Restoring my First Car - The Worst Comes First!

[fcpeuro]

You know it's going to be a good one when there's a pile of blue-taped boxes in the thumbnail! Happy to help you bring the one that got away back to life. We may have to add bug bombs to our site if more people start taking on projects like this though 😅

[ShopLifeTV]

FCP: What do you need for your E46?... Adam: Yes
Glad to see the e46 getting some love! Can't wait to see it finished up!

[kalumleboe]

I was eleven and riding scooters when I first came across your channel, now I’m turning 20 in a month and working on my celica
You’ve been such an inspiration for everything I’m doing in life and I haven’t even realized that until now
Thank you for the amazing content you bring to us and I can’t wait to see the finished build

[B_M_A]

Johan is the definition of a GRINDER! My man can wrench on anything.

[waifumon]

I love this. I’ve been watching from way back when all you did was ride bikes and tried to learn to barspin from your tutorial a thousand times. Great stuff Adam.

[artie]

I'm probably the only one your viewers that owns this almost exact car. Mine was manufactured in June of 2002, same gray. The only difference is I have the sport package & wheels. We did Euro delivery with it from Munich to Cologne, , Brugge, and then to Amsterdam. I'll definitely be watching every minute of these vids, lol. My 325i only has 140k miles on it after all these years and still my daily. My first 5 speed manual also.

[thesigmaenigma]

"...we're going to get a bunch of shorts."
"And we only wear pants around here."
I appreciated that joke.

[sjorsdewit]

1:00 ey man i don’t know if you are still fighting steering issues with the s15, but I think it might help to increase the camber on the knuckle causing change in the kpi, reduce the camber on the top of the strut and increase caster. This way the wheels tilt over more parallel on lock which reduces the funky angles the tie rod/knuckle make so it will overcenter less, and allow you to run more caster. Cheers can’t wait for the e46 to be finished!

[JNortonRacing]

Glad to see some love getting done to the r32

[TIPhenix]

This is going to be my favourite LZ series. I'm very emotionally attached to the E46 chassis, starting with my first ever car that I wrote off into a tree, and then the two that came after, I am obsessed!

[davidsonjack]

Really happy your restoring this, a person's first car hits different

[nckeh]

One of the most wholesome video's I have watched of yours in a while. Fairly refreshing to see a real car being worked on and experiancing real issues :D.

[DJTMarq]

Man this brings back memories 😭 My first car was a '02 325Ci I bought when I was 16 & I remember having to fix pretty much all the things you did in this video lol. I also remember watching your first video on the e46 right around the time I purchased mine.. Deff plan to buy another e46 one day, next time around a M3!!

[jeffc]

I felt seen when Johan was taking off that shield. My E70 seems to have one of every kind of fastener on some areas of the front end trim/underbody. Philips, Allen, 8mm, 10mm.

[edugamer]

I would say that instead of swapping the engine I would just swap to a manual and turbo the engine, those things can make 400whp which is a lot of fun for that chassis

[zeitgeist]

FCP is by far the best company I’ve ever bought parts through, lifetime warranty is so goated.

[mitchankrom]

Mike you have outdone yourself. The shot of the little bug walking while someone was vacuuming, so good

[MotoMarauder]

This video is coming in clutch for figuring out all the preventative maintenance i should be doing with my e46. It's been sitting for over 2 years now and finally getting to start the project! Awesome video! 🔥

[Tacticalll]

I cannot wait to see this turn out. I Know for a fact it will be something special, and look/sound amazing. Keep up the great work and don't slow down!

[extremebicyclenetwork]

I love how Adam set up his hat crooked in this video. Not sure if it was on purpose but I definitely had a flashback to the E46 car check video !