Recent content by Stanwood Steve

Like you, I don't trust the "walk away" lock either. I always keep one of the key cards in my pants pocket and just tap the B-pillar on the driver's side as I'm leaving and ensure it's locked. I find key fobs in general a bit of a pain to continually carry around, but the key card in my front...

Same here. I have 115,000 miles on my 2018 M3P with no bearing issues. I do enjoy its acceleration periodically, but in general I'm a pretty gentle driver.

I guess I've been exceedingly lucky. I've been running 20" wheels for over 112,000 miles with no wheel or tire damage yet. Now that I've said that, I'll probably hit a giant pothole today and ruin my record.

I have just over 110,000 miles on my M3P (2018) and no issues with the wheel bearings as far as I can tell. I'm not terribly hard on the car though.

I believe I used a link on their web site to contact them (it's been a while), but subsequently have been dealing with "Queenie Tsui" at Ohmmu. The e-mail for Queenie is "[email protected]". Couple of notes to pass along, I eventually did receive the Tesla "battery requires replacement alert"...

My 2018 M3P has about 110,000 miles on it now, and I have no intention on getting rid of it, even if it needs new suspension components or even a new motor outside of warranty coverage. My philosophy has always been that if the car is not rusting out from under me, I lean towards fixing it. I...

I placed this label in my charge port - no guarantee that the person will take the time to text me, but I figured it might help reduce the likelihood of someone just yanking the charger out when using an adapter. Obviously this wouldn't apply to chargers using the NACS plug since it's locked in...

I had my M3P's upper control arms replaced at 75,000 miles and the Service Center did the replacement at no cost to me (Goodwill). They did not mention anything about replacing the lateral or lower links. The car has been quiet since then with no issues that I'm aware of. By the way, I didn't...

I also live on top of a hill, and had a large fir tree hit by lightning that was about 20 feet from the north end of my home. The electrician came to the same conclusion you did. It traveled up my ground rods into my home electrical supply and blew out my double oven, satellite receivers, all...

Since I've had my M3P for over five years now, I'm guessing that it probably was still under warranty. It was a relatively quick fix though (I just waited for it to be completed at the Service Center), and the noise is related to what we call in the aerospace industry as "oil canning" of the...

On my 2018 M3P, I heard about a replacement battery compartment "vent" that could be installed to replace the original vents that minimized the sound of the "bang" when Supercharging. I requested the service and it was performed rather quickly at the Service Center at no cost. It did seem to...

Ohmmu sent me one of the bluetooth battery replacements too, and similarly, no issues since then. They've always treated me well so no complaints from my perspective.

I just turned 95,000 miles on my 2018 M3P and requested service to have the oil and filters changed on the car's gearboxes, but the Service Center replied with "not necessary - the car will tell you when the oil needs to be serviced" so I canceled my request. Since I tend to keep my vehicles a...

Not any longer, although I was fortunate enough to get it for my M3P that I took delivery of in August of 2018.

I went with this option last time and it eliminates having to deal with the screw holding the cover on, which in my opinion is the worst part of doing the filter change. The magnet seemed strong enough to hold the cover in place just fine.