Anudda 130i - Saving the Silver Lemon.

[Jacko 2282]

2007 130i

Boston Lemon leather, fine wood light walnut, comfort lights and Msport. BMWP 313 wheels, Arqray exhaust and the rocking horse sh*t BMWP intake.

Cool spec cool bits on it, the interiors pretty pimp (and the intake and exhaust sound the part). Has literally all the minor issues, poor things just been neglected for awhile. Will be a bit of a project to unf**k and fix it all, then will sell it on as I really cant justify 3/4 cars.

First step will be one epic interior and exterior clean, and see if there are any other goodies hiding. 

Edited July 4 by Jacko

[elias 413]

Does the intake actually sound any different? The airbox looks unchanged from the standard one?

[Jacko 2282]

Yup it does, the upper lid is very different to stock (and the carbon snorkel obviously)

[balancerider 830]

I demand a 130i duel between @Driftit and @Jacko

[Driftit 2219]

14 hours ago, balancerider said:

I demand a 130i duel between @Driftit and @Jacko

Haha I have actually sold 2 of my 3.
I just have my OG LCI left.  Though I have plenty of other cars :s

Good thing is that Neglected E87's are not actually too bad to bring back to life.  My Black manual turned out to be an awesome car.

[Jacko 2282]

Day 1 of operation "Save the Silver Lemon."

Doesnt actually look toooo bad, has things growing on the top, all the fluids leaking out the bottom, but she has good bones!
Wheel bolts were all seized, had to breaker bar them. 
Radiator is new, and someones put new bump stops on top of flogged out shocks. 
Started pulling the stupid sub box out, which turned into pulling all the interior out to chase the BS wiring. Will combine with pulling all the interior out, has a few hundred mouldy dick monalds chips under the seats and it smells like a hookers handbag.

 

 

Edited July 4 by Jacko

[Jacko 2282]

Day 2 of saving the Silver Lemon. Cleaning out the interior... I wore gloves.

Found the source of the stench, combination of mouldy chips and pie crumbs combined with a leaking jellybean scented pod airfreshener thing in the centre console, lovely cocktail, eau de rotting bean.

Subwoofer and wiring butchery removed, drivers door speaker still not working however, multimeter time.

[mmario 67]

Jeez those seats are grim 🤔

[Jacko 2282]

Parts all ordered to fix the leaks and do all the servicing, debating on what to do with the exhaust.

• Could put it on the other 130, it does sound good and looks kinda cool, but actually want a Laptorr for it as they sound properly legit.
• Could sell the exhaust and go back to a stock one.
• Could just leave it on there (will get autosol'd up so it looks shinier).

Same thing with wheels, could bang these ones back on, or swap them for the ACS Type IVs, which would look pretty legit silver on silver. Could even grab an ACS replica spoiler and ACS1 decals and make it an "ACS1" (Not that they really existed), 2000's eurotrash tuner it up with the oddball lemon yellow and walnut interior. Anyone interested in buying the exhaust (or BMW Performance 313s (they're genuine staggered set, made by BBS))

Baring in mind the idea is to sell it, not going to make heaps on selling it, but also dont want to lose coin haha. Thoughts? 

Edited July 15 by Jacko

[Danch 43]

I have a standard 130i muffler if you want to sell the quad tip muffler separately:)

[Jacko 2282]

Few hours on the Silver Lemon this arvo, its smelling less disgusting and the left side of the interior is no longer sticky.

Done about all I can with the seats, drivers seat just needs redying, everything else cleaning up OK. Lots of scrubbing, multiple rounds, then leather conditioner.

Wondering if I have a go at the headlining myself, anyone done this before? There is an interior place up the road that did my other 130 and its mint, but it also cost coin... and I can see myself losing money on this thing quickly!

Edited July 16 by Jacko

[Jacko 2282]

Interior carpets cleaned, made some f**ken disgusting coffee.... the good news is its starting to smell less skanky. Waterblasted all the interior mats and they changed colour.

Got the headliner professionally redone, dirt cheap if I pulled it out and reinstalled it - Jimmy (aucklandautoupholstery at gmail.com) out at Ardmore is the absolute boss. 

Drivers door speaker was blown, 0 ohms, so easy fix there. Starting to go back together at least on the inside.

Have all the parts to start doing the real work, short of set of B4 Bilstein's.

• Sump gasket kit
• Trans service kit
• Rocker gasket kit
• Engine mounts
• Power steering line mounts
• Headlight level sensor
• Oilcooler gaskets
• New plugs
• All the filters as they are all nasty.

Also ordered an ACS replica spoiler and some ACS1 decals... will get some fresh tyres for the ACS Type IVs, because eurotrash  Should be a nice 130 when done. 

Still have no idea where coolant was pissing out from, decided the best way is to pull the whole front end off (bumpers all skewed anyway) and pull the cooling system apart and put it back together will make for better access to everything else anyway. The radiator and all the lines are new, so best guess is something just isn't together correctly or an O ring is missing or something dumb like that. 

[M3AN 4148]

Nice work!

Might as well remove and clean the vanos solenoids and filters whilst you're in there.

 

[Jacko 2282]

Interior back together, skanky to swanky conversion complete inside.

Rear wiper is trashed, the usual issue, $40 on aliexpress for a new one

Now the real sh*t starts, looking forward to sorting the headlights out will look way better when polished up.

6 hours ago, M3AN said:

Nice work!

Might as well remove and clean the vanos solenoids and filters whilst you're in there.

 

Yup, and the all belts and tensioner... things been leaking for so long everythings just soaked in oil

Edited Sunday at 06:39 AM by Jacko

[Danch 43]

Awesome work! Good to see another 130i saved from being wrecked. I hope you get good money for it in the end!