True, but my mech charges so little that I hoped that while he had it up and the wheels off he would just do it all at once...

I didn't see the insert. Unless all inserts are the same size. Do you have a part number handy?

So you're telling me my 3 ton, 3 liter, suv isn't a M car? :rippedoff

Not a big deal on a shift knob.

My E46 330i sport came from BMW with M logo wheels.

Would never stick one anywhere on the bodywork.

just gave her a wash and a vacuum :)

nice and shiney now

My E30 shares the same seats and steering wheel with the M3. It came with the tri color stripes and stuff. I have the ///M shift knob in there. But my X5 never came with anything motorsport badged from the factory.

It isn't a huge deal. But I'd rather just get the other shift pattern. Also my splash screen on the Nav now is the ///M and that bothers me the most. But I haven't figured out how to change it yet.

Picked it up today from a week in cosmetic surgery. I got a lil love tap in some parking lot somewhere. Couple small dents in the left rear hatch were small enough to pull without filler, but they were through the paint.

I figured also this was the time to fix a right side scratch I got like 3 weeks after I brought it home. :(

But now, the rear is all shiny again, without dings or scratches. I need to throw a good wash on it to get the stuff off and then get after it with the Flex polisher. That trip west was tough on the hood. The whole thing needs a week at the spa. :D

Today was the day to replace the NAV monitor screen. Some little weirdness started crawling across the screen this summer before my giant road trip. Can't have that, can we. :dunno:

I had never done this before. I watched a YouTube video for 6 minutes and completed the job in just over an hour. Not a bad DIY at all. If you've built a PC in the early 90's, you have all the know how you need.

How did the PDR come out Prop? I have a nagging pinhole dent on my rear quarter to get taken care of when my X goes in the shop for skid plate painting (when it arrives).

Glad to hear she is cosmetically perfect again :)

If I remember it right, the steering wheel on my 4.6iS had an ///M logo on it... the cluster did not but the wheel did... I have to see if I have an old pic of the car to see if my memory does not fail me...

EDIT

Here is pic of 4.6 taken in Panama... you can see the ///M logo on steering wheel, from the factory. The car was bone stock (except for some entertainment electronics)
http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14...dbf815c65b.jpg

Popped my regulator cherry today on the X5. Not my first window regulator in a BMW, but first on the X. Knocked it out pretty quickly and easily as it was much easier than some of the other ones I've done on other chassis.

Now I know that the driver's front, passenger front, and passenger rear (the one I did today) have been done on the vehicle. I know because I've had to do other work in the door panels to fix what the shops (or POs) who did the work broke... so yeah. Gotta love that.

Hopefully I won't have to go into the doors again anytime soon (fingers crossed) as I've already replaced the driver's interior door handle from the PO wearing some heavy rings I guess. It was the only door handle that was scratched up.