What have you done to your car today?
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Bingo! Though for once I dispute the use of the word "shed"
1991 E30 325i touring manual in Brilliantrot.
I phoned 15 minutes after the ad went up and arranged a viewing the next day (today) - The guy selling it is retired and has a lovely house in a nice area and two nice cars. Didn't care how much it was worth, just wanted the space it was in. I'm very lucky to have got my foot in the door pretty much immediately. His phone was ringing with enquiries even as I was with him, and he said he had turned down offers of the full asking price from people who wanted to buy without viewing cos he wanted cash and to know it was going to a good home!
It has comprehensive service history for the past 10 years including reciepts detailing that every MOT advisory has been resolved as it comes up each year, full years MOT (until 30th Jan 2018)
Condition wise there is minimal rust which is amazing really, one sill is starting to go a little bit, and there is a tiny patch by the rear towing eye and thats your lot! The paintwork is faded but will be brought back, there is a slight oil leak from the valve cover gasket (was really easy to pinpoint), and the central locking isn't working. Goes well, stops well, no weird noises, no odd vibrations sitting at 80MPH, and everything bar the central locking works perfectly.
Spec wise it is nearly the highest spec you could get an E30 touring in. M20B25 with the manual box and 3.73 LSD, electric windows front and back, electric mirrors, electric sunroof, headlight washers, roof-mounted diagnostic panel, ABS, alloy wheels, etc.
It was also conveniently placed 15 miles up the road. I still can't believe how much I got it for...
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The MX5 and Octavia are both going well so far too. The kick in the balls from that Celica kerfuffle did me good I think...
Will post them when I have some.Need pictures
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Most of that is standard equipment on them and the touring didn't get an LSD, only open and 3.91 not 3.73. If it does have a limited slip 3.73 then that's been fitted afterwards as it's not an original spec item.
E: About the only thing on there that is an extra is the headlight washers.
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Is that on the mk2?
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So it doesn't have an LSD after all. But it does have a medium case diff so thats easily fixed.
For some reason I thought all 325i's had LSD's even in Touring guise. Derp!
And yeah my one sensible car is being sold because it would be far too sensible to have just one silly car and one sensible one.
For some reason I thought all 325i's had LSD's even in Touring guise. Derp!
And yeah my one sensible car is being sold because it would be far too sensible to have just one silly car and one sensible one.
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So it doesn't have an LSD after all. But it does have a medium case diff so thats easily fixed.
For some reason I thought all 325i's had LSD's even in Touring guise. Derp!
And yeah my one sensible car is being sold because it would be far too sensible to have just one silly car and one sensible one.
Probably better off fitting one anyway. Most of the original LSDs will be worn to the extent that they're just open diffs again.
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Finding one will be nigh on impossible anyway, internals are even harder to source original bits and aftermarket won't be cheap at all, but yeah, crack on and fit an LSD....
I may just leave it open, then theres less temptation to hang the back end out and break it.
Still entirely too easy to kick and hang it out anyway with the E30 so don't go planting it everywhere else you'll end up going backwards through a wall.
Bit different as I've owned it for almost 11 years. It serves no real purpose it's just worth more to me than anyone else.