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      03-28-2020, 09:38 PM   #1
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Hello everyone! New to bmw and bimmerpost🙏

Searched for an introductions page but none came up. I just got my first BMW and wanted to show y'all and take the time to say hello! It's a little 2013 328i. No mods yet. Jet black, N26 motor, sport line edition with full time m sport suspension, black leather, red stitch, the full 18 inch size LA Wheel rims, pearl effect chrome and grey anthracite wood trim, premium package, lighting package, storage package, rear camera, and the coolest dad thing ever, rear door sunshades and a power rear window sunshade. Only 1 previous owner, 50k miles, regular maintenance, and a blessing from the local BMW dealer after their used vehicle inspection. Didn't even buy it there! I'm in love! Can't wait to make some mods.
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Very nice, welcome to the club
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      03-29-2020, 09:14 AM   #3
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Very nice, welcome to the club
Thank you kindly. 🙏


**update**

Just coded all the cool features like mirrors auto in/out, windows and sunroof auto open/close, sport display, auto on/off set permanently off, digital speedometer, and 3 flashes on lock/unlock. Led angel eyes brightness turned up and set as my daytime running lights, Can confirm bimmercode DOES in fact work quickly and seamlessly with the vgate icar pro. No errors. Got nothing else to do during these current times. May as well start making her mine!
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Welcome to the forum. Lovely car. Love the wheels. Black kidney grills will set it off perfectly.
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Welcome to the forum. Lovely car. Love the wheels. Black kidney grills will set it off perfectly.
Agreed! Thank you! 👊
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MRii328i, thanks for sharing and welcome!

Great car - enjoy it!

There are literally countless ways to make it your own and even better. At some point, you may want to improve the suspension behavior. There are many helpful discussions in the dedicated sub forum about shocks / springs combinations and coilovers.
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MRii328i, thanks for sharing and welcome!

Great car - enjoy it!

There are literally countless ways to make it your own and even better. At some point, you may want to improve the suspension behavior. There are many helpful discussions in the dedicated sub forum about shocks / springs combinations and coilovers.
Thank you for the head's up. I've gone ahead and coded a bunch of stuff already. I thought it had sport transmission but it did not. Well let me tell you sport+ plus sport transmission = VERY FUN. Soon as I'm back to work I'll start working on replacing silver trim with black and go from there ����

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Few new pics. The shut down is putting a big damper of plans for her. Especially and first, finally getting to my body shop to replace the dinged front bumper and installing black kidney grill trim.
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Nice car. Congratulations!
Does your state law allow no front license plate.
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Does your state law allow no front license plate.
Thank you! Yep 👍. When the front bumper piece gets replaced I'm going to ask if they can leave the plate holder right off, and put the black kidney trim on for me
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Beautiful car! I would suggest for your first mod is to get rid of the front chrome kidney grills, and go with a pure gloss black to match your car. https://amzn.to/35Ke7kl

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Congrats! Now tint those windows dark!
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Beautiful car! I would suggest for your first mod is to get rid of the front chrome kidney grills, and go with a pure gloss black to match your car. https://amzn.to/2S1r6bT
That is definitely first on my list
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That is definitely first on my list
I have some oem black f30 kidney grills I can sell you.
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glad to have you! good luck enjoy
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Thank you kindly. 🙏


**update**

Just coded all the cool features like mirrors auto in/out, windows and sunroof auto open/close, sport display, auto on/off set permanently off, digital speedometer, and 3 flashes on lock/unlock. Led angel eyes brightness turned up and set as my daytime running lights, Can confirm bimmercode DOES in fact work quickly and seamlessly with the vgate icar pro. No errors. Got nothing else to do during these current times. May as well start making her mine!
This is the thing I don't understand about BMW - they have all these features in the car, but they don't give it to you...haha, and here we are all out here bimmercoding it like WHYYYYY
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Hello fellow Michigander!
Congrats of the 2013 328i! That is very nice, my first F30 was a 328i Sport xDrive, was a very good trouble free vehicle.
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Are they Sport line? Fits 2013?
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Hello fellow Michigander!
Congrats of the 2013 328i! That is very nice, my first F30 was a 328i Sport xDrive, was a very good trouble free vehicle.
Thank you! SO far so good, and I was sure to get extended warranty too!
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This is the thing I don't understand about BMW - they have all these features in the car, but they don't give it to you...haha, and here we are all out here bimmercoding it like WHYYYYY
Agreed. But for that matter, coding your own car is a uniquely satisfying thing to be able to do. I'm in love with BMW.
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