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m5 gets new suspension developed at

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james maze's favorite place on earth and

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we fixed the sunroof hello

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hello and welcome to part 7 of project

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rally the glorious 2007 e60 m5 with the

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magnificent 6-speed manual transmission

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this is the car that all of you love

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this is the car that i love and we had

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six episodes on this project so far in

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between those six videos this very car

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has collected over five million views

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that's a pretty crazy number if you

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think about it and get a lot of this

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it's been reliable it hasn't given me

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any issues yet

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i took it on a road trip recently around

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600 700 kilometers to buy another

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project it just performs flawlessly no

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check engine light it just goes and

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screams down the road and it's

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incredible satisfying pleasure to drive

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this car

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glorious just fabulous v10 engine and

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then you have the manual gearbox it just

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doesn't get any better than that in this

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episode it's time to give it more love

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the rear right shock is slightly leaking

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and it's time to refresh all of them

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we're also going to do throttle actuator

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service as part of preventing

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maintenance they're known for going bad

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and i don't have any records of them

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ever being done and we're also going to

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do the vowel covers at the same time and

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in general i just want to be on top of

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everything with this car so it performs

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100

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all the time there are also some small

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things that mirror is not folding

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properly the sunroof needs a new seal

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and i think one of the tire pressure

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sensors is bad so we're going to do that

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as well that's more or less what we're

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going to do today so let's bring it

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inside and get this party going

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[Music]

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nurse please rolling the tools and the

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gloves of course senor

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feeling fancy today so we'll go with the

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white gloves

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don't establish 10 millimeter

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there you are

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a heart surgeon once told me every

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surgery starts with a 10 ml socket

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we're kicking off with the wall cover

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gaskets and throttle actuator service

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which means we have to go to the trunk

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of the car

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to disconnect the battery here's a

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million dollar idea holster for the 10

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mil ratchet

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that's the negative cable

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plastic there

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to get to the actuators and valve cover

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gaskets we need to remove some stuff

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here namely the intake plenums and air

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filter boxes

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now the plenum

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it's a pipe here

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so some people say removing plenums on

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this car is difficult

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it's actually one of the easiest things

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you can do on this car all you need is

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good long extensions

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every time before we proceed any further

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i'm going to cover up the throttle

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bodies and then use compressed air to

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blow out all of this dust and crap so it

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doesn't end up in the engine

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[Music]

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so first we're going to remove the

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throttle actuators they live right over

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here underneath this wiring harness so

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we need to disconnect a couple of stuff

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lift this up and then we can access the

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bolts that hold them in place

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be careful not to lose these

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now we're going to remove the coils

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and get this part of the harness

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here

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and that's this part of the wiring

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harness free

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this can sit on the side

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it's one connector it's just a sea of

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connectors there's one down there how do

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you even get to it oh i see

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there's a bolt in the back

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now we can lift this thing up in the air

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bungee rope

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say hello to the throttle actuators

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first disconnect rodney trotter

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like that and now christen it with

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one

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as in bank one

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and then bank that's why so i'm using my

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magnetic socket

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it's rather simple i just stuffed small

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magnets inside the socket so i can't

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lose bolts that way

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numero eins

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and numa dos

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all right we're going to play with the

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octodors a bit later now we're going to

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go ahead and replace the vault cover

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gaskets they are not leaking per se but

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the main reason why i want to replace

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them is because i want to look inside

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the engine if you remember we've done

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the bottom end on this car and

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everything looked great there so i want

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to make sure that everything on the top

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end is looking good as well

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now i need to disconnect

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the harness for the injectors and get it

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out of the way

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oh no my battery is dead guess we'll do

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some drill action

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[Music]

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uh oh would it ever come back to me

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all right i went fishing and i caught my

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ratchet with a 10 mil

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and that's all of them removed so i

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think we're gonna do a quick vacuum

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session and then start prying the small

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cover off

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so there's a corner here where we can

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slowly start prying

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and here

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all right

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there it is

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now i need to remove this stupid thing

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here

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remove this

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put it on the side and now we should be

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able

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to take this thing out

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there we are i mean overall looks fairly

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clean let's do the finger test

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so have a look-see everything looks

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really good in here no major sludge

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buildup looks decently clean the cams

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look good no scoring or anything like

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that they're smooth and nice to touch

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you can also see that the timing chain

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guides are good there's one over there

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it's not broken and another one over

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there that looks good the gears look

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good as well so overall pretty happy

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with all of this so now we're gonna do

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the other side in case you're wondering

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what that noise is that's my landlord

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tuning a spitfire

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anyway

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so rinse and repeat here as well

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all right equally awesome on this side

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as well fairly clean camshafts look good

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nice and smooth gears look good the

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guides look good so the top end of this

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engine is healthy as well here's

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everything on the table these spark plug

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tubes i forgot to buy them i ordered

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them now so they're coming tomorrow

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morning

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and the rubber grommets for the bolts i

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have a rant coming your way in a bit but

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the valve covers they're not plastic

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this is aluminium or aluminum which

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gives us a perfect opportunity to use my

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aqua blast cabinet to clean them so i'm

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going to strip them completely off all

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of this so it's just bare metal and then

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we're going to make them look better

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than brand new

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you're going to love this

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now let me see if i can salvage the

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stick here

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ah can't salvage the sticker doesn't

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matter maybe i can order a new one

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so we're gonna start with this one and

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we're gonna do the half half thing so

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you can see just how effective

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it is it's not exactly half but close

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enough

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goose tape it's not very good this is my

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aquablast 1215 cabinet

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from vixen surface treatments and this

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is a vet blasting or vapor blasting

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cabinet it uses water glass bead media

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and compressed air and unlike sand

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blasting where it's crops up the surface

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and you have to paint the part later

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this cleans and treats the surface at

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the same time and especially if it's

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aluminium you don't have to paint that

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part later because the finish looks

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absolutely stunning it's nice and smooth

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and it looks like a painted part but

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it's not so it's just a brilliant piece

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of kit and now we're going to get to the

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business of blasting

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very spacious inside

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[Music]

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hey incredible

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absolutely incredible

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[Music]

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i so that's it

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[Music]

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good god this looks good look at that

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look at the difference can you tell

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which part was treated

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it's insane

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that's i think enough admiring now we're

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going to go ahead and finish the rest of

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it

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unbelievable finish

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nice and smooth to touch

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and beautiful to look at i also cleaned

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on the inside that's spotless as well

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and i spent some good quality time now

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with a water hose and compressed air

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thoroughly rinsing this out because you

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don't want any of that media to end up

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in the engine that can cause some proper

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damage so you really have to take care

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of that

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but the finish is is unbelievable and

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this didn't even take that long to do so

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since this is aluminium you don't have

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to do anything further you don't need to

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paint it you don't need to coat it if

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you want you can put clear coat as extra

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layer of protection but then again this

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comes from the factory uncoated and

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exactly like this well not vapor blasted

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but just bare aluminium

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clean this up a little bit so it looks

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the part

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here's a quick tip buy yourself a box

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with o-rings can't tell you how many

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times this thing saved me for example

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just right now i forgot to order o-rings

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for the camshaft position sensors and i

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found a perfect match in the box for the

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oil filler neck i did remember to buy

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one and i also bought these oil valve

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separator things that are on the back of

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the

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valve covers this was cheap so might as

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well so this is ready to go back in i

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took the opportunity and removed all of

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the spark plugs and looked inside all of

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the cylinders happy to report that all

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of the spark plugs look exactly the same

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across the range they're firing

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perfectly and as you can see the color

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on the tips everything looks in perfect

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order

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and cylinder walls unlike project

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chicago they look perfect

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look at that

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and look at that piston that's not even

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a lot of carbon buildup for an engine

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that has over 230 000 kilometers very

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clean

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look at that

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another one

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yeah very happy with that so now we're

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going to reinstall all the spark plugs

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and then put back the valve covers

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story time i stopped by the dealer this

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morning and got robbed i had to buy 10

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of these

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these are spark plug tubes they go

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between the valve cover and the cylinder

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head and the spark plug goes through it

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they have rubber seal on the top and the

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bottom and this is what i like to call

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robbery at the gunpoint because if you

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don't replace these they're absolutely

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going to leak and you have no choice you

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have to pay the price which is 15 euros

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for one of these 150 for 10 of them

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so very cheap and then we come to the

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valve cover bolts every single bmw

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engine that i ever worked on has these

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rubber grommets sold separately you can

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buy them as aftermarket as oe or from

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the dealer they're very cheap like 20 30

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50 cents on this particular engine s85

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v10 engine there are no aftermarket

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alternatives you cannot buy the zoe you

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can only buy directly from the dealer

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and they are conveniently selling this

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only complete with the bolt they will

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not sell this grommet separately wanna

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guess how much one of these costs seven

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and a half euros

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times 30

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225 euros so that's where they brought

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out the tank and said i want your money

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and that's why i said nah brah did a big

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fat burn out and left

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true story he might not be and this is

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where i refuse to waste money and i'm

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going to reuse the old ones and before

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you call me a cheap bastard for using

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these in case you missed previous

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episodes i have over 10 000 euros in

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parts in this car and in this episode

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plus another three

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and i'm not going to waste money where i

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don't have to and i'm going to show you

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a trick how to reuse these so you can

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put them back like this these are

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actually in good shape they're not

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cracked or worn they're still nice and

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soft and they might leak might not leak

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but i'm gonna play it extra safe and

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this is the trick that i use trying to

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seal a little bit of this sealant on the

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edge of the rubber grommet and when you

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squish it it's gonna seal 100 percent

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all the time i've done this in the past

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and it absolutely works

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then the valve cover gasket that

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thankfully you can buy a zoe from victor

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ryan's not expensive 15 20 euros but why

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they decided to do this still baffles

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me

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so to keep this gasket in place from

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falling out when you turn the valve

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cover upside down and you start fitting

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it we're going to use the trick with zip

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ties so we just use couple of them here and

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there

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and that's going to hold the gasket in

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place and then once this is placed in

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its position you just cut them here and

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pull them out

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super easy and convenient and that way

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you know for sure you're going to fit

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the gasket properly

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that should do it clean the surface

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sorry about the noise but it's very cold

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today

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and i have to have the heater on

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all right this side is ready i'm going

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to do the same on the other one other

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side down as well now we're going to do

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the spark plug cubes we need to apply a

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little bit of engine oil

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on the ceiling rubber

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and then pop it in

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and now put a repair manual we need to

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put a thin bead of sealant here where

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the vanos meets the head that way it

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doesn't leak on this gap here

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just like that on the bottom as well

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well cover going back in

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give it a nice push

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now you can cut the zip ties

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give it a final push

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still got to make sure that the gasket

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is seated properly all around mirror

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all good there so i applied a very thin

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layer of sealant there

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there is no specific torque for these

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bolts in the repair manual you just

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slowly do them up from inside to out

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and you're also going to feel when the

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bolt bottoms out just stop there and you

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can't

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over torque the bolt

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and with that

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this side is done and then copy paste on

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bank two and that's the valve cover

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gaskets done and now the party piece

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throttle actuators these are a common

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failure point on e90 m3 e60 m5 and also

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the m6 and there are two types of

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failures the first one is

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mechanical failure where these gears

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fail they wear away or something breaks

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the second one is the electrical failure

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where the board itself or something on

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the board is bad and that's the case

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where you can't fix it yourself you

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either have to replace this complete

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unit or send it to a specialist to get

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it repaired

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in our case there are no issues

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whatsoever everything is working

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perfectly fine but these gears are known

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for going bad so i want to do that as

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part of preventing maintenance because

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once they go they go the car is going to

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go in the limp mode and you're not going

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to be able to drive it properly or it

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can leave you somewhere stranded so i

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got this kit from jason from rebuild.org

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the uk

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and he offers the service to rebuild

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these for you or he can sell you a kit

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that comes with instructions you can

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find everything on his website and these

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gears are made of some special composite

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whatever plastic supposedly very very

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strong

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and comes with the glue as well so now

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we're going to take it apart and do the

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mechanical service of this throttle

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actuators he also offers a lifetime

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warranty on all these parts really nice

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guys so if you have any issues with this

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stuff then you can contact him directly

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and he'll take care of you not sponsor

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anything like that i paid for this but

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just so you know that there's a

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specialist that does this stuff i'm

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going to give them a quick clean first

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so we're going to open the first one

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that's the board and that's our gears so

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here's the inside of it all of the gears

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and you can see some shredded plastic in

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the corner there and on the first glance

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this one doesn't look too bad but then

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you remove this gear and you can

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actually see how worn this gear is just

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compare the teeth here and here

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and you can see

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how thin it is

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this would definitely fail pretty soon

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so good thing we're in here doing this

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service okay now we need to break and

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remove this half gear so we're gonna go

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to the bench rise

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now i need to drill here and here in

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order to weaken this half gear so we can

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break it off the key is to only drill

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through the plastic and not touch the

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shaft so let's see how that goes

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[Applause] [Music]

00:20:16

all right [Music]

00:20:18

let's see if we can break it

00:20:23

there it is

00:20:26

destruction

00:20:31

[Applause]

00:20:32

that's that removed

00:20:35

there's a washer

00:20:39

and we can pull out the shaft so i

00:20:40

didn't damage it i didn't touch it with

00:20:42

the drill which is good the next step is

00:20:44

to file off the slip but only the lip we

00:20:46

do not touch the splines

00:20:49

right now it's stopping this gear from

00:20:51

sliding on so once we remove it we can

00:20:53

put some glue there and hammer it on

00:21:08

and that's the lip gun

00:21:10

now it's the fitting stage

00:21:13

first i'm going to use the air

00:21:14

compressor and just blow out all of this

00:21:18

washer goes here

00:21:22

washer on here

00:21:24

now we're going to mix up the glue then

00:21:25

apply it on the shaft and the gear then

00:21:27

we need to catch the spring with the

00:21:29

gear do one full rotation anti-clockwise

00:21:32

to put tension on the spring and then

00:21:34

push it onto the shaft and then the rest

00:21:36

of the way we're gonna hammer it on

00:21:53

so now you're gonna twist

00:21:58

just all the way like that

00:22:03

and i'll smack it all the way in

00:22:14

that's perfect it needs to have a little

00:22:15

bit of play so the amount of plane that

00:22:17

you need to have here is between half a

00:22:19

mil and two mils

00:22:21

it cannot be tight if it's tight then

00:22:23

you need to hammer it here and just

00:22:25

create more play and that's all there is

00:22:27

to it that's the hard part done the next

00:22:29

is just to fit this brand new gear there

00:22:32

and put back the cover and put it back

00:22:34

on the car

00:22:38

so very important to make sure that the

00:22:40

pins clip into the board

00:22:43

perfect

00:22:48

finished hopefully you can see there but

00:22:51

same type of wear here as well all right

00:22:53

so we're going to grease up rodney here

00:22:56

just to tickle there you go

00:23:03

and now it's just the process of

00:23:05

replugging everything and putting back

00:23:07

all of this

00:23:09

electrical mumbo jumbo together well who

00:23:11

put you there everything is just

00:23:14

crispy plastic

00:23:24

and that's everything buttoned up all

00:23:25

right time to start it

00:23:32

she's back

00:23:33

her is like an agricultural machine

00:23:37

and i know what you're thinking

00:23:39

aren't you going to detail that engine

00:23:40

bay

00:23:42

i will just not now i still use this car

00:23:45

it's middle of winter i don't want to do

00:23:47

more cleaning than i have to but we will

00:23:49

detail the engine bay at one point all

00:23:51

right i'm gonna go drive it around warm

00:23:52

it up make sure there are no leaks

00:23:55

and then we're gonna move on and do some

00:23:56

other stuff oh yeah i forgot to put back

00:23:58

the reinforcement bar fixed now i can go

00:24:01

for a drive i'm back from the test drive

00:24:03

and happy to report that all is well in

00:24:05

the m5 world the engine still works

00:24:07

there are no oil leaks and i also did a

00:24:09

quick oil change just because we had the

00:24:10

engine open and now we're going to move

00:24:12

on to the shocks but first we need to

00:24:14

feast while on the test drive i stopped

00:24:16

by a lovely old-school turkish bakery

00:24:19

got myself burke with cheese and also

00:24:22

something with cheese and you can't go

00:24:23

to a turkish place and not get baklava

00:24:26

and also yogurt so let's gently devour

00:24:29

this

00:24:38

oh no so i have oil stains all over me

00:24:41

and now yogurt stains as well

00:24:44

i love the way that door shuts so the

00:24:46

shocks if you watched previous episodes

00:24:48

then you know we replaced all of the

00:24:49

control arms ball joints and bushings on

00:24:51

this car the only thing still remaining

00:24:53

original in the suspension are the

00:24:55

shocks the right one is leaking i'm

00:24:57

going to show you that in a bit but with

00:24:59

over 230 000 kilometers it's time to

00:25:01

refresh them this car has edc suspension

00:25:04

which stands for electronic damper

00:25:06

control electronically adjustable shocks

00:25:09

and that is a brilliant option because

00:25:10

it allows you to choose what kind of

00:25:12

ride firmness you want to have it

00:25:14

essentially has three settings when the

00:25:16

edc button is off that would be a

00:25:18

comfort setting something that i always

00:25:20

use when driving in the city it makes

00:25:22

the ride really bearable on bad roads

00:25:24

and then you have the middle setting

00:25:26

which is a sporty setting that's

00:25:29

something that i typically use when

00:25:30

driving on the autobahn it just makes

00:25:32

the car feel more tighter and more

00:25:34

firmer and stable at higher speeds and

00:25:36

then you have the third and final

00:25:38

setting which is full-blown stiff

00:25:40

that's something that i pretty much

00:25:41

never use but that is something you

00:25:43

would typically use when you take the

00:25:45

car to a race track it makes the

00:25:46

suspension feel really firm and really

00:25:48

tight so the fact that you can do that

00:25:51

choose what kind of ride you want to

00:25:52

have i love that and that's something i

00:25:54

definitely want to keep

00:25:55

when it comes to keeping edc suspension

00:25:57

you have two options

00:25:59

first one is getting original shocks

00:26:01

from the dealer and the second one are

00:26:04

bill stein bielstein has two options for

00:26:07

this car b6 damtronic non coilover

00:26:10

shocks that allow you to keep the edc

00:26:12

setting and they also have b16 coilovers

00:26:16

that also allow you to keep the edc

00:26:18

setting and since i don't really like

00:26:20

coilovers i have no need for them i

00:26:22

don't like lowering my cars and for me

00:26:24

always the main criteria is comfort

00:26:27

therefore we are going with b6 so let's

00:26:29

have a look

00:26:31

here's everything laid out on the table

00:26:33

these are bilstein b6 shocks and they

00:26:36

are a thing of beauty aren't they

00:26:38

developed at james maze's favorite place

00:26:41

on earth we have all new hardware all

00:26:43

new bolts nuts cables that come with the

00:26:46

shocks

00:26:47

and also all new strut mounts

00:26:50

bearing spring pads and whatnot as you

00:26:53

all know i am working with bilstein

00:26:55

they're one of the supporters of the

00:26:56

channel and normally they would provide

00:26:58

me these shocks but in this particular

00:27:00

instance they didn't simply because they

00:27:02

don't have them in stock they've been

00:27:04

back ordered for a while and i was

00:27:06

planning to do this video for quite some

00:27:07

time so i ended up ordering these online

00:27:10

and these sent me back around two and a

00:27:12

half thousand euros which is expensive

00:27:14

but then again that's always the case

00:27:16

with edc shocks even the ones from the

00:27:19

dealer they're around 3 000 euro but

00:27:22

bilstein is going to send me these exact

00:27:23

same shocks in april that's when they're

00:27:26

going to do another production run and

00:27:27

the plan is to sell those so i can

00:27:29

recoup some of the costs that i have

00:27:30

here so if you are in the market for

00:27:32

these parts send me an email and i can

00:27:34

hook you up with a nice price but

00:27:35

without further ado let's install them

00:27:37

up it goes

00:27:39

[Music]

00:27:40

since we'll need to unbolt the control

00:27:42

arms in order to get the strut out we

00:27:44

need to remove the protection panels the

00:27:46

front one i removed yesterday when i did

00:27:48

the oil change and now i can remove my

00:27:50

expensive

00:27:51

transmission protection

00:27:55

pro tip use your head to hold the thing

00:28:00

well there you go

00:28:05

try not to break it it's very expensive

00:28:07

also did i mention it's very expensive

00:28:09

would you look at that

00:28:11

bmw with no oil leaks

00:28:13

what does that mean it has no oil

00:28:17

or

00:28:18

service properly

00:28:28

this one on the first glance is not

00:28:31

leaking

00:28:34

this shock here

00:28:36

is leaking and it didn't leak before see

00:28:38

how wet that is

00:28:40

the oil

00:28:42

that means that this shock is actively

00:28:44

leaking okay so there's a bunch of stuff

00:28:46

that we need to unbolt here before we

00:28:47

can pull out the strut some clip brake

00:28:50

pad wear sensor and

00:28:52

wheel speed sensor

00:28:56

how does this work i forgot this bloody

00:29:00

clip [Music]

00:29:01

like that important to wear eyeball

00:29:04

protection here

00:29:15

put it on the side like that so the

00:29:17

repair manual says to remove the rotor

00:29:20

but we're not going to do that at least

00:29:22

not for now

00:29:27

this is much better design than when you

00:29:28

have to hold on the other end

00:29:30

with a thin 16mm spanner

00:29:35

now i'm going to remove this arm here

00:29:36

for the xenon headlight height control

00:29:39

because we need to unbolt and lower this

00:29:41

control arm

00:29:43

now we need to unbolt this tie rod ball

00:29:45

joint

00:29:54

and that's the sugar nut removed

00:29:57

so now i'm going to remove this plastic

00:29:58

here because it's in the way

00:30:02

now we need to unbolt the thrust arm

00:30:04

bushing

00:30:15

had some mic difficulties there but what

00:30:17

you missed is me saying stupid bolt now

00:30:19

you're gonna remove this one

00:30:26

now we can finally remove the pinch bolt

00:30:33

and now i'm going to use a chisel to

00:30:34

spread this knuckle

00:30:41

as you can see it's already coming down

00:30:47

there it is so now we can move it to the

00:30:49

side

00:30:51

that's the entire wheel hub assembly

00:30:52

with the knuckle and rotor removed now

00:30:54

we're going to go up top and unbolt the

00:30:56

strut unclip the harness

00:31:00

that's the connection

00:31:03

so that's the connection that we need to

00:31:04

use on the bilstein one

00:31:13

and it's finally out now we need to

00:31:15

disassemble the shot because we are

00:31:16

reusing the spring but before we start

00:31:18

doing that we need to mark

00:31:21

the position of the spring

00:31:24

we're going to do that by drawing a line

00:31:26

on the

00:31:28

spring pad

00:31:31

and the strut and that way i can put the

00:31:33

spring pad on the new strut mark it

00:31:35

there as well and line up the spring

00:31:36

properly

00:31:49

and there you have it

00:31:51

this is the best spring compressor in

00:31:53

the world now we can remove the top nut

00:31:57

there we go

00:31:58

that wasn't too bad

00:32:18

what is that

00:32:24

what's that smash the pieces pretty

00:32:26

strange

00:32:30

actually not too bad

00:32:32

so whatever this is it's not part of the

00:32:34

assembly it's not on real oem

00:32:37

no idea how i ended up in there maybe

00:32:38

someone put it there so let's see what

00:32:39

happens when we compress this thing

00:32:45

oh my god

00:32:48

utterly shot look at that

00:32:54

wow this should bounce back i mean you

00:32:58

can't exactly test them this way but it

00:33:00

should somewhat bounce back and this one

00:33:02

doesn't so that means this strut is bad

00:33:04

really happy that we are doing this now

00:33:06

and bilstein

00:33:08

doesn't use bump stops it has an

00:33:10

internal bump stop so you don't use this

00:33:12

thing

00:33:13

um

00:33:14

take this

00:33:16

put it on here line it up

00:33:20

and now we know where the spring goes

00:33:21

now i'm going to grab the new parts

00:33:26

first this cup

00:33:29

then

00:33:31

that goes in here

00:33:35

like that then this cup and the nut

00:33:44

now give it a nice good and tight

00:33:47

perfect

00:33:53

perfect

00:33:59

that's it

00:34:00

and here you can see the end of the

00:34:01

spring lined up properly

00:34:04

there are two things that are different

00:34:05

on the original unit and billstein the

00:34:07

first one is the connection on the

00:34:08

original strut it's on the top and on

00:34:11

bilstein it's on the bottom so we need

00:34:12

to run some wires through the wheel arch

00:34:14

up to the top and connect it the second

00:34:16

difference is this notch here the

00:34:18

original one has it right over there so

00:34:20

you can line it up with the knuckle real

00:34:21

easily

00:34:22

bilstein doesn't have that so now i'm

00:34:24

going to show you how we're going to

00:34:25

still line it up properly there's a mark

00:34:27

here left and right and depending on

00:34:29

which side you're using this strut

00:34:30

you're going to draw a line exactly like

00:34:32

that we're using this one on the right

00:34:34

side so we're going to draw a line like

00:34:36

this

00:34:37

and then that line needs to line up with

00:34:39

the gap in the steering knuckle

00:34:45

like that you don't even have to draw a

00:34:47

line you can just look at this

00:34:48

here and then line it up with the

00:34:50

knuckle whatever is easier for you you

00:34:52

also have to line up this pin on the

00:34:54

shot mount with the hole in the strut

00:34:56

tower

00:34:58

actually i want to clean that on the

00:35:00

inside

00:35:07

we'll do the final torque later

00:35:10

i think we're gonna need hugh jackman jr

00:35:13

here i'm gonna go get him

00:35:16

this is now lined up properly

00:35:25

there it is

00:35:26

that's now fully seated you can see that

00:35:28

the r is perfectly lined up with the gap

00:35:30

on the steering knuckle and now we can

00:35:32

torque the pinch bolt

00:35:38

there you have it lined up properly and

00:35:40

torque to spec now it's just a matter of

00:35:42

reassembly

00:35:45

very important that you don't torque

00:35:46

these with the car up in the air if you

00:35:48

do that and then you lower the car

00:35:50

you're gonna twist these bushings and

00:35:52

they're gonna wear out pretty quickly so

00:35:54

final torque for all of the bushings

00:35:56

always on all of the cars are done with

00:35:58

the car on the ground you lower it you

00:36:00

drive it back and forth for the

00:36:01

suspension to settle and then do the

00:36:03

final torque

00:36:15

come on

00:36:21

and now the wiring this is what comes

00:36:23

with bilstein sharks

00:36:25

and this is the original connector

00:36:27

just gotta figure out how to do this so

00:36:30

here we go i just removed the plastic

00:36:31

bend that was in this connector

00:36:34

and now we can do this and it's gonna

00:36:36

look apart it's not gonna look out of

00:36:38

place and plug it in and then this is

00:36:41

gonna go through the cutout in the wheel

00:36:42

housing where the wires for the brake

00:36:45

pad sensor and wheel speed sensor go

00:36:47

through that's all neatly done goes down

00:36:49

there through the wheel arch and now

00:36:51

we're gonna connect it to the strut and

00:36:53

then i'll come back up here and zip tie

00:36:55

all of this these small zip ties are

00:36:57

very difficult to use so that's all

00:36:59

professionally zip tied in place all the

00:37:01

way down to the strut plugs in here and

00:37:04

i routed it right next to the wheel

00:37:06

speed sensor cable so it's not going to

00:37:08

get caught on anything

00:37:10

made it all nice and tidy on the top as

00:37:11

well and with that

00:37:13

this side is

00:37:15

finished so i found something

00:37:16

interesting on the left side

00:37:18

this spring is not seated properly as

00:37:20

you can see it should be sitting right

00:37:22

over here same as we found on the right

00:37:24

side and if you think i'm wrong i'm not

00:37:26

you can even look up in the repair

00:37:28

manual and it's going to give you a

00:37:29

special tool to line up the spring right

00:37:31

over here same goes for the e39 i think

00:37:34

only e38 is the one where the spring

00:37:36

goes all the way in but on these

00:37:38

particular cars you have to install it

00:37:40

right over there otherwise you can have

00:37:42

weird ride height issues come to think

00:37:44

of it now the front left side always

00:37:46

looked a bit higher than the right one

00:37:47

there was a bigger gap

00:37:49

and now i know why i'm actually going to

00:37:50

show you the picture from the repair

00:37:52

manual and you can see how they line up

00:37:54

the spring with the special tool and

00:37:56

that it's sitting before this dip in the

00:37:58

bottom spring purge so that's how it's

00:38:00

supposed to go right over there and not

00:38:02

there so for this particular shock i'm

00:38:05

just going to use this old spring pad

00:38:06

from the from the right one

00:38:08

put it over there on the bilstein one

00:38:11

and that's how i'm going to install it

00:38:12

properly i want to show you another

00:38:13

difference between the original zox unit

00:38:15

and bilstein this is the dust boot on

00:38:17

the original shock and as you can see

00:38:18

it's just flopping around all over the

00:38:20

place and it's not sealing all the way

00:38:22

on the bottom and that's the crucial

00:38:23

point because that's where the dust goes

00:38:25

in and dirt and all the stuff and wears

00:38:27

out the shock prematurely while on

00:38:29

bilstein you have this lovely blue dust

00:38:31

boot and it's completely clipped in on

00:38:33

the bottom and the top so it doesn't

00:38:35

come out no matter what the shock does

00:38:38

moves left right up and down it's not

00:38:40

going to come off and it's going to stop

00:38:41

dust from going right over there and

00:38:43

wearing out that seal so this shock is

00:38:45

going to last longer as well so that's

00:38:47

brilliant design compared to this

00:38:55

remember this is a car that can do 330

00:38:57

kilometers per hour or 205 miles per

00:39:00

hour and as such you should treat it

00:39:02

like an airplane and torque every single

00:39:04

ball to spec especially the ones in the

00:39:07

suspension so with that i'm gonna put

00:39:09

the wheels back on lower it onto the

00:39:11

ground drive it back and forth and then

00:39:12

we're going to do the final torque for

00:39:14

the bushings

00:39:16

[Music]

00:39:17

so the torque for the lower control arm

00:39:19

bushing and thrust arm bushing is 100

00:39:21

meters and then 90 degree angle plus

00:39:23

minus 15 so we're going to torque it

00:39:25

with the torque wrench first and then

00:39:26

give it a good twist with the breaker

00:39:28

bar

00:39:37

that's good

00:39:41

and now the rear shocks to access the

00:39:42

top nuts we need to remove these liners

00:39:44

here and that's actually much more

00:39:46

easier compared to e39 where you have to

00:39:48

remove the complete rear seat the parser

00:39:51

shelf and all that stuff so

00:39:53

i like that

00:39:58

there's foam here

00:40:03

and i can see the connector i can unplug

00:40:05

that there you can see the top mount and

00:40:08

this took

00:40:09

20 seconds

00:40:10

to access it

00:40:12

loving that

00:40:15

good that's all three removed do i do

00:40:18

the other side while i'm in here

00:40:21

excellent

00:40:28

this right here

00:40:30

is a clear indication that this shock is

00:40:33

bad when you see dirt stuck to it like

00:40:35

this that means it leaked out a while

00:40:37

back and then as you drive you have oil

00:40:39

on the shock all of that dirt and grime

00:40:41

just collects over here and well it's

00:40:43

stuck to the shock so this is completely

00:40:45

kaput and it's about

00:40:47

to come out so the repair manual says

00:40:49

that in order to remove this shock out

00:40:51

of the car we need to unbolt the sway

00:40:53

bar link and then just unbolt the shock

00:40:56

and then supposedly we can wiggle it out

00:40:58

this way and then take it out of the car

00:41:00

not so sure that's going to work because

00:41:02

on e39 and e38 i know that this control

00:41:06

arm here needs to come out in order to

00:41:08

take the shock out so let's see

00:41:23

let's see if the repair manual is right

00:41:27

line bmw lies you cannot do that oh i

00:41:31

see maybe we need to remove the entire

00:41:33

the freaking

00:41:35

sway bar link

00:41:38

let's try now

00:41:39

nah man i've been fed lies

00:41:42

so i'm gonna bolt the ball joint and see

00:41:44

if i can just

00:41:45

swivel it upwards i think that should be

00:41:47

enough to get it out

00:41:49

there you go

00:41:53

come on

00:41:55

there it is

00:41:57

all right it's out so i bolted the ball

00:41:59

joint on the control arm pushed it out a

00:42:00

little bit and that gave me enough space

00:42:02

to wiggle out the shock

00:42:04

but i think for the new one i'm going to

00:42:07

remove this control arm because i don't

00:42:08

want to scratch the new shark it's going

00:42:10

to be easier to put it in

00:42:21

so i'm going to do this on the ground

00:42:22

because there's still a little bit of

00:42:23

tension here in case this flies off

00:42:26

it's better it flies off into the

00:42:28

distance than into me

00:42:32

oh

00:42:35

okay that's good ah it's not unattention

00:42:38

it's just stuck here

00:42:40

but better to be safe

00:42:44

i need the cup

00:42:48

this shock is very light so let's see

00:42:50

does it bounce back

00:42:57

that's

00:42:58

101

00:43:00

shot

00:43:01

there was nothing there so yeah when you

00:43:03

see this

00:43:04

replace the shock and i did 330

00:43:06

kilometers with this shock

00:43:08

ain't that something

00:43:12

just confirming that the position of the

00:43:14

spring perch is the same as it is on the

00:43:16

original one

00:43:17

and it is so brand new spring pads

00:43:22

that goes in and then we have diagram

00:43:24

here and the rear ones appear to be

00:43:26

using a bump stop

00:43:29

thankfully i did buy it

00:43:36

so the big cup

00:43:39

the mount

00:43:44

another cup

00:43:48

and then the nut

00:43:58

now nice good and tight

00:44:00

and here you gotta make sure that the

00:44:01

spring is sitting perfectly flush in the

00:44:02

pad here and on the top as well

00:44:14

so

00:44:22

nice this is one durable plastic

00:44:24

you gotta say so i'm gonna try to get

00:44:26

this in without removing the control arm

00:44:28

after all maybe we can do it

00:44:30

okay

00:44:34

easy i think i can put carbon fiber

00:44:36

towel there

00:44:39

yes

00:44:45

it's in and i didn't scratch it

00:44:48

lovely okay this is easier than on

00:44:51

e39 i need 38.

00:44:54

bravo bmw bravo

00:44:56

is that it

00:44:59

no way i got it in okay so i'm using my

00:45:01

lamp to hold the

00:45:04

shock in place and now we're going to go

00:45:05

up top and do the nuts

00:45:14

just finger tight and this bolt is

00:45:16

torqued with the car on the ground

00:45:18

that's what the repair manual says

00:45:32

put the foam thing in there so that's

00:45:34

all nice and done connector connected

00:45:40

the car is back under its own weight i

00:45:41

draw it back and forth and now we can

00:45:43

torque the shock bolts

00:45:48

and that concludes rear shock

00:45:49

replacement

00:45:57

so to sum up both rear shocks are bad as

00:45:59

you can see i compressed them last night

00:46:01

and they still didn't bounce back the

00:46:03

front ones are bad as well but two

00:46:05

things baffle me here the front shocks

00:46:06

they have a bill date from november 2006

00:46:09

the car was built in december 2006 so

00:46:12

most likely original units to the car

00:46:14

but then we had incorrectly installed

00:46:16

spring on the left side

00:46:18

and i can't explain that what what

00:46:21

happened maybe the spring snapped at one

00:46:23

point and they replaced it and didn't

00:46:25

install it properly

00:46:26

production line air highly unlikely all

00:46:29

of this comes pre-packed and they just

00:46:30

bolt it in but it's possible then the

00:46:32

second thing is this plastic thingy this

00:46:35

looks like it's part of packaging

00:46:37

protection for the shock something that

00:46:39

would go here so there's no way ended up

00:46:41

there by accident someone left it there

00:46:43

so two errors that i can't really

00:46:45

explain and then on top of that all of

00:46:48

this is bad and i did 330 kilometers per

00:46:50

hour in this car and the funny thing is

00:46:53

it still felt stable and whenever i was

00:46:55

pressing the edc button i could feel the

00:46:57

right change so this car it's very very

00:47:00

well engineered

00:47:02

and i imagine now with new shocks it's

00:47:03

going to handle like a bullet train

00:47:05

anyway let's move on we'll go for a test

00:47:07

drive shortly but now we gotta address

00:47:10

the smaller things

00:47:11

so that mirror over there is not folding

00:47:13

properly

00:47:15

let me show you

00:47:16

so it goes in actually

00:47:18

nicely

00:47:20

but when you unfold it

00:47:23

it doesn't stop where it's supposed to

00:47:25

stop

00:47:27

it does that

00:47:31

and that's rather inconvenient when

00:47:32

you're using the car and driving it

00:47:35

so you have to come out of the car and

00:47:37

then reposition it with your hands

00:47:40

it's kind of annoying we need to fix

00:47:41

that so i'm not so sure what the problem

00:47:44

is but i was reading up

00:47:45

online and this seems to be a common

00:47:47

problem on d90 as well

00:47:50

and apparently there's some pin in the

00:47:51

mechanism that's stuck

00:47:54

so you have to lube it up

00:47:56

and that solves the issue

00:47:58

so first we have to take off the mirror

00:48:00

and then fiddle with it so apparently

00:48:03

you don't need to remove the door panel

00:48:05

to remove the mirror we just need to

00:48:06

pull this cover off here

00:48:14

wowza look at that i gotta say working

00:48:17

on this car

00:48:18

there's so many things that are improved

00:48:20

over e39 especially when working on it

00:48:23

this is super convenient you just need

00:48:25

to remove this and then get to the bolts

00:48:27

on the e39 you have to remove the entire

00:48:30

door panel and e38 as well

00:48:33

well actually we need to disconnect the

00:48:35

cable don't we

00:48:36

can we get to the connection though

00:48:40

oh yeah

00:48:41

that's the connector disconnected also

00:48:43

rather easy

00:48:53

wow super easy did you know that objects

00:48:56

in the mirror are closer than they

00:48:57

appear

00:48:58

what will we ever do without american

00:49:00

safety regulations so d39 has like a

00:49:03

small latch here

00:49:06

but

00:49:08

this one doesn't

00:49:12

there's a cable that we need to

00:49:13

disconnect

00:49:15

mirror removed now four torx bolts

00:49:21

i think now this comes off

00:49:24

four more screws

00:49:29

now this back part can come apart it's

00:49:32

another plug here

00:49:35

now we need to remove this locking

00:49:36

washer so we can get to the gears a

00:49:37

little mortar and that stupid pin but

00:49:39

first i'm going to clean it

00:49:42

you can use a marker so you know where

00:49:44

to put that lock washer i think

00:49:46

carefully going to pry it up with a

00:49:48

screwdriver

00:49:53

the key is also not to break this stupid

00:49:55

thing

00:49:57

finally

00:49:58

no clue how i'm going to put that back

00:50:01

and i would like to point out that i did

00:50:03

find

00:50:04

videos online where people just

00:50:06

spray wd-40 or something in it and try

00:50:09

to loosen it up but that to me just

00:50:11

seems like a temporary solution

00:50:14

and i don't want to be back in here

00:50:15

anytime soon if i'm able to fix it

00:50:19

hello gears so here you can see the

00:50:22

gearing all of that looks good and this

00:50:24

is the pin

00:50:25

that's stuck i believe this should move

00:50:26

freely

00:50:28

but it doesn't so let's see if we can

00:50:30

take it out

00:50:33

nice is there something in the bottom as

00:50:35

well this looks like a little

00:50:39

spring

00:50:43

that's what we need to clean this pin

00:50:46

and then that hole lubricated with

00:50:48

something and then just reassemble it

00:50:51

all right so i needed something stronger

00:50:52

to clean it and throttle cleaner did the

00:50:55

job

00:50:56

beautifully

00:51:01

so i'm going to blow this out with the

00:51:02

compressor

00:51:04

and then we're going to start

00:51:05

lubricating stuff

00:51:09

so we're going to use silicone grease

00:51:12

as well

00:51:14

put the spring back in now lube up the

00:51:16

pin

00:51:20

all this pin does is telling the motor

00:51:22

where to stop so when it's stuck inside

00:51:24

like that

00:51:25

it can't stop the motor obviously so

00:51:27

it's

00:51:28

turning this thing all the way up to its

00:51:30

limit and that's why you get that weird

00:51:32

folding thing but when this is working

00:51:34

properly it stops it in the right place

00:51:37

so that should be that now we can

00:51:39

reassemble it so the difficult part here

00:51:42

is going to be compressing that spring

00:51:44

and putting back the lock washer

00:51:48

all right that's in so now you're going to

00:51:51

give it a few gentle love taps

00:51:56

the stupid circlip is back on i just

00:51:58

used needle nose pliers to get it

00:52:00

started and then slowly tapped it into

00:52:02

place

00:52:03

now we can reassemble the rest of it

00:52:07

maybe i shouldn't put all this back

00:52:08

together before i test it but i don't

00:52:11

know

00:52:12

i feel like

00:52:13

putting everything back together

00:52:18

okay before we go any further it's time

00:52:20

to test it to be a punk

00:52:24

connector plugged back in

00:52:36

perfect

00:52:47

perfection i'm gonna do it a couple of

00:52:49

more times just to make sure

00:52:53

every time perfect so overall pretty

00:52:55

easy fix and with that we can move on to

00:52:58

something else you have no idea how much

00:53:00

i wish this car didn't have a sunroof

00:53:02

this car has a stupid sunroof and you're

00:53:05

gonna be surprised by this but

00:53:07

i don't like them i think i said that

00:53:09

few million times in the past and i'm

00:53:10

gonna explain again why they add weight

00:53:12

they give you less headroom they break

00:53:14

all the time they leak all the time they

00:53:16

create wind noise and in my particular

00:53:18

case i never use them and in general i

00:53:21

just prefer

00:53:22

the slicked up look of the car when

00:53:23

there's no sunroof and this is one nice

00:53:25

big piece of metal but that's just my

00:53:27

preference the sunroof on this car is

00:53:29

working fine it's not broken yet it's

00:53:30

not leaking but there is one big

00:53:32

annoyance with it and that is wind noise

00:53:34

when i'm driving on the autobahn really

00:53:36

annoying and there's actually a service

00:53:38

bulletin for the e60 that says if you

00:53:40

have that issue you should replace this

00:53:42

rubber seal that goes around it and

00:53:44

that's gonna get rid of the wind noise

00:53:45

so let's do that first open the damn

00:53:47

thing

00:53:49

shut up

00:53:59

all right

00:54:01

you

00:54:06

so before we start removing the old seal

00:54:08

we need to mark

00:54:10

where the two ends meet

00:54:14

way too much tape

00:54:15

like that

00:54:17

and now peel the onion

00:54:22

oh that's gonna be fun to remove all the

00:54:24

residual

00:54:25

foam

00:54:27

plastic scraper

00:54:33

bastard it's full of water

00:54:38

already hating this

00:54:46

ah it's spring water everywhere

00:54:50

using my socks yes

00:54:56

and it's off now we got to scrape off

00:54:58

the old foam and glue

00:55:00

so slowly with the plastic scraper

00:55:04

in about three days you'll be done

00:55:06

[Music]

00:55:15

i finished scraping off the old foam

00:55:18

now we gotta use goo gone

00:55:21

see if i can clean it up all the way

00:55:25

it's sort of working

00:55:29

but i still need to scrape let's try

00:55:31

acetone

00:55:32

yep that's working better it took

00:55:34

absolutely ages and i hated every second

00:55:36

of it but it's finally clean the ticket

00:55:38

was plastic scraper acetone and carbon

00:55:40

fiber towels and now it's cleaner than

00:55:42

my sole

00:55:44

now i'm going to break out the vacuum

00:55:45

cleaner vacuum up all of the residual

00:55:47

stuff

00:55:48

and then we can start laying down the

00:55:50

new seal

00:55:51

[Music]

00:55:53

okay final wipe

00:55:55

with alcohol so here's the new seal

00:56:19

hello

00:56:23

this is brilliant

00:56:28

yep

00:56:30

and now we gotta cut the cord

00:56:35

so now i'm gonna go around and press it

00:56:37

firmly and then we're gonna close the

00:56:39

sunroof put pressure on this as well

00:56:53

i hate zones

00:56:56

so i'm gonna try and level out the

00:56:58

sunroof

00:56:59

it's a bit low in the front and there

00:57:01

are two screws here and there

00:57:03

that you can loosen then lift it up and

00:57:05

then tighten them again

00:57:07

so you gotta

00:57:08

hold it up with your hand

00:57:10

and then tighten the screw

00:57:12

so lift it up with one

00:57:15

hand

00:57:16

tighten with the other

00:57:21

that's it easy as that

00:57:23

nice and flush and with this hateful job

00:57:25

done as well i'm gonna go home but first

00:57:28

i'm gonna vacuum up the interior get

00:57:30

some dinner get some rest and then

00:57:32

tomorrow morning we're gonna hit the

00:57:33

road time to find out how the suspension

00:57:36

feels i actually can't wait see you

00:57:38

manana good morning and let's go

00:57:45

cut our set the tire pressure thing

00:57:48

i think the sensor is actually fine the

00:57:50

tires were low reset

00:57:53

yes i forgot to change this to celsius

00:57:58

the sun is in my way

00:58:00

got my cup of james here all right first

00:58:02

we're gonna hit frankfort's

00:58:05

smoothest roads

00:58:06

just to make sure everything is okay how

00:58:09

the car feels

00:58:10

and then i'm gonna take it in for wheel

00:58:12

alignment and then we're gonna hit the

00:58:14

autobahn by the way just driving in the

00:58:15

yard and here

00:58:17

i can already feel the difference the

00:58:19

car feels so much firmer to be fair i do

00:58:22

need to put some kilometers on the

00:58:24

shocks

00:58:25

before i can judge them properly

00:58:27

but let's just see

00:58:29

how it feels for the beginning

00:58:34

there's that sound so we're in the

00:58:36

softest setting

00:58:42

middle one

00:58:45

and the firmest

00:58:47

oh yeah look at that

00:58:49

whoo the camera is going to fall off

00:58:52

back to comfort

00:58:54

all right hold on to your devices

00:58:57

we're about to hit cobblestone road

00:59:00

welcome to the 19th century

00:59:05

ah it doesn't feel bad

00:59:13

it's taking bumps nicely

00:59:15

so if i do

00:59:16

this is the sport setting the middle one

00:59:20

and the firmest one

00:59:22

yeah you can just i think you can tell

00:59:24

on the camera as well that everything is

00:59:26

just so stiff now

00:59:29

whoa

00:59:30

so back to comfort

00:59:33

smooth driving

00:59:34

all right ddc is still working which is

00:59:36

brilliant so i'm gonna make another

00:59:38

circle and then we're gonna go to the

00:59:39

shop

00:59:41

i still didn't find a good alignment

00:59:43

shop in frankfurt the one that i'm using

00:59:45

now is okay

00:59:47

the only reason i'm using them is

00:59:49

because i can get appointment

00:59:50

immediately

00:59:53

uh

00:59:54

are you already on reserve we need to

00:59:56

get fuel as well

00:59:57

so first impressions

01:00:00

a bit firmer than before but really nice

01:00:03

not harsh in any way

01:00:05

just firmer and tighter

01:00:07

but it's not a fair comparison because

01:00:09

those original shocks they were

01:00:11

completely blown

01:00:12

the best comparison that you can do is

01:00:15

well take two cars one with brand new

01:00:17

original suspension and one with brand

01:00:18

new bilstein shocks

01:00:20

actually put two or three thousand

01:00:22

kilometers on both cars for everything

01:00:23

to settle in break in and then

01:00:26

compare them and give impressions so

01:00:28

this is a fairly bad road and the car

01:00:30

handles quite nicely it's not

01:00:32

uncomfortable

01:00:34

look at this road

01:00:37

driving on the moon

01:00:41

but not so bad with biller style

01:00:42

suspension

01:00:44

and it's bilstein not bilstein bilstein

01:00:48

bilstein ah the interior of this car is

01:00:50

so beautiful alignment done

01:00:53

look at that 2002.

01:00:56

oh you didn't see me give him a thumbs

01:00:57

up

01:00:58

hit the m mode which is going to put the

01:01:00

edc in the middle setting

01:01:15

it's incredible how it pulls

01:02:03

i love this car i love it so much you

01:02:06

know if you are one of those people who

01:02:07

say e60 m5 is

01:02:10

unreliable garbage

01:02:12

you have no idea how much you're missing

01:02:14

out

01:02:16

what a machine this is so we're driving

01:02:18

now on a normal road

01:02:20

it's pretty comfortable even in the

01:02:22

in the sport setting i think out of all

01:02:26

of my cars if i had to pick one

01:02:28

to drive across to europe

01:02:30

this would be it it has the power it has

01:02:33

the comfort it has the sound it has

01:02:35

everything

01:02:38

i do love my e39 m5 more than this

01:02:41

but man what a special car this is

01:02:46

[Music]

01:02:47

i mean even cruising in the city when

01:02:49

you can hear that sound at two three

01:02:52

four thousand rpm

01:02:54

it's it just makes you smile every

01:02:57

single time

01:02:59

just makes you happy to be alive and

01:03:01

driving a v10 6-speed manual glorious

01:03:04

machine

01:03:20

so so far the car definitely feels more

01:03:22

tighter there was something missing

01:03:24

before but now it's just it's complete

01:03:35

it just goes this car like

01:03:38

nothing

01:03:43

yeah the suspension feel is fantastic

01:03:47

absolutely bang on all right that's

01:03:49

enough scientific research for one day

01:03:53

time to head back to the dojo kind of

01:03:55

don't want to go back i just want to

01:03:56

keep on driving because this is one of

01:03:58

those cars that you just want to sit in

01:04:00

and drive you don't need a destination

01:04:02

just

01:04:03

drive and enjoy it for what it is quite

01:04:05

happy with bilstein b6

01:04:08

suspension but i'm going to have to give

01:04:10

you a proper impression in about two or

01:04:12

three thousand kilometers the ride

01:04:13

height it's

01:04:15

unchanged from before maybe a tiny bit

01:04:17

higher in the front than before but

01:04:19

that's normal when you replace worn out

01:04:21

struts so it's gonna take some time for

01:04:23

that to settle the car is comfortable

01:04:25

which is really important to me i don't

01:04:26

want to drive like this all the time

01:04:29

even though this is a sporty machine but

01:04:31

when i'm driving on the autobahn i can

01:04:32

always press the button and it's going

01:04:34

to be firm and come summertime we'll

01:04:37

take it to the nurburgring we also take

01:04:39

it to dyno see what kind of power this

01:04:41

thing is making

01:04:42

that should be a fun video bilstein b6

01:04:45

it's what this car needed

01:04:47

to make it

01:04:49

the real supercar that it is

01:04:52

and it is a four-door supercar

01:04:55

i don't know if you can tell but it's

01:04:56

snowing

01:04:58

anyway i just went through a car wash

01:05:00

with the car and it cleaned up rather

01:05:01

nicely this is its good side minus a

01:05:04

little bit of pinkness in the corner

01:05:06

over there

01:05:07

but this car came to me completely

01:05:09

neglected and broken and look at it now

01:05:12

fully and then some mechanically sorted

01:05:15

with an entire service of the engine

01:05:17

including rod bearings now entire

01:05:19

suspension and million other things in

01:05:21

between the interior is stunning doesn't

01:05:23

need anything else in there and leave

01:05:25

the wood trim alone i'm not going to

01:05:27

replace it with carbon stupid fiber i'd

01:05:29

rather set it on fire than do that i

01:05:31

love the wood trim i haven't showed you

01:05:33

this side of the car in this video but

01:05:34

if you watch previous videos you'll see

01:05:36

that this car is between 56 and 57

01:05:40

shades of grey

01:05:41

the two doors on this side are

01:05:42

completely mismatched like you can see

01:05:44

it from the airplane the front bumper is

01:05:46

different color two

01:05:48

sort of biggish dents on the bumper here

01:05:52

this needs to be repainted as well and

01:05:54

there's just millions scratches and

01:05:55

dents all over the place

01:05:57

so initially i was thinking let's do a

01:05:59

full respa let's make it absolutely

01:06:01

perfect but the more i think about it

01:06:03

let's not make it absolutely perfect if

01:06:05

i do that then i'm gonna be scared of

01:06:08

using it i'm gonna be scared if i'm

01:06:09

gonna get a scratch dent chip this or

01:06:12

that

01:06:13

so what i'm thinking now

01:06:15

repaint the two doors on this side make

01:06:18

everything one color repaint the front

01:06:19

bumper the rear bumper

01:06:22

do pdr get the pdr guy remove all of the

01:06:24

dents and then just polish the rest of

01:06:26

the car and it's going to look about 90

01:06:28

95 perfect which is

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well perfect for this car for its age

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and for the mileage

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so we're gonna do that at one point not

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soon though because it's not important

01:06:39

and i do consider this project to be

01:06:41

finished i mean as soon as the car is

01:06:44

registered it has valid tooth technical

01:06:46

inspection the project is finished

01:06:48

anything you do beyond that is improving

01:06:50

it and doing more service on it

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i do hope that you enjoyed this video if

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you did maybe give it a thumbs up

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perhaps even subscribe that would be

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really nice and as always thank you very

01:07:00

much for watching and i'll see you very

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soon the next video is going to be on

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the e32

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it's time to go home and the snow just

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stopped

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snowing

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you're on youtube now

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adios

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Welcome to an hour long wrenching session on the mighty BMW E60 M5 followed by Autobahn driving. In this episode we do throttle actuator service on the S85 V10 engine, install Bilstein B6 DampTronic shocks, fix the mirror unfolding problem and replace the sunroof seal. This formerly neglected and cheap M5 is now fully mechanically sorted! You can support me on Patreon! - https://www.patreon.com/m539restorations T-Shirts, hoodies & mugs - https://teespring.com/stores/m539-restorations Follow me on Instagram - https://www.facebook.com/unsupportedbrowser Aqua (vapor) blasting cabinet - https://www.vaporblastingequipment.com/machines/aquablast-1215 Check out Bilstein suspension for your project: German - https://workshop.bilstein.com/de/produkte/bilstein-b6/ English - https://workshop.bilstein.com/en/products/bilstein-b6/ Throttle actuator gears & service - https://www.rebuild.org.uk/ Wheel bearing removal tool - https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00AC1K6O2?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=6742&creativeASIN=B00AC1K6O2 Wheel hub puller - https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B07MYSQSRK?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=6742&creativeASIN=B07MYSQSRK Spring compressor - https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B01ASZH2M0?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=6742&creativeASIN=B01ASZH2M0 Sound deadening - https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B01BKKZ1AM?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=6742&creativeASIN=B01BKKZ1AM Cockpit Cleaner - https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B07KT9QLRN?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=6742&creativeASIN=B07KT9QLRN All-purpose cleaner - https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B011OKX44S?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=6742&creativeASIN=B011OKX44S Cockpit care - https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00EO6CKM2?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=6742&creativeASIN=B00EO6CKM2 BMW E46 Floor Mats - https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00ZR54ZAY?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=6742&creativeASIN=B00ZR54ZAY Hazet suction gun - https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B007IQX34E?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=6742&creativeASIN=B007IQX34E Smoke machine - https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B07K6CTY9Q?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=6742&creativeASIN=B07K6CTY9Q Flare wrench for brake lines - https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B001C9XJBU?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=6742&creativeASIN=B001C9XJBU Fantastic working lamp - https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00MIUZAZA?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=6742&creativeASIN=B00MIUZAZA Pick & hook set - https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B01L1NK1EY?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=6742&creativeASIN=B01L1NK1EY Compression tester - https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B002XERM66?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=6742&creativeASIN=B002XERM66 Vice soft jaw - https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0764KBVRX?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=6742&creativeASIN=B0764KBVRX Butyl for door panels, headlights - https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B01F395VGK?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=6742&creativeASIN=B01F395VGK Wheel cleaner - https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B004LAXG9C?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=6742&creativeASIN=B004LAXG9C Hobby knife - https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B000KT9C28?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=6742&creativeASIN=B000KT9C28 Magnetic Retrieval Tool - https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B002W5VWGC?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=6742&creativeASIN=B002W5VWGC Fabric spray - https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B005QN7UZO?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=6742&creativeASIN=B005QN7UZO Drill brush attachments - https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B07XYQ5QHX?ie=UTF8&creative=6742&creativeASIN=B07XYQ5QHX Find Liqui Moly oil and additives for your car - https://www.liqui-moly.com/en/service/oil-guide.html#oww:/api/v1/oww/101/DEU/ENG/1/ BendPak lifts - https://www.bendpak.com/ Luuk, BendPak & Quickjack Europe - https://liftmotive.com/ Massive thanks to Radu from RT Design Studio for making new merch happen! - https://rt.md/ Email: M539restorations@gmail.com

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