Garage Art

I have collected some garage art over the years and some of the pieces are really great, I think.

The M coupe and M3 plates were issued to dealers when the M coupe and E46 M3 were released.  They were also used on cars at auto shows and press events.  They do come up for sale on ebay sometimes.

S50 engine cover trim, from ebay for about $20.  Z3 coupe sill plate, from LeatherZ.

Coupe artwork from Garage Welt.  This one was a gift from my wife.  Note that the stone guards were omitted.  They did that begrudgingly by her request!

Another Garage Welt, this one of the coupenut car!!

This is an actual BMW banner, Andy bought it on ebay about 18 years ago.  It is actually twice as tall as shown, I have it folded in half.  They sold these in 2 other colors (one for each M color).

This was liberated from the BMW factory in Spartanburg after one of the Homecomings and then later given to me in trade for parts.  I figure it's better in my garage than in a trash can!!

This is a pretty recent banner, I learned about it on the Facebook page or Bimmerforums, I can't recall which, but it's fantastic if you ask me.

Leather wipes

These are Original BMW parts.  They are nice to keep in the car in the event of a spill on leather.  We keep one pack in each car in our family.

BMW leather wipes, QTY 10, PN 83192286941, $5.00r

Sniggly Bits II (Well, crap)

Ok, turns out North Hollywood Speedometer will not work on our instrument clusters.  We are "too modern" if you can believe that.  They looked at mine, and then decided to pass on doing any work on it.  So I was back to square one.

One quirk with my instrument panel was: many years ago I broke the locking "teat" on one of the 3 connectors at the back.  Surely this wasn't related to my intermittent speedo problem, but it was broken and who knows.

Sourcing a new connector proved to be difficult.  You used to be able to buy them from BMW, but you can't any more.  I had to buy a used one from ebay for $5.  I replaced the broken one, locked it back and place, and so far my speedo has been trouble free.  Based on my luck finding the part, I went ahead and bought spares (also used) for the other 2 connectors for a few dollars each.  Part numbers listed below.

BMW 6913634
BMW 8364646
BMW 8373604 

These are worth picking up as spares.

This is an unbroken connector.  "Teat" is still here.  The arm swings forward and locks behind the teat.

Locking "teat" is broken off of this one.