Hi All !

Hi all,

Thought I'd introduce myself. I'm Vas from London .I'm currently driving an 1996 840CI, which I've had for around 8 months. It's the fourth BMW I've owned, the first being an e46 328CI , then I had a E39 523I and after that for a really short period of time I had an 2008 E92 335i which was written off by an elderly lady driving a pug 206 .

Anyway back on the 8 . Bought it from eBay for only 1500 quid . It was more like a joke to be honest . I was browsing though eBay one day when i spotted my car on auction ending after 20 min at the price of £1430 so decided to make a cheeky bid at the last minute thinking i was never gonna win the auction at the price i was willing to pay . But then surprise , surprise i won the bloody thing for only 1500 quid i could believe my luck . Anyway phoned the seller , arranged collection etc.etc.

Went to collect her and she turned out to be in a pretty good shape . 120k miles , sport leather , mint alloys , good tyres , good paintwork . The only problems she had was a little dent on the o/s 1/4 panel , cracked nose cone , very dirty inside and the leather was in nasty condition . My first intentions ware to fix the minor things , drive it for a few weeks and sell it for a quick profit . But after driving it for the first week i decided i wont be selling it any soon .

So far i`ve done :

Suspension Rebuild , had most of the bushes changed
x4 Bilsteins
CSI kit (still need the wing mirrors)
DYEd the interior , no more cracked leather
M3 E36 Steering Wheel
CD43 Player
New nose cone
New Kidney Grilles
Fixed the dent on the rear 1/4 panel
Fixed the non working electric seats
Fixed the leaking AC
Headlight Refurb
Insp II
Oh , and my last mod was fixing the astrays door , that bloody thing was a nightmare to fix , took me about 2hrs to do it .

Special thanks to BF UK and www.meeknet.co.uk (Timm)

On the day i got her

Now :
btw , the yellow tint is now gone

Thanks for the nice comments everyone .

stevep840 - Yes mate i wont be selling it any soon

As for the plate , i was gonna change it but never got around doing it . Apparently some of the previous owners was Asian and his name was Taba hence why is spaced as N20 2ABA = N20 TABA . Anyway will order a new set of plates tomorrow .

Still not sure about the mirrors , found a brakers selling both CSI mirrors for 300 quid but im still not sure whether i like them or not . I know it sounds weird but i quite like the Dumbo mirrors . What do you guys think should i buy the CSI mirrors or keep the Dumbos?

Oh yeah , and for the yellow trim , im glad i removed it my car looks much better now

Zitat von BBMatic;96351

Lose the dumbos, my 2p worth.

Regarding the yellow film on your lights, yes, much better without it.
Heard a completely uncorroborated rumour that there are some (very rare) E31s that have it, and yet look absolutely flipping amazing.

You are not wrong BMMINIPARTS were selling a brand new genuine yellow tinted ftp light , dont remember which side was but i think they were selling it for about 120 quid . And yes you are right it did really look absolutely flipping amazing . In fact this is where i got the idea of tinting the FTPs from .

Zitat von sandwich;96356

Does look superb and in a totally selfish way pains me to see such cars fetching £1500.00 What do you think it has cost you so far to bring it up to the standard it is now?
Hopefully you'll say £6000 and we can all heave a sigh of relief!

lol £6000 a bit optimistic as BBmatic said . I have spend around 4k so far and will probably have to spent another 2000 quid to make it perfect . But im proud to say she drives like a dream now and there are no knock coming from the suspension or from the engine . All the things i have to fix now are mainly cosmetic .

The bits left to do are :

New Speakers
Sunroof rebuild
New Headlining
New Properly working key
New Becker CD player
New exhaust tips
re-dye the seats , this time using a proper spray equipment not a sponge like the last time
New mats
Maybe a new exhaust
And if am really lucky OEM wood trim