Hi guys and gals... Don't know if i'm posting in the right forum but just thought of sharing my experience thus far with my E46 328i since i bought and owned from june 2006, the maintainance and mods 
After much thoughts and advise from fellow member and friends, i bought this E46 from my brother who was then thinking of trading in for his new car. When i bought it, there was just minor oil leak at the top valve cover gasket and water leaking somewhere causing top up every week. After one month of owning it, decided to do some repair on the oil leak and water leak. As i was on the job, i started figuring more things and got more things done on the car so hopefully it will last me a long more time before it need more repair. hehe.. Picture of my valve cover remove. And see all the soot and carbon build up over the years as it is a year 2000 model!!
I changed all my rubber seals on the valve cover, got some of the components cleaned of the carbon, replace my water pump, all belts, changed all water hoses, reserved tank changed, replace one power steering hose, fuel filter, new ngk plugs, replace all lube including transmission and axle oil (not change for 6 years!!) and replace my brake hoses with Goodridge braided hose. And my very clean engine bay on the 1st day it left the workshop after the 1st service and repairs.
The next mod after my Goodridge hoses, was to give it some cleaner looks and stumble into member Mouse selling a set of used front and rear white lights. Bought them from Mouse and then bought another set of new white fender signals to go with it. Then a month or so later, found a set of orginal M-Tech staggered 17" rims in mint condition taken out from a 330ci. Fitted them with new Falken FK-452 and slap them on my car. Then came Supergrippen who want to trade his original M-Tech 2 bodykit as he was selling his car. Met up with him and trade my original kit for the M-Tech 2 kit. In Sept or was it october??, i got itchy as i was not happy enough with the handling and the ride looks too high with 17" rims and M-Tech2 kit. So, after some search, got the Bilstein yellow with H&R springs and upgraded the power slightly with the Pipercross Induction kit. Picture of my engine bay after months of owning it. A little dirty ya
Picture of the exterior now.
After much thoughts and advise from fellow member and friends, i bought this E46 from my brother who was then thinking of trading in for his new car. When i bought it, there was just minor oil leak at the top valve cover gasket and water leaking somewhere causing top up every week. After one month of owning it, decided to do some repair on the oil leak and water leak. As i was on the job, i started figuring more things and got more things done on the car so hopefully it will last me a long more time before it need more repair. hehe.. Picture of my valve cover remove. And see all the soot and carbon build up over the years as it is a year 2000 model!!
So, after some search, got the Bilstein yellow with H&R springs and upgraded the power slightly with the Pipercross Induction kit. Picture of my engine bay after months of owning it. A little dirty ya
