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Hi, heres my 318is which I managed to find for £495. What does everyone think of it?







Bellow is my car pictured with my friends recently acquired Golf GTI.

Looks good, cool to see it side by side with its main rival too.

80's at it's best.

Welcome mate.

Very nice

nice find matey. Get that grill painted black

GrindCulture wrote:Looks good, cool to see it side by side with its main rival too.

Yeah, my friend got a Golf GTI just to compete with me, its his first car as well so he's gone all out on his insurance just to keep up. The character of my 20 year old car clearly inspired him too.

one word- AWESOME!

Get some 'smiley' headlights fitted, looks funny without them!

Nice looking car though - doesn't look like it's been molested!

Very pretty car

aj_mckay wrote:Get some 'smiley' headlights fitted, looks funny without them!

Nice looking car though - doesn't look like it's been molested!

Only things that have been done to it (done before I bought it) are its had a Sebring backbox fitted and some kind of tacky door lock pins.

£495?!!....okay, I'm not totally jealous or anything...

Lovelly

One question - for £495 whats missing?????

ParksOfBathgate wrote:

GrindCulture wrote:Looks good, cool to see it side by side with its main rival too.

Yeah, my friend got a Golf GTI just to compete with me, its his first car as well so he's gone all out on his insurance just to keep up. The character of my 20 year old car clearly inspired him too.

And?? Whats the performance like comparison to each other??

bargin fella looks a really clean car...... ......and still looks better than a golf

nice is cant beat a nice, cheap, black, is

Daf318is wrote:Lovelly

One question - for £495 whats missing?????

A proper engine?

Did they make is's in black

Jason

Jon_Bmw wrote:

Daf318is wrote:Lovelly

One question - for £495 whats missing?????

A proper engine?

Lol - doesn't take long driving an is before you realise there are a couple of cylinders missing

e21Jason wrote:Did they make is's in black

Jason

Yes in diamond black, but I think I get what you mean, it does look a bit like flat black. It comes up as an iS on AskMid etc.

Is it metalic black ParksofBathgate?

Where do people find them for these prices? oh and car looks very nice

why so cheap??

Any plans?

I found my IS for £300, but it had a couple scabs and was well molested! Good purchase.

mine was 800 and i thought i got a bargain^^

Good looking car - especially for £495 ! Looks low - especially at the back - suspension kit ?

looks cool mate, i would say a definate bargain!!!

Jon_Bmw wrote:

e21Jason wrote:Did they make is's in black

Jason

Yes in diamond black, but I think I get what you mean, it does look a bit like flat black. It comes up as an iS on AskMid etc.

Is it metalic black ParksofBathgate?

Yes its metallic, the service booklet says Diamond/anthracite

capri_rob wrote:Good looking car - especially for £495 ! Looks low - especially at the back - suspension kit ?

Well the is is 5mm lower than the 318i as standard I believe, other than that I think its just a bit old and saggy.

Daf318is wrote:Lovelly

One question - for £495 whats missing?????

175k miles and the fact that it was sold by someone who probably thought it was the same thing as a 318i made it so cheap.

I don't know if any of you guys have this problem... but every time I go somewhere, someone tries to buy the car off me.

I thought I got a parking ticket the other day but it was a note left under my wiper saying "am interested in your car"

A couple of days before that someone in another e30 stopped the flow of traffic though Lincoln city center to get out and come and ask me if I was selling it.

Also the day I took my mate to get his golf the man working in the petrol station tried to buy them both off us.

ParksOfBathgate wrote:

capri_rob wrote:Good looking car - especially for £495 ! Looks low - especially at the back - suspension kit ?

Well the is is 5mm lower than the 318i as standard I believe, other than that I think its just a bit old and saggy.

15mm lower due to MTech suspension, which is probably a bit saggy if it's on original springs.

ParksOfBathgate wrote:

Jon_Bmw wrote:

e21Jason wrote:Did they make is's in black

Jason

Yes in diamond black, but I think I get what you mean, it does look a bit like flat black. It comes up as an iS on AskMid etc.

Is it metalic black ParksofBathgate?

Yes its metallic, the service booklet says Diamond/anthracite

It was difficult to see whether it was metallic from the pictures, it does come across as a flat paint when pictured.

Some lad was driving infront of me in a 106 gti and I could see him looking in the mirrors, I was expecting him to want a race or something(lucky he didn't really, I would have got smoked! ). Got to a small rounderabout and he stopped, took off his belt and half got out of the window! Shouted something, so I drew up alongside and he asked if I wanted to sell. If I hadn't have just fitted the LPG kit I would have considered it.

Unmolested clean examples will always have people interested, shit, rusty council turds have no appeal for real or genuine buyers..

GrindCulture wrote:

ParksOfBathgate wrote:

capri_rob wrote:Good looking car - especially for £495 ! Looks low - especially at the back - suspension kit ?

Well the is is 5mm lower than the 318i as standard I believe, other than that I think its just a bit old and saggy.

15mm lower due to MTech suspension, which is probably a bit saggy if it's on original springs.

Ah right, I thought it was 5mm because when I had a look at lowering springs the 318i has 40mm lowering springs and the 318is has 35mm lowering springs.

Clearly my basic mathematical skills that I'm so proud off weren't applicable this time.

Just fitted some Jamex lowered, stiffened suspension that I got cheap off ebay.

Also just fitted some drilled, grooved brake discs which I also got from ebay

Will take some pictures once I get my calipers cleaned up and painted. - Any suggestions for caliper colour? I was thinking just black to keep it subtle, seeing as though there are no other colours on the car.

^^ Black all the way mate if anything...