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My 3-door 130i M Sport:
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Factory: Boston Lemon leather | Heated seats | 208Ms | Auto wipers | Pro HU | Rear PDC | Dimming mirrors | Lighting pack | Storage pack
OE Retrofits:
Aftermarket/Mods:
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Pre-tinkering:
First mods:
BMWP SSK & handbrake
SSK is lovely and for £120 including the trim it's a good buy. Really does make the car more fun on the B roads! Got the handbrake trim to match, ML Performance had it for a good price and got some fantastic service from the owner after I stuffed up the order. Highly recommended, plus they're a site sponsor.
BMWP pedal covers
...they just look pretty
Sport antenna
Didn't want to trundle around with original Corsa-looking aerial. Wasn't expensive at all and makes a nice difference to the silhouette of the car.
Alpine upgrade
The kit (courtesy of Cotswold) went in a week or so ago, car already had two subs from the hifi system (instead of the single sub from the base system) so it sounds much better than you'd expect for the money. Feel like a bit of a badge wan*er though because I managed to find Logic7 tweeter grilles for roughly half the price of unbadged - need to find a way to remove the Harman/Kardon badge without damaging the grilles and add the Alpine one
While I had the boot apart I swapped the parcel shelves for the hifi ones, I'll be adding hifi system mids & tweeters there in the future, plus an amp so that I can code the car to hifi audio without affecting the PDC pings. Not an urgent project though.
Steering wheel retrim
Think that just about covers it. Been here a few weeks now (and spent months lurking here before I pulled the trigger on the car) and figured it was worth documenting my fall into poverty so that everyone else knows what they're in for





-----------------------------------------------------------------------Specs-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Factory: Boston Lemon leather | Heated seats | 208Ms | Auto wipers | Pro HU | Rear PDC | Dimming mirrors | Lighting pack | Storage pack
OE Retrofits:
- Adaptive Bi-Xenons & LED Darklines
- Second-generation high-beam assist
- Alpine upgrade w/ hifi subs, rear speakers & rear tweeters
- Cruise control
- Folding mirrors
Aftermarket/Mods:
- Genuine BMWP Intake, SSK, strut brace, bump stops, handbrake, pedals, steering wheel trim
- Custom leather/Alcantara flat-bottomed steering wheel by RSW
- 1M-Style Alcantara binnacle (also RSW)
- Summer wheels: Bola FLB in 8x17 ET40 square w/ PS4s in 235/40 97Y XL
- Winter wheels: Dare DR-X2 in 8x18 ET38 front, 8.5x18 ET43 rear w/ CrossClimate+ in 225/40 & 245/35
- Mishimoto intake boot
- EZP intake scoops
- BMW/Brembo S2NH 340mm front brakes
- Hel braided stainless brake & clutch hoses (+ CDV delete)
- Eibach Pro springs
- Whiteline subframe inserts
- 1M LCAs (+ camber pin mod), rear guide arms & rear wishbones
- THETYRANT Stage 1 camber plates
- E93 M3 front ARB (28mm)
- Aero spoiler
-----------------------------------------------------------------------Original Post-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Pre-tinkering:

First mods:
BMWP SSK & handbrake
SSK is lovely and for £120 including the trim it's a good buy. Really does make the car more fun on the B roads! Got the handbrake trim to match, ML Performance had it for a good price and got some fantastic service from the owner after I stuffed up the order. Highly recommended, plus they're a site sponsor.

BMWP pedal covers
...they just look pretty

Sport antenna
Didn't want to trundle around with original Corsa-looking aerial. Wasn't expensive at all and makes a nice difference to the silhouette of the car.

Alpine upgrade
The kit (courtesy of Cotswold) went in a week or so ago, car already had two subs from the hifi system (instead of the single sub from the base system) so it sounds much better than you'd expect for the money. Feel like a bit of a badge wan*er though because I managed to find Logic7 tweeter grilles for roughly half the price of unbadged - need to find a way to remove the Harman/Kardon badge without damaging the grilles and add the Alpine one

While I had the boot apart I swapped the parcel shelves for the hifi ones, I'll be adding hifi system mids & tweeters there in the future, plus an amp so that I can code the car to hifi audio without affecting the PDC pings. Not an urgent project though.

Steering wheel retrim
Think that just about covers it. Been here a few weeks now (and spent months lurking here before I pulled the trigger on the car) and figured it was worth documenting my fall into poverty so that everyone else knows what they're in for