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Post Thu Feb 03, 2011 8:45 pm

I know enough on ones plate, but one more won't hurt for a while? The 2 Alpinas are bored of each other! Well story on this is as follows. Text from Trevor on a friday night "325 on the bay buy it now £250" So we did. didn't matter about anything else as a hanging, hanging 325 can be broken for alot more than £250.. I'm it was linked up on the zone as Trev said the vultures would be on it quick!

Worst advert on ebay ever, no tax,MOT and the pictures were so sh!t you couldn't even work out how many doors it had. Notible highlight from the seller was scorpion exhaust!

Turned out after buy it now was clicked that it was infact MOT'd until March 2011, this was back in October gone. The seller had thought the MOT went out with the tax, oh and its got 2 doors!

So off we went to bournmouth, tro meet the skip lorry driver in a rather large council estate. We laughed at the yoofs in the street loitering next to our purchase, as we rolled up in my equally concil and at home 328 touring e36. We had the seller tax it for us and Trev insured it for £11 for the day and went to collect it.


Heres what greeted us

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So thats as how she sat at my house after thew drive home. Sticky central locking, massive cracks in dash, bulbs gone in OBC, wolly front end and loud tappets. Lots of typical E30 issues but instead of being broken. I've taken the plunge and bought Trev out and its going to be revived into health, driven for a while and sold are the plans with it.

so there we are!
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Post Thu Feb 03, 2011 8:48 pm

Nice honest looking turd this one, is it sporting the Tec1 wheel yet.
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Post Thu Feb 03, 2011 8:54 pm

More OEM+ resto goodness 8)
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Post Thu Feb 03, 2011 8:54 pm

When PaedoPowelly :) comes over with his Brillo pads /Celit bang/Jif etc to mint up the turd , I will park my brilliantish red 325 shooting break next to it and see if he can make them both glisten liked freshly laid stools in the pan ! :)
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Post Thu Feb 03, 2011 9:03 pm

You're ill!
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Post Thu Feb 03, 2011 9:08 pm

Bloody hell £250.00 8O
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Post Thu Feb 03, 2011 9:17 pm

pacerpete wrote:When PaedoPowelly :) comes over with his Brillo pads /Celit bang/Jif etc to mint up the turd , I will park my brilliantish red 325 shooting break next to it and see if he can make them both glisten liked freshly laid stools in the pan ! :)
:rofl:


Looks pretty good si, should make a good honest car for smoking around in :D
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Post Thu Feb 03, 2011 9:18 pm

Polish it up and get it served to pay for some more morsels for the 'pina. Bargain.
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Post Thu Feb 03, 2011 9:20 pm

Well done, that doesn't deserve to be fragged
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Post Thu Feb 03, 2011 9:26 pm

i'm not ill. Ill is buying a 220,000mile 328i e46 wanker and buying M3 leatherz and talking about resprays in different colours!

Moving onto plus points and not so plus points.

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Who said seat covers don't work?! with 160,000 odd on the clock the interior bar the dash cracks is very good.


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An inner arch without huge holes......


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A totally f**ked battery tray.


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Repaired scuttle, not so good this


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pinky paint on both sides like this


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Minty headline without any marks, grubby finger prints etc on it. Makes a nice change from the norm. Also the roof skin is totally solid, Barry will attest this. rather hard to take a picture of it.


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Engine bay with just alarm being the only real bodge, few clips missing but generally all up together and no council cone filter and a gaffa taped up trottle body pipe!

My feelings on this have been, time, patience and knowledge could make this into a something nice again. Yes it needs some welding but just how many E30's don't? alot have been broken for less than this, but this is better than most of whats left in the 2 door variety. Plenty of crap sports, fake ones cabs and touring 325's left. But i think the 2door 325's have suffered a savage loss in numbers due to being the most popular body shapoe
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Post Thu Feb 03, 2011 10:29 pm

I have to say it is better than either of us hoped / thought. To be brutally honest, we bought this as the next breaker but having got it home, assessed what we had, it was far to good to break (even though it goes against my grain!!! :evil: )

problem was, it needs some work. It will cost money to get up to scratch and doing the figures, theres just not enough in it for both of us. So we shook hands on Si buying me out for purely what it owes me. I know he'll do it justice :D

Those eagle eyed amonst us will notice the YRU plate? A very close reletive to the wheeler dealers F plate blue touring which also wore YRU with pride.

Now heres the best bit!

This thing has so much f*cking history it's untrue. I have here (yet to be handed to Si) a folder showing a virtually fully documented history. 15 oil changes with some years it having two changes. Regular cam belts, recent work at a BMW main dealer for head gasket and all the usual oil leaks and even a reciept for:

A BBA Star chip!

I drove it back from Bournmouth and it tramped home with reletively few issues. Usual dash maladies (a replacement cluster has sorted that) and a heater only blwoing on 1 and 4 :roll: but over all it went like a train. Held 80-90 all the way home with no glowing oil ights or flat batteries.

Saved just in time this one. :D
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Post Thu Feb 03, 2011 10:35 pm

What sort of leg has she done?
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Post Thu Feb 03, 2011 11:04 pm

Andyboy wrote:What sort of leg has she done?

How much would you like ? :)
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Post Thu Feb 03, 2011 11:08 pm

Yep Si i am very ill but so is 3 project E30's! :mad:

The roof on this turd is spotless from what can be seen inside. We done for saving it though, i still feel guilty about that bronzit turd i fragged with less miles, less rot and better spec. :o:
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Post Thu Feb 03, 2011 11:44 pm

Fairplay Si, only right you saved this after your thread highlighting how these are disappearing so quickly!
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Post Thu Feb 03, 2011 11:45 pm

Andyboy wrote:What sort of leg has she done?
166,000
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Post Thu Feb 03, 2011 11:50 pm

[quote="bss325i"]Yep Si i am very ill but so is 3 project E30's! :mad:
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Exactly!!! I can't even manage one :mad:
Let alone doing one to the level your Alpina is plus another and now this!!! :D
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Post Fri Feb 04, 2011 12:13 am

That is a hell of a lot of car for the money paid. Well done! Tart it up and sell with that history and you'll be laughing. :thumb:
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Post Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:03 am

Simon13 wrote:
Andyboy wrote:What sort of leg has she done?
166,000
And we have been very careful to use the correct speedo head in the new cluster to keep the mileage right as supported by the immense history.

Would have been an easy clocker this but why hide anything on an honest car. After all 90% of these have done the miles.
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Post Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:05 am

suchy wrote:
bss325i wrote:Yep Si i am very ill but so is 3 project E30's! :mad:
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Exactly!!! I can't even manage one :mad:
Let alone doing one to the level your Alpina is plus another and now this!!! :D
Another reason I came out the deal. I don't have the time to finish my own car wthout bringing another back from the brink!

A couple of weekends breaking yeah but this takes dedication.
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Post Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:52 am

Your mad , but kudos for finding and saving it.
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Post Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:57 am

Nice find :) How many miles has it done? What do you value it at when all done?

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Post Fri Feb 04, 2011 6:13 pm

Tart it up and move it on, that should then bring in some decent money, not many 325is about.
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Post Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:10 pm

suchy wrote:Bloody hell £250.00 8O
the Tech1 spoiler's worth that!
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Post Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:46 pm

adit wrote:
suchy wrote:Bloody hell £250.00 8O
the Tech1 spoiler's worth that!
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Post Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:58 pm

bss325i wrote:
adit wrote:
suchy wrote:Bloody hell £250.00 8O
the Tech1 spoiler's worth that!
Don't be silly!
I beleive Adi is refering to a tech 1 spoiler sold on the bay recently for around that money. They seem to be going up in value at a crazy rate.
Nice find gents :cool:
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Post Fri Feb 04, 2011 8:56 pm

johnl320 wrote:
bss325i wrote:
adit wrote: the Tech1 spoiler's worth that!
Don't be silly!
I beleive Adi is refering to a tech 1 spoiler sold on the bay recently for around that money. They seem to be going up in value at a crazy rate.
Nice find gents :cool:
Jeez! I've never seen one make more than a ton and i thought that was pushing it!

An Alpina boot spoiler brand new is not much more than £250 and looks better!
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Post Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:02 pm

Tech 1 boot spoilers are ace, my last 2 have both fetched over £160 ! :D

of course I have a few in stock for the future ! :wink:
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Post Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:10 pm

I swapped a tech 2 for a tech 1 not too long ago - I'm sure they were valued at around £40 so £160 is a bit of a shock 8O

BTW nice find Si / Barry - deserves to be sorted out :D
Previously owned loads of old E30s, E34s, a few E36s, E32s, E39s and an E38.

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Post Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:26 pm

fingerman wrote: BTW nice find Si / Barry - deserves to be sorted out :D
it was me that found it and Si's sorting.
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Post Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:31 pm

Okay, Blue Peter Badge to you Barry :D
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Post Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:51 pm

too many projects spoil the broth.

i thought this was destined for frag.another 2dr saved

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Post Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:58 pm

magpie wrote:i thought this was destined for frag.

:wink:
Believe me. It was!!! This things had a lucky escape. 'fraid i'm not as patient as Simon :(
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Post Fri Feb 04, 2011 10:16 pm

fingerman wrote:Okay, Blue Peter Badge to you Barry :D
I'm Barry! B7 is Trevor! :mad:
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Post Fri Feb 04, 2011 10:29 pm

bss325i wrote:
fingerman wrote:Okay, Blue Peter Badge to you Barry :D
I'm Barry! B7 is Trevor! :mad:
Oops :beer: - good find whoever :D
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