Thinking about an (a specific) e30 for my dad...

[Farbin Kaiber]

He just resealed the engine top to bottom, my bet is a vac leak somewhere, if that's the case, what else did he do wrong? Enjoy your can of worms if you buy it.

[Vivek]

Yeah all caps was kinda annoying, but he's a pretty reasonable and mature guy. 7k is a lot, but he says he got an offer for 6.8 and basically turned it down (he's "thinking about" it). I think he'd take 7 grand though. It is a nice car and it seems like it will be really reliable. I'll have to talk to my dad about it but the idle thing is really the only issue and it may not even be an issue.

[ak-]

Fish sticks to me.

[MattAvino]

Vlad jr.

[warmseth]

All caps is always a bad sign. And $7500 is a lot of coin.

[freeride53]

uh SMELLS LIKE FISH

[Farbin Kaiber]

Smells fishy to me.

[Vivek]

Just got back from driving this car. I think it was very nice overall. It seemed very strong, the owner said that the gauges (speedo and tach) were a little mis calibrated, so it said it idled at ~1200 and the speedo was a bit over the 0 mark at a stop, when it's normally below it. He said it actually idles at 800-900 and the tach is a little off. Is this common/possible?

It seemed like a pretty good car other than that and an iffy paint job (it was dark but it definitely wasn't the greatest).

I didn't know whether to put this in technical or general, but it's not only about the tach so I posted in general.

Thanks guys :)

Oh BTW it had a super sprint exhaust so it wasn't easy at a all to tell the actual engine speed. I may get it tested to check the actual engine speed at idle.