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  • 330Ci E46 on Bags | UK

    So straight to the basics. I have a 330Ci MSport Facelift coupe BMW, I got the car back in November and held of doing anything until the start of this year. Put some savings towards insurance knowing I had to renew in February. But after I sorted that out, it was game on!

    But yeah here's the car the day after I picked it up, so much nicer and more comfortable to drive than my previous car - Astra VXR.


    Remember I said it was game on after Insurance? A set of genuine Borbet X5 9&10J wheels come up for sale resprayed in Candy Apple Red come up for sale so I had to have them! Only have a picture of 1/9J 1/10J but you get the idea


    So I had some wheels, now i needed to think about some lowering. I bought a set of coilovers, non branded eBay specials. I don't know if anyone on here has had any trouble with them before but when i fitted the fronts they just didn't fit properly. I put the backs in just to see what it looked like anyway as it's only a 20minute job:


    So now i was a little stuck on what to do, do i go buy some HSD's for the E46, either way i had to take the rear coilovers out and put it back to standard ride height. I was following on somebody on Instagram for a while after i picked up my BMW. He put a post up about his Air Kit for sale. Viair compressor/gauge, 5Gallon Air Zenith Tank, Wiring ETC. Front Struts and Rear bags. (Front Struts are on GAZ Shocks, all bags are Firestone). Cut a long story short I drove down to him and picked the lot up for £1500. He said the kit was on his car for a couple of months and decided to break his 325SE coupe after his auto gearbox failed.



    I had to pick up some different Air Line and fittings during the week so the following weekend me and my brother set about fitting the kit to my car:




    Temporary fixing for Air Tank, all of the brains is where the spare wheel should be:


    With only time getting the fronts in, lined up along with the wiring, checking for leaks and running out of Daylight this is how it sat dumped out the next day with the standard rear springs still in:


    England, being pure England it started to rain when we were fitting the rears. But slight modifications to the rear spring arms seats with a trusty angle grinder we got the rear done:




    Now i needed to find a permanent place to fit my compressor switch, twin needle gauge and rocker switches:


    With a place found i set about with a jigsaw, chisel and drill and some good old elbow hand sanding and come up with this which i was pretty chuffed about:


    Cheeky Snap Courtesy of Tyre Wall:


    Then i thought about test fitting the fronts on the E46 of the 9J X5 Wheels:




    Clearly some spacing had to be needed to give it that extra room from the strut, and to fill the wing abit more so i bought some 20mm Hubcentric Spacers:


    Eventually I got some tyres, 225/35/19 for the 9J front and 235/35/19 for the 10J rears. I had to run a 5mm spacer on the rear to get it away from the inner quarter panel.





    I need to get the Rear arches rolled as it's stopping me from fully dumping the air out of the rear bags, but yeah that's how it stands at the moment and i'm pretty chufffed to be honest

  • #2
    Good start so far buddy

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    • #3
      Not a biggest fan of X5 wheels but overall a very good effort!

      Well done!


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      • #4
        Very nice. I'm hoping to do something similar with an e46

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        • #5
          so good! love the red <3

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Spirit View Post
            Good start so far buddy
            cheers man!

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Zacne_4 View Post
              Not a biggest fan of X5 wheels but overall a very good effort!

              Well done!
              cheers fella! they were a steal for the price i got them for so it was a good way to kick off the BMW!

              I am looking into putting it back on a set of 18's, but what i don't know haha

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              • #8
                Originally posted by grimefunk View Post
                so good! love the red <3
                thanks! pain in the back side to keep clean, but once they're clean the candle apple red looks awesome.

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                • #9
                  Awesome!! Is there any way you can get the front down another 1/2 inch or so?
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                  • #10
                    Looks great man. Did you put spacers on the front? Cause on mine, i had to put 20mm spacers to clear the bags!

                    Grtzz

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                    • #11
                      i might be able to if i lower the spacer size on the front with the X5's, might have a look when the weather brightens up.

                      Could take the 20mm spacer out off the front and re-bolt the wheel then air it out and see what happens i suppose!

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                      • #12
                        I had to use 20mm spacers up front to fill the arches more, but i can get away without running ones. It's close to the AirStrut. The inner barrel of the wheel is probably 5mm from the Strut without a spacer. Had to put a 5mm spacer on the rear to clear the inner quarter panel due to natural camber when debagging at the rear. Not that i can fully air out the rear unless i roll the quarters or put on some Camber arms.

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                        • #13
                          I just thought that it looked like the arch meets the wheel on the rear but there's still a little bit to go on the front
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by johnnyboy View Post
                            I just thought that it looked like the arch meets the wheel on the rear but there's still a little bit to go on the front
                            I air it out to that when I park up, without getting the rear arches rolled I can't air it fully at the rear something on my to do lost though

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                            • #15
                              Ah right, will it tuck the wheel eventually then?
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