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Hey everyone! And welcome to my build thread for my E30 Convertible, I'm 18 and always have wanted to own one, due to the insurance costs over here in the UK.
It's not as easy to get one insured as a first car. So, my first car is a Renault Clio MK1.
Now after owning it for nearly a year, I started looking for a E30. I have found this one on the forums, and instantly went to have a look at it, bought it and came to pick it up 1 week later.
It's a 1991 Convertible 318i, it's quite rough but that's pretty much what I wanted. Something I can restore and learn stuff while doing it. Currently its registered as Cat C, as a lorry has backed into it and left a nasty dent in the rear quarter panel, I'm guessing the repair was estimated for more than whats the car worth.
The last owner of the car has bought it off an auction hoping to have restored it one day. But, from what I know he has bought a house and nowadays he simply hadn't had the time to do so. Some of the main bad points of the car are, the rear quarter panel, leaking power steering, few more rusty bits there and there, corroded brake lines and such. One of the other things the car failed its MOT on was "passenger's side windscreen washer not providing sufficient liquid"
As you can see in the above picture, the rear window doesn't fully seal, that's one of the things that will need checking out as well.
Another thing that's bugging me is the front valence, looks like it's a bit dented and I'm not sure if that dent will pull out or is there a option of welding in a new part?
Moving on to the interior, I think it's in quite good condition. Apart from one tiny cigarette burn mark which is funnily enough on the rear seat, and one tiny crack on the dashboard.
It's in quite good condition.
Not sure if that's the original radio, but atm it doesn't work anyway.
Now, the engine. It's in quite a state, the engine bay looks very yellow. My dad told me its sort of a protective coat people use to put on back in the days.
Quite happy there is no rust near the windscreen area, I'v seen some E30's with quite bad rust around those areas.
So to sum up, this is my E30 in a rather sorry state atm. But hopefully, in a few months this will change. My main plans are to make a nice fun daily driver, I want to polybush all suspension, use quality coilovers etc and in the future hopefully do a M50/M52 swap.
Also, as you guys probably noticed all my pictures are in FILM. I want to try do all my updates with my film camera for that 90's feel.
Btw, the Mercedes in my signature was my dad's/mine lil project. Unfortunately it got sold, as dad needed the money for house restoration :/
Thank you for reading
It's not as easy to get one insured as a first car. So, my first car is a Renault Clio MK1.
Now after owning it for nearly a year, I started looking for a E30. I have found this one on the forums, and instantly went to have a look at it, bought it and came to pick it up 1 week later.
It's a 1991 Convertible 318i, it's quite rough but that's pretty much what I wanted. Something I can restore and learn stuff while doing it. Currently its registered as Cat C, as a lorry has backed into it and left a nasty dent in the rear quarter panel, I'm guessing the repair was estimated for more than whats the car worth.
The last owner of the car has bought it off an auction hoping to have restored it one day. But, from what I know he has bought a house and nowadays he simply hadn't had the time to do so. Some of the main bad points of the car are, the rear quarter panel, leaking power steering, few more rusty bits there and there, corroded brake lines and such. One of the other things the car failed its MOT on was "passenger's side windscreen washer not providing sufficient liquid"
As you can see in the above picture, the rear window doesn't fully seal, that's one of the things that will need checking out as well.
Another thing that's bugging me is the front valence, looks like it's a bit dented and I'm not sure if that dent will pull out or is there a option of welding in a new part?
Moving on to the interior, I think it's in quite good condition. Apart from one tiny cigarette burn mark which is funnily enough on the rear seat, and one tiny crack on the dashboard.
It's in quite good condition.
Not sure if that's the original radio, but atm it doesn't work anyway.
Now, the engine. It's in quite a state, the engine bay looks very yellow. My dad told me its sort of a protective coat people use to put on back in the days.
Quite happy there is no rust near the windscreen area, I'v seen some E30's with quite bad rust around those areas.
So to sum up, this is my E30 in a rather sorry state atm. But hopefully, in a few months this will change. My main plans are to make a nice fun daily driver, I want to polybush all suspension, use quality coilovers etc and in the future hopefully do a M50/M52 swap.
Also, as you guys probably noticed all my pictures are in FILM. I want to try do all my updates with my film camera for that 90's feel.
Btw, the Mercedes in my signature was my dad's/mine lil project. Unfortunately it got sold, as dad needed the money for house restoration :/
Thank you for reading
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