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So as maybe cleared out already, the grey one has been sold, the red tourer parted out, and another tourer came in.

324td, built in '90 with at the moment 316 000 km's on it.

she is rustfree, has a few dents, but rustfree and that was the most important part to make my choice.

color = malachitgreen

pics = see below























1st mod was a demod:



after wash:




she got foglights and white front beamers as well:







hope you guys like her and be prepared, she'll change ALOT

IMO all your mods done so far are for the better. Good luck. Tidy looking motor

wow I was waiting to say the TD crank is probably worth more than the rest of the car but given its location and looks I'd say not. Though probably close.

looks good, wish we got the 324td over here

they are ratter rare, even here in belgium.

but driving with a gasoline in these times ain't really worth it + i wanted a tourer to do some hard work and prefer a diesel at that moment

I would really love to see someone put a modern derv engine in one of these.
A golf tdi engine would do!

2 better pics about the touring and his white lenses + bbs 14" (temp) wheels:

The touring lived a bit

When removing the "sky", I found a bit rust on the inner side of the sunroof (basket). So I fixed that and made a new "sky". This time not in a clothing as found OEM but in black skai (imi-leather).

the rust:



Redoing the sky:



Last Thursday and Friday I've been busy with the interior.

Sky fully mounted, just place the checkcontrol and powering the M-tech2 mirror lights and I can finish that front part (kneeplate + ashtray).
In the meanwhile I also installed powered windows in the back and the sunroof is an electrical one as well.

some pics:

The old doorboards:

back:



front:



New doorboards:

back:



front:



Removing the old interior, still filthy inside (after removing the rust, removing the sky etc):





Passed with the vacuumcleaner:



Sky in place (have to give it a good clean though):



The 4 doorboards installed, together with an OEM grey centerconsole, speakerboxes and glovecloset:



Interior fully installed:









The actual option list (in Italic what already was installed factorywise):

• - yellow beams
  - electrical windows in front
  - powered steering (this was an option in Belgium in the 80's and 90's.
  - fog lights
  - powered windows in the back
  - powered sunroof
  - sky in black skai
  - grey interior (doorboards, centerconsole, glovecloset, speaker boxes, seats)
  - seatheating (to finish)
  - m-tech2 inner mirror

And a next part is already waiting

Very nice interior!! How did you attach the fabric to the headliner,please?(you refer to it as the 'sky') At 3000 rpm,what is your road speed in 5th gear,please?

cool motor

daimlerman wrote:Very nice interior!! How did you attach the fabric to the headliner,please?(you refer to it as the 'sky') At 3000 rpm,what is your road speed in 5th gear,please?

it's been done with Pattex Powerglue (costs around 12 euros a bottle, and I needed 1.5). But you'll see that underneath the fabric and on the headliner (tnx, I did forget that name ) some brown sticking product has been used. You need to remove that before, else it will loosen (I do now understand why those original headliners always get the fabric that doesn't stay properly fixed).

At this moment the car has no license plate yet so can't tell the speed at that RPM. When I drove it home, I didn't pass the 4th gear, and drove at that moment 80km/h at 2.300 rpm or something like that (I wasn't on a speedway).

nice motor

With fuel prices the way they are I'd seriously consider something like this; love the colour, too. I've seen quite a few advertised here in France and know where there's a black one close by.

What sort of mpg/kpg do they give?

at current fuel prices of low 80p/litre for regular unleaded does it warrant the expense of LPG(conversion)or diesel (cost of fuel)?

hi lennard, I'm the guy from norway who wanted to buy your old 4 door m tech 2 : )
Nice progress here matey ;D

I'll wach this onward!

Looks lovely. Love 324td's.

E30BeemerLad wrote:at current fuel prices of low 80p/litre for regular unleaded does it warrant the expense of LPG(conversion)or diesel (cost of fuel)?

In the parts of europe I recently went to, diesel and LPG is a lot cheaper than unleaded. Typical as I took a petrol a3, rather than a TDCI mondeo or my lpg'd 318.

I have done 4000 miles with the lpg and its already paid for itself at around the 3000mile point IIRC. All the rest is profit. But as you say, I might not have considered if fuel was 80p a litre when I started the conversion, but I am glad I did as LPG is still around about 45p a litre which is a great saving.

38p here Jon

Whats a td lump worth?

HowieE30 wrote:hi lennard, I'm the guy from norway who wanted to buy your old 4 door m tech 2 : )
Nice progress here matey ;D

I'll wach this onward!

Hi, still looking for another car?
tnx anyway

@the others: Here (Belgium) the price for diesel is around 81 eurocent / liter (around 74p) (max price is 93 eurocent / liter (so 84p)).
Unleaded goes around 1 to 1.1 euro / liter (1.05 is average so -> 94p)
LPG is a lot cheaper indeed.

DanThe wrote:38p here Jon

Whats a td lump worth?

FFS. I'm getting bummed down here. Whats your petrol price, down here is 82.9. This is like top trumps.

Thats an absolutely lush touring! would love a derv touring with a modern diesel engine practical and economical

petrol up here is 85.9 in most places

Jon_Bmw wrote:

DanThe wrote:38p here Jon

Whats a td lump worth?

FFS. I'm getting bummed down here. Whats your petrol price, down here is 82.9. This is like top trumps.

I pay 80.9 at Asda

Any idea on value of a td lump anyone?

£10

I win the top trumps.

Simon13 wrote:£10

2 for £15 si?

How did you repair the roof rust?

Any pics?

I've sanded away the rust, up till the bare metal, then fixed it with polyester and finished it with alu filler, grinded and painted - seen that it's not an external bodypart and you can't really notice the "fixing", I didn't want to replace the whole metalpart (neither the fact that I do have one spare at my place).

The actual option list (in Italic what already was installed factorywise):

• - yellow beams
  - electrical windows in front
  - powered steering (this was an option in Belgium in the 80's and 90's.
  - fog lights
  - powered windows in the back
  - powered sunroof
  - sky in black skai
  - grey interior (doorboards, centerconsole, glovecloset, speaker boxes, seats)
  - seatheating (to finish)
  - m-tech2 inner mirror
  - heated washnozzles
  - rollo in the back

Near this I fixed up quite some things lately:

* new backplate (where you mount your licenseplate)
* new rubber for the bootlid
* new black plastic that finishes the trunkopening
* new handbrake cables (thought I had one broken, but's not the case, so have them in spare )
* new brakes in the front, the back and the brakepads (Zimmermann discs + ATE pads) and offcourse bled those
* 2 left doors in the good colour to replace the harmed ones
*

pics:

one more from the interior:



What I bought:



Brake, left front:

before:



after:



Brake, right front:

after:



Brakes rear:

before:





after:



That's it for this time

Next time some new options I hope, after he passes the TC.
* white blinkers in front
* smoked MHW's in the back
* heated lock on driverssite
* "Leuchtweitenregulierung"
* ...

Ok, here we go again.

My homemade sky:



Here she stood, ready to get her tech check and being mot'd.









It succeeded there, so I could start making it to how I do feel it's right:











What's been done:

* BC1 installed.
* black kidneys.
* black headlights.
* Borbet B's (she screams to get lowered now, but I simply couldn't wait).
* seatheating.
* M-tech2 wheel.

then a few short movies.
Launch as from 0kms / h.
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1st run, 0 to 100 kms / h (not giving it fully as I want to keep her a bit):
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2nd run, 0 to 100 kms / h:
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I was getting anoyed since 2 weeks while running with my Borbet B rims and the car sitting that high, that I bought some springs, shocks for the front and the rear yesterday. Unluckely one of the shocks isn't good anymore, so I lowered her only with the -6 cm springs (only lowered the front) using the original shocks (which isn't recommended, I know, but I'll change them asap).

Before lowering her:





Difference in the springs:



The result:













I did remove the rear wiper as well, as she wasn't fully functional.

Gotta giver her a good wash, as she's too dirty, after 2 weeks using her as daily drive (run about 1000 km's).

Nice work !!! I have a 324TD touring too, lachssilver metallic.

Looks great with those rims and lowered.

I don't think BMW ever introduced the 324TD to UK dealerships. I found one here in France, but it was battered, needed new brakes, a new wing, and various other bits, and the guy still wanted a grand for it (with no CT/MOT either).

Thanks.... Mine 324TD Touring is from Germany. Now became portuguese tourer

Last update that I had done was in June or July, then I needed some more space to be able to transport things, so got the licenceplate removed from the tourer and bought myself a 4.3l V6 GMC Sierra P/U.





and near the tourer:



But the tourer will be stripped back down (further as I did to get her on the road) and completely rebuild her, so I can consider her as being in a mint condition... But that, that's music for the future...