WARNING! - Never EVER let ur mum near your E30

[SCOTT325SE]

Well, the story goes like this okay....

This week, my dad decided to take the roof off the garage, as it leaks. "Great" we all thought! "somewhere dry to store our projects" (my dad has a Daimler project car too). Well, we started it on saturday, continued with it Sunday and it pished down sunday night and Monday morning! GREAT! SOAKED E30 and SOAKED Daimler!!!! My cabin isnt even waterproof, as i am yet to install the sunroof seals! Anyway, today (tuesday) my dad decided the cars were better off outside the garage, as he was cutting the roof beams down. Excellent i thought - 'Safe Sport'

Anyways, dad cuts the roof beams down and not 1 splinter is shed onto my lovely paintwork. I get back from town and my dad wants to push the car back in. Now, my drive is on a slope, but its shallow enough to push a 6pot in on your own. My mum on the other hand isnt happy that "I'm Fine!" as i told her, and she starts pushing the car with me.....

"NOT ON THE FUKKING SPOILER!!!!!!"....... Split paint all up my spoiler..... she meant well, but.... mupet!!!!
Ive told her dozens of times where to push a car from, as she ALWAYS insists on helping me move my disabled car about, even when she knows i can manage on my own.

Anyway, the moral of the story is NEVER, EVER, EVEEEERRRRRR let your mother/girlfriend/daughter/mistress/aunty (delete as appliccable) near your E30, otherwise you'll end up with fukked paintwork, or, even worse, a fukked e30.

Im off to cry now over my broken paintwork!

[SCOTT325SE]

forgot to mention she scratched my boot lid too.

[TOURINGDADDY]

sorry to here but cant help and

[SCOTT325SE]

i still love my mum (lets not get that wrong) ... but she aint allowed near my car no more!

[325SME]

I feel your pain Scott mate, guess who in my family is responsible for chipping the paint on my colour coded door handles!!!!

[SCOTT325SE]

1 of 2 mate... either ur mum, or ur missus..... not sure tbh, but its defo 1 of them

[325SME]

1 of 2 mate... either ur mum, or ur missus..... not sure tbh, but its defo 1 of them

lol, me mums responsible in this instance, too many rings on her fingers!! My missus just calls it a shed anyway......still love her though.....

[SCOTT325SE]

....shed???? a feking shed???? its ANYTHING but a shed mate!!! i hope shes joking!!!! is she one of these irritating women who says "but its ONLY an OLD car"

my missus is like that! i still love her too tho.

[dazleeds]

mine is too

bloody women

[Richy325iTouring]

my ex didnt like the bm she was loved up with the rocco
actually i didnt get anything the night the rocco went


bugger

gutting about the car scott i hate it when something like that happens

[beardymat]

we shall never understand women and they will never ever understand us blokes and the undying passion we have for our cars, why do they not see or appreciate the time and effort we lavish on these beasts?

[Brianmoooore]

My missus loves her 325 touring, but she has an incredible knack of finding all the weak points.
Came in tonight to find the glass from the driver's door mirror (intact), lying on the kitchen worktop!!!

[Dan318-is]

me mam hates the thing, probably cos i spend more time in the car than in the house with her n sister haha, jealousy!!!

[SCOTT325SE]

gutted about MY car richy???? dont worry about mine fella... i think you got far too much to worry about as it is.

couldnt get thru to that yard about the head tonite - will fone 1st thing 2moro morning

[Demlotcrew]

[SCOTT325SE]

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[Demlotcrew]

eeeeeeeeeeeek

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[Simon13]

this is true my missus has managed to scrape the front spoiler twice and kerb up nicely one of my alpinas.

"it's too low simey"

i say "look where your f**king going woman"

[SCOTT325SE]

i also marked the paintwork this afternoon whilst removing concrete blocks from a wall. a bt about 6" square hit the ground from 15feet and bounced in the wrong direction. the bit i marked cant be seen when the tech 1 val;ance is on, so thats 1 saving grace i guess.

[Simon13]

Oi look after than chariot think how much it owes u!

[SCOTT325SE]

tbh mate, my chariot is the least of my worries at the moment!

[325SME]

....shed???? a feking shed???? its ANYTHING but a shed mate!!! i hope shes joking!!!! is she one of these irritating women who says "but its ONLY an OLD car"

my missus is like that! i still love her too tho.

Spot on analysis there Scott mate but she does sort of understand why I've done what I have to it, tho she has mentioned the word "obsession" a few times!!!

[SCOTT325SE]

obsessed? yea? so? whats her point?

[325SME]

She thinks I may be a bit TOO obsessed by it!!! Fair point tho, I didn't have anything else to keep me occupied 'til six months ago.....

[SCOTT325SE]

.....true. ditto with me,.

[E30Adam]

Well, the story goes like this okay....

This week, my dad decided to take the roof off the garage, as it leaks. "Great" we all thought! "somewhere dry to store our projects" (my dad has a Daimler project car too). Well, we started it on saturday, continued with it Sunday and it pished down sunday night and Monday morning! GREAT! SOAKED E30 and SOAKED Daimler!!!! My cabin isnt even waterproof, as i am yet to install the sunroof seals! Anyway, today (tuesday) my dad decided the cars were better off outside the garage, as he was cutting the roof beams down. Excellent i thought - 'Safe Sport'

Anyways, dad cuts the roof beams down and not 1 splinter is shed onto my lovely paintwork. I get back from town and my dad wants to push the car back in. Now, my drive is on a slope, but its shallow enough to push a 6pot in on your own. My mum on the other hand isnt happy that "I'm Fine!" as i told her, and she starts pushing the car with me.....

"NOT ON THE FUKKING SPOILER!!!!!!"....... Split paint all up my spoiler..... she meant well, but.... mupet!!!!
Ive told her dozens of times where to push a car from, as she ALWAYS insists on helping me move my disabled car about, even when she knows i can manage on my own.

Anyway, the moral of the story is NEVER, EVER, EVEEEERRRRRR let your mother/girlfriend/daughter/mistress/aunty (delete as appliccable) near your E30, otherwise you'll end up with fukked paintwork, or, even worse, a fukked e30.

Im off to cry now over my broken paintwork!

I'd be calling up the garage who did your spray job to find out why the paint split off the spoiler. A decent paint job should withstand the force from pushing the car unless of course you're talking about the paint cracking due to flexing of the spoiler itself.

[Ant]

Ditto that Adam. the spoiler should have been painted with a mix including some plasticiser(sp?) I gues they didn't bother

[e30_Turbo]

one of the two ladies in my life is very much a e30 lover, when ever we are off out she demands we go in Daddies car and always insists on sitting up front. I tend to let her, which pees of the misses, ow well.

She can some times get a little carried away when we work on the car, especially when it comes to cleaning, I asked her to wipe the wheels off with the sponge, gave it to her, walked round the other side of the car, then I could here a scratching sound so legged it round to find she binned the sponge and started to use a stone to clean the wheels !!

She'll be a petrol head I'm sure, a speed freak in the making, she loves the acceleration forces and demands I "drive faster daddy!" always makes me chuckle.

Anyway I too would not let the misses near my car, she has driven it, but I was there at the time. I do all the mech work on both of our cars, could not dream of asking her to change a bulb, let along push my car into a gararge.

Sorry to hear it scott, scratched it before it even saw the light of day.

Got the alternator by the way, cheers dude. Mark.

[rickk]

The GF is prolly more attached to the thing than I am , so (un?)fortunately no financial restraints there!

Only problem is that she really wants to have an 850CSi aswell, which is perfectly natural ofcourse, but only even thinking about the costs of running this thing makes me all

Anyway, history shows that she usually eventually gets what she wants (from me), so the upside is that I'll probably have an 850CSi one day