Ginger Tom

Not yet, but it's icy out there

Sitting down for my grandads 80th birthday dinner and there is one person that loves my new car, the rest have just given me abuse about driving a BMW. Jealousy does nothing for anyone apart from make them look small

Not sure I'll have to have a look, not had it on the ramps yet. I think it's got a full engine pan though

Lol, no vortex generators in certain places

O yeh, some small areo dynamic mods to bring up the mpg's

Lol, yeh just little things

Yeh, boot lid, bonnet, wing mirror covers and interior trim in carbon, it's gonna be painted as I don't want it on show, some 19" alpina Z8 replica alloys, super chip, stainless exhaust, quiet mind and lightly tinted windows, different head lights and smoked rears

Thank you, time to start buying stuff!!!

It's a coupe, am I right in thinking its an E82?

This has probably been asked a million time before but I'm new to the world of BMW's.

What 'E' is my car?

I see all these E numbers and all I can think of is the crap you get, or used to get, in orange squash.

Please help, mines a 2009 59 plate 1 series.

Cheers

Tom

Thanks everyone, I am going to the milton Keyes meet, need to give the car a detail first as it has swirls all over it, never done a car this big before

Love this car!!!

Hopefully these will work, some pics of my 120d:

O yes!

Well I picked her up this afternoon, gotta say I love her, just gotta decide on a name for her now.

Rides lovely, seats are comfy I could go on but I fancy I'm preaching to the choir on here.

I'll get some pics up of her once I see her in the cold light of day :D

Will do, picking it up tomorrow once I've woken up at about 1700 :D

Let me know the time and place and I'll be there

Getting mine on Tuesday :D after years of Fords I fancied a change.

Cheers Daz and Gav.

If I have any questions I'll try and put them in the correct places.

Tom

Hi all.

This is going to be my first BMW that I have bought and owned, though not the first I have driven.

My first drive in a BMW was a Z4 2.3i and was amazed at how well it went for both an auto and a 2.3 petrol. At the time I couldn't afford the payments on the pcp so I had to let it go unfortunately.

Change of jobs and mileage now means I need a diesel and a comfortable one at that!

I decided a few months back that I wanted a 1 series because of the way the coupe looked and that it was rear drive, something I've always wanted in a car.

So after work yesterday morning I went to my local BMW dealership and started to have a wonder round looking at the various 1 series on the forecourt, I had barely looked at a 3 door when a gentlemen approached me to see if I needed help, within about an hour I'd met the sales man, had a chat about what I wanted etc and been for a test drive in the car I'd been drooling over on the net. Needless to say that after the drive and finance crap I put the deposit down on a silver 120d se coupe with a few toys on it.

The car itself has about 40k on the clock, is a 59 plate in silver with the 5 spoke alloys, black leather interior and drove faultlessly.

I'm hoping that it will be as reliable as I'm told BMW's are as I'll be doing 25k a year getting backwards and forwards to work in it.

Anyway I'm rambling on now, can't tell I'm bored at work can you?

My names Tom, feel free to call me ginge/ginger or just Tom.

Hope your all friendly and I'll be floating around reading some of the threads and hopefully not upsetting anyone.

Cheers for reading if you've got this far and I'll speak to you again in the very near future!

Tom