Ownership Verified: Another E30, Beni's Winter Beater/My Loaner.

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So, I will let Beni fill in the history of this car if he would like, but it has been his winter-beater for some years. He decided to get himself a new winter-beater and kindly offered to lend me the car until the MOT expires at the end of January!


The bonet was open and it is on the ramps at the back to checkout the dif bushings.
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Proof!
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At it's current home:
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Dashboard!
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Center console with flash:
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Without:
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Being a winter beater, this car has a fair number of small issues that I will try and sort out at a minimum of cost over the next few weeks, first being the glove box latch/handle
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The mechanism seems to work fine, the issue appears to be with this spring and it has been broken so it isn't long enough to apply tension. A replacement is ?15 or so on Ebay, I might get one I might not, undecided as you can get it to close and lock if you do it in a certain way.
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Next up was the gear shift knob that likes to rotate around a lot.
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As you can see it is a cheap one that uses pressure against the metal to hold itself in place - I think it's been there a while.
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I put it back on after this (see proof pic) and now it doesn't move, but a permanent solution will need to be found eventually, but again I will see how I feel money wise next pay day :)

I also topped up the oil, it was nearly at minimum and I also topped up the coolant which was a bit low after we had to drain some out to do the timing belt change.

More updates to come with some better pics, maybe Beni will share the cars history whilst it has been with him!
 
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On sale in Finland soon? :p
 
Great, it's seems to be coming together nicely and literally.

There's some backstory on the car in the thread for my X1/9, I'll try and copy it with the phone as I won't be on a proper computer until tomorrow...
 
Here's what I wrote back in 2010:


"My girlfriend is a cop an she was called to a car without licence plates by an angry neighbour. the owner didn't know that keeping a car on public property without registration was illegal and claimed he wanted to scrap it anyways. my girlfriend wondered why he would scrap such a nice car...the garage quoted him 1000? to get a new "mot" and so he offered it to her for free.

so we ended up with a 1990 E30 1.8i, overall it's quite good, a few rusty places, but mostly the right side doors, the rear axle mountings are shot, tyres are very old, catalytic converter is crap, interior mostly good, engine very good so far.

so far it owes us 34? for the temporary plates. I'll try to get the rest sorted as soon as possible. My girlfriend wants to keep it as her 2nd car, were waiting for the promised interchangable plates..."

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it was quite dirty, the picture doesn't show it

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then, after a quick wash

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doors are crap, I'm looking for used ones, but the colour is a bit rare

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And two years ago in the alps:

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It looks decent! And I like the facepalm passenger shot.
 
Joe and I are having ideas for its future. It might not be sold in Finland after all. A donor car might be needed!
 
That was fun! :D

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