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Spadge, agreed to buy, turned up, paid cash, went home.

Does exactly what it says on the tin...

(And he's a closet Northerner...)

Ta Jules.

webuyanycar is Carcraft. I was closely involved with a rival operation that only dealt in 'proper' cars for a year or so. The tales of people being offered silly money for their cars, then a better offer as a trade in, traipsing to Carcraft and the offer being halved 'after inspection' were too many...

hennared323i wrote:
Brianmoooore wrote:Can't see anything to suggest it's not the usual internally broken wire to the diff sender.
How far from the sensor do the wires usually break?

Mine broke about an inch away from the plug. I replaced a foot or two of the wire just to make sure. It's been fine since.

Diamond black Touring,
M5 V8,
AC,
black Recaro leather trim,
BBS splitties,
OBC, Cruise and a few other bits and bobs.

either that or a proper, LHD, M3.

I washed my Touring the other day and noticed that the wiper works perfectly now, so I suspect a bit of white grease around the spindle might help on mine. It always works, but since I cleaned the car (and the back window was properly filthy - my work is based on a farm) it's been spot on.

This is mine (and it's for sale...)

If you get the chance, go to the Czech Republic.

Some great roads, but they're almost as badly surfaced as ours.

My E30 has been used as my daily driver since June last year. Other than needing the waterpump replacing it has been fine, and even when the pump was on the way out it still behaved impeccably. I'd have no problems using it for another year but I'm off out of the country soon, and it's very difficul...

Mine's an auto 325 touring with an LSD.. so which one will that be?

Mine does that... but after a random, unspecified amount of time it goes back to where it should be.

tomson wrote:
Pete-M wrote:Check my sig.
'62 Skoda Octavia Kombi

Ok, yeah. I kind of asked for that.

You've not lived until you've driven <1000cc of Czechoslovakian lunacy.

I'm sure I've seen pics of another 3 on here outside that house. Recognise the sign and it looks very Birmingham.

What is the profile of someone who would buy one of these? I just think that for the same money you could buy something much better and newer that would fit the profile just as well. I think its caught in the trap of being an undeniable great car that is however not a classic and therefore has a ti...

Mine uses water on long runs, but that's the only time it does. If I do 200 miles in one sitting it'll need topping up, but using it for 2-300 miles in town it doesn't use a drop. Probably HGF knowing my luck.

I don't see the E30 as a typical BMW. When I think BMW driver I think about the posh knobs in Seven series, rich w**kers in X5s, twentysomething hotshot players in Z4s. (I don't know any of those kinds of people. The people I know with Sevens, X5s, and Z4s are just ordinary nice people.) The E30, a...

E30BeemerLad wrote:I had a V6 164 Lusso, I rather liked it

+1.

I also had a 164 Q4 when I lived in Italy, now that was a proper car.

Weirdly, mine doesn't annoy me with most of the problems listed above. Ok, I have to remove the rear headrests to fold the back seat, but I fitted them so I can't complain. I don't have the tape holders, or any real rust so they're no problem either. I do have the wonky exhaust tailpipes and the pan...

38. The E30 is a fun thing, but I think I may have to flog it soon

I'd like centre-lock alloys, but wire wheels don't do anything for me on an E30.

Nice set of centrelock, split rim BBS, on the other hand.... ooooooh....

sounds to me like it'll be something remarkably simple to sort, quite often lambda sensors going flaketastic will cause both those issues on Yank stuff. The box does its best, but expects more poke then has to second guess itself.

I bet it's full of OBDII codes...

Cherokees don't like LPG. Plastic inlet manifold on lots of 'em. They're fine if multi-point injected by someone who knows what they're doing, but lots have a nasty single-point mixer setup which causes loads of problems on the Cherokee for various reasons. I'd love to LPG the Rangie, but it'd need ...

BW T5 box will take the torque, as will a BW T6.

I keep having nasty thoughts about dropping the turbo Rover lump from the Rangie into the E30, but it'd be wrong in too many ways.

The Jensen motor would be too insanely heavy.

Mine's got a dark grey carpet (the posh fluffy one), but it's worn through at the heel bit - well, the heel plastic bit has worn through and so has the carpet underneath.

My 325i Touring auto has an LSD, but the standard auto box (i.e not the switchable one)

It's a BMW, not a Renault. Therefore it's over-engineered from the factory (as was the case with E30s), not built to the lowest price possible. Fitting an aftermarket air filter arrangement won't do diddly squat (although the K&N panel may improve things very slightly) when fitted to an otherwise pr...

Same from me, except I bought the Tech 1 wheel from him so I'm a buyer not a seller. Wheel now fitted. :cool: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3063/3019214555_22b0804d90_b.jpg Thanks man, now I just need a 13 button OBC with all the gubbins... if you have one (or anyone else for that matter has the fu...

town325i wrote:when was the last time you went to severn valley motorsport? iirc its gone and it was only a shitty little shed

I had the Cosworth from 96-98. I bought a pair of Konis for it from Severn Valley, they doubted its power output until I took one of them out for a spin in it...

It definately wasn't a T4, but it may have been a hybrid of some sort (although neither the BBR paperwork or the bloke who did the engine said anything about the turbo being modified) I did try a T4 on it and it just made the car a nightmare to drive. All the driveablily was gone, the lag was hideou...

I had 528 bhp from a T3 on a Cosworth... T4 just makes it a lot less driveable and a shed load more 'peaky'. Sorry Pete but that is absolute bollox :? A T3 absolutely max'd out will give you circa 360bhp running just under 2 bar of boost, dark green 803's etc etc and will destroy itself very very q...

When I bought my E30 it had a Panasonic CD player which while being reasonably good wasn't really up to scratch for use as a semi-decent car listening booth for the stuff we do in the studio. It had a decent amount of punch to the sound, but the overall sound quality was slightly muddy and the separ...

fuzzy wrote:a t4 is good for 500+bhp i believe

I had 528 bhp from a T3 on a Cosworth... T4 just makes it a lot less driveable and a shed load more 'peaky'.

Red needles? Get them on ebay mate, you'll make a fortune

Mate of mine has a proper old slag of a 316 chromie in his workshop at the moment, it's been there for months. No floor, wings are shagged, most of it is utterly knackered but the owner has given him instructions to "Get that thing through an MOT as cheaply as possible. Don't worry about the cost". ...

I don't have an owners handbook, but I do the same as Mr Moooore.

E39 328? The E39 is a 5 series...

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