Sold BMW E34 525i SE Now sold to scrapper.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Just to say that this car is doing good service and behaving very well,  It's smooooth and comfy and warm and all that shiz.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Foarking Cherman fiddly bits.  A tail lamp bulb blew on the Bimmerheap.  The bulb sits in a self Earthing plastic holder that you can pull out from inside the boot, but I cannot for the life of me get the freckin thing to go back in properly, so the connection keeps failing.    Now I find myself sat in dark lay bys fiddling with the rump of some old German girl.   

[Guest Breadvan72]

Also the knurled nut (ooh errr) on the bootlit toolbox cover just goes twirly whirly and I can't break in to the tool box.  Arse.  

[Rocket88]

There's a Dolomite back at Breadvan Towers sticking pins in a Bavarian wax effigy............

[320touring]

Can you not pinch a reverse/fog light light one amd swap it in?

 

lights are easy to remove when you get the chance (ie day light, and dry)

 

often the metal in the bulb holders can bend and not allow it to bed properly

[stormee]

A 1990 520i and no 24V? My car was built in March 1990 and had the M50B20 in it already. M20B20A must be glacial, isn't it?

[JohnK]

This is a 525i. 1989 model so sits well in with the M20. Goes well too.

[stormee]

Ah, Okay. The 325i motor.

[Guest Breadvan72]

This is indeed ye 12 valve old skule version, and the very same that I had in my E30 325i back in the yuppie times.  With the extra weight of the Five to lug around, it isn't quite as OMG LEPTONZ as in the E30, but it trogs along OK.   The old fashioned auto box tends to dither and faff a bit going up hills, but that's just it being a Granny.

 

I went on eBay and found a replacement tool box nut and thread.  Dude was asking 9.99, I used my mega negotiation SKILLZ and got it for eight whole quid.  My next mission: negotiate peace deal in Syria and Global Climate Treaty.   Piece of piss.  

 

As for the tail light, I jiggle it about like mad, but cannot get the thing in,  ooh err, Missus.  The bulb is in the holder OK, but the Self Earthy plastic housing thingy just won't slot into in place in the aperture .  It connects, the light comes on, but five minutes down the road the dashboard goes BONG. 

[Guest Breadvan72]

As for Glacial, once when my 325i was in the shop the dealer lent me a 518i Auto.  God, that was gutless. 

[Six-cylinder]

This is indeed ye 12 valve old skule version, and the very same that I had in my E30 325i back in the yuppie times.

Hold on I still have a E30 325i but my braces are black!

[xtriple]

I had a 518 manual and that was sllloooooooooooow so God alone knows what an auto version is/was like??

[Guest Breadvan72]

Rheumatic sloth carrying some heavy shopping, except slower.  As for going up hills, fuhgeddabahdid.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

 

BMW in "resists car bloatage" SHOCKA.  Most cars that have gone through several iterations have become heyewaaaargely mahoarsive compared to their old selves, but 2014 Bimmerfive not a whole lot bigger than 1990 Bimmerfive:

 

 

 

 

 

 

The current 5 is exactly the same length and width as a 1989 7 Series. 

[Guest Breadvan72]

I am a tad perplexed about the transmission on this heap.  When the car has been running for a while, it will sometimes conk out if I select reverse, or shift back into a forward gear from reverse.  This problem usually shows up while I am trying to park.  The engine revs tend to flutter a bit at idle after a run.  Anyone experienced that sort of thing with one of these autoboxes?  I have checked the transmission fluid, which is OK, and topped up the car's coolant (which was low), in case this is one of those in which the transmission fluid lines pass through the cooling system to cool the oil.   I am not sure if all autoboxes do that, but recall that some do.  I could look in the book, but that is in a pile somewhere. 

[Six-cylinder]

I am a tad perplexed about the transmission on this heap.  When the car has been running for a while, it will sometimes conk out if I select reverse, or shift back into a forward gear from reverse.  This problem usually shows up while I am trying to park.  The engine revs tend to flutter a bit at idle after a run.  Anyone experienced that sort of thing with one of these autoboxes?  I have checked the transmission fluid, which is OK, and topped up the car's coolant (which was low), in case this is one of those in which the transmission fluid lines pass through the cooling system to cool the oil.   I am not sure if all autoboxes do that, but recall that some do.  I could look in the book, but that is in a pile somewhere.

Have you done the basic stuff distributor cap, rotor arm, plugs and leads? My 735i was running very poorly before Christmas a distributor cap has transformed it.

[xtriple]

I would say that this is an engine running problem rather than an autobox fault. Ignition always a good place to start looking.

[Guest Breadvan72]

I have been having a go at driving this heap fast, and contrary to my initial impressions I think that it really is fairly shifty for a big car.  The handling is really rather good.  The annoying modern radio has just stopped working, after developing a habit of staying on unasked while the car is parked, and draining the battery.    The conkey outey problem seems to have abated for the moment after several good thrashings of the warmed up engine.  No doubt it will return just when I am doing a (twenty) three point turn in a line of traffic.

[Junkman]

Any car can be thrashed around. Whether it's good or not, reveals itself at tickover, in tailbacks, and during 23 point turns.

 

The car appears to be in dire need of a proper big service.

Plugs, leads, cap and rotor, all filters and all oils, including the gearbox oil and filter.

[320touring]

Sounds like an air leak on the rubber inlet hose or a stuck idle control valve.

 

simple to check and fix. if neither of them dizzy cap, rotor arm plugs ftw.

 

handling is proper good when pressing on- they really start to load up and tighten up just so

[Guest Breadvan72]

Owing to the sudden and unexpected onset of E39 freebage, this fine shed is surplus to requirements.  So, it's for sale.  I paid Laser Wheels 1K for it last October.  As noted above it has an intermittent wibble on idling, most notable when selecting reverse, and hopefully nothing serious.
 

The radio ain't working - prob a fuse or a wire or summat.  There is a bit of alternator pulley/belt whine sometimes.  BUT, BUT, BUT I have tarted the yarmouth up with five posho Michelin Cross Climate tyres, which are ace. 

 

Hence I suggest 1300 quid.  Hell, I will throw in the old tyres if anyone wants them. They are still here.

 

Location near J6 M40.

[chaseracer]

Junkman is in fact the Herzog Margraf von Bonkerstein zum Austin Taxis, heir to the throne of Wallachia, and Redditch.

 

He's welcome to Redditch.  All we ask is that he removes it to somewhere east of Vienna as soon as possible.

[Junkman]

Is there something I should know about Redditch?

[Guest Breadvan72]

Yes, your loyal vassals there await to render you fealty and obeisance.  Also, it's a fucking shithole.  

[Tamworthbay]

As I understand it, both God and the devil blame each other for Redditch.

[chaseracer]

Yes, your loyal vassals there await to render you fealty and obeisance.  Also, it's a fucking shithole.  

 

Couldn't have put it better myself.

 

 

As I understand it, both God and the devil blame each other for Redditch.

 

 

They used Bromsgrove as practice.  Take that, too.

 

Please.

[Sloth in a bowl]

Bromsgrove almost redeems itself by having the Avoncroft museum including these beauties.

 

 

The rest of the town can be placed at the bottom of a deep lake though.

[purplebargeken]

Swapz for Mk1 Sierra 2.0 Ghia with shiny white paint!

[JohnK]

Swapz for Mk1 Sierra 2.0 Ghia with shiny white paint!

It would be amusing if this came off. I swapped this E34 for that very Sierra back when laser_wheels had it!!

[D Spares & Tyres]

Is there something I should know about Redditch?

Yes its made entirely of roundabouts, council houses,empty special brew cans and tracksuits.

 

A lot like Telford and Glenrothes if you have ever been to one of those Godforsaken places.