Hello f3x enthusiasts, I've decided to make a build thread for my car as I continue to enjoy the modding process. This seems like a fun way of keeping track of things throughout my ownership and lets me share that process with everyone as well.
I bought this car in 10/23 off of Copart completely by chance. I was doing some random searching and happened upon this car and could not pass it up. Dealer maintained its whole life, no actual damage from what I could see, and a great spec. It had M-sport and THP which were very high on my list for an f30. After my 2012 135i I wanted something more modern with better practicality while retaining that BMW thrill. The red interior really sold me too as my 1er had the same.
This was the day of delivery the car was filthy and had trouble starting. After sitting on the auction lot for too long it was completely drained. I got it running and scanned for codes. Unfortunately the water pump and thermostat were going to need to be replaced, and the infotainment screen was blacked, but I had figured as much buying a car sight unseen.
I parked it and got it cleaned up until the replacement parts I ordered arrived. Already the itch to make it my own was getting to me and I was already getting filled with bad thoughts of dropping thousands on the car right away.
Decided to do something simple at first just to be busy. Painted the front grill and v-brace silver and installed floating center caps.
I was not able to get a decent first impression of the car just yet but from what I had experienced shortly I was on the fence about my purchase. I just figured that I needed to drive it with everything fixed and really give it some gas.