E30 Zone

Hi Guys,

Just bought this with my friend from a guy I used to go to school with. Its been sat in the corner of a compound for about 5 years untouched and was completely covered in green mold, but looks really solid if im honest and cant argue with what we paid for it! so today we went and dug it out of the forest which now surrounded it and towed it free.

Not feeling the stripes hey but each to their own! Its also been painted matt black...badly. Found a birdsnest in the bonnet! All electronics seem to be working but we have tried and failed time again getting into the boot (any suggestions?) Also its got the dogleg gearbox which is interesting!

I think once we get it back to the garage and give it a good clean itl look totally different for starters, These pics were taken after we gave it a wipe down to get most of the mold off.

Going to have a proper look next week and see whats what! more pics/vids to follow.

Some pictures below and a video we knocked up of us having a laugh digging it out. (Plz Dont laugh at our accents haha!)

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looks like fun, has it ever been a "drift weapon"?
Are those 18" E46 wheels? you might get some cash back on those, assuming you're heading back towards original that is.

Yea think they are e46 18s, yeah it was bought for one by the guy who i bought it off but he soon grew tired of it and luckily never got to rip the interior out etc! Yea will be selling the wheels most likely!

Looks like a good find, if the price was right.

The wheels are E39 M5, most likely reps.

Tunes!

We need more vids like that,it makes a change from the usual photos....

haha cheers, Im into my video so thought we might make a vid of the whole project as a nice little touch! Yea feeling the tunes all day haha I love the black and white rolling shot!

What a great find.! How much did you pay?

It looks like it might of been used somewhat recently as its got e39 m5 replica alloys on. Get it stripped right down and get looking for tinworm, looks like its been kept in a very wet place for some time.!

yeah mate its been stood in the corner of my mates lock up for about 5 years and has got all over grown, was covered in green crap when we found it. The painwork is bad in place and looks like it may have been aerosol-ed in places! Gona go and drag it to our garage this week will post some more stuff up!

Ps- any tips on getting into the boot ? can hear the central locking locking/unlocking when i turn the key in the boot but cant for the life of us seem to get in!

Looks like she needs a little love, I liked the vid too

yeah we put a new battery on and it sounded like it might actually turn over but under closer inspection it just pissed oil all over the carpark haha! Cracked hoses but sortin that first thing!

Mcbonio , not revealing what we paid for it haha, known the guy for ages so he did me a great deal on the condition he gets to drive it one more time when we get it on the road!

I expect you've tried this already, but the bootlock might not be connected to the central locking. Have you unlocked it using the actual bootlock itself? They do get quite stiff, try pushing it right in, whilst holding the key blade. Works on mine, anyways.

bad tunes! ol skool tunes + ol skool car = win win i had an m535i i bought for 600 squid in alpine white, m30 sounded beautiful!

if your looking to restore ive got a rear boot rubber seal, bonnet sound insulation and scuttle dampers all new from bmw, cost like £150, unfortunately i sold the car so surplus!

Once my boot got stuck shut, I had to get a block of wood and put it on the pressed in button and give it a sharp tap with a hammer, then it popped up Soak it with wd40 etc for a few days first. Once in make sure you grease it all up to stop it happening again !

Thanks for the tip will deffo try this! and yea tried central locking and by the keylock itself, can see movement but it just doesnt want to seem to pop up! will keep trying, quite keen to see whats in there!

Nice! Shame about the volume of the tunes - I wanted to laugh at your accents!

Look forward to see what this looks like when it's been cleaned up properly.

Matt brought her back to the DubDepot today! Few Pics, Gona clean it up, More up soon!

So we got it back to the Dub Depot and jetwashed it in the dark so we STILL couldnt see what we had until today. Generally a tidy car! Really solid, small hole in boot floor but can easily sort that in no time. Arches are intact on the drivers side we havent scoped the PS yet, Managed to get in the boot by soaking the button in wd40, nothing of value inside haha always the anticlimax.

So as I said before it had been painted matt black...badly. Realised that it had been done with an aerosol can as we could see small pieces flaking off here and there. The original blue paint underneath looked good so we decided to have a test on the back wing to see what it was like!

Then we did the front wing...

So far so good! Gona try and get some more done tomorrow!

Check another video here!

Loved the LONS & ATCQ Scenario tune. Get the remix on another vid!

Car looks like it could be ok!

Original paint looks like it will be worth preserving?

definately mate thats the plan! Going to put a few more hours in this week!

Will be great to see a good car emerge, panel by panel. E28s are

Dweller wrote:definately mate thats the plan! Going to put a few more hours in this week!

Awesome, keep the updates coming!!!

Rosc0PColtrane wrote:

Dweller wrote:definately mate thats the plan! Going to put a few more hours in this week!

Awesome, keep the updates coming!!!

Loving this, any more updates.

Well with one new relay we raped from an old 6 series in a nearby scrapyard and one bypassed oil cooler later....... SHE RUNS!

See the little vid below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F6lThzQQR8

All good work so far, but from the last vid, looks like the poor car has fallen into the hands of a bunch of coonts that are going to rag it to f uck!

Haha it was running for half an hour before it was moved, we had to have a go haha!!

Good work. Still waiting for the paint to be sorted xxx

Any updates ?

Pls respond x

Had one of these last year... Too rotten to keep once I took the side skirts and bumpers off.. Great car though... Good luck mate great find

Thanks Guys, Not done much to it lately as we are moving garages.
It might even end up going up for sale in the near future if anyone fancies carrying it on! Id quite happily just garage it for another 10 years if I had the space haha