Moderator: martauto
He means it still missing 2 potsSawyer_E30 wrote:Sick of the site of the engine bay? But the M42 looks good!robbo86 wrote:Good point. I am not really selling anyway! I just am a little sick of the sight of my engine bay at the moment!
i bet there's a space for a brianmoore tool in the E30 tool board thingieDRIFTBOY wrote:I really need to kidnap Brian Moore and keep him in my boot!gareth wrote:wasn't brian moore was it?
actually, it couldn't have been. there is no electrical problem on a E30 that brian can't find in under 10 mins
None of them have bothered in ages mate, Part the reason i stopped posting it on there , Most are tucked up with there coco early i guessSplondike wrote:
I will be there, trying to get some interest on the bmw5 but no luck so far
Jeremy Clarkson wrote:...but it drives the front wheels. Theee wrooong wheels!
da4x4turbo wrote:I raced a vivaro on the motorway once in a 318is.... and lost!!!
Holy shit!DRIFTBOY wrote:It won't FECKIN' start!!!!!
Got sparks, got fuel and it tries, but nah!
Even tried the dreaded Easy Start.
All I got was big flames and bangs out of the inlet!
AAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!
What the hell happened? Where did you go?
Jeremy Clarkson wrote:...but it drives the front wheels. Theee wrooong wheels!
da4x4turbo wrote:I raced a vivaro on the motorway once in a 318is.... and lost!!!
And i was just trying my rubber underpants onDRIFTBOY wrote: It won't FECKIN' start!!!!!
Got sparks, got fuel and it tries, but nah!
Even tried the dreaded Easy Start.
All I got was big flames and bangs out of the inlet!
AAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!
Steve-E30 wrote:[And i was just trying my rubber underpants on
have you checked the voltage coz i remember ant telling me squirt will only work if its got the correct 12 volts just wondering if ya might have a short somewhere my mate had a silmilar problem in his golf where if he left it for a day it would take the edge of his batteryDRIFTBOY wrote:Steve-E30 wrote:[And i was just trying my rubber underpants on
Thanks guys!
I'm going to do some checks on it tomorrow, including a compression test in case it's valve or head gasket trouble, but I bet it is something silly!
How can a car just break down after being parked for a day!
and its been a while since i bumped into you lot 
Jeremy Clarkson wrote:...but it drives the front wheels. Theee wrooong wheels!
da4x4turbo wrote:I raced a vivaro on the motorway once in a 318is.... and lost!!!
just my 2 pence mate if ya get stuck i'll drop by and tow ya up there lolDRIFTBOY wrote:Good point, Ant told me about that too.
But voltage was good yesterday, and it's a monster battery which can crank my engine for hours!
Be good to see you again too.
Jeremy Clarkson wrote:...but it drives the front wheels. Theee wrooong wheels!
da4x4turbo wrote:I raced a vivaro on the motorway once in a 318is.... and lost!!!
soo lazy i know but i was in my shirt etc and had a lot of work to do that day.Be careful what you wish for, it might come true!robbo86 wrote:I tell you what you want to do martin. Is sell it to me for 50 quid! Then I can keep steve quiet with comments about m30 power without doing any of the work. Sound good? No? Meh, can you blame a bloke for trying?
Jeremy Clarkson wrote:...but it drives the front wheels. Theee wrooong wheels!
da4x4turbo wrote:I raced a vivaro on the motorway once in a 318is.... and lost!!!
I think you over estimate how much I drive my e30 anyway! Besides which, it would be an motionless pile of scrap with a fuckoff huge engine under the bonnet and a 316 badge to goad the saxo brigade!Then you'd have a pile of motionless scrap outside of your house instead of me!
gareth wrote:i managed to flood my M30 a while ago, outside my work at lunchtime.
it was pissing it down so i took advantage of my AA membership, called the main in the yellow van to sort it for me
thinking about it, i bet that's when number 6 spark plug hole got 'mysteriously' fecked
Jeremy Clarkson wrote:...but it drives the front wheels. Theee wrooong wheels!
da4x4turbo wrote:I raced a vivaro on the motorway once in a 318is.... and lost!!!
You'd also have to put up with all of your work colleagues and all of your friends asking "Got that car sorted yet?" EVERY FECKIN' DAY !!!!robbo86 wrote:I think you over estimate how much I drive my e30 anyway! Besides which, it would be an motionless pile of scrap with a fuckoff huge engine under the bonnet and a 316 badge to goad the saxo brigade!Then you'd have a pile of motionless scrap outside of your house instead of me!
Jeremy Clarkson wrote:...but it drives the front wheels. Theee wrooong wheels!
da4x4turbo wrote:I raced a vivaro on the motorway once in a 318is.... and lost!!!
you should get yourself a nice reliable car then... could you face driving a rover 214?DRIFTBOY wrote:You'd also have to put up with all of your work colleagues and all of your friends asking "Got that car sorted yet?" EVERY FECKIN' DAY !!!!robbo86 wrote:I think you over estimate how much I drive my e30 anyway! Besides which, it would be an motionless pile of scrap with a fuckoff huge engine under the bonnet and a 316 badge to goad the saxo brigade!Then you'd have a pile of motionless scrap outside of your house instead of me!
It gets quite tiresome after about a week, and I've had that for about four months now!
if that's not an incentive to get the BMW sorted, i don't know what is Jeremy Clarkson wrote:...but it drives the front wheels. Theee wrooong wheels!
da4x4turbo wrote:I raced a vivaro on the motorway once in a 318is.... and lost!!!
Sawyer_E30 wrote:My dad used to have a rover 414 and it was surprising an extremely reliable car - The only[/] reason we got rid of it was to make room for the Merc 500SE!
Rover or Mercedes... decisions incisions!
strange as it spent most of it's life at about a billion RPM on the limiter! 
that's the rover K series but in 1400cc flavour, they're generally ok. it's the larger capacity ones that cause problems.Sawyer_E30 wrote:One thing with a few of the Honda engined rovers is the constant eating of head gaskets.
YUM!
I lost a front splitter doing that.robbo86 wrote:...I misjudged how deep a puddle was!
Though the local Rover main dealer ripped her off for its last MOT, even though I did the hard work to MIG-weld its rusty sill 
