E30 Zone

Morning all,

I have a friend with a 325 cabby that we think has done its head gasket and probably head. He wants a decent independent BMW specialist to have a look at it - does anyone know of a good place in or around the Bournemouth area?

Cheers,
Mike

Nope, haven't found one myself and owned E30's for 3-4 years now so I've had plenty of time to try find one.

I would not recommend a single person as a BMW specialist in this area, aside from BMW themselves however they don't know their E30 from their arse, too busy worrying about modern BMWs.

march109 wrote:Nope, haven't found one myself and owned E30's for 3-4 years now so I've had plenty of time to try find one.

I would not recommend a single person as a BMW specialist in this area, aside from BMW themselves however they don't know their E30 from their arse, too busy worrying about modern BMWs.

I was going to reconmend you

Wouldn't even recommend me, took me 3 days to refit a zetec engine in the focus it came out of, I'm pretty good at spotting the bleeding obvious and diagnosing issues but actual spanner waving seems to take me twice as long as anyone else.

Would be onto an awesome earner if I set up shop as a mechanic and could convince people that twice the labour charge was a good thing!

I'd happily take a look over the car, but wouldn't have the time to sort it myself. Could advise on how to get it sorted and who to go to though. If you wanted.

come to think of it, i cant think of a decent specialist in the bournemouth area tbh

march109 wrote:Wouldn't even recommend me, took me 3 days to refit a zetec engine in the focus it came out of, I'm pretty good at spotting the bleeding obvious and diagnosing issues but actual spanner waving seems to take me twice as long as anyone else.

Would be onto an awesome earner if I set up shop as a mechanic and could convince people that twice the labour charge was a good thing!

I'd happily take a look over the car, but wouldn't have the time to sort it myself. Could advise on how to get it sorted and who to go to though. If you wanted.

don't get crazy ideas about charging me when i come down now

Felix79 wrote:

march109 wrote:Wouldn't even recommend me, took me 3 days to refit a zetec engine in the focus it came out of, I'm pretty good at spotting the bleeding obvious and diagnosing issues but actual spanner waving seems to take me twice as long as anyone else.

Would be onto an awesome earner if I set up shop as a mechanic and could convince people that twice the labour charge was a good thing!

I'd happily take a look over the car, but wouldn't have the time to sort it myself. Could advise on how to get it sorted and who to go to though. If you wanted.

don't get crazy ideas about charging me when i come down now

What do you need doing now?

There is Key stone BMW in Ring wood. do no if that's any good at all. been looking arfter me Grandpas 525 sport for 12 year's , there not the cheepist mined

Thanks for the all answers chaps...march109, cheers for the kind offer - I'll get back to you on that (trying to diagnose the problem third-hand when the original source is a very non-car-minded woman is proving tricky!).