A day at the workshop...

Car has now had an oil change and a new exhaust (£10 from the cat back from a scrappers!)

I had the fortune of pouring the old oil back into an oil container. The sludge left in the bottom was horrible. Poor engine :(

Runs lovely now and very quiet with the new exhaust! Interior has been cleaned and just needs a new drivers seat as the bolster was ripped.

Not a bad little car, especially for the money. No pictures of the car I'm afraid, might take a few if I'm down there tomorrow.

I also spent the day giving my mate's E46 316Ti a service. Surprised at how easy it was! And to think, BMW would charge a fortune!

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You can't see, but I'm stood on a step ladder so that I can reach into the engine bay :D :p
 
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Very nice AGW :) Long time no see any posts from you but haven't been around much :)

We could do with such a garage for our car escapades :) Talking about rovers, sell the coupe for 1500, person blows it up in under 1k miles and buy it back for just over a years road tax..... win? :)
 
lol, people are free to service their own cars how they wish, even not service them at all. Even if it's not a saving in the long run, who's to say the car even had a service history up until now?
 
[TW]Fox;11520578 said:
Nice one, just knocked a good few hundred quid off its value then!
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Aha, don't you think I told him this :)

He's bought the car on finance and told me he plans to keep it for 4 years (until the finance is up). By that time, the car would be 10 years old and so wouldn't be worth too much anyway.

Funny though... the car was supposed to have full BMW service history, yet the oil was nasty and the plugs looked like they were 3 years old. The air filter (which he changed a few weeks ago) was black.

Not to mention the oil filter... which fell apart when removed from the housing.

Nice!

And I'm genuinely interested now... how much for an oil service?
 
[TW]Fox;11520674 said:
On one of those? About £100 but it isn't just an oil change, there are a number of check items also.

What oil did you use?
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Interesting.

I did advise the guy that it would harm the residual value. I'm not an idiot.

I told him to get Castrol Edge, as I know that's what BMW recommend. He got 0w30 grade.
 
Well it's entirely his problem then - rather foolish becuase if he finds himself needing to sell the car to clear his finance etc he COULD have problems with no history as usually a BMW without history has no history becuase it's been clocked.

Still - you serviced it properly and used the correct oil so mechanically the car will be fine.
 
And BMW recommend a service every 12k miles/1 year?

edit... Sorry, what I should mention is my mate was told that the car had just been serviced. Obviously not, going off the state of the oil and air filters.

Good point Fox. But still, I had a fun day and that's all that matters :p I'll make a point of getting it serviced properly next time it's due. Just to point out, I made NO money out of doing it so have absolutely no reason not to recommend a genuine service :)
 
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[TW]Fox;11520672 said:
Not many 2002 BMW's around with no service history at all. Those that are around are clocked.
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Reminds me of old Jags.

My Granddad had 9 in a row, would keep them for a year and do about 100,000 miles in them, polished regularly, well maintained (unless it was getting close to selling time), but back then 100,000 meant spent.

Every one of them turned up somewhere clocked, except the one he wrote off, which turned up cloned.
 
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The local BMW dealer is advertising an oil service for £55 for cars over 6 years old
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And that includes parts? If so, that's not bad! The oil alone cost my mate £50 for 4 litres of Edge.

A few pictures, not very interesting... again, crap quality as they were taken on my phone.

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New exhaust on the 220. £10 from a scrappers for backbox and middle section. Backbox looks new too! Car is lovely and quiet now.

New drivers seat fitted now too as the old one was ripped to shreds. Brake bleeding will come later on in the week along with a change of the gearbox oil... input shaft is quite noisy.

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Gives you an idea on size. Can fit two cars in and still have room between them. Mine was about two inches from the shutter with about 1ft between the 2 cars. The ledge at the far end is about a meter wide.

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Moved the 220 out to get mine on the ramps so that I could seal the join between the backbox and mid-section. There's nothing worse than a blowing flange :o Sounds much better now.

Note the trolley jack... had to jack the rear end to get the bumper clear of the ramps :cool:

And yes... that is a dent on the rear quarter. Courtesy of some **** in a carpark :(
 
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