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Congrats on the pick up !

BTW, I use an aukey br-c8 that I got as a present works great. Tune2air works better since you get to use factory steering wheel controls, heard that one might be better. Allows you to make phone calls and listen to your music via Bluetooth !
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congrats, car looks great
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      01-05-2018, 05:17 PM   #4
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Congrats and looking forward to your build!
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      01-05-2018, 05:55 PM   #5
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Congrats! Confused on your USB/Bluetooth issues.. you should be able to play audio via bluetooth. However in regards to USB, if you are connected via Bluetooth, the system disables bluetooth audio on the device when you plug it in to USB.
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      01-05-2018, 05:57 PM   #6
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Congrats. Great photo of the car. I love SG E90s.
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      01-05-2018, 06:02 PM   #7
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Congrats! Confused on your USB/Bluetooth issues.. you should be able to play audio via bluetooth. However in regards to USB, if you are connected via Bluetooth, the system disables bluetooth audio on the device when you plug it in to USB.
Ive tried that =/ Doesnt work man. Its such a pain. Cause auxiliary audio is TERRIBLE! I found a guy who can install it for me if needed. Also dont think original owner ever updated the iDrive. I wanna take it to BMW but I dont want my wallet to get raped
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Have you done a vin check to see if yours came equipped with a combox? If so, then it should do BT audio. If it didn’t, you can buy it separately
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Have you done a vin check to see if yours came equipped with a combox? If so, then it should do BT audio. If it didn’t, you can buy it separately
This! Forgot about combox!
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      01-05-2018, 08:18 PM   #10
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Congrats man, look forward to the updates and sick photos!
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Congrats and welcome to the family
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      01-05-2018, 11:00 PM   #12
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Ive tried that =/ Doesnt work man. Its such a pain. Cause auxiliary audio is TERRIBLE! I found a guy who can install it for me if needed. Also dont think original owner ever updated the iDrive. I wanna take it to BMW but I dont want my wallet to get raped
Just to confirm - you tried to go in to your phones bluetooth profile in iDrive and make sure that Audio is selected?

I have a 2011 as well and bluetooth streaming works great for me and my iPX. Plugging the phone into the USB in the armrest works for too however as the other member mentioned, I did have to manually re-enable bluetooth audio after I did that.
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Dope car man!
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Congrats on the new ride!
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      01-06-2018, 01:46 AM   #15
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Have you done a vin check to see if yours came equipped with a combox? If so, then it should do BT audio. If it didn’t, you can buy it separately
I have the build sheet. Will it say "combox"?
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      01-06-2018, 06:45 AM   #16
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I have the build sheet. Will it say "combox"?
I’m not sure? I thought if it came with nav it would have a combox, could just be an update thing like others have said. But here’s a link, just add your vin

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I have the build sheet. Will it say "combox"?
I’m not sure? I thought if it came with nav it would have a combox, could just be an update thing like others have said. But here’s a link, just add your vin

http://bimmer.work/
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Welcome abord 954, that is one pretty car! Couple of more pics + closer up?
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Welcome abord 954, that is one pretty car! Couple of more pics + closer up?
Definitely will be taking more photos!
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      01-06-2018, 04:03 PM   #20
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No combo in sight [/QUOTE]

Boo that stinks, BT audio is important to me as well. BT audio for the M3 came out in mid-late 2011. Build dates from September 2010 the combox became available. You can retrofit it if you're willing to pay but it’s damn expensive. You can also get the tune2air, I’ve read that it sounds pretty good.

https://www.amazon.com/Bovee-Bluetoo.../dp/B00R3ABHXY
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Boo that stinks, BT audio is important to me as well. BT audio for the M3 came out in mid-late 2011. Build dates from September 2010 the combox became available. You can retrofit it if you're willing to pay but it’s damn expensive. You can also get the tune2air, I’ve read that it sounds pretty good.

https://www.amazon.com/Bovee-Bluetoo.../dp/B00R3ABHXY[/QUOTE]

Yeah my car was built May 2010 but my friends E90 has tune to air and its amazing. So I opted for that and then I'll do the retrofit in the future. Looking to do the OEM Exhaust mod in the next week or two. Getting spacers for free (15 all around but idk whats the best size to go for a flush fitment) and $100 swift springs from a friend.
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