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Hello all,
For a variety of reasons, I am going to need to sell off my e21 and need to get it prepped for sale. I'm looking for a detail shop with single stage paint experience so they don't burn through, cut off half the paint, etc. The paint is pretty good and doesn't need a full correction. I need the engine compartment steam cleaned (or whatever they do these days) and would like to at least have the underside steam cleaned/power washed, whatever, in case this car ends up on BaT.
I'm in the Burlington area but don't mind travelling.
Thanks!
Wally
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This is as high as I've ever seen an e21 sell for, think about the sticker price new in '82 would have been like $16,000:
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1982-bmw-320i-21/
It still puzzles me how some of these sellers can get the undersides of these cars so friggin' clean.
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I use whatever my owner's manual says to use. Here's the recommended lubricants page from one of my cars, I'll just swing by Wal-Mart and pick some of this up:
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"This is going to protect the car if I get rear-ended my a modern SUV..."
https://utica.craigslist.org/cto/d/utica-bmw-3-series/6876391548.html
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16 hours ago, Boris3 said:
"Perfect condition...runs and drive flawlessly" 🙄 And the reason for keeping/selling the car on the holed out tire is...??? To take your mind off that ugly decal and what's underneath?
It also appears the strut tower brace has broken and been duct taped back together.
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I hate to be a guy that pee-pees on somebody's fruit loops but the odds of finding intact cloth seats of any color for an e21 are really slim. Any that are still intact will probably be found in a pretty pristine low mile car, meaning not being parted. There is a better chance of finding some pleather seats in tan, but even those will probably be starting to go off at this point.
My opinion is your best bet is to have the seats redone by a local interior shop in some sort of a funky, period correct, houndstooth or pepita pattern. I realize that's going to cost money beyond what most e21 guys are going to want to spend, but...
Sorry.
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2 hours ago, Rekpoint said:
Can't sleep. Anyone want a crashed gt40?
Interesting, I thought you could buy turn key replicas for how much they want for this wrecked one? Unless the RCR ones are that much better than era or Superformance, but I don't see how that could be as I remember my buddy who knows a lot about GT40s once said the Superformance replicas were closer to the original cars than even the Safir continuation ones were.
The RCR "deluxe plus" GT40 kit is not even $50k.
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15 hours ago, Jdesign said:
Impressive 318i E30..
https://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/cto/d/chicago-1984-bmw-318i/6786203826.html
Sold on BaT a month ago for $6250, I guess the buyer backed out. Sounds like BaT is turning into another ebay.
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14 hours ago, straight6pwr said:
yeah i think it was something like 14k for a couple years. the guy has one of the sentimental attachment problems. a clean e21 could be worth a few thousand, but the 80s ghetto-blaster theme (white everything, terrible wheels, bad tint) make it look cheap.
Check recent BaT results, even safaribeige automatics make $4k these days. An "S" package car can make $10 grand+, if it's the right car, which this one is not due to the aforementioned "theme" and the 175k miles. My opinion is given the miles and the un-doing that would need to be done, it's a ~$6000 car, if he "un-whited" the bumpers and grille he could potentially get $7500.
The thing I find the most interesting is that this car was for sale when I first decided I was going to get another e21, this was every inch of 6 years ago, maybe even 7 or 8 and he was using the exact same pictures and ad back then. Only the price has changed and maybe the mileage. I don't remember what it started at.
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11 hours ago, i_love_cars said:
emotion is a pretty key concept here. At the end of the day, the people who love something are always going to care more and be opinionated about it. So those of us who truly love cars are attached to the concept of what we love.
I enjoy driving my E46 more than my E92, but I daily something from 2018. Pretty much in line with what you're saying. We all want to drive the older stuff but many people aren't dailying those things. I also think not having something like an older M3 as a daily, and instead as a weekend car, makes it more special. Same way that bringing a car out of storage feels in spring time. People can say whatever they want - the fact is everyone becomes numb to a certain degree to their routine. Cars are no different - if you drive a classic BMW every day, it doesn't feel as special. Intellectually you know what you're driving all the time, and as an enthusiast you are like "cool" and have some level of appreciation but it's not quite the same as leaving your modern daily for something special to you at the end of the week, or whatever.
This ^
10 hours ago, snap said:I thought for sure id be 55 or older before I wanted a soft ride, low end power, spacious interior, taller ride height, easy to enter/exit, quiet etc.
but holy crap, it has hit in my early 30’s
I now completely understand why floaty 70-series sidewall Cadillacs exist.
But again, its about contrast. Too much of a soft cushy thing makes you yearn for the opposite thing
I bought an STS in my early 30's and drove Caddys for.....well, let me know if you want me to tell you how this plays out. I don't want to spoil anything for you.
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14 hours ago, HipMF said:
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3) Fossil fuels are a non-renewable resource. Repeat. Fossil fuels are a non-renewable resource...Not much of a choice here.
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Not disagreeing with you but I'm a sarcastic smart-ass and can't help myself...not sure if it warranted a "repeat" because I don't think it's really relevant to this discussion. If VW/Audi said they were phasing out IC engines in 2226, then maybe. The ability to extract it from the ground and/or refine it into something burnable by the current form of internal combustion engines being (effectively) legislated out of existence is, however, a definite concern as that can happen at just about any time in the future.
So we're all going to drive electric cars, and that electricity will be generated by burning coal. Sounds like a plan...
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1) I sort of decided that after an N52 powered car, I was giving up on BMWs. I don't want to mess with turbo and direct injection. Part of why I am looking at a 2011 f10 528i. Of course I said I was giving up on BMW forever when the e36 came out (whenever that was) because at the time I thought it looked like BMW was going to be building Hondas from here on out.
And here I am with an e92 and looking at...2) Right now I think it's easier because just about everything has a turbo on it. Crank up the boost and bolt on a bunch of junk and you're flying. 20-30 years ago you had to do some serious and extremely expensive engine internals to do what a computer chip can do now. Not sure if that's what's meant by being an "enthusiast". If you're talking enthusiast in the traditional sense, it's way easier now with the internet. ~30 years ago you had to join a marque club and if you wanted to actually converse with anyone, you had to go to a once a month meeting and then you'd only talk with the guys who were the type that went to meetings and were local to your area. The rest would come from the club's usually crappy once a month (or worse) magazine. Now you just jump on a forum and can interact with hundreds or thousands pretty much immediately.
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On 12/4/2018 at 9:23 AM, patsbimmer1 said:
@wally509 this car would be great for someone like you thats handy with a wrench, not afraid of new tech and has low expectations for performance. I see the other market for this car being the kid that just graduated college and wants to fit in with the rest of the parking lot at the office but wants to stand out from the jr associates driving the 3 series and a4. My criticism hasn't been with the car itself just the ad. If he spent the money on liqui-moly and ceramic coating then at least he was willing to spend money to take care of it. Good luck!
The seller re-wrote the ad based on what was said here on the forum:
https://appleton.craigslist.org/cto/d/2011-bmw-528i/6765554534.html
My previous comment about the car being a "deferred maintenance nightmare" was inappropriate, I apologized to the seller for that. That came out because I consider the water pump/thermostat, coil packs and oil filter housing gasket on N52's to be "maintenance" and not "repairs" since pretty much ALL of them will need to be done at some point. Whoever buys this car will have those to look forward to, more than likely sooner rather than later. Just because those haven't been done, doesn't mean it's a bad car or that the seller wasn't properly maintaining it.
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16 hours ago, patsbimmer1 said:
The price isn't terrible but it's a rental spec 5 series. There's nothing special about this car that makes anyone in the midwest want it. If it were AWD someone may bite but he's going to sit on it for a bit at $10k. For $1k - $3k more I found 535i xDrive's on cars.com with slightly more miles and in that same price range found 528i xDrives. Both more desirable in Wisconsin than a RWD 528i. Also, the wheel/tire package doesn't add $2k to the deal. It's a $10k car with the wheels and tires. He couldn't sell that package for $2k separately. And as stated above the ad isn't written very well. Pictures aren't great and there's basically no meaningful information in the ad such as length of ownership, pros/cons, no options packages, no VIN to decode, etc. If i'm looking at a car I want to know what i'm looking at. Not that it has "some fun programmed BMW features coded in". That tells me nothing. What are the features? Why should I care to look any further? But the next ad I look at that tells me every bit about what i'm buying such as maintenance intervals, who performed the work, what brands were used, what features the car has, etc. For that I'm in. I also agree with @Jdesign that it should be broadcast to a wider audience.
I contacted the guy about the car and have gone back and forth with a couple e-mails. After this exchange, I believe you guys are 100% accurate. No real additional information has been passed through other than the oil has been changed every 5k with liqui-moly products and that the car was ceramic treated (with no mention of how long ago that was). I asked specific question about the water pump, transmission service, plugs/coil packs (forgot to ask if the oil filter housing gasket has been done) and the response in a nutshell was that it has been super reliable, needs nothing and has led interior lights and tinted windows.
Oddly, I am still considering it even though it sounds like a deferred maintenance nightmare. However, given how you guys have pretty accurately read the score, it's not something I am super excited about and the price has to be right especially considering I will probably be stuck holding my e92 until Spring.
edit: I also feel this car in general is in somewhat of a "black hole". I mean, it's a very basic, low performance sedan that's not really old enough to be cool, so it doesn't really appeal to younger buyers. Yet, it's sort of too old/high miles to appeal to older buyers (read: with more dough to spend) who will probably just say, screw it, for $5-$10k more, I can get one X years newer, with fractions of the miles and maybe even with some sort of warranty.
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6 hours ago, P_Roloff said:
Huh, I guess I never realized the f10 came with the n52. Looks like a sweet car, although I don’t know enough about them to comment on price. Could be the time of year though, most regular people prefer AWD.
Me either, I was going to give up on BMW after this one (meaning the e92) because I typically run my cars to 200k+ and don't really want to dick with turbo and DI systems. I also don't have a problem with RWD, with good snows never had a problem. Hmmm...wonder if I could get anything for the e92, getting tired of the MT.
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It was a little nerve racking the first time I drove the 911 under there. It's close enough that I think if the two cars weren't lowered, it might not make it.
The other thing to think about is one has to raise the car on top an inch or so to take the load off the locks so they retract and will let the car down. There's a story out there about a guy with a Viper that raised the car up, the locks latched, then he didn't have enough clearance to raise it to unlock the latches and the car was trapped up there. Never heard how he got it down, if the old "let the air out of the tires" was enough.
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For guys considering a lift, one other comment is my garage only has a 9' ceiling. Maybe all 4 post lifts are like this but the detent slots in the bars the car hangs from are 6" apart and they have 6" of thread at the top you have full adjustability. In order to stack the e21 over the 911, I had to move the bars a couple inches. It's a tight fit. There's 4-5" to the ceiling and about the same from the apex of the roof of the 911 to the drip trays.
Later,
Wally
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I have one of these:
https://www.gregsmithequipment.com/Atlas-Garage-Pro-8-000
Been using it for about 8 years and haven't had any issues. I've never used any other brands so I really have nothing to compare it to. When it was at the warehouse it would regularly trip the breaker but here at the house it never has and my garage only has a 15 amp circuit. The heaviest thing I've ever lifted with it here is the e92.
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Parked in the grass outside of Power's Lake. Somebody here?
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11 hours ago, snap said:
I had such a great time today, thanks so much for everyone who came out to enjoy it! It was my first time at RA and it was like visiting heaven for a little bit.
A few tidbits from the day:
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Great to meet you @wally509, that E21 is just gorgeous and its great to see it being enjoyed!
Hope everyone else enjoyed the day as much as I did
Great to meet everyone as well. Thanks for being friendly to the new guy (me), who also happens to be the old guy (me).
I wish I could have driven up with you guys, that mishap boils down to me being an idiot. RTFM, in this case read the f-ing MAP, I went back and looked at it this morning. Where I pulled over to wait for the last group was already North of the exit from 45, which is why I never saw anybody.
Later,
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Hopefully no one will be disappointed if they don't see too many Shelbys there. If you like BMWs and Porsche GT3RS's, this is the event for you.
Last year I went to their event at Blackhawk to watch (and then got a ride in) my old SVO, now V8 powered. Set up next to them was an SCCA EP e30 race car and next to that was an AMC Gremlin which was the factory backed IMSA car from the 70's.
This used to be a Ford only event, then had to change to stay alive. Now there's really a wide variety of cars there, something for everybody.
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I just realized this is Northwoods Shelby Club, used to do this track weekend and usually cruise up there for half a day to watch even though I hardly know anybody there anymore.
Is this drive open to non BMWs? If it's 95 and humid like now, might take the 911 because it has a/c.
Later,
Wallyp.s. I verified it don't cost nuttin' to get in and spectate.
p.p.s Also verified my old track car ('86 Mustang SVO) will not be running there this year
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18 hours ago, SteelBlue said:
"...Oil Filter Housing Gasket&Cooler Seal, new spark plugs coils and breaks."
I wonder what breaks on it? At least he's honest it has problems.
Wanted: Detail Shop recommendation for single stage paint
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Thanks guys! I will call around next week.
edit: car is going into Ruben next week Thursday for engine compartment and outside polish and detail.