E30 Zone

Just purchased a beautifully clean 2 door, pre face lift chromie, non sunroof, 140k, manual and with not a spec of rust on it!

And believe me I had a proper poke around this thing is seriously clean! But it's bronze ,

I want to keep it because of how clean it is and I payed a good price, but need to get it painted as I don't really like the colour, I know a good respect will cost me 2.5k upwards, but was wandering if anybody knows anyone who will do a good job around herts/beds/bucks?

Willing to travel a bit, thanks guys!

Not respect *respray

E30 SPECIALISTS SPRAYER IN LONDON N17. `0208 365-9379. HE DOES 'EM DAMN GOOD !

How much does he charge?

Bronzit is a great colour ! Why would you want to change it ?
Re a colour change .As a decent job will probably cost 2.5k + and that is without the inevitable issues they come across. Why not sell it and buy a car that is the colour you like ?
The money spent on the paint job will add zero to the resale value of the car, on the contrary, it will devalue is significantly as it is molested. Get it served and buy another.

It's nice, but it's not me, and because I don't think I will find one in this condition with non sunroof for the money I payed for it as everyone is wanting silly money for pre face 325i's, and this one is cleeeeeaaan. If I was to get it all painted and everything done on it I wouldn't sell it

Will a bronzit car ever be worth more than one that was bronzit and has been repainted?

Is the market ever going to want an original bronzit car more than a less original one in a more desirable colour?

Genuine question.

I would have thought Bronzit cars are at a real disadvantage vs black, silver or red cars?

approx £2,500 full respray, give him a call.

A 'sprayer' will 99% of the time not have the skills or initiative to do a proper colour change job

Sorry dan not following where your going?

Im just pre warning you before you take your new car to a painter

Are you suggesting not to get it painted then?

At least Bronzit's a nice colour, think how i feel, I've got a lovely Cromie shell but it's Doom ( Lapis) Blue!

That blue is lovely! I'd prefer it to my Bronzit lol

Sambe30 wrote:Are you suggesting not to get it painted then?

What Dan is saying is that obviously you are not too clued up on what a colour change entails (engine out, doors off , boot stripped out etc etc etc ) and just how F0000KING SAD MOST bodyshops / painters are !


If your car is that nice, you can surely sell it for a nice earner and put that towards getting an E30 in a more belly button type hue

A bronzit chromie is a seriously cool chariot. Sell it to someon who appreciates it

HairyScreech wrote:Will a bronzit car ever be worth more than one that was bronzit and has been repainted?

Is the market ever going to want an original bronzit car more than a less original one in a more desirable colour?

Genuine question.

I would have thought Bronzit cars are at a real disadvantage vs black, silver or red cars?

An unmolested car is in a different league to one which has been repainted. A car is only original once An E30 with original BMW paint is cool. A car which has been repainted by Gary in a shed in Hemel Hempstead isn't.

Anyone wanting to pay proper money for a E30 would probably walk-on if it was a colour-change car (or would want to deduct the cost of putting it back to original).

Even if you're not intending to sell it now, at some point in the future you'll probably want to scratch another itch and will want to move it on...

Let's see this car.

If you didn't like the colour, why did you buy it!!!?

As above, paint it and wipe any originality and so true value from the car. Your choice really.

Or leave it as it is and live with what is a rare colour amongst the sea of blacks reds and greys.

It's funny this has come up.. I was just saying to a mate the other day, now that I've replaced so much out of mine, it's kind of losing that charm it had before. I'd open the bonnet or look in the interior and it oozed 25 year old retro.. The smell, the beaten up look.. it was really endearing and damn cool! Especially the fact so much hadn't been touched or moved in so long. The same old boy owned it 6 months from new! It really was a time warp!

Now 3 years later.. I've replaced so much, it feels kind of like a new car.

You will have to bare with me on the wheels they were the only ones I had in my garage and needed to put some on to drive it home as the guy kept the wheels from it

Poor turd ! I am guessing the carefully applied pinstripe and the bruv brows were also in the same skip as the rimz

They have already been removed haha

rh306 wrote:

HairyScreech wrote:Will a bronzit car ever be worth more than one that was bronzit and has been repainted?

Is the market ever going to want an original bronzit car more than a less original one in a more desirable colour?

Genuine question.

I would have thought Bronzit cars are at a real disadvantage vs black, silver or red cars?

An unmolested car is in a different league to one which has been repainted. A car is only original once An E30 with original BMW paint is cool. A car which has been repainted by Gary in a shed in Hemel Hempstead isn't.

Anyone wanting to pay proper money for a E30 would probably walk-on if it was a colour-change car (or would want to deduct the cost of putting it back to original).

Even if you're not intending to sell it now, at some point in the future you'll probably want to scratch another itch and will want to move it on...

For sure an unmolested car is worth more, at the moment an unmolested chrome 325 is around 5k, I can see that reaching 8k in not too long, but those are always white,red,black or silver.

Will a bronze/gold car ever fetch similar money?
Or will the less desirable colours always lag behind?

While they may still be technically worth the same as another colour the appeal is much less, I would buy a car needing a bit of work long before buying a gold car.

HairyScreech wrote:

rh306 wrote:

HairyScreech wrote:Will a bronzit car ever be worth more than one that was bronzit and has been repainted?

Is the market ever going to want an original bronzit car more than a less original one in a more desirable colour?

Genuine question.

I would have thought Bronzit cars are at a real disadvantage vs black, silver or red cars?

An unmolested car is in a different league to one which has been repainted. A car is only original once An E30 with original BMW paint is cool. A car which has been repainted by Gary in a shed in Hemel Hempstead isn't.

Anyone wanting to pay proper money for a E30 would probably walk-on if it was a colour-change car (or would want to deduct the cost of putting it back to original).

Even if you're not intending to sell it now, at some point in the future you'll probably want to scratch another itch and will want to move it on...

For sure an unmolested car is worth more at the moment an unmolested chrome 325 is around 5k, I can see that reaching 8k in not too long, but those are always white,red,black or silver.

Will a bronze/gold car ever fetch similar money?
Or will the less desirable colours always lag behind?

While they may still be technically worth more the appeal is much less, I would buy a car needing a bit of work long before buying a gold car.

I defer to others experience on here, but I can see period colours like bronzit having a strong following (maybe only amongst hipster types like babs ) because it is so retro/period.

A bit like 70s safety colours on a 911 or CSL, or dakar on an E36 M3, or sahara beige on a two-door range rover..

Hmm, fair point, However Dakar Yellow on an E36 M3 actually looks good.

The traders on here would probably be able to say the best, Are there enough sickos/ operation ewetree survivors to push the bronze/gold cars to the same value as their more pigmented brethren?

Old colour on an old car, I don't see the problem

I like it as it is

rh306 wrote:(maybe only amongst hipster types like babs )

nice colour mate keep it save your money

leave it alone! looks good as is

I'd leave it as is. Better of selling it, making a profit and then using the profit +money for respray on making another mint. Then there are two mint E30's

Bronzit with a clean set of bottle tops is a seriously cool old car. To paint that would ruin it, and very few painters are the craftsmen they think they are. To do a full colour change is a seriously epic - doors off and stripped to shells, engine out and the whole car stripped to a shell.

What will happen is this:

You'll drop the car off and about 8 months later you'll get it back, looking nothing like an original BMW factory job. There will be overspray, there will be runs, there will be fisheyes etc etc.

Bronzit is a very good and increasingly desirable colour. Learn to live with it! I looked at a 1974 911 this week in Ice green metallic. In the eighties, owners were colour changing these to black, guards red etc and to see one now in the original colour is very rare.

Yep, they're all right. Keep it man, its a lush motor, bit different.

Sambe30 wrote:You will have to bare with me on the wheels they were the only ones I had in my garage and needed to put some on to drive it home as the guy kept the wheels from it

That's a 'laugh out loud' photo