Stupid things that PO's did to your car

[750]

-he didn't believe in gaskets. However, he was pastor in the Form-a-Gasket church. (First Reform-a-Gasket?)

My brother is a member of that church.(need to arrange an intervention?)

On my car. JB weld around the water pump, Took the better part of a day to get it out.

Duct tape to hold the intake boot together.

Have red paint on the alpine white paint, so guess some one was spray painting a chair on a windy day next to the car.

Have this mess where the radio was.

Pulled off the door seals now they will not stay in place.
The radiator was cracked, head gasket blown, steering rack blown, crappy alarm system that one day I will need to remove, and years of neglect.

[ohthejosh]

My exhaust is supported by a crap weld job from headers to muffler tip. It sucks ass.

[midwest]

Hmm lets see... just bought another one.. exhaust is gone.. Nothing there p/s pump is locked ac pump is locked 4 differant brands of tires and two differant sizes. interior is filthy radio surround is busted in 3 pcs tranny had about 1/8th qt of black goo in it... i could go on n on.. but its a rust free new mexico car.. that i found in wisconsin for 500 bucks

[Hooffenstein HD]

eBay faux carbon fiber roundels, fake M badges everywhere, eBay spec tail lights, stickers all over the shop, removed the i from the 323i badge.

[E30 Wagen]

the PO of my 318 was a ricer moron, that's really all that needs to be said. I was browsing CL and ran across this:

http://grandrapids.craigslist.org/pts/3414983909.html

Yep, same guy I bought the car from... I'm thinking of emailing him and offering $5.

[ELVA164]

Let's see what I can remember, although I know none of it was from the PO I bought from....

External dents/damage include: left rear of the roof, just above the rear window (leaked until I sealed it); HUGE dent in left rear door/fender; dents in all four corners; bent front metal valance; center of undertray torn off; scratches all over the doors near the (non-functional) lock tumblers; replacement front left, front right fenders and replacement hood from previous incidents; dents in replacement hood

Internal damage includes: Soaked rear seat from leaky rear window; tears in driver's seat from a screwdriver (?); people who wired the stereo cut the antenna cable and wires to the dome lights, which had broken mounts anyway; destroyed panel under steering column; glove box was full of mouse nests/poop/some kind of sticky substance...; coffee stains all over carpet and ketchup packets busted open in rear armrest

Three different brands of sealed beams
Replacement left rear corner of suspension, came complete with unreplaced brake hardware and cut parking brake cable
3/4 shocks/struts blown
Trunk full of water due to lack of antenna

That's all I want to recall for now, but most of it is fixed or almost fixed!

[ClausE30]

PO drilled holes in my otherwise minty door cards for some cupholders lol.
Also he drilled my center console to install his sirius radio unit, Besides those small fixable flaws the Car was kept in great shape!

[u3b3rg33k]

First owner- ordered it as an auto

This.

[Kevinl]

the Aux fan was replaced with an aftermarket one it was held on with one zip tie at the bottom so it was basically not doing anything.

Also the aux fan resistor was bad so instead of bypassing or fixing it they wired it in to the A/c clutch wiring so it was trying to run an aux fan off the A/c circuit

There is other stuff I didnt care for but those were the two really dumb ones

[redsubdivisions]

Only major problem I had with mine was that for some unknown (yet retarded) reason, the PO jammed bungee cords in the sunroof track. I cranked it back and when it wouldn't come back straight thanks to the bungees, it scraped the ever living shit out of my sunroof cassette. I was able to remove the bungees, but now I have scrapes to show for it.

Minor stuff: hazard and rear defroster being relocated so the HVAC panel could be modified to fit an equalizer (trashed that shit and ran my own sub and such). That has been remedied back to stock.

[AntiScope]

My '89 325i was almost completely stock except for a Sony 10-disc CD changer in the glovebox. The thing didn't even fucking work. smh

[R3Z3N]

Car in sig: S52 swap. Stupid because I bought it and he sold it ;-) And I love it yet I should have saved a touch more for an E46 M3.

[BillBrasky]

M3- Near perfect and every mod was done exactly as I would have done it.


325i- Mechanically near perfect except some idiot decided to grind off the socket head cap screws that hold the brake rotors in place when you take the wheels off. They did a horrendous job with a die grinder and ruined whatever threads could be salvaged if I drilled out the bolts. There is also a long continuous dent on the underside of the floor pan where someone must have driven over a large rock or sharp curb. The dent/crease starts near the pedals and goes all the way back under the seat and even dragged across the gas tank. It scraped the undercoating off as it went along which created the only rust on the car.


325ix- Someone must have had the shifter out at one point and either didn't put it back together right or used the incorrect parts. Its sloppy as hell and the whole shift pattern is about 3-4 inches forward. I've been driving it that way for a over a year now because I haven't had time to get to it.

[e30jake]

The only thing I didn't know about before buying the car was on my first e30, which didn't run when I bought it. The diff definitely wasn't the original ratio. 90% sure it had a 2.93 in it, never actually confirmed it though. I made it to 45+ in first and always backed off before I hit the limiter because I kept thinking "this gear should not go this fast." That car gave slow an entirely new meaning

[kronus]

635:
- PO cut into the metal front valence and used wood screws to attach the valence and bumper trim
- rear spoiler attached with about 12 feet of foam tape
- headlight wiring hacked together, low and high beams shorted together
- shifter cut and welded to be closer to driver's seat
- several quarts of bondo all over
- 2 alarm systems installed into each other

2002:
- hasty engine swap done by monkeys, bent sheet metal everywhere
- A/C lines left in place from old engine but no compressor on new one..
- whole A/C system generally hacked in by dealer with a drill, self-tapping screws and a hole saw
- points kit left in place from old engine but not in new engine's distributor
- shifter spun around completely, impossible to tell what gear it's in
- vacuum line left open on new motor, leaning out cyl#4 badly