Lol i parked right infront of the hotel security camera, no wefest car theft for me! lol, the real question is if the camera even worked hahaha lmao:

 

An even better question is why didn't a cop have you towed? You aren't supposed to park on corner curbs.

 

But I'm still jelly.

 

Wow. After looking into it, installing coilovers looks herra easy.

Now I just need some rims.

Jeremy, what size do you think those wheels are in the second picture? 15"?

 

huh? this was in the parking lot at my motel...why wouldnt i be able to park there?

 

i told you!

Coilovers are cake...helps to have a second set of hands to help. the main thing is adjusting ride height PROPERLY and not just messing with the spring preload like some newbz do

 

Dunno. I was always taught that you can't park where the curb bends around corners.
Yea, I read about leaving the preload alone. Adjusting will be the ***** though. I can see me spending all damn weekend on just one end of the car to get it to sit perfectly even.

 

^not at all ma dood

Measure from a static point to the lower collar that your adjusting before you lower the car and it SHOULD be pretty damn even if you get the measurement right. Im lazy and was having some issues with lowering my coils all the way on the front to bottom them out, one side wanted to go lower than the other then i found out there was just gunk in the threading that was making one side not wana go down that far. but thats cause my coils were slightly used...shouldnt happen on new coils

 

Letting the CO's seat and, for lack of better words, sag a little after driving is what takes a little time, but that shouldnt take more than a day or so of just driving on them as they will always wana go a LITTTTTLEEEE bit lower than when you first adjusted them.

 

I have to get the wheels to sit right in the wheel wells though. That first one is going to be a PITA.

 

That is a tip I will remember.

 

Do I need anything outside of a basic socket set to get her done?

 

A jack and jack stands lol...

unless you wana hulk smash that motha fuga and lift up the car on your own while you work on it

<---smart azz

 

Oh yea and your going to need some spring comrpessors for the rear springs. You need the ones that compress from the bottom of the spring and through the middle, not the ones that compress from the sides.

But you really dont even need those, you could just use the weight of the car to compress the rear spring and unbolt the LCA and decompress the spring like that...thats kinda what i did but without the jack and just let the spring shoot out YEEEEE lol..it was fun untill i got my finger stuck in the spring when it popped out...almost lost half my hand

So i recomend the jack and not my caveman/impatient method LOL

 

Well why not see if any of the BC vendors on here could order them for you? and the wheels are 17x8

http://www.bavauto.com/shop.asp?HC1=...M=525i%20Wagon


I havent used compressors for that haha I used the jack to hold the bottom perch up while I take out the bolt and then let it down slowly..

 

yea the first time around i was too lazy for the jack so i just loosend the bolt and yanked that fugger out! worked out great on the driver side, but on the passenger side the spring kinda popped out and then back in and the spring grabbed 3 of my fingers and nearly chopped them off...it took me like 3 minutes to get the ***** to just rip my hand out of there i was kinda freaking out hahaha...worse has happened but man did that chit hurt!

 

Good lord bro. I think I will get the jack. lol
Will do. They also sell direct.

Dang you are good.

 

^lol you think thats bad? try decompressing the front strut and springs using a couple towels lol...google some videos lol...

I had a strut mount shoot out and nearly go through a garage wall doing that one time lol..good ol high school garage tuning days! lmao

 

You're farking crazy bro. lol

Think I may have found the wheels I will play with for a while.

http://sacramento.craigslist.org/pts/2865051374.html

You don't think BMW would have different lug setups for different 5 series do you?

 

y are you putting 17s on your z? thats not gona look very good....

18s are perfect and have reasonable prices for tires, i would stick with 18s personally..

I think i saw some 7 series BMW wheels for sale somehwere on CL today, they looks really nice on the z33. But like any german wheel you need to convert the lug pattern to 5x114.3 most (if not all BMW is 5x100 i think right?)