E46 M3 Inspection 2

zaleonardz

Well-known member
Stuff that for a joke

•Castrol TWS 10w60 engine oil (7 quarts) -Liqui Moly GT1 Race spec, going to cost you R800 for 10L

•OEM oil filter - Can do a pirate, but R250 I guess

•OEM air filter - Standard E46 R300 bucks

•OEM fuel filter - Maybe 1k from the agents,

•OEM NGK spark plugs - R150 a plugx6 I would recon agents

•Ate Super Blue brake fluid 200 +300 at a brake and cluthc guy to swap

•A/C microfilter R300

•Red Line transmission and differential oil (2 quarts of each) + 800 from Liqui Moly

Time Wise.
Oil Change + Filter = piss easy, 30 minutes

Air filter, 1 minute, may be

Fuel filter, 20 minutes, including jacking up the car to get under the passanger seat, just clips in

Plugs, 15 minutes with a plug spanner, one cover to remove.

Brake fluid have done at a brake and clutch guy with a pressure bleeder, R300 maximum for labour, should be about 150 actually... and about 150 for the fluid... THis one sucks to do by yourself, and if you stuff it up...

AC Micro filter, 3 minutes, including sipping on a beer.

THe transmission and diff flushes are somewhat more tricky, but this is also piss basically,

Put the car up on 4 tressels, so that it is off the ground, open up the drain plug on each, let the old fluid pour out, then using a sturdy hand pump just pump fluid straight from the container until they are filled.

You can stick your finger into the hole of the gearbox/diff repectively, and as soon as your finger is in line with the oil level, your good to go.

It takes a 17 hex if memory serves, if you dont have, builders sells a damm nice mastercraft set for R350, and you have an awesome tool. I would allow 1 hour each per gearbox/diff if you have never done this, 15 to 20 minutes is more likey.

So
Parts your looking at R4050 guessing, if you go for pirate plug, you can bring that down, just use a good brand - Bosch/NGK equiv.

Labour works out to 3.15 hours

If I was doing this, I would have charged about 1,500 for the entire job.

Do it yourself bud

I will help telephonically






 

zaleonardz

Well-known member
Oil specs

Engine Oil.
Capacity : LubeCap 5,5 liter

· Use : Normal
· Intervals : Change 20000 km / 24 months
· Products : Synthoil Race Tech GT1 10W-60

Diff
Capacity : LubeCap 1,2 liter

· Use : Normal
· Products : Vollsynth. Hypoid-Getriebeöl (GL-5) LS SAE 75W-140


Transmission
: Normal
· Products : Hochleistungs-Getriebeöl (GL-3+) SAE 75W-80

Do Power stearing while your at it
Power steering

· Capacity : LubeCap 1 liter

· Use : Normal
· Products : Top Tec ATF 1100
: Lenkgetriebe-Öl 3100


I paid for all of these oils/excluding engine on the M... shit, was about 1k
 

kabal

Active member
thanks for the awesome post.

yah, you are basically getting screwed on labour. however I plan to sell this car soon, so getting dealer FSH is probably worth +-R4000 overlay?
 

chrisc

New member
Got all those parts specified above much cheaper from Wilf's Motor Spares in Diep River, Cape Town. Most prices 25% less than quoted.
 
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