Tetley Dave’s bought an E28

Maybe this is a stupid question.......

525e with a knackered cam (Etas were very prone to
cam lobe wear) which is unique to the 525e and no
other cam will fit. ECP no longer hold stock, £190
plus VAT from BMW.

And needs a body job.



WHY????????



I bought a grey 88E 525e Lux from the auctions last
night as I need a 2.7 short engine for my track car.
Diamond Black, dechromed, OBC, lovely engine and
gearbox, good interior, one wing and edge of bonnet
light bubbling. MOT till september.


Fifty quid plus £11 commission. Add a fiver for fuel
and it's £66 parked in the yard. Drives nice apart
from usual E28 brake shudder.

Christ, there are so many decent E28's for peanuts,
why did you and RubberKnees buy wrecks that need
loads of work..........when you could have just gone
out and bought a really tidy one for £3-400?


WHY???????????????

I'm about to scrap a better car than you're attempting
to fix.

Does that not tell you something about yourself?!

Take a few minutes to think about that, and where
you're going wrong.

And no father of mine would waste garage space on
an E28, 'old Son'

Have a go at me motor Andyboy, but don't get personal. 'Bout time you were banned again isn't it.Keep the criticism to the cars.

Andy, I'm not sure how to reply to your comments. Shadowline cars are indeed very rare, but as long as muppets are prepared to break them then they will continue to get rarer. Nothing I can do to stop that, but people like Ian, Dave and I are willing to spend our time and our hard earned keeping three old ladies of the road in fine fettle. As someone once told me: "What's that got to do with you?" If you don't like us doing it, well then that's fine. You don't have to tell us. I don't like you breaking eta cars for their engines to make yet another 2.7 E30 track car, but I don't go on at you incessantly about it. You don't understand why we love old smokers - GET OVER IT AND MOVE ON. You never will get it.

Eta, my car is luxorbeige metallic, not sure what that is in english but the colour looks superb when polished and may very well be one of the best E28 colours IMO. Andy, have a good look at the following picture (sorry to those who have seen this before) and tell me why this car is so bad. You appear to have no problems questioning where we have gone wrong, I'm open minded so care to enlighten me to the error of my ways? Check my website for more photos of my old heaps you can pour scorn over.

e28silver528i wrote: Shame mine wasn't an auto as I'm letting her go cheap that you could have had. I've had mine two years now and fancy a change. Just bought an 89 (G) 530i and picking it up tomorrow. Paul

Have a great day with your new baby Paul, tell us all about it and post up some pics in due course please.

did you consider a 535 Sport? I think they are the mutts nuts.

Hiab,

you got any E3's or e9's in your collection?

 I have one 3.0cs its the f*ggot auto , i've had it 16 years or so . It has factory a/c and black leather. IT ran and drove well......15 years ago , when it does reappear i'm going to probably fit a motronic 3.5 and a 4 speed auto from a £10 e23!. I'm  not bothered about originality being compromised as coupes are criminally undervalued anyway. It has only had front floors ,n/s front wing, sills and a new bootlid (at my expense ) so by e9 standards it was relatively rustfree !. In my opinion one of the prettiest cars ever, shame they all disolved !.

Tetley if interested in any of my e28 morsels pm me, i've also got a complete m tech kit cheap if you want to co*ncil it up !.

nice low milage e23 two owners from new, 60,0000 totaly rust and dent free, BREAKING NOW. pm me if anyone needs bits. i will deliver as well. its the opel green one. 732i 1984

Edited by robs e23

The 525e Lux is getting scrapped - it needs both
ashtrays emptying and I can't be bothered. Oh, and
rear axle bushes, rear inner sill, two outer
headlamps, 'flickering' instrument needles plus the
other typical old E28 crap etc etc etc. Sorry, but I'm
not putting hours of work into it just to get messed
around by idiots. For £66 it was a cheap 2.7 engine
and I'll not find another as nice as this for so little
(this week).

The cylinder head is off already, good camshaft and
a very fine looking head casting,please read forum rules on selling. I can
guarantee you the noise won't adjust out. Etas were
****** for doing cam lobes.

You've got until Thursday, then it's going in the boot
of the shell up to the 'yard! I'm taking off the
three spoke steering wheel but nothing else as I
don't have room. None of the panels are that great to
be honest. Mond you, it has a superb switchable
auto box. Be a shame to bin that.

Well, it was quite dark when I got it!

Edited by Rhys