New user, old 318i

[brettholomew21]

My baby. I've had it for a year. It's got something over 210,000 miles on it (frozen odo), but the engine's out of a car w/ 120,000 at transplant. It's currently mostly stock. It needs a set of sway bars pretty fierce, but other than that, I think I'm gonna keep it as is.

My dad is watching it for me while I'm at school in Hawaii and he decided to paint it Jaguar Racing Green, which makes me pretty sad, but it looks great nonetheless. The second it wears through, I'm sanding it down and painting it Balticblau

[Collin]

Welcome to R3v, don't let your dad paint it

[Tree18is]

cruise it. and get it to 300k
and dont paint it. m3 spring it, and a nice cleaning.

[Holland]

Don't paint it. Build the M10! Anyway, welcome to R3V! be sure to utilize our search function.

[brettholomew21]

Too late guys, he painted it right after he got it running again (bad fuel pump). It's been JRG for 6 mos now. I drove it at Christmas and got all kinds of compliments from everyone, old ladies, punks, etc. It looks almost identical to Oxfordgrun, so maybe we'll just call it that.

I wish he'd resprayed it in Balticblau, and if he insisted on green, I wish he'd have ponied up the extra $50 to actually make it Oxfordgrun, but the JRG looks good enough. Like I said, it was a Maaco job, so what looks nice now will be ug in 5 years. And then, it will be Balticblau!