The WORST job on E30

[Stephen]

not encouraging.

[sweet6e30]

im in the middle of dropping subframe for all bushings, and replacing all brake hardlines. FUCK MY LIFE! this car better give me blowjobs evertime i drive it, cause its fucked me good and hard for a while now!

[TwoJ's]

Doing body work and painting my car was the worst fucking job I've had to do. I probably had 250 hours in just block sanding on that job. I did it because I didn't want to pay for a good paint job... but if I were to do it again I would pay for it in a heartbeat. I'll do small body repairs again, but never in my life will I do a whole fucking car.

[Jean]

Body/Paint work is in another league of it's own haha.

[BlueIX]

I havent tackled too much but I did replace my ebrake. The ebrake cable had fused to the car and that was a disaster trying to remove.

[Fusion]

I think it was changing the position of the cooling hoses on the firewall after my 24V swap, with the intake manifold still installed.

Props to you sir. I tried it without removing the intake and it felt like I broke 17 bones in my hands. And I have small hands.
Flipping the hoses on 24V with the intake on is like trying to reassemble the spine through a vagina.

[MikeDE]

Flipping the hoses on 24V with the intake on is like trying to reassemble the spine through a vagina.

Now that puts a picture in your head...

[mikeedler]

Wiper mechanism is definitely a HUGE BITCH!! I was so pissed off when I replaced mine. Yes, it is possible to remove the motor and linkage with the fan plastic fan housing in place, because I did it. Its just a huge pain in the ass, the thing barely fits in there at all.

I never want to do it again.

+1

I have done a few, was a pain in the azz, but with alot of wiggling and jamming it comes out and in with just the removal of the fan motor.

the heatercore in a euro 318iS with no A/C on the other hand is impossible!!! I just cut apart the plastic and taped it all back together--hope it works this winter!

[freeride53]

Wiper Mechanism was a total and complete bitch.
Along with the driver's door, still isn't aligned right. FML.