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Hi Guys,

I’ve seen many BMW E36 cars with 16", 17" and 18" wheel setups. I personally like the 17" wheels on BMW E36 cars most. The 16" wheels are too small and they don’t give the BMW E36 car the look it deserves, which leaves your car unappreciated. So, If I were to change my wheels, I would either go with the 17" or 18" setups. Now, if you want to go with either of these, you will have to take into account 2 factors that will help you decide:

1. Car’s engine:- If you’re riding a 318is like I do, then go with the 17". You can’t go wrong because, believe it or not, the 18" setup will put a heavy load on your engine and worsen your car’s performance.

2. Car’s suspension:- If you have a little low ride, like me (I have a stock sport suspension), then you can go with either 17" or 18". The trick is just to make sure you will not have any tire rubbing. For me, I have the 17" and they look fantastic on my car. If you have stock suspension, you can go either with 17" or 18". 18" is preferable unless you’re going to give your car a drop soon.

If you decided to go with the 18" and looking to give your car a little drop, you may either go with the 60mm drop or 40mm drop. The 60mm drop will make the car look cool, but it’s going to have tire rubbing (most likely) and it will definitely be a hard ride.

I’ve prepared some E36 pics with 18" wheel setup for you to check them out. Take a look:

The battle of Minas Tirith in Lord Of The Rings is really great! I enjoy it very much every time I sit to watch that movie (btw, I think I’ve watched that movie 7 or 8 times until now, and yes, all three parts). What I particularly like about this battle is the speech that Theoden, the king of Rohan, makes just before the second part of the battle begins. It’s really great and I think it’s the best speech I’ve ever heard in a battle (well, in a movie of course 😈 ), it makes me feel like going to fight with them against the orcs. In the uncut version of the movie, it seems like there’s a part when Gandalf tries to fight against the king of Elessar. Take a look at the horse (Shadowfax) after the stick of Gandalf is shattered. It looks like Shadowfax is trying to defend him, It’s a nice scene. Anyway, enough talking, take a look and enjoy the great battle of Minas Tirith ladies and gents 😀 .

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Hi Guys,

Mark has made a photo shoot session for his BMW E36 convertible 325i. He was so kind to send me the photos and I really like this car very much, especially with such a great background. Take a look, I hope you like it as much as I do.

Greg has posted a comment on this blog about a safety measure that everyone of us has to do. It’s about doing a checkup on your fuel lines that are coming from the fuel tank and fuel pump. This is a very important issue that I think everyone of us has to do. The problem is that this was a comment on a post and not everyone of you is going to see, so I decided to republish it again as a new post because it’s very important and needs your immediate attention. So, here you go. The post is written in Greg’s own words.

Here is a very important job every e36 owner has to do. In particular the e36 1995 318i 318is M3 323 etc owners. BMW had major problems with hose clamps on fuel lines coming from fuel tanks/fuel pumps. Ever parked your car and got out and in doing so had the smell of fuel in the air? mmmmmmmmm here’s what to do:-

1. Put both front seats all the way forward and tilt forward.
2. Now remove the back seat base by simply pulling upwards on front lower edge, remove from car.
3. You will see that there are 2 access divisions cut into the sound proofing, lift and tuck out of the way.
4. With a Phillips head screwdriver remove both oval shape covers, this gives access to the fuel level sender units and fuel pump.

If you have any fuel sitting in these 2 places I strongly suggest you carefully replace clamps with screw type ones. Be careful not to damage plastic connection pieces and if fuel has been leaking for a long time you may find the fuel line exterior may be brittle and clamp will not seal to plastic tails. My e36 coupe had all of the above and a hair line crack in the fuel level sender unit on the passenger side. Drivers side is a fuel level sender unit and a fuel pump in one. Hope you don’t have to replace the cross over fuel line ( the 12mm fuel line) as you may have to remove fuel tank to do so. It has a metal centre section you can see that is attached to body of the car. Hope this info helps out.

Please check it out it only takes 15 minutes to check it and may save your car from burning to the ground.

Kind regards to you all,
Greg ( from Adelaide Australia )

Thank you Greg for sharing this information with us.

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