Warning about black tech2 318i touring on ebay!!!!

[hammoj28]

Just had a phone call from BadDave and 320touring, they went down today to see the touring in the listing below.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... :IT&ih=009

They were looking over it and discovered it has damage, resulting in a crease at the rear footwell on both sides of the transmission tunnel. They stopped looking at it at this point and phoned me to put a post up just in case anyone is wanting to go and see it. The seller said she was unaware of this.

Oh and apparantley the leather seats are actually vinyl covered.
Cheers

James.

[fuzzy]

this is in another post currently . i cant remember if its a for sale or a looking at ,interested/opinions in thread.

[lewwy]

Cheers Glad I didn't both now!

[Jhonno]

Quite a trek for a dud..

[hammoj28]

Aye, just a bit. Id always buy an E30 from down south, much better condition than the rotters up here.

[fuzzy]

Quite a trek for a dud..

aberdeen/edinburgh to nottingham is indeed. i would be mightly p1ssed off.

[murran]

the "1" in front of the £600 price tag and the general 4 potishness would have put me off before going to look at it..........

[fuzzy]

for sure. £1600 for a 318 is a tad optimistic

[murran]

Aye, just a bit. Id always buy an E30 from down south, much better condition than the rotters up here.

doesnt really matter with tourings, they dont rot like saloons.

[hammoj28]

Aye, just a bit. Id always buy an E30 from down south, much better condition than the rotters up here.

doesnt really matter with tourings, they dont rot like saloons.

Still worse off up here...

[daimlerman]

Niel and Dave called in to say hello to me on the way back 'upp noff', fed them beer and in return they managed to unfasten a wheel bearing nut that had me reaching for the angle grinder....shame about the touring,but Neil is the expert here...E30Zone Rocks...

[Dave_M3]

Jesus, one of the lads over here that really wants to get a Touring was very interested in this earlier in the week!!!
Had a nice M50 picked out to pick up on the way home too, lol

Pity, It's a pretty nice car too. It was for sale not so long ago too I think. Could be a different cat but looks very very similar. Not many 318 Tec 2 tourings about and especially with those front lights.

[jaistanley]

'Several thousand spent in the last x years'... Probably has, poor sod. Most people dont do the std check when they by a car and modify it regardless!

Shame. It looks lovely in the photo's! Ripe for a proper engine (S50 baby).

[320Touring]

Jesus, one of the lads over here that really wants to get a Touring was very interested in this earlier in the week!!!
Had a nice M50 picked out to pick up on the way home too, lol

Pity, It's a pretty nice car too. It was for sale not so long ago too I think. Could be a different cat but looks very very similar. Not many 318 Tec 2 tourings about and especially with those front lights.

tech 2 kit was a bitsa, in different reds visible through the black, and front lower valance was fibreglass...

not good.

Malc- no problem on the hub bolt sir-looks like you won a watch with that new hub being on one strut

[BadDave]

aberdeen/edinburgh to nottingham is indeed. i would be mightly p1ssed off.

It is a bit of a trek, but better to spend £100 ish in fuel than over 1K on a £200 quids worth of shitter any day

We did have several others as options to enquire about (and we did)

Think,IIRC we looked at about 6 or 7 over the weekend, but none were worthy of the sellers expected price tag


The search continues

[BadDave]

Niel and Dave called in to say hello to me on the way back 'upp noff', fed them beer and in return they managed to unfasten a wheel bearing nut that had me reaching for the angle grinder....shame about the touring,but Neil is the expert here...E30Zone Rocks...

Thanks for your kind hospitality Malcolm

Glad to be of service

[BadDave]

Emailed the seller last night about the car and said that i'd heard it had a damaged shell and it wasn't leather seats etc


Got this response back from them today

"this guy came at the weekend, i'm going to my local garage today for a professional opinion. I did not know it was there as there is no external indication of any damage. I will then advertise the price indicated by what my garage says it's worth and described as stated by my garage."

[Dave_M3]

That seems fair enough really.
Thing is, a leather interior is worth about half the price of the car
Be interesting to see what the garage value it as... If there is no strutural strength problems it won't affect the price the garage would give it much as it is visually ok on the outside

It's just that it wouldn't be much value to most of us since we'd know we'd be buyng a bent E30

I'm amazed ye spotted it though, lol.
I wouldn't really think of pulling up carpets other than the boot floor carpet when inspecting a car
I'll have to employ ye next time I come over for an E30

[fuzzy]

wouldnt a bent/creased floor be noticed when a car was up on ramps at mot time?

[BadDave]

wouldnt a bent/creased floor be noticed when a car was up on ramps at mot time?

You'd have thought so

The creases were quite noticeable when the car was parked on the guy's driveway

Should've been spotted when the new exhaust went on prior to the MOT as well


Can only blame the dodgy exhaust fitters and even dodgier MOT guys for inadvertently "missing" that bit

[fuzzy]

or more likely the owner pretending to be "shocked"?

[fuzzy]

so what about the door gaps? where they tighter at the bottom due to the creased floor? was is damage you noticed easily?

[BadDave]

Was having look at the ream beam/tank/sill area and checking the corrosion on the fuel lines and noticed the crease on one side
Went round to the other side and had a look there and found a crease there as well

Lifted the carpet to have a look and they were easy to spot inside as well

Never bothered checking the door gaps,Just walked away

[fuzzy]

i probably wouldnt have looked as closely if it was me. theres a lesson to be learned there for sure.

[BadDave]

Standard practice for me mate
Funny thing is, there's NO sighs of damage in the boot area to indicate a rear end shunt

Mind you, we didn't check under the rear apron, but the boot floor and spare wheel well were all fine

[shedrool83]

Its been re-advertised as a cat d with no reserve.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BMW-E30-318i-TOUR ... dZViewItem

[BadDave]

Noticed that

Someones bid on it as well

[tommy22]

me and a mate who works in a bodyshop went and had a good look at this and found no signs of any bad accident all it looks like it has fell off a jack or axel stands so i bought it for £300 pounds

[Joshy]

£300!? Christ, utter bargain!

[tommy22]

i know im going to take the carpets out tommrow and then it should be ok

[BadDave]

It'll be interesting to see what damage lurks under those sideskirts(which don't fit properly for some reason)

It dosn't really look like it fell off a jack or axle stands to us when we checked it over

Hope your right

At the end of the day it was a £250 car with vinyl seat coverings roughly stapled on and a fibreglass valance.

[tommy22]

i will get pics when the carpet is out
did you notice the front passanger jacking point bent aswell and petrol tank
even if it is totaly fooked it will break for more then i paid

[grantfk10]

Dave and Neil, your deffo coming with me when I look for my next E30, (not that that'll be happening for a while anyway, lol!) top work guys and well spotted!

[BadDave]

Just give us a bell when your ready Grant