What have you done to your car today?

[Raymond Lin]

It had very little visible rot when I viewed it (all underneath sill covers, arch liners, carpet, boot trims, etc), came with a full years MOT, was owned by an old chap, and had a book of reciepts including several in the few months prior to my buying it for £600+. Seemed like a solid way into E30 ownership.

Nope. Thing was about 40% rot, 60% car.

You’ll be driving a reclad tin shed with a BMW badge and not an E30 if you keep chopping it

 

[PiKe]

Buying a white car, how can I make it shine?

 

[[TW]Fox]

Buying a white car, how can I make it shine?

Buy painted in a nice metallic colour instead?

 

[MrKnifey]

It had very little visible rot when I viewed it (all underneath sill covers, arch liners, carpet, boot trims, etc), came with a full years MOT, was owned by an old chap, and had a book of reciepts including several in the few months prior to my buying it for £600+. Seemed like a solid way into E30 ownership.

Nope. Thing was about 40% rot, 60% car.

Still, it makes me feel good knowing that it would have been destined for the scrapheap in the sky had it not been bought by a sentimental idiot like me... Saving it!

Hate to say I told you so.. lol... Anyways keep gping

 

[Building Candy]

Made a radiator bracket, the original one was ugly

 

[Akagi]

lol

 

[rodenal]

Well yes it isn't a 7 series, but it'll be much better as a comfy daily driver than my MK1 mx5 I'm fine with Toyota, my z4 had interior that was cheaper feeling than my Mazda 3 haha.

Look at a GS with a v8 if you can stomach lowish mpg ( not sure they'd be all that worse than the is real world). Cheap to buy, properly screwed together, enough grunt and mated to a zero thought auto.

I know you're happy with a 3 series size car but for the same or less money and liking Japanese you'd be mad not go look at these

 

[grudas]

Look at a GS with a v8 if you can stomach lowish mpg ( not sure they'd be all that worse than the is real world). Cheap to buy, properly screwed together, enough grunt and mated to a zero thought auto.

I know you're happy with a 3 series size car but for the same or less money and liking Japanese you'd be mad not go look at these

I've looked, but there's just nothing for sale really, one was around in the spec I'd want but sold a couple of weeks ago. I was always going to look into gs430 but then after finding none I decided that maybe a gs300 will do but finding one with black leather and upgraded sound system is difficult! So is250 jumped at me which is basically a smaller less lux gs

 

[wedrum]

Is250 is the car tax £520 a year on those?

 

[grudas]

Is250 is the car tax £520 a year on those?

£305

 

[MichaelAwkward]

Depends on the year. They're not all £305.

 

[rodenal]

Drove mine up to knockhill today, parked it up and messed around in various Jags all morning as part of their Art of Performance tour thingy.

All round excellent morning, plenty of driving time including simulated ice activities, slalom type games then track time in an XE S (which I really, really liked), E Pace (not so much but what they're obviously trying to flog just now) and an F Type with instructor for circa 5/6 laps.

Then a driven lap in an F Type SVR, which was absolutely brilliant - especially given the greasy surface. Very jealous of Gibbo

 

[DampDog]

New wiper blades front and back. Studied it for 5 mins, tutting to myself at how dirty it is, then stuck it back in the garage for a warmer day... LOL

 

[Iron-man]

Service today as the weather isn't to bad

 

[Cookeh]

Installed a new headliner, cleaned the interior trim panels that hold the headliner up as the back side of them was just filthy. Also found and installed some missing trim on the front bumper, and installed a new exhaust mount as the old one was in 3 pieces.

 

[Phemo]

Just been driving the S-Max to discover that there’s some squealing coming from the brakes. Managed to narrow it down to one or both of the rear brakes. Took a look at the pads and the outer pads are pretty damn low, no idea about the inner ones, so I’ll take it all off and pop new pads on tomorrow.

What I don’t get is that I did the discs and pads all round only a year and a half ago and the car has probably only done 12k miles since then. I don’t really drive the car often at all but how is it possible to nearly destroy a set of pads in 12k miles? In a damn MPV of all things.

 

[ci_newman]

Probably a binding caliper then. You're right, they should last longer than 12k

 

[Phemo]

That was my first thought but the discs don’t look scorched or anything (from the outer side anyway) and both left and right outside pads are both worn to the same amount. I’ll inspect it properly tomorrow I guess.

 

[Shimmyhill]

Got some very stuck on tree sap off both cars, can recommend Autoglyn tar remover above the Halfords one that didn’t touch it.

 

[Kiethton]

Decided that something had to give so spent the afternoon cleaning the fleet with my fiancé

I'd caked her car (BMW) in grime doing the HPC so felt only fair for us to tackle the job together....

Before:



Did the BMW first, both were jet washed, shampoo'ed, washed with shampoo wax, dried and the interior vacuumed/glass cleaned and seats wiped.

They came up quite nicely: