Gizmo
Banned
Hi fanatics, just want to show you what I bought on Monday. Its a manual 2002 325iT Titan Silver with black interior, I originally bought it just for it's black interior so I could swap my grey interior out on my alpine touring. Well, after digging a little deeper this car is too nice not to keep as a spare/daily runaround.
The car belonged to a customer who wanted some service items attended to, he gave me the story/history on the car that he was the 3rd owner and bought the car with 124 000km on the clock in 2007, in the time he owned it he put on 290 000km purely long distance driving (verified by his fuel log book), its accident free and has full service history, has all the spare keys, books and the complete tool kit which has never been used. Besides the high mileage this car is in great shape, in need of a bonnet clearcoat and some maintenance but overall a great car. It was only after I gave the car an underside/chassis clean that I started to like what I saw. The owner had been in 2 minds about spending decent money maintaining her or using that money to buy another E46 with lower mileage. I convinced him to buy another E46 and made a silly offer on the touring, a couple days went by and he phoned me to let me know he accepted my offer. Paid him an hour later and the deal was done.:str8pimpi
When the car arrived.
Found the source of the oil leak, common issue, my fix is hydraulic hose.
Replaced steering boots.
Threw on my e36 wheels and took the car for roadworthy.
Got some tyres for a set of 7Jx16 Style 42's that I had lying around.
I then removed all stickers and 325 badge and begun to strip the interior, my other touring waiting for black interior.
Am considering taking this 2.5i out and replacing with 3.0i.
Soldiered on late into Friday night stripping and cleaning 2 touring interiors. The silver touring interior swap is complete as of last night.
Finally finding out the order in which to strip out the boot area I took advantage of the situation and installed new rear shocks/mounts.
Black dash out.
Vacuumed as much dirt/dust as I could before I installed the grey interior.
Finished product. Im using the original passenger seat and a driver's M3 seat and centre armrest until I find suitable replacements.
Boot area all clean, still need the plastic part that fits over the battery, previous owner says he has it in his garage.
That is all for now, next will be a M54B30 swap as I love torque in a daily driver.
The car belonged to a customer who wanted some service items attended to, he gave me the story/history on the car that he was the 3rd owner and bought the car with 124 000km on the clock in 2007, in the time he owned it he put on 290 000km purely long distance driving (verified by his fuel log book), its accident free and has full service history, has all the spare keys, books and the complete tool kit which has never been used. Besides the high mileage this car is in great shape, in need of a bonnet clearcoat and some maintenance but overall a great car. It was only after I gave the car an underside/chassis clean that I started to like what I saw. The owner had been in 2 minds about spending decent money maintaining her or using that money to buy another E46 with lower mileage. I convinced him to buy another E46 and made a silly offer on the touring, a couple days went by and he phoned me to let me know he accepted my offer. Paid him an hour later and the deal was done.:str8pimpi
When the car arrived.
Found the source of the oil leak, common issue, my fix is hydraulic hose.
Replaced steering boots.
Threw on my e36 wheels and took the car for roadworthy.
Got some tyres for a set of 7Jx16 Style 42's that I had lying around.
I then removed all stickers and 325 badge and begun to strip the interior, my other touring waiting for black interior.
Am considering taking this 2.5i out and replacing with 3.0i.
Soldiered on late into Friday night stripping and cleaning 2 touring interiors. The silver touring interior swap is complete as of last night.
Finally finding out the order in which to strip out the boot area I took advantage of the situation and installed new rear shocks/mounts.
Black dash out.
Vacuumed as much dirt/dust as I could before I installed the grey interior.
Finished product. Im using the original passenger seat and a driver's M3 seat and centre armrest until I find suitable replacements.
Boot area all clean, still need the plastic part that fits over the battery, previous owner says he has it in his garage.
That is all for now, next will be a M54B30 swap as I love torque in a daily driver.
