I'm thinking about selling my E28. It looks nice, about as good as a standard E28 gets other than a restored £8k example. It's pretty fast too. Since buying it for £450, I have spent many hundreds on it, had bits resprayed, new clutch, put M Sport leather interior in etc.
It has some troubles though. It has a mystery suspension clunk I can't track down when it gets hot. I have to drive like 20 miles for it to start appearing though. I've changed the ARB droplinks and polybushed the ARB mount to no resolve. I think its a worn out damper now. So basically it needs new suspension, which is ~ £400. The colder it gets outside the longer this takes to happen.
It also has some minor cooling system niggles. When it gets really hot and I turn it off after a long journey it would spit out some coolant from the expansion tank over pressure pipe. Again now the weather has cooled it doesn't do this. I also think the viscous fan (it had a new one in the last few years) is broke. Again not a problem unless sitting in traffic.
I spent a load of money on a new clutch, new master/slave cylinder. From the SH I had seen it had been plagued with problems in this area. It was very hard to get into 1st before I had all this done (almost undriveable). Now fixed and shifts fine but the clutch is *really* heavy and the gearbox action is just not smooth. This makes it hard work to drive.
So basically it needs a load of money spending on it to make it good long-term, but I think most 20 year old E28s have issues. I think its worth about £1000 at best.
How much of this do I have to declare in an ad morally?
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It has some troubles though. It has a mystery suspension clunk I can't track down when it gets hot. I have to drive like 20 miles for it to start appearing though. I've changed the ARB droplinks and polybushed the ARB mount to no resolve. I think its a worn out damper now. So basically it needs new suspension, which is ~ £400. The colder it gets outside the longer this takes to happen.
It also has some minor cooling system niggles. When it gets really hot and I turn it off after a long journey it would spit out some coolant from the expansion tank over pressure pipe. Again now the weather has cooled it doesn't do this. I also think the viscous fan (it had a new one in the last few years) is broke. Again not a problem unless sitting in traffic.
I spent a load of money on a new clutch, new master/slave cylinder. From the SH I had seen it had been plagued with problems in this area. It was very hard to get into 1st before I had all this done (almost undriveable). Now fixed and shifts fine but the clutch is *really* heavy and the gearbox action is just not smooth. This makes it hard work to drive.
So basically it needs a load of money spending on it to make it good long-term, but I think most 20 year old E28s have issues. I think its worth about £1000 at best.
How much of this do I have to declare in an ad morally?
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