1991 316 touring progress

[Mr.Wiggles]

I'm seeing your E30 touring in Craigslist and was wondering how you managed to register your gray market E30 in CA? In 2008, I bought a 81 Euro spec E12 528i in OR and my local DMV office treated me like a criminal for trying to register a gray market car in CA. Even after I had the smog referees go through the car with a fine tooth comb for a half hour, it passed smog, and was given a CARB sticker. The CA Air Resources Board (CARB) in Sacramento still wanted me to send my car to an independent lab for a certificate of compliance which cost a few thousand and have to schedule the test way in advance. Lucky for me, the smog referees went to bat for me, they told CARB and the DMV that my car passed smog, it was in CA in the 80s & 90s before it went out of state and I'm good to go. My license plate and title showed up a few weeks later in the mail. I'd rather have hot pokers in the eye that deal with CARB again. If you live in CA, do your homework (and have some deep pockets) before you bring in a gray market car from another state or country. Even though my car is way over the 25 year rule, In order to register it in CA, I still had to deal with CA smog rules and I found out CA govt does not like gray market cars. AMHIK

G-Man

Yeah it was pretty tedious but nevertheless, I pretty much did the same thing you did except I cut out a few steps. Oh and I'm not selling it, the person is remarketing it due to financial reasons. It is no longer my car.

Deep pockets do help ;)

[Stanley Rockafella]

What brake components did you use? (from what model bmw?) and what was all needed?

thanks

[Mr.Wiggles]

What brake components did you use? (from what model bmw?) and what was all needed?

thanks

318ti rear suspension set up along with E36 M3 front brake components.