Anybody wanna kill their PO?

[mikeb23ft]

I'm kind of pissed at whoever broke off a bolt on my thermostat housing and didn't fix it, but my car was serviced at a dealership for the first 20 years of its life so it's mostly good to go.

Also - if you ever really have to know, some sealant and two bolts will seal the tstat housing just fine :)

[Exodus_2pt0]

Man when I first read the title, I thought you were referring to a "parole officer." I was like "oh man this is going to be such a shitstorm!"

But alas, it is about cars. God damnit.

Beat me to it! I was going to say the same thing, then try to find out who the PO was and send them a link to this thread.

[Nairb]

Man when I first read the title, I thought you were referring to a "parole officer." I was like "oh man this is going to be such a shitstorm!"

But alas, it is about cars. God damnit.

No, my PO was a 30 year Mercedes master tech who did errthang right other than the stereo.

[F34R]

9 years of owning e30s, first one was the only bad one. Guy did a valve job and forgot to connect the ground. I was a noob and was at a loss for a month. My current two e30s are awesome. One was owned by a jag mechanic and the other came from Cali and was owned by a BMW master mechanic. No faults but normal wear of old parts. Build is 98% replaced and my other one I sold to my mother is tip top from me owning it for 2 years.

[pharow]

The PO cut a huge hole in the backseat. I guess he had a sub in the trunk. He also took out the HU and left it open with all the wires just hanging. The PO let the clear on the paint go to shit. So the paint on the hood, roof, and trunk is just about shot. And a whole host of other things...

[Cinnabar325is]

How about the fact that my entire driver's front floorpan and carpet is soaked with brake fluid?!

Can't imagine why but I know one thing: it doesn't evaporate like water (hence the carpet is permanently soaking wet). And brake fluid eats paint. Therefore, none of the paint under the carpet is intact.

Haven't gotten around to correcting this and replacing the carpet yet...

[Rsully70sev]

Same thing here. PO jacked up the car on the same spot the BMW jack goes. Instead of "slipping" in the OEM jack, they used a standard one in the same place crunching all four sides.

[kwill22]

yea i must say with this being my first legitamate purchase (every other car was already in the family and my last E30 that was totaled was a neigbor to a family member so my dad bought it for me as a gift.

i deffinately learned quickly that next time i buy a car, most likely used i will be under that mofo with the quickness. and i didnt mention that the slave cylinder went bad also.

i got royally hosed but you live and you learn and im a better man for it. an expensive lesson.

oOo. and not to mention at some point someone had pulled it behind an RV and the idiots had the brace welded together through the front valence and the bolted to the frame. so one day im unbolting it to take that crap off and behold. no bueno. so i gotta get it cut off. with i had a plasma cutter handy...

[Danny]

Nope, my PO was awesome.

[BMWerke]

yes, they jacked the car in the wrong spot so the passengers side floor is dented up. car had quarter panel damage and what ever body shop they went to did a shitty job.

[e30BMart]

I bought my car for 1600 and the body was wonderful so i kinda expected the engine and such to need work, but PO said everything was fine so I bought the car. Nothing has gone wrong since "knock on wood" at 1 year and counting :D true story. Except for maintenance stuff of course ie: brakes and oil pan smash. I got lucky

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[Thizzelle]

mine put the fuel filter on backwards, resprayed trim parts while in car and over spray is on windows but think I can scrape it off (haven't tried yet) they got the timing belt redone but didn't bother replacing the water pump on a 240k mile car. using wrong bolts on heat sheilds under car, also timing belt cover so was just flopping around. missing exhast manifold nuts. also had a metal wire holding a plug in for cruise control which wore through the wire jacket and was looking to cause problems. took it off fixed wire and haven't had a problem. came with a e36 shift boot lol.

[redsubdivisions]

The PO on my car cut out the switches above to radio to install an equalizer and relocated the hazard and defrost switches to the trim below the instrument cluster. Needless to say, I quickly took care of that and yanked out all the extra useless shit that was in there. That's about the only bad thing the PO put in my sedan. lol

[ttrousdell]

my PO cut the wires to the brake sensors and didn't tell me the pads were shot and didnt tell me the shocks were shot too. That was a few years ago and I didn't know much about cars. A year later i went to buy a car and the guy told me there was a pinhole in one of the rubber lines in the powersteering and it was a 5 dollar fix. Look under the car and there was a giant blob of jb weld on the rack and a visable crack. A bit of arguing and he took 200 off the price and I just swapped racks. I like to think not much gets buy me now. Ignorant people usually get screwed by the people in the know. Just the way it is.

[rturbo 930]

My story isn't nearly as bad, but here it is. Well, from what I hear, the guy who sold the car to the guy I bought it from apparently though himself a DIYer. I first ran into his work when tracing down a rattle from the passenger door. I took off the door panel and looked around, found the problem pretty quickly. It was the rod that goes from the door lock to the door lock actuator. Why was it dangling around? Because the actuator is missing. So I bought a new actuator off a member here, and it was only when I went to install it that I realized, that when the PO removed the old actuator, he turned the tiny 1/4" bolt hole into a quarter sized mangled mess! I don't know what the fuck he was thinking or why he could have possibly needed to do that. But I still haven't fixed it. I'm going to need to cut out mangled metal and put in a new piece with rivets or adhesive or something.

I've also found out that he's really not good at putting all the bolts/screws back. My headlight switch was loose, and my gauge cluster was held in by only 3 of the 6 screws.

Could be worse, I guess.