E30 Zone

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hello gents, apologies if this falls foul of site regs, just wanted to let as many people know as poss as i need these bits and bobs gone very, very quickly...and considering i'll be giving most of it away i thought posting here before i get pics together to put on the sale thread might be ok? anyho...

didn't realise the ratio of e30 owners partnering super models was so high.

i thought i had fairly high standards, i'd dick that bint all over the shop...horses for courses, you wouldn't marry her, and you'd obviously get her to wash all that s**t off her face first.

car - stickers + wheels = nice

bought a sump from upscale, really well packed...when snail-mail took ages delivering it, he was very thorough in showing postage proof etc

def recommend buying from him.

my engine blew yesterday, so i'm breaking the car and saying goodbye to e30s for the time being. just wanted to say thanks to the people on here who made owning this car much more enjoyable than it otherwise would have been. for people with no mechanical experience, like myself, this site, and the p...

the car wanted to stall when i dropped the revs templ8, so all the dash lights came on at once, the oil light flickered a little, but i thought the alt belt had snapped. glued the sump just to test the engine, filled up with oil, knocking went immediately! i'll get a new sump now, hopefully be ok fo...

k thanks for the info gents...i'll bodge it and see what happens.

hi, cracked my sump, drove 8 miles without knowing there was no oil. by the end of the journey there was a slight knocking. is it worth putting a new sump on to see if i get a few months driving? or will the big end just come through the block immediately, even though the klonking noise isn't very l...

aah, sorry, not a very clear post.

thanks for the info loony/beemerlad, much appreciated.

can i get a 17 year old e30 on a classic insurance, or does it have to be 20/25+ years?

if i can, does anyone know a good company to use?

cheers.

i got a shiny black 316i (m40) with 6 months mot and bbs wheels for Ã‚£290, and that was from a dealer. this thing isn't even worth Ã‚£50 (unless you want to cannibalise it). in fact, some guy one here from glasgow was giving a nice 316i away for nothing...keep looking. edit: i think people seem to ...

do these have to have holes in to cause air leaks, or will they cause trouble even if they have cracks that haven't perished all the way through the rubber?

thanks.

aah, right cheers spadge...does this knack the fpr having oil in it?

is this right? it's coming out of the vacuum pipe.

cheers

they have like a triangle of metal on them...cant see where they open...i'll just have to attack them.

cheers

i cant make sense out of them...how do you take them off?

thanks gents, they were seized. pulled the plastic cap covers off and twisted them out... + bits of rusted wing.

hi, how do you get these off?

they have grey square bits of plastic on the ends of the clip/clamp, maybe they come off but i don't want to force them without knowing, rusty wings wanting to come off with them.

cheers.

aah ok, thanks again gents.

sorry, forgot to mention its an m40. is it somewhere near the injectors?

thanks

right thanks brian, could you tell me where the blue temp sensor is?! or the part # so i can find it on the bmwfans site.

thanks again.

hi, my exhaust is blowing slightly somewhere near the front section/manifold, would this effect the running of the car? it splutters/misses before its warmed up.

thanks.

thankfully blacks a good colour for rust, if it was white it'd look bad. yeah i was going back into town... yours seems to have a fair bit of poke (or do you wear lead boots

?) is it an m10 or m40?

do you have a 4 door with blacked out kidney?

saw one today round the BT roundabout, looked like the one in your sig.

hope you get it sorted...i have a mid-high pitched whine coming from the front of my engine, mine sounds like its coming from the camshaft flywheel, maybe a bearing. be interested to hear what you find wise.

WD40! when it blows up you can drop a M30 in :D winkeye :wink: heheh... there's a good oil thread on here somewhere shane from the guy from opie oils. for a budget option i think Fuchs Titan was what he was recommending for an m40 engine. you'd have to check this. here's the site: http://www.opieoi...

heh...even i can understand that 320, nice one!

right, think i can manage the ohms then, i should wiki some general info about meters.

thanks smithy/brian, very much appreciate your help gents.

Lol. IMO if you dont know how to use a meter, you shouldnt have bought one. thanks for the info, and opinion...although i'm guessing if i applied that to everything in life i'd be sitting in a dark cave playing with my own s*** :D apologies if these are stupid questions, just started trying to lear...

hi,

i want to test my ICV and TPS are working. what ohms setting should i be using on the multi-meter?

(2000k 200k 20k 2000 200)

also, how do you check for voltage? which setting on the multi-meter?

any info's appreciated, thanks.

i get 55 miles for 10 squid, i'm driving a 316, think yourself lucky mate!

car looks class tony...quietly understated, def agree on getting the boot badge back, no badges always seems to have an unfinished paint job vibe!

aah, right, best of luck dodgem!

dodgem, would you not need to put on a lacquer to match the rest of the car? people have told me that all metallic paint is lacquered. i've repainted my bumper inserts with halfords bumper paint. had a massive scratch/dent on one side too, but i followed someone else's post about repairing them...wo...

one nice thing about owning one is that you know it's only going to look

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