What did you do to your E30 today?

[jimbom30cab]

E30 fix up fest

[Gert_8]

e30 fix up fest today

Gosh Jim, looks like a scrap dealer's.....

[jimbom30cab]

Epic, always wanted a scrappies. I'm worried about the touring take over going on.

[Gavla]

Thought about it languishing in Pete's back passage and how much to deduct from the bill to get it cleaned again.

It will be easy and quick to clean, even having spent time in Pete's back passage. I gave it some good protection!

[jimbom30cab]

MOT pass, machine polish and some autoglym followed by a trash through the Hindhead tunnel

Happy days

[jimbom30cab]

Today, I parked this one up for the last time in a while, as the resto starts tomorrow. 325i in Dolphin.



I want to make her look like this:




So anyone got a tech2 kit for sale ?

Wish me luck, am gonna need it

[Gert_8]

Make sure you start a thread on that Jimbo!

[jimbom30cab]

ok mate, i had a quick look inside the roof skin tonight with the torch, not bad at all under there. So, strip down is this week and welding starts 4 Aug and Bodyshop in Sept. I want to finish the shell by xmas and then do all the oily bits in the new year.....Best laid plans and all that !!!

[capri_rob]

Charged the battery, started it for the first time since April and moved it from one side of the garage to the other.

Then insured it to start at midnight on Friday for an mot on Saturday which I will book tomorrow and once I have that I can tax it on Saturday too.

Also ordered a coolant level sensor to replace one I bought from ecp only a couple of years ago but which seems a to have failed.

[capnmchl]

Wrote the advert for its sale, which will be happening in the middle of the month

[beemerbird]

Drove it back from France with some help from the channel tunnel train, following a few days blasting through Brittany and Normandy to visit the D Day landing beaches. A recent service saw the car behaving flawlessly throughout the trip.

[TPS]

Put it in, for the MOT, Passed first time, No Advisories!

[darkchild]

Nothing too exciting. A trip to Cooper Norwich to pick up some clips to re-fix my A Pillar gutter trim before it flies off again! The best £1.50 I've spent, certainly an improvement on the M-Tech gaffer tape that was holding it down earlier in the week. The E30 looked tiny when parked up against all the modern BMW repmobiles in the main dealer car park.

Washed, polished and hoovered. Then a final coating of Autoglym's HD wax. Feckin' crippled now. Those sponge application pads are evil.

[Wega]

Started to make a to-do list for my new E30... It's already a lot longer than I thought it would be

[magpie]

started on it's new house.

[G-Bear]

Good work magpie..

[magpie]

Good work magpie..

cheers G-bear ...

[Mitchen]

Those sponge application pads are evil.

Haha trust me.. Amen to that

[daimlerman]

started on it's new house.

That's not much of a man-cave...

I'm building a much bigger one..

[magpie]

well i also have a 12ft trampoline and a 10ft swimming pool in the back garden along with swings/see saw for the kids so i'm happy with what i have ...

gotta leave some room for the kids to play innit

[TPS]

e30 fix up fest today

Gosh Jim, looks like a scrap dealer's.....

They're some dodgy characters around!

[Gert_8]

Stripped out the old cab interior so that the new one can go in. Richer to the tune of 29p is loose change I found, but there was also about 15 years' of dust and shite under the rear seats. Everything got cleaned and I had good access to the roof mechs so those got greased up.

Then it started raining and everything came to a stop.

Old leather interior including door cards will come up for sale. The front seats are heated (and working) which I thought about removing the elements and reinstalling in the new seats, but I think it's too hard to do, for me anyway.

[bss325i]

After Gaydon last sunday ive actually been driving to work and back in it this week. Which was nice.

[kieran325]

Went for lunch in Knutsford and came back to this



Nice run out for a Sunday.

[Gert_8]

Agreed. E30 every time.

[kieran325]

I was more shocked at the size but I suppose 25 yrs on......

[darkchild]

I was more shocked at the size but I suppose 25 yrs on......

I had a similar experience at the main dealer the other day. The E30 just looked tiny parked up against all the modern BMW repmobiles in the car park. The new 4 series is huge in comparison.

[Wega]

Yesterday:
Took the center console out to make sure there wasnt a reverse light wire hiding anywhere, just to find out that there isnt a reverse switch installed at all
Anyway, got the car cleaned a place where the vacuum cleaner rarely comes around. Also removed all that crap audio-wiring the previous owner had put in.
Before:


After:



Today:
I tried on one of the summer wheels, just to see how it looks and how they fit




The spacer might be a bit overkill, and will come off I think


Let me know what you guys think

[JF008]

Wega, your car look great with both set of wheels in my opinion. You might as well keep stripping the interior to look for rust or crap wiring

[Wega]

I know for a fact that there is more of both wires and rust
Thanks for your opinion Jf008

[jimbom30cab]

Spent the last 3 nights working till midnight in the dark and rain, now starting to get a bit hacked off

[garth_e30is]

Took delivery of a z3 rack for the rally car & put new back brakes on the touring

[Wega]

Took my son out for his first E30 drive yesterday


Just out the garage, then we washed it, and backed it back into it's cave again. Great day

[capri_rob]

Replaced heater valve to cure water leak, bled system
Fresh oil and genuine filter change
Replaced missing clips to hold washer pipe in place
Swapped one Aldi stereo for another with sd card reader
Drove it !