It's been a while trying to find a coolant leak which drains maybe 2L a day; despite replacing the water pump, radiator, pipes, expansion tank, gearbox oil cooler connector plate... something is still forcing the expansion tank cap to leak! There's no leak at the front of the car anymore, so I guess we gotta check through the engine at some point - although there is no vapour at the exhaust
Yesterday I spent two+ hours scrubbing into the corners of the rims but the front ones still have little rusty lines in the sharpest corners - I'll try a polishing bit on the Dremel for that, as I guess the laquer will already be breached.
Apart form that, all is good - starting, shifting, AC, suspension, braking all like a champ, CD changer changed (for the older style with the BMW logo as I blew up two of the Alpine changers) with subwoofer and all speakers hot - best of all I managed to pick a HU out of the dusty pile of parts in the workshop and it turned out to have a pixel-perfect screen and working illumination and volume pots
- I'm praying that todays' passenger door lock and window lifter change will be the last for some good while!