Shadowing Practice: Best E46 Mods In 2024! - Learn English Speaking with Video

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I'm going to take a look.

so guys in this week's video i thought we'd basically just go over a few different points

and the best things you can do to an e46 not saying i have the best opinion on that of course

but like i said i've done a few bits of the

car i like modifying cars i'd like to think i've got a good opinion on what does look good

and what doesn't look good in a car but yeah like i say

if you don't agree then sorry i'm gonna go over a

few points now i was gonna do like the top five

there's probably gonna be a few more so maybe like eight to ten

but there's so much you can do to these cars i mean they're over 20 years old now

so so much aftermarket support and yeah i thought i'd go over a few

so without further ado let's get straight into it you have

to excuse me as well i am a little bit ill at the minute

but i need to get a video out for you guys this week

so yeah let's go starting with a cruiser point on any car

and any build it's the suspension now there's a few avenues

you can go down you've got over coilovers is the best

in my opinion you've got springs it's still good to get a car a little bit lower

but you are restricted obviously you have a set height

or obviously there's bags i ran bags from the golf personally

i wouldn't want another car run bags this wasn't the best

ride in my opinion i prefer coilovers that's what we have on the 46 you can either go super budget

or you can go obviously all the way up to nitron really expensive track suspension there's

so many different options you can choose from personally i think

coilovers are the best also for the fact nowadays you can get things like the stance cups

or the air cups which can go on top of a coilover you still have

that ability of either front lift rear lift both if you want

that but you have the handling of a coilover

so that's in my opinion probably the best setup to go i obviously just have budget coils on this

because it's my daily i bought it as a cheap car

i would like to upgrade the suspension in future in my opinion i think coilovers are the best purely

because like i say you have the adjustability on the height itself

obviously depending on the coilovers on these luckily i have you just the dampening

so the stiffness or the softness you want on the ride as well as

that it's probably one of the best things to do purely

because they're old cars the suspension's published after 20 years

so you want to upgrade

that i know obviously my reason for getting coilovers in the first place was my rear shocks had gone

and the price of an oem shock i could get budget

coilovers for like i say i just bought budget coilovers

and then the full car is lower i'd like to maybe go a little bit lower yeah

that is probably one of the best mods you can do for me in my opinion

and probably any car to start off with is the suspension purely

because it changes the overall look of the car you get

so much more of an aggressive stance the side profile like you see looks

so much better yeah i just don't really think there's much you can beat i'll stand out the way now

so you can actually see obviously what it does i mean

that arch gap like i say i'd like it a little bit lower

but i can't go too much lower purely

because of the daily ability of the car yeah starting off

as number one would definitely be the suspension for the next point

and arguably the number one point

but i was able to put it as number two it's

the exhaust system on a car now this is one

that applies to all cars but in my opinion the e46s especially

because it's very easy to make an e46 sound bad but

if you get them sounding right they do sound amazing

so it's one of the best mod you can definitely do to an e46

on my car i've just got a resonator delete the full exhaust is still stuck other than

that and i think it sounds absolutely amazing it's very easy for the e46 exhaust to be made raspy

and they just don't sound good you can get really good full exhaust systems like the valve sonic systems

and whatnot which i like to say they're valve

but it can be very hard to get a good sounding

one you can either go completely straight pipe catalyst all the

way through it's a drift car for example you can obviously go cat back

so it's road legal but it still sounds really loud

or like i've done you can just go a resonator delete

i love a loud sound click now with my exhaust in

my opinion i think it sounds really good for an e46

i've saw e46s have more than mine done they've had the

secondary cats deleted the cats deleted they just don't sound is

good i love the tone of mine i might be a

bit biased with my car yeah coming in at number two is the exhaust

that is a crucial mud for ne46

so for this next point we're gonna have to turn the

car on as it's a crucial mud for ne46 you guys

want to guess what it's gonna be help fine to lock my car and

that would be the angel eyes now some people aren't huge

fans of these you may not be able to see mine the best

because it's daytime at the minute

but i'll overlay some shots obviously of the angel eyes in the evening

because like i said they're a crucial model to any 46 you You can also get, as well as these halos, you can get a hexagon shaped one.

i'm not a fan of facet b46s

but i think the hex angel eyes in a facet b46

look better than the circle halos it's a must have on

an e46 of a night time especially my car being black it looks

so much more menacing it looks so aggressive

and it just brings the car up to date really they're

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good dlls they look good it brings the technology in the

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car up to date even as well as the angel eyes putting a white led in the car

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so i'll show mine now

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having a white led in the car it just looks

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so much better the halogens in my opinion date the car a lot

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and the angel eyes just look i mean there's nothing else to say they're

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so cheap they're easy to fit you can fit them yourself

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and they just look great let me know in the comments what you think

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but in my opinion they're such a good mod

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and like i say they're crucial to an e46 you don't really see many e46s without them

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and if i was to ever buy another e46

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i would hands down put the angel eyes straight back in

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the car i think this set here cost me about 20 pounds

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so i think for the price ease of installation

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and the change it has to your car they will easily sit at number three for me

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because they are such a good mod 246 i think this

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one needs to be pushed over a little bit it's a

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little bit out of line like i say it's easy enough

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to do especially with 46 headlights this case can just pop off readjust

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and then they're sorted yeah number three is definitely angel eye

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on the topic of lights this is a mod i want

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to do i haven't done it's these rear taillights now i know the m3s came with them

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and the facelift e46 came with them with the led taillights

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again like with the halos on the angel eyes they just bring the car up to date

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and they just look so much better these don't look bad they're very period correct

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but for me i just think they date the car like i say

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and i think the leds look

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so much better that's definitely a mod i want to do

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in future on the car will probably be an install i'll do on the channel

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so if you want to see that let me know down below

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and tying in with

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that like i said with the white bulbs from the halogen bulbs these plate lights again they change the car

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so much they look so much more modern on the car obviously

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when you have a plate on it's very important

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that your plate is seen

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but yeah i do absolutely just love the led tail lights

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i would like to change them now i'm looking at these

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and the car is clean i don't actually mind halogen ones

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as much i think it's definitely a mod i'd like to do in the future

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because upgrading these it's again as with most things on this car it's an easy mod to install

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and it changes the look massively it just brings you up to date more so

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if you want to see the leds installed on the channel

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let me know in the comments below that's definitely a model that's a light to do in the future

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and that's it for the lighting but under the next must have mod

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which i believe will be number five now which is a mod again

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that could go across to absolutely any car across the board with modifications

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but it is wheels now in my opinion like i say

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as well as the suspension exhaust wheels are the next point

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which are crucial for any e46 any build in general like i say

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but any 46 especially there is

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so many different avenues you can go down with e46 as

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with everything you can either go one piece drift style wheels there's the two piece style wheels

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which these are which are the oem vbs wheels

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or you can go for stance boy

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and you can go three things now like i said i've gone two piece of this

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because i've kept it obem plus i think any car with

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some sort of lip looks absolutely amazing there are many many

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styles a lot of people go with the bbs lm style wheels on these cars

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and i think they do look great

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that is one thing there is such a plethora of options

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that you can really choose absolutely any style and see

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if it suits the e46 there's so many styles

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that have been done

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and like i say with being old cars now in the

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aftermarket support everyone has the right fitment each style of wheels

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and yeah again you can't go wrong it changes the presence of a car completely

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so coming at number five is definitely the wheels now with

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number six i'm exposing myself a little bit with the awful paint on the rear end of this car

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but the number six mod

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which is the best for any 46 would be a spoiler again with most things

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because i've been around for so long there is

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so much option you can pretty much choose from any style you want to

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and it will suit your spec of build

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so for me i've gone with the oem lip spoiler

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which is the m sport spoiler this also came on the m3s you can obviously run no spoiler but

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if you want to look modified obviously you want to be

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adding something on the back of your car a lot of people go for the csl style

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which sort of goes like this on the car that's just

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like a little add -on piece it's very cheap like i say it looks like a csl style boot lid

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or if you've got big money people go the full carbon csl boot lid

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and they do look absolutely great in my opinion

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but it's not my style i like the lip spoiler you

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can also depending on the avenue going down with the car

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you can run a full big track wing on the car I think they do look great

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but I feel like

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if you are running a track wing then you should really

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have like a wide arch kit an M3 body style

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or just something that makes car look a lot more aggressive

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because they're narrow body cars and

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if you have too big of a rear spoiler it just

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doesn't look right it off balances the car a little bit in terms of spoilers again there's

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so many options on the cars you can choose from anything

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the most common are this m -sport lit the csl style

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or some sort of track style spoiler all in my opinion

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look great on their own specific builds you can actually get like a drag style spoiler maze

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if you're doing like a drift dance style kit

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which do also look good with most things on the e46 there are

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that many different options you really don't get one e46

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that looks the same as we mentioned with the spoilers the

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different styles of cars the different spoilers suit again another top mod you can do to any e46

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because it's all pretty cost effective is the body kit itself

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on mine i'm pretty stock body i've got the m sport kit m3 front bumper

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which a lot of people do and then the side skirts

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and the splitter kit all the way around now in my opinion

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that looks the best for oem plus you obviously can go with the m3 arches m3 bonnet

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and the full m3 rep kit i did discuss this in my previous video

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and reasons to buy an e46 obviously the different options you

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can go with an option i'd like personally to build

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if i had another e46 would be the drift style kit

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where you've got the big side skirts big low front bumper

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big rear bumper wide arches full drift stance looks absolutely amazing

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in my opinion i'd love to build one i like this

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oem plus is a daily i just need a second one to be a drift car to do

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that with yeah as well as that

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if you go in track style you go with the whole m3 gtr kit

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which has all the vents in the arches okay

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that usually has a big wing on the back very wide

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big tire track stance again looks amazing it's an easy thing you can do to these cars

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so again another top thing to do to me 46 is just modify the body kit there's

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so many kits available and the body styling you can change

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that you may as well do it to make yourself stand out from the rest controversial being a rep

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but i've got the rep m3 bumper the csl splitter m sport side skirts the splitter kit

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and the m sport rear bumper

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and the m sport spoiler obviously m sport is a start body styling but

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if you have an sc bottom spec e46 you can find

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these relatively cheap to upgrade it obviously you have the mtech front bumpers as well i just chose the m3

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but like i say for the price you're going to spend

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on one of those you may as well spend the money

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and just get a full body kit because fiberglass has come on

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so much now fitment will be great and

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if it's not great you just make it great

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if you've got an e46 you probably know how to work on a car

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or you want to learn how to work on a car

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yeah for number seven it will just be the body styling

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because it's one of the top things you can do why wouldn't you you stand out you look great

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and it's cheap so for number eight

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and i think the final point in this video i know i said eight to ten

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but probably eight you're gonna have to join me inside the car where we'll be discussing the apple carplay

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and the head units you can put in these cars

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because for an e46

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when we're talking about bringing the cars up to age sort

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of into the new technology era this is one thing you need to do

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and a must have an e46 so i have the e9 apple carplay unit this also pairs with android auto

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and in my opinion it's the absolute best thing you can do to these cars

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so on my system you have obviously apple carplay all the features maps ways spotify everything you want on carplay basically

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as well as you can get on the google play store

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and go on the internet it has normal radio you can

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watch netflix youtube it's just amazing like i say having

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that tech in an e46 feels absolutely crazy

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so it's definitely a must -have in an e46

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so there we have it guys there are the best things

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in my opinion to do to an e46 in 2024

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or at any point to be honest like i say i'm

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super happy with where this car sits at the minute there's

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a few other little bits i want to do to it

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but i'm trying to keep it relatively oem plus like i

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say next things i want to do are the towel lights

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and that's all i can really think of there's a few

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things like i say i want to get better coilovers maybe

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some better seats i'm not really too sure like i say

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i'm just trying to keep it as simple as possible whilst

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obviously having the mods i could do with to be honest getting another channel project

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so you have any ideas another e46 drift build another car completely another style of build then let me know

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because i'm looking to get something for the channel

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because like i say i need to bring you guys content

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i need something to build this car i started the channel

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when it was pretty much done in my eyes there's only

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a few bits i want to do obviously i'll film them

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when i do them unless the car breaks if you watch last video that brings us to the end of video

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if you think i've missed anything out drop them in the

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comments below let me know what you do to this car

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and definitely let me know what car you want to see on the channel

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because it's something i really need to think about it's something

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i need to produce content for you guys this car is good it produces some content

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but there's not really much more i can do to it

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we might have a sponsored video coming up soon yeah we

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might have some content coming up soon on some smaller mods

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but in terms of e46 it's just my daily it just

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gets me about it looks nice doing it i need something else to build

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and something else to do and produce content on

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and i don't want to go turbo i don't want to

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go like show car track car on this this is just

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my daily car it's my only car at the minute i need to buy something else

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that i can film for the channel

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so yeah let me know what you want to see

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but for me in terms of the best things you can

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do to me 46 that's the end of the video so I'll catch you guys in a bit

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 286 sentences and 3441 words to shadow. The speech runs for 14:51. The speaker talks fast, about 232 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
spoiler noun	/ˈspɔɪ.lɚ/	One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler.
angel noun	/ˈeɪ̯n.d͡ʒəl/	An incorporeal and holy or semidivine messenger from a deity or other divine entity, traditionally depicted as a youthful, winged figure in flowing robes.
drift noun	/dɹɪft/	Anything driven at random.
exhaust verb	/ɪɡˈzɔst/	To draw or let out wholly; to drain completely.
suspension noun	/səˈspɛnʃən/	The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
bumper noun	/ˈbʌmpəɹ/	Someone or something that bumps.
crucial adjective	/ˈkɹuː.ʃəl/	Essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important; vital.
stance noun	/stæns/	The manner, pose, or posture in which one stands.
arch noun	/ɑɹt͡ʃ/	An inverted U shape.
upgrade verb	/əpˈɡɹeɪd/	To improve, usually applied to technology, generally by complete replacement of one or more components.
delete verb	/dɪˈliːt/	To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device.
purely adverb	/ˈpjʊɹli/	Wholly; really, completely.
avenue noun	/ˈæv.əˌn(j)u/	A broad street, especially one bordered by trees or, in cities laid out in a grid pattern, one that is on a particular side of the city or that runs in a…
aggressive adjective	/əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/	Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing.
skirt noun	/skɚt/	A separate article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower torso and part of the legs.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
go over verb	To look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze.
come up verb	To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
go down with verb	To catch or contract (an illness).
stand out verb	To jut out, protrude (from a surface etc.).
get over verb	To overcome.
go down verb	To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
hands down adverb	without much effort; easily
pop off verb	To leave and return in a short time.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	i've done · haven't done · i've gone
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	are restricted · is still stuck · be made
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	cups which can · now which is · are which are

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 97 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, I've, they're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: suspension /səˈspɛnʃən/, crucial /ˈkɹuː.ʃəl/, shock /ʃɔk/, speculation /ˌspɛk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, controversial /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.ʃəl/
Long words — get the stress right: speculation /ˌspɛk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, controversial /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.ʃəl/, installation /ˌɪn.stəˈleɪ.ʃən/, automobile /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/, modification /ˌmɑdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like spoiler, angel, drift.

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