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This is my 325i, in this video the car is fully warmed up, am giving it tiny blips of the throttle, you will hear that its knocking etc, it also makes this knocking sound when turning off the engine at times, car seems to drive ok, but bucks a bit when cold. Near the end of the video I do the same test on my 320i, the difference between how the 2 cars run is night and day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZjH61fsG68 Anyone have any suggestions of where to start looking for the problem? I sprayed fluid around the hoses etc and found no leaks in the air intake boot etc.

gota keep the E30 love alive hehe

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/C...n-264231737.htm The car Jam report is a bit odd, I suspect the Miles cluster has been changed for a Km's one. I assume its a UK import one, but who knows. http://www.carjam.co.nz/car/?plate=yf9189

I purchased 2x of these from: http://www.icaraccessories.com.au/p/817952...990---e101.html it adds up once you convert to NZD and pay shipping, but these are hard to find in NZ.

Was your UK Import undersealed? Mines fully undersealed, as is my Jap import 320i, of course I don't know if this was done when the car was new or later on.

As you probably all know by now, I have a White E30 325i with Manual Transmission, that I purchased 3-4 months ago now. They say a picture can say a 1000 words, however a picture of the outside of my car shows what looks like a good tidy car. But then today I noticed this coming through by the left tail light. I then decided to take everything out of the boot and have a good look, as I suspected there might be some rust hiding, I found this: I already knew that the Sunroof had a bit of an issue: So as you can see, I still have plenty of work to do on the old beast yet, its likely that more rust will be found under the boot rubber and around the rear tail lights once removed. The list so far is: 1. Fix all rust around and in the boot. 2. Fix Sunroof Rust. 3. Replace/Repair Electric Aerial (doesn't do anything) 4. Replace Rear Subframe bushes, control arm bushes etc. 5. Replace Shocks with Bilstien Sport Shocks. 6. Fix cold idle issue, car stalls easily and runs bad when cold. 7. Fix Gearbox Oil leak, is minor but I want it sorted. 8. Freshen up engine, (blows blue smoke until fully warmed up, lacks compressions, runs rich). This car already owes me over $7000 as it sits, despite purchasing it for $3000 4 months ago. The lesson for me is to never buy a car sight unseen, I purchased this from Trademe, flew to Blenhiem to collect it, was too focused on the fact that it was a manual 325i (hard to find for $3000), drove it home, 3 days later the nightmare begun. I know now to avoid UK import BMW's, especially ones that have spent 8 Years in the UK before coming to NZ. I can't give up on it, its owes me too much, its a hobby anyway and I like these cars. I'm not much of a DIY person, most things I have to pay something to do for me, most likely I will take the car to a panel beaters for the rust repairs, as my Partner works for Andrews and Gilmore (A BMW specialist place). May even be tempted to do an engine swap, would like to keep it BMW though, i'm thinking a Vanos M50 engine with low K's would do nicely.

100k on the GPS was about 2900rpm (speedo showed 95km) this is due to having 205/60/15 tyres instead of 205/55/15's, I had the GPS sitting at 109km most of the way, meaning that I was doing just over 3000rpm most of the time. My 325i only needs just over 2500rpm at 100km, but thats a manual and would have a medium case diff.

Yesterday at 7am we left for Queenstown (From CHCH) in the mighty 320i auto E30, we stopped on the way at Cromwell for lunch, but other than that went straight there, had already booked in for the night at the Heritage via wotif.com, had a look look around Queenstown, (although we were there for 4 days in August anyway lol) booked to go on $95 each 1 Hour Jetboat Ride for the next morning as we hadn't got around to doing that last time we were at Queenstown..went out for dinner etc. Next morning had a good breakie at one of the local eating places, then went on Jetboat ride, did alot of 360 degree spins etc, got soaked, but it was alot of fun, after that we headed for Wanaka (over the Crowne Range), as I wanted to have a look at the Transport Museum, spent a bit of time looking around, alot of interesting things indeed, even managed to find an E30 325i Ragtop covered in bird crap etc, pretty sure that it was the only BMW car there, may have been a bike or 2, but I didn't take much notice of the bikes, was also an old Porsche 924 that I spotted, (another car i'd own lol), the main reason we went is that Jacinta (my partner) wanted to see the Fiat 126, as for some reason unknown to me she wants one, sadly it was in a rather sorry state, but it may have put her off them.. hopefully. All in all the Car went well on the trip, be it a little gutless for overtaking, the traffic wasn't actually that bad anyway, Car is a heavy drinker though, used $84 to get there and about the same back, alot more than my WRX used lol.

+1 this is a WOF Fail You can use spacers to fit 6x9's in the back without cutting. Ideally you need an AMP to drive these speakers properly though.

I say no to rear speakers altogether lol. My E30 with good sounds has 5.25 DLS Components in the front, 10inch Image dynamics sub in the boot along with an Infinity Reference 4 Channel amp running it all, this type of setup sounds awesome for the $. My other E30 has 6x9's in the back, some coxial 5.25's in the front and it sounds like crap to be honest, its only running the speakers from the headunit, but from my experience cheap speakers sound cheap, infact the sounds so crap that I'm taking the car with good sounds to Queenstown tomorrow, despite it only being a 320i auto, I take that over the 325i manual for sounds alone hehe.

yeah, one was a pickup only, the other I never got a reply about sending it.. but theres one on there at the moment, have just asked if they would send it and how much it would be etc.

Yeah, i havn't found one yet, no one on trademe seems willing to courier it to me..

Hehe am glad you think that, the white one is better in almost everyway, but I don't use it as a daily driver Overall this car is in better condition though, but at the end of the day its still an auto 320i

Finally have my 15" BBS Alloys on this car, now that I have attacked the hubs with a cold chisel and hammer, there were spacer rings stopping me putting these on. Heres some pics with the BBS wheels + Jamex Springs.

http://www.e30zone.net/e30zonewiki/index.php/320i

Great minds think alike and so do ours lol

Mmm now this is what I want.. http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/C...n-261806876.htm

i'll get a decent cold chisel tomorrow, and a bigger hammer, looks like its been on the car a while eh Thanks for the advice SilverFox

I still havn't sorted this out. Heres a pic Please can someone tell me how to deal with this? lol

http://www.icandyphotography.co.nz/Cars/Pl...746267804_d6P3c This link has some good pics of the cars on the track

Hehe.. yeah pretty much it, lol even that 1600cc vtec civic slowly clawed passed me on the straight.. depressing that a nanas shopping car is quicker.. i'm sure I was having more fun in the corners though hehe.

The Yellow racecar beast..sorry for a tiny pic.. I took these from another forum..

Now that these 205/55/16 tyres are toast i'll get the correct 205/50/16 size, might help my lack of acceleration. one thing i'm greatful for is that nothing went from with the car, this is the 3rd trackday i've been to ever and the only one where nothing went wrong with my car Strange that the brakes didn't cook, all I did is flush the brake fluid and used Motul racing brake fluid, only stock pads I think, they came with the car.. I guess the fact that the car only makes 170hp (when new) could be a factor here. The car needs alot more work really.. the steering is crap (bus style steering rack, way too much movement required), brake pedal feel is average at best.. handling somewhat ... erratic.. but I put this down to my lack of skills and the average street tyres I used. Ideally I need a better steering rack and another 100hp.. which may mean I should buy a E36 M3.. mmm tempting..

Did 4 sets of 6 laps (one of the laps is a cool down one) then i left as it started raining. After the 1st set of laps my tyres were toast and were not offering much in the way of grip, they were FM901's, which usually do the job ok i thought.. After the grip ran out I had some close calls and also came off the track once at the hairpin, the corner that goes onto the main straight was interesting.. i found 2nd gear was too low a gear and 3rd was almost too high, but ended up using 3rd gear most of the time.. could only get to about 105mph on the straight from what I recall, but I wasn't really watching the speedo. 2x of the sets I ended up stuck behind this SIR Civic sedan that I could out corner, but couldn't out accelerate on the straight.. I saw some nice cars out there, mostly Japanese ones, but there was a red Alpina E30 in the carpark and a Red E30 M3 BMW on the track aswell as a white E30 that came in on a trailer (looked like a proper race car). Was also this Yellow bmw that might have been a 635csi, but I didn't get a close look. Only took a pic of my own car when I got there, sadly there wasn't anyone at the track I knew except for a guy with a Turbo Primera who's a customer of mine at work.