1989 e30 Touring... this is Betty

[scotte30]

have always loved these...beautiful car and amazing attention to detail, now I need to go find myself an e30 touring

[i_love_my_E30]

touring editions are so clean! nice pick up!

[ckarsonkidd]

thats a beautiful e30 wagon and the rim set up is perfect for it yikes goes hard!

[anabolice30]

Betty, she is so clean man. I wasn't into tourings because the only one I'd ever saw was ratty, but yours is nice. Made me reconsider!

[drutah]

Those seats though.

[MC Hammered]

Inspecting for rust and water leaks is just something I have to do as I want to have peace of mind when proceeding with a build.

Nothing would be more demoralizing than laying down all that sound deadening, new carpeting, reinstalling the interior and then find out I have a small hole which requires tearing all that work apart to fix.

[Viking445]

Oh my god I'm so mad i found this thread. lol i just bought an 89 touring and you have put WAY to many ideas/worries in my head! especially about all the rust you found! yikes.

Thats one sexy car!

[MC Hammered]

Tim @ Velocity Upholstery is doing the recovers and his handiwork is fantastic!

He installed new factory BMW e30 seat heating elements I found as well in the new recovers.

[Eric]

That's the nicest looking recover I've seen! Where did you source those? Usually a stock seat recover isn't as tightly pulled as the factory items.

Those exhaust welds are great as well!

[JCarp90]

10/10 would smash

[MC Hammered]

Todays TGIF picture is brought to you by Recaro!

[MC Hammered]

Every time I wash the car I end up with two nice pools of water in the rear compartments as the rear trunk vent gaskets have failed.



I finally had enough of these two leaks, pulled off the rear bumper and extracted the trunk vents. This is what a 25 yesr old driver side vent gasket looks like. Water just flows down the edge, reaches the break in gasket and flows right into the car.




Here is the passenger side




Clean the crap off the front of each vent opening




Clean the dirt and gunk off each vent



Old gasket on the left, new one on the right. The new gasket is so plump and fat!



Made sure I lathered the gasket with some silicone lube and installed.

With the gasket in place the vent clips back in nice and snug. Water tested each side and no more leaks!

[pilotskillse30]

I want Betty

[MC Hammered]

One seat completed!

[bmwandhonda]

Very cool retrim :)