1995 BMW 320i

[Supernaut]

Hmmmmm.

 

 

 

Hmmmmmmmm. They're a bit bling, but a decent price for a full set with tyres, seeing as I'm looking at about £100 for 2x 225/50/16 tyres so I can get all the 5 spoke wheels on the car again.

[320touring]

No, just no:)

 

E46 parts belong in a scrapyard! Get some e34 BBS on there;)

[Supernaut]

No, just no:)

 

E46 parts belong in a scrapyard! Get some e34 BBS on there;)

 

Awright. You got any available for £cheap?

 

Seeing as I might actually need 3x 225/50/16 tyres (one of the rear wheels on the car was an advisory) I'm still tempted to post all the wheels I have on a BMW forum or somesuch and ask if anybody wants to swap for a set of wheels that would suit an E36 and have decent tyres. Would get rid of the wheels I have lying about in Mr Coffees' garden shed and sort out my tyre situation.

[320touring]

Nup, no five stud BMW s here:(

 

Seriously though, do whatever you fancy - I'm just glad that the old tub is getting some lovvin:)

[Supernaut]

Aye, I hope to get it on the road again soon. The straight 6 and the auto box are a lovely combination!

 

The E46 17" wheels would look gash though, and would probably be crashy with the rubber band tyres.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Hmmmmm.

 

 

 

Hmmmmmmmm. They're a bit bling, but a decent price for a full set with tyres, seeing as I'm looking at about £100 for 2x 225/50/16 tyres so I can get all the 5 spoke wheels on the car again.

 

 

No.

[Supernaut]

Facebook has its uses!

 

Mr Coffees directed me towards a Facebook group for BMW owners in the NE of Scotland. I found somebody on there who has a veritable Alladin's cave of E36 parts. He lives up on the Moray firth coast, just west of Fraserburgh.

 

I visited him today and got a window motor & regulator, plus a pair of front fog lamps for £20! The fog lamps were the funniest part. He handed me a passenger side lamp from his shed, then walked out to the driveway, leaned under the front of one of the E36s on his driveway and unclipped the driver's side one and said "I don't need it, I'll be stripping this one down for drifting anyway."

 

The legend was also planning to drive down to Fife in his van this afternoon to collect a 6 cylinder engine for that same coupe (currently a 318) and do the engine swap this evening / overnight! His Mrs also had an E36 323 touring on the driveway all set up for drifting too.

 

 

Also, I may have sorted out my wheels situation. He has 5x 15" wheels in his garden with good tyres which he will be willing to swap for the 4 E46 7 spoke wheels I have. I even told him two of the tyres were well past their best. He doesn't care as he'll be drifting them anyway.

 

The wheels I'll potentially get from him look like this:

 

 

So shite, but so amazing! Better condition than that photo I found online too.

 

 

 

EDIT: Wheels not happening. Seller has changed his mind. Ah well! Keeping the M sport 16" things for now then!

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

You have the best set of wheels for an E36. Please don't infect the car with E46 shit. It's unbecoming.

[purplebargeken]

Soz to pollute your thread but seeing as you lot are all in one place

 

have been offered an X reg 528i SE for £notverymuch. It needs rear brake hoses, an ABS sensor and a lambda sensor. What do we think? Manual gearboxy thingy too.

[Bren]

Sounds ok - not really much wrong.

[purplebargeken]

Okay, cool. Rear brake hoses/lines, are they petrol tank out or is there another way?

[Supernaut]

You have the best set of wheels for an E36. Please don't infect the car with E46 shit. It's unbecoming.

Looks like I'm holding onto these anyway. I'll make sure it gets through an MOT first before I splash out on a set of tyres for them though!

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Soz to pollute your thread but seeing as you lot are all in one place

 

have been offered an X reg 528i SE for £notverymuch. It needs rear brake hoses, an ABS sensor and a lambda sensor. What do we think? Manual gearboxy thingy too.

 

 

Rear brake hoses may not be too drastic. Original metal pipes WILL be rotten unless you're lucky.

 

ABS sensor? Righto. ABS and traction lights on - that WILL be the ABS module. 50 quid used, and if it's ASC and not DSC the system will reset itself. ABS sensors are a cunt if they've welded themselves into the alloy hubs.

 

Lambda sensor? Jesus, can of worms. One on each exhaust manifold and a couple on the zorst, emissions friendly bollocks. Depends what it's failed on but used sensors are cheap enough, fuck buying a new one. Easy to fit generally. 

 

 

 

Sounds like £100 to me tbh. £200 - at a push. They're just not worth a carrot either whole or in bits. Depends how much of a heap it is, and most are pretty ropey now. Fabulous when they're up and running though. Most old cars feel like the 50p heaps of shit they really are after a good E39.

[purplebargeken]

Think I will give it a swerve then. Cheers.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Think I will give it a swerve then. Cheers.

 

 

 

It's £500 isn't it? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Just needs...................."

[purplebargeken]

£300.....

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Bid £250 and see how you get on. 

 

It could be shit or it could be OK.

 

You'll get that back and more from the drift wankers tbh.

[Supernaut]

Go talk about E39s elsewhere!

 

To piss off RBJ some more, I was thinking of buying some of these for £120 with decent tyres:

 

 

However the seller seems to be an illiterate goon, and when asked simple questions could not provide a legible answer.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Wrong offset. They're E90 wheels and are worth a fiver each.

[Supernaut]

How wrong is the offset?

 

I may have arranged to buy them for £100. However, I could just use the tyres off them as they are 205/55/16s.

 

 

 

Although... I've seen E90 wheels fit E46s fine, and E46 wheels fit this E36 fine, so by that logic* it should be alright...?

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Up to you. They're undesirable corroded scrap to me. I throw those away as nobody wants them. I don't know why you just don't put tyres on the existing wheels. Offset is wrong but they'll fit, will probably foul inner rear arches over bumps.

 

I recently bought a set of these for £50 off Ebay, mint with lovely tyres: I've no use for them but they were fifty quid. Have patience and decent rims will come along. No need to buy old shit like that.

 

 

[Supernaut]

Fuck me, £50!

 

Those would sell for £300 in the NE of Scotland, easy.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I did put an AB10 postcode in Ebay and the lack of decent rimmage is startling. 

[Supernaut]

I did put an AB10 postcode in Ebay and the lack of decent rimmage is startling.

Just go down the harbour, aye? You might need to pay extra though.

 

 

Oh, wait...

[17-Coffees]

“Oh got some new shoes on tonight”

 

[loserone]

King of the dancefloor PRICKS, because ALL BMW DRIVERS ARE PRICKS NOW, DO YOU GET IT?

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Those tyres on the correct wheels, sorted. 

[320touring]

Won't someone think of the children!

[Supernaut]

They cost £100 all-in and came with 2 matching pairs of tyres, all with looooads of tread on them and manufactured dates within the past decade!

 

 

 

I like them, so

 

 

 

 

Also, Mr Coffees got an epic video of me blowing all the rust off the brake discs.

[17-Coffees]

So after fitting the new wheels on, we wanted to get the thing running as the battery was dead.

We were unable to get near enough with a car to jump start it and the boot wouldn't open due to the battery being flat. Cock. So we had a cunning plan. Supernauts Mondeo was in the street, so we'd move my Abarth and push the car down the drive and then pump it using the terminal in the engine bay. All well in good but one of our friends left his car at mine last night before we went to the pub. And he was in Aberdeen today and was on route back to mine to collect it.

Once we swapped his car around with the Mondeo we hooked up the terminals, earthed the negative in the bay and fired up the Mondeo, waited a minute before fireing up the 320 annnnnnnd...she spluttered, alot, before coughing alot and kept wanting not to start...then died. Bugger, maybe not a strong enough earth.


But we could open the boot now and attach direct to the battery. Once done we went to fire it up annnnnd...same again. Tried several times. Oh fuck....im left with another dead car in the drive...sticking partway onto the street. My driveway has a hill at the bottom of it and wed have to push it up. double fuck. After pushing it a little into my drive and some head scratching I suggest putting some new fuel in it, it was low on the red & its not been started up since mid February, and its endured many cold, icy, wet and snowy nights since then. So the 3 of us jump into the Mondeo to get some fuel...


Back from the local Tesco we put the 5.03 litres into the car, hook the Mondeo up again and try...


She splutters a little bit but Supernaut kickes it up to 5,000RPM, springing into life and running smoothly! HURRAH!

After letting it sit for a little while Supernaut then go's for a quick spin up and down the street, living in a cul-de-sac has advantages!

Check out that brake dust!

We congratulate ourself's and let it idle in the drive. As a reward I decide to give it a quick wash...needed an excuse to use my new hose pipe!, and I was getting annoyed at all the random stuff written in the dirt!


Immature snowfoam photo was taken, sure Supernaut has it...