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Have you currently got snow like that?

2010 BMW 535XiT M sport trim AWD. I haven't tuned it yet. I can add almost 100hp without much effort. It's new to me just recently. It's my errands car when I'm not driving my work truck

I have used an epoxy product from Caswell to coat a tank. It's very thick and would deal with pinholes pretty well. I suspect that tank will have quite a few pinholes once it's properly cleaned. It might be hard to do in an apartment setting...

So is this coming from the US or from Canada? Where did you find the black Friday deal? I could see doing this. Ive done 4 alignments in the last twp months. That would have paid for most of it. And at market rates I would be money ahead...

Cap the booster line for now. The booster is probably ruined from the fluid. It'll need a rebuild. Pretty common problem...

I recall somebody found a person to rebuild heater valves. Does anyone recall who that rebuilder was? 510 valves are costly

I had similar issues trying to buy parts out of Europe. Specifically Latvia. I needed some BMW fuel injectors and there seem to be a number of NOS BMW parts in Latvia. They couldn't tell me what the final costs would be because of the ever changing tariff situation. In the end I had to source them somewhere else. I am hoping that at some point these issues will get resolved, so business can know the rules and get back to work...

@cgsheen1 I was going to post in another thread but didn't want to thread jack, I'm hopeful to make it to Zcon in your area next year and check out your cars

The difference is modern bumpers are TPO (Thermoplastic Polyolefin) and a urethane bumper is different. I routinely plastic weld TPO bumpers for my cars I repair but Urethane bumpers can't be plastic welded. At least not in the traditional meaning. TPO is also stiff and takes paint better because it's more solid and less rubber like than urethane. Some TPO bumpers for 240z's would be very interesting

The painter who painted the loose panels for Lily uses Bulldog adhesion promoter. I will talk to the paint shop too. To try to check all the boxes

Hopefully not too many surprises

The airdam is urethane. It can be tough to get paint to stick to it because it's so flexible.

Yes, the plan is to paint the airdam too. Hopefully it will stick...

I had her up on jack stands and stood about a 12" piece of 6x6 up on the jack and lifted her up. But the block and jack wanted to slide out once she was up high enough. I had to hold the jack in place while someone put the cubes under the tires

I dont believe the 510 has a rheostat