Junkman Posted April 18, 2017 Author Share Posted April 18, 2017 Did Mrs Junkman ask: What have you bought now? The Junkwoman is fully aware that I would never buy such a kwolitee motor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldcars Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Poor BMW has HGF and your getting him to buy an MGF. See what i did there. Junkman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Furious Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Would definitely buy this if it was located next door to me, didn't have HGF and and I owned a multi-storey car park Conrad D. Conelrad 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted April 19, 2017 Author Share Posted April 19, 2017 Sadly I'm currently on the wrong side of the Irish Sea and won't be able to ask him until the weekend.The car won't go anywhere until then. Cavcraft 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
For Fiats Sake Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 I've surprised at myself, I actually like the look of it. I'm going to have to get one of those internet gene kits now to make sure I'm not a kraut. GLWTS and zig heil Herr Mullman Junkman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 Clue is in the reg - WEY it in. Willbreak for more than £300. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r.welfare Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 I'm driving a well sorted, unmodified early 323Ci at the moment. I know everything below the plimsoll line is rotten as a pear, but it's a lovely thing to look at, sit in and drive (then again I do normally drive an Espace, so your opinion may vary). If it's genuinely OMGHGF then it's probably game over. But as said it will break for far more. If those wheels are genuine BMW and you've already noted the tyres are decent (Bridgestone), you're probably close to recouping the asking - the car I'm driving now came fitted with horrible (and extremely heavy) replicas of MV1 alloys and nasty low-tread Chinese tyres, which still netted £130 when sold. GLWS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince70 Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 It might be worth getting on this pistonheads thread,You might get 5 grand for it once you've chucked a bottle of K seal in it.https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=72&t=1667320 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted April 20, 2017 Author Share Posted April 20, 2017 Are you our of your mind, posting a link to Pissingtwats? I clicked on it, had a quick look at the thread and now I'm even more traumatised than I was alreadysince I spent ten minutes there two years ago looking for Breadvan after he did a runner. Thanks,that helps a lot as i have been looking solely at ones under 100,000 because I thought less miles = better condition. so maybe I should look for more around the sort of 100,000-130,000 mileage as well then? I was happily wallowing in subliminal suppression that screaming thunderdunces like these are actually allowed to vote in the upcoming.Now, since I have been reminded, I'm frightened. Vince70, Lord Sterling, Brodders and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince70 Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Why spend £300 when £6000 should get you a good one lol. I didn't dare risk linking an autoshite E46Ci on pistonheads as the next thing you know your mate Jay might have to deal with the sale of goods act and powerfully built company directors. Tamworthbay, Junkman and Brodders 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted April 20, 2017 Author Share Posted April 20, 2017 It does have some sort of quick shift and some sound deadening taken out, you can notice the extra road noise especially on concrete motorway sections. Vince70 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reverend Bluejeans Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 £250 here Herr Junkmann. Junkman and Vince70 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamworthbay Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 This is what K seal was designed for! It's worth £300 all day every day, so chuck in a bottle, if it sorts it for a while Bingo. If not stick it on bumtree/ fleabay or your favourite verge (for the true pikey look) and make a few quid. Broken it would make someone a tidy profit if they could be arsed. Vince70 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reverend Bluejeans Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 ^^ That was the plan! Pulling it to bits, not fixing it though. Steel seal is a better bet. Tip it down the top hose (not into the expansion bottle) and it might just rescue it for a bit. For 20 quid it's worth a shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reverend Bluejeans Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 I'd love to know in what universe that boot spoiler was considered a good idea. Vince70 and Junkman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 Steel seal is a better bet. Tip it down the top hose (not into the expansion bottle) and it might just rescue it for a bit. For 20 quid it's worth a shot. It's also not as obvious as the tank doesn't froth up with those shiny tell-tale bits of copper! Steel Seal didn't fix the last disaster or the one before it... ...however this US market potion certainly did Bit of a faff as not just a toss in and hope job. But it meant that bloody Renault left the drive and I could sleep again. The Reverend Bluejeans 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted May 17, 2017 Author Share Posted May 17, 2017 Okay, the repair estimate is £700.00, hence he is calling it quits.The car just had a new clutch and new brake discs and pads at all four corners in January, which also cost in the region of 800 quid. The car can be taken away for 300 quid. Please bear in mind that it is really only viable for someone who can fix it himself, or at sub garage rates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 Okay, the repair estimate is £700.00, hence he is calling it quits.The car just had a new clutch and new brake discs and pads at all four corners in January, which also cost in the region of 800 quid. The car can be taken away for 300 quid. Please bear in mind that it is really only viable for someone who can fix it himself, or at sub garage rates. So, apart from the head gasket and gangster style wheels there's nothing much wrong with it? IF it were mine I'd fix it. I bet it costs him more than £700 to replace it with something equally "Fancy" I wouldn't mind it to be honest, but it would have to be cheaper. Because I'm a twat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reverend Bluejeans Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 On balance, I simply cannot be arsed. Too much aggro to make 400 quid once you've pulled it apart and dealt with skidding drifting BimmerTwatzTM AAAHM OOT. EssDeeWon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted May 17, 2017 Author Share Posted May 17, 2017 So, apart from the head gasket and gangster style wheels there's nothing much wrong with it? IF it were mine I'd fix it. I bet it costs him more than £700 to replace it with something equally "Fancy" I wouldn't mind it to be honest, but it would have to be cheaper. Because I'm a twat. Not only is there nothing else wrong with it, it actually has a meticulous maintenance record.He is not pursuing with it, because he has three rapidly growing kids and thus decided to rather throw his money at a Fiver estate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendry Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 Bargain for someone, Y plater BM coupe all sorted for a bag of sand, if I actually had that money id buy it, fix it and smoke around in it, because I think it looks really smart and I even quite like the rims on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reverend Bluejeans Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 What happened to this in the end? Was a bridge involved? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conrad D. Conelrad Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 Nope. We were just looking at it this afternoon funnily enough. Someone who knows stuff about moderns (i.e., doesn't think that OBD stands for Old Birty Dastard) came by to look at it. His conclusion was no HGF, rather havoc caused by cooling system airlock. He bled it and it was driven about for a bit. I don't know if there was more to it than that. Junkman and Dave_Q 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 The AA tried to tell me the Rover was airlocked when I tried to drive it home for the first time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EssDeeWon Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 As I said in an earlier post on page 1, how did the breakdown recovery dude diagnose HGF at the side of the road? Faulty expansion cap or blocked CCV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted May 29, 2017 Author Share Posted May 29, 2017 How would a blocked CCV be able to create symptoms of HGF? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EssDeeWon Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 Symptoms from what we know - Lots of smoke from the exhaust but engine not actually overheating right? Not exactly HGF symptoms. Allow this American dude to explain the BMW E46 CCV system. He will make more sense than me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted May 29, 2017 Author Share Posted May 29, 2017 Interestingly the car doesn't display any untoward symptoms at the moment.Since filling it with coollant, it was running fine, we opened the bleed screw once it was warm, a lot of air came out,we topped it up and it has been running like a dream ever since. Even the check engine light that did come onhas now gone off again, so maybe the bulb has had enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaughant Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 The BMW cooling system does need a lot of bleeding when any form of replacement or fault occurs, I know this from experience. Hgf on them is relatively rare, it would certainly be worth carrying out even a basic compression test or one of those anti freeze type things to get a better idea. Would love it myself but to many cars blah blah blah etc. Speaking of diagnosis I just overheard an AA "mechanic" telling someone that his car wouldn't start as it had no compression, in the meantime the owner then received a text off his Mrs to say this happened before and a quick push start got it going, AA boy then claimed that could have happened just before the valves burnt out. Ummmmmmm REALLY? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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