From beginning to the end… story of my e30 touring (56k beware)
This is the story of my e30 touring which I parted in the summer of 2008. Don’t had the time to write the story about the car yet.
I had my drivers license about one year. I sold my 318is very fast because I wanted a touring. It was very hard to find a cheap and good car in the year 2003. Also I wanted the right engine for it – m20b25! So I found one car for 1250 euro near Frankfurt. The color was royalblau met and it had many scratches but it had only a little bit rust. Furthermore the tranny was real shit. It was loud like hell. Furthermore the tan leather was really damaged. So much work to do.
The preowner was a good smoker and that’s why I have to change nearly everything of the interior but the first thing I did was to change the alloys. I put some BBS RZ on the car and I liked it very much. The next thing were some lowering springs and some other things like steering wheel, radio etc.. Nothing special.
But there were more things on my to do list like changing the tranny. I drove to a friend near Hamburg were we changed the tranny and the clutch. Other parts followed time after time, so I bought smoked elips, smoked tail lights, a strut bar and all those things what you are buying when you start with swapping parts on your car. Furthermore I got the first ACS part… the front spoiler!
Although there was one thing I didn’t liked on my car. All those scratches on the paint. I wanted something new. I ever wanted a car with a dark green paint… something like british racing green. So one year later I decided to change the color. All I had to do was to remove every part on this car (that was also some practice for 2008). A friend helped me with the engine because I couldn’t do that all at home. My father would have killed me ;)
It took about 4 weeks. I worked every day during the week from about 3 pm till 10 pm and on the weekend from 9 am till 10 pm. I will never do this again. Next time I will pay someone for that but maybe one problem was that I had no other car which I could drive so I had to ask my brother, mother or father. And yes I had to drive a scooter some days
After 4 weeks the car was stripped and it took about 2 more weeks till it came back from the paint job. So I needed 3 more weeks to put everything together. That was hell because all those small things on the doors and I had to be very careful that I get no scratches in the new paint.
to be continued...
I had my drivers license about one year. I sold my 318is very fast because I wanted a touring. It was very hard to find a cheap and good car in the year 2003. Also I wanted the right engine for it – m20b25! So I found one car for 1250 euro near Frankfurt. The color was royalblau met and it had many scratches but it had only a little bit rust. Furthermore the tranny was real shit. It was loud like hell. Furthermore the tan leather was really damaged. So much work to do.
The preowner was a good smoker and that’s why I have to change nearly everything of the interior but the first thing I did was to change the alloys. I put some BBS RZ on the car and I liked it very much. The next thing were some lowering springs and some other things like steering wheel, radio etc.. Nothing special.
But there were more things on my to do list like changing the tranny. I drove to a friend near Hamburg were we changed the tranny and the clutch. Other parts followed time after time, so I bought smoked elips, smoked tail lights, a strut bar and all those things what you are buying when you start with swapping parts on your car. Furthermore I got the first ACS part… the front spoiler!
Although there was one thing I didn’t liked on my car. All those scratches on the paint. I wanted something new. I ever wanted a car with a dark green paint… something like british racing green. So one year later I decided to change the color. All I had to do was to remove every part on this car (that was also some practice for 2008). A friend helped me with the engine because I couldn’t do that all at home. My father would have killed me ;)
It took about 4 weeks. I worked every day during the week from about 3 pm till 10 pm and on the weekend from 9 am till 10 pm. I will never do this again. Next time I will pay someone for that but maybe one problem was that I had no other car which I could drive so I had to ask my brother, mother or father. And yes I had to drive a scooter some days
After 4 weeks the car was stripped and it took about 2 more weeks till it came back from the paint job. So I needed 3 more weeks to put everything together. That was hell because all those small things on the doors and I had to be very careful that I get no scratches in the new paint.
to be continued...
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