Howdy all, just found this forum through a link while in the process of doing a little googling. I have a '95 325is, Alpine White, that I bought about three years ago that I blame for getting me hooked on the detailing bug. Well, it's borderline obsession at this point (am I the only one who uses a toothbrush on the undercarriage? 
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The story on the car is that it was owned by a stockbroker who drove it from his garage at home to the garage at work and took it to the dealer for everything down to the oil changes, and the fluids have been all synthetic from day one. I have receipts for everything all the way back to 1995, including the window sticker.
He sold the car to a friend of my brother's, and it spent a few years garaged with minimal driving until I bought it.
Phase two of my new obsession came from being turned on to Griot's garage, which has a showroom 20 minutes from me, which is also a block away from the BMW dealership. It's like one-stop shopping!
The other financial drain this car causes is the quest for performance- I have brakes and complete coil-over suspension out of an M3 that will be bolted up once every part has been stripped and repainted, and every bushing replaced. It helps here that a buddy of mine works in a machine shop, so I have free access to a hot tank and bead blaster. The calipers have been stripped down and tanked, just picked up the rebuild kits for them, kinda going at it as I have time.
After that, I'm dropping in M3 cams and exhaust, an OBDII midpipe, Turner shorty headers, and re-chipping. That's my fall/winter project, though...
As for the user name, I'm also a guitarist, so there you go...
Anyway, that's about it in a thumbnail, looking forward to sharing my interest in all things clean and shiny with everybody!
).The story on the car is that it was owned by a stockbroker who drove it from his garage at home to the garage at work and took it to the dealer for everything down to the oil changes, and the fluids have been all synthetic from day one. I have receipts for everything all the way back to 1995, including the window sticker.
He sold the car to a friend of my brother's, and it spent a few years garaged with minimal driving until I bought it.
Phase two of my new obsession came from being turned on to Griot's garage, which has a showroom 20 minutes from me, which is also a block away from the BMW dealership. It's like one-stop shopping!
The other financial drain this car causes is the quest for performance- I have brakes and complete coil-over suspension out of an M3 that will be bolted up once every part has been stripped and repainted, and every bushing replaced. It helps here that a buddy of mine works in a machine shop, so I have free access to a hot tank and bead blaster. The calipers have been stripped down and tanked, just picked up the rebuild kits for them, kinda going at it as I have time.
After that, I'm dropping in M3 cams and exhaust, an OBDII midpipe, Turner shorty headers, and re-chipping. That's my fall/winter project, though...
As for the user name, I'm also a guitarist, so there you go...
Anyway, that's about it in a thumbnail, looking forward to sharing my interest in all things clean and shiny with everybody!