Nonsense Thread

[Vincenze]

The E30.

Wasn't the E30 convertible a $30,000 vehicle in 1990?
I guess you could buy a small apartment in Germany for $30,000 in 1990.

[roguetoaster]

You know what came out of the lean times of the 70s and early 80s? The E30.

Maybe, just maybe, manufacturers will be forced to produce quality affordable vehicles when faced with this competitive global market and perhaps declining disposable income.

But who am I kidding, they'll probably just make more bloated cut rate crap and market it as premium so people can feel validated that they're more successful that the person next to them in traffic.

[Vincenze]

Also, anyone notice E30s getting more attention lately? Seems like my E30 is getting way more attention this year than it has previously.

You can't easily get a Corolla AE86 or Nissan Silvia in good condition anymore. You have to check the E30 prices.

[Vincenze]

ZF also plans to lay off 14,000 workers in Germany.
ZF owns Girling, Sachs, etc.

Then, it'll be Bosch.

Hopefully, they will make cheaper spare parts somewhere in Thailand or Vietnam.

[rturbo 930]

BMW and Lexus seem to be in competition to see who can make the ugliest vehicles. I don't know what's going on in their design departments, but its bad.

Also, anyone notice E30s getting more attention lately? Seems like my E30 is getting way more attention this year than it has previously.

[varg]

I was supposed to receive a very important delivery today and found out it's still a thousand miles away. Yes, I bought another car from another part of the country, but this is a much nicer one than my E34 so it's stressing me the hell out to not be able to track it. Unfortunately I didn't think to send one of my airtags to the seller to put in the car until it was too late to get one there before the car carrier picked it up. So, protip for those of you who buy cars and get them shipped to you, as soon as you buy it ship an airtag for the seller to put in the car.

BMW's profits are not good this year.

I hope they have been tanking, have you seen what they've been producing? A bunch of enormous ugly crap. Like, stunningly ugly. It's hard to believe the same company that made the E24 makes the stuff I see on the roads and at car shows now. I ultimately have no idea if their ugly cars are causing poor sales or even if their profits are truly "not good" but I can only hope their ugly cars are biting them in the ass so they'll change direction.

[Aleman]

VW is closing several factories in Germany.

Will BMW be next? BMW's profits are not good this year.

What happened?

Utterly dragging their heels to get the new microbus into showrooms! They've been sitting on a gold mine while waiting to launch the ID Buzz. TBH, they should have launched that on the day they stopped making the EuroVan, and they should have made a gas version of it. Chalk it up to mismanagement maybe?

[E30 Wagen]

VW is closing several factories in Germany.

Will BMW be next? BMW's profits are not good this year.

What happened?

Overinvestment in producing electric vehicles that few people want and even fewer can afford?

[Vincenze]

VW is closing several factories in Germany.

Will BMW be next? BMW's profits are not good this year.

What happened?

[2mAn]

I was trying to do my usual BaT updates and it kept timing out... then I looked later and it had posted 5x...

[808ETA]

I always get nervous when it goes down like that.

[MrBurgundy]

Man r3v is really taking a shit today.

yeah it was really bad.. Seems to be fixed now..

I don't use fb anymore so I can't bitch about it there unil james sees it, but the past few times it slowed down it was fixed without naggin

[Northern]

Man r3v is really taking a shit today.

[Northern]

Yeah I wish places would do free shipping to Canada.
Some places up here will, but nothing like the usual suspects in the US.

Typically still cheapest to buy from Rockauto, despite the shipping and charging all border fees upfront.



More nonsense ranting - the Mini community is often kind of a shithole for information.
There was a big thread on one of the facebook Mini groups, where someone realized a Tesla X/S rear 4-pot brembo has the same lug spacing and was a direct fit with some shaving/rotor spacer. Looked great with a Mini GP2 330mm rotor, but he didn't share details about the piston sizes.

It looks great, but long story short, while it's a heavy-ass car, at the end of the day it's still a rear caliper and the pistons are tiny.
I dug up the numbers and it's like a 35% drop in clamping pressure over the stock caliper.

[Chilezen]

Yeah they're a little more, and I will succumb to their threshold for free shipping because I have many parts saved, just for the purpose of bumping up the value of the cart. Am I falling for the consumerism trap? Absolutely. But as of right now, I have a window seal coming with my order that I wouldn't have bought outright. Shipping speed isn't terrible, it's usually 3-5 days for stuff in stock. Plus now that they have a second warehouse in Arizona, things are arriving a little quicker.