Zen and the Art of e30 Maintenance

[jjc034]

Stunning car. I would optimistically say that Bring A Trailer would yield your highest offers. I wouldn't be surprised if they even topped your asking price. Lot of interest for well-documented 318is' on B.A.T.

They're phenomenal DDs - I was between one of those and the 2001 740iL I just bought. Too good of a deal on the 7 though haha

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[Cha Ching]

Aw.. jeeze.. cringing while posting this here..

For Sale Posting on Craigslist..

Stunning car. I would optimistically say that Bring A Trailer would yield your highest offers. I wouldn't be surprised if they even topped your asking price. Lot of interest for well-documented 318is' on B.A.T.

[Simon S]

Aw.. jeeze.. cringing while posting this here..

For Sale Posting on Craigslist..

[MR E30 325is]

My build thread references this build thread within the first 50 words.

Was a great starting point for me wayyyyy back in 2008.

Sorry to hear you want to sell, but I can understand the desire to start something new.

[kenshin86]

this thread inspires me always to complete my work on my 318is.
great write up simon, I wish you all the success in your life.
sad to here you are thinking of selling the car, never imagined it could happen.
please update us with your latest.

and by the way, did this project cost you $ 10K including the car price, as you first estimated ?

thanks

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My 318is restoration thread

https://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=420509

[AC_Schnitzel]

Just read through this in its entirety. I would pay for a published/printed version of this!

I just picked up a new-to-me E30 project and you've inspired me to rethink the way I tackle projects on this car. Thanks for taking the time and effort to document your experiences!

[Codym42]

So nice to see the pictures back up! Glad you're still enjoying the car too.

This has to be one of the most thorough build threads on r3v.

[Simon S]

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[MasukBMW]

Its literally kept me up at night thinking what a travesty this thread was without pictures. Just didn't seem right to have all this work disappear. Cant tell you how many times Ive referred to it in the past 5-6 years.

Im so glad this is back up, if for no other reason than to just enjoy it. Thanks again for this - its really impressive, I cant say enough.

[alistairolsen]

Thank you for taking the time to sort all of the images, I've read through the whole thread and not only am I glad it resurfaced for me to find, but it's a fantastic resource and reference which would be a great loss to the community.

Glad to hear you're doing well!

[Simon S]

Thanks guys for your patience.

All ~1,200 photos have been re-hosted !

Alive and well in Madison, WI yet. Got married. Good job.

The 318is is doing great. Been as reliable as a Honda. Still a great joy to drive.

In process of (finally) having a set of euroweaves refreshed. Once that's done with new tires, I'm thinking of putting her up on Bring A Trailer with something like a $12-13K reserve and see what happens. As much as I love the car, I think it's time to pass her on to a new caretaker.. I'm itching to move on to other projects.

[locar]

(sorry again guys about the failed photo links.. frustrating for me too.. ~1200 photos to reload is daunting/time-consuming.. have started several times, then life gets in the way.. like I have all the photos saved/categorized, but the load/wait/copy/paste/navigate/edit/post-code edit/etc. gets grueling real fast.. ) (currently going through coolant system rebuild hell.. oy.. ) (otherwise holding up great in the ~5 ? years since initial Zen-resurrection )

If you could send me the posts as forum code and a map from the old links to file names (like a text file with old link and new file name on same line), I could write you a script to upload the images to imgur, and then update the forum code with the new links, so that you would only have to copy and paste each post one at a time, instead of having to do each link.

[monty23psk]

(sorry again guys about the failed photo links.. frustrating for me too.. ~1200 photos to reload is daunting/time-consuming.. have started several times, then life gets in the way.. like I have all the photos saved/categorized, but the load/wait/copy/paste/navigate/edit/post-code edit/etc. gets grueling real fast.. ) (currently going through coolant system rebuild hell.. oy.. ) (otherwise holding up great in the ~5 ? years since initial Zen-resurrection )

Glad your still around and with car.

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[Simon S]

(sorry again guys about the failed photo links.. frustrating for me too.. ~1200 photos to reload is daunting/time-consuming.. have started several times, then life gets in the way.. like I have all the photos saved/categorized, but the load/wait/copy/paste/navigate/edit/post-code edit/etc. gets grueling real fast.. ) (currently going through coolant system rebuild hell.. oy.. ) (otherwise holding up great in the ~5 ? years since initial Zen-resurrection )

[mitch500]

Ahh i remember all these old threads from back in the day. Its to bad pictures are slowly starting to dissapear year after year. These were the good threads