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My MOT certificate was due to run out tomorrow so I got my car tested today. It failed because the offside headlamp was aimed too high, which was easily fixed and it passed on a re-test.

The emissions test went well, for a 12 year old car with more than 130,000 miles on the clock. The results are reproduced below:

The site is now (as you can plainly see) back online. I was running out of disk space so I took the opportunity to upgrade my operating system at the same time as fitting a new hard drive. I now have a 120GB hard drive with a fresh installation of Gentoo Linux occupying a small fraction of the space available.

I had some new rear tyres fitted today by the garage at the end of my road, STS (I would provide a URL but they don’t appear to be online).They also did the tracking and the handling has improved yet again, they have virtually eliminated the pull to the right that the car used to have.The tyres are Nankang 225/50 VR 15 and they cost me about £55 each including fitting, balancing and VAT. The alignment cost £35.

The bonnet and grille replacement on my car has now been completed and I picked up my car on Friday afternoon.

The first bit of news is that my car is booked in for its new bonnet and grille next Tuesday.Secondly, a reminder that the UK E32 Register are having another meeting this Sunday (16th).

Now you’re sat with a pile of bits in front of you, I’ll show you how to put your OBC back together.

Now you have your OBC in bits (see part 1), how do you go about changing the stock orange backlight to something a bit more modern?

This story details the disassembly of the OBC.

A BMW Part number is formatted like this: 00-00-0-000-000. The first two digits reveal the section that the part belongs to. Read on for my findings so far…

Oil leaking from the front of your M30 engine is a fairly common complaint, as I found when I posted an enquiry to The UK E32 Register Forum. I was prepared to book it in to have the timing cover gasket and sump gasket replaced, but fortunately user Alan 88 UK 730i pointed me to the simple fix which was documented on the Koala Motorsport website.