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  Each to their own, but having been in the position of trying to sell cheap tidy e28s and e23s i would have to agree with andyboy. Doive your car(the 525e !) looks tidy and if you paid £150 for it and it has had no major issues, congratulations and keep your fingers crossed!. But tetley and rubberknees i can see your sad t*rds becoming money pits and £7-800 later  still being worthless scrap.  I do hope you persevere  though because i'm just about to dismantle an original e28 alpina b9 3.5 and an e28 M5(24V), both cars are rusty and tired with high mileage and  scrapping them is a much less stressful and financially rewarding option than restoring them and dealing with losers.So if any one wants a mint funky alpina cloth recaro trim, an m5 engine original 16"bbs etc etc pm me.  P.S i've got a mint bonnet and good bumpers tetley if your interested.
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Originally posted by e28silver528i 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.
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Tetley! Nice car.

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.

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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.
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Originally posted by Andyboy Andyboy wrote:


Does that not tell you something about yourself?!

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

It also says a lot about you. '88 shadowline/dechromed E28's are I believe rare, so gutting one that could be saved for the engine says a lot! Who's going wrong? You do it your way, we'll do it ours!

As it happens my 525e was my first BMW and I was assured by I thought reliable RAF contacts that it had been fully checked by MTSS and was solid. It also had near FBMWSH, MoT and tax. I paid £300 for it. As a "newbie" at the time I thought I had taken reasonable precautions. I learnt from the experience and moved on.
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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.
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Doive, I think your 525e is great. That is such a good colour for them too - is it 'Champagne'?

IMHO, the 525e is the best 80's BMW all rounder that came off the production lines.

Andyboy, why aren't you flogging these vgc e28's? There are lots of 'mugs' like Doive out there!
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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'

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Because that's what we do me old son. Pity you just can't get to grips with that fact. Any more abuse? Bring it on.
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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???????????????
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Dave emailed me some tasty photos of his new toy yesterday, so I've created him a webpage on my site to show them all off. She looks to be a good clean car, aside from the obvious bits of rust. Once it gets the new bits it will be very sweet indeed.

Linky be here, or go to www.doive.co.uk and click on BMW.
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some little nipper nicked it Dave.

I must have some in my hoard.

make a list of bits you need Dave.
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The car does indeed have a three spoke leather wheel, probably the best bit of the whole thing. There's not much left of the radio mount, just one broken piece of plastic, certainly no support bracket to take the weight. Curiously enough, there's one ashtray missing from the drivers side back door too. Why would anybody take that out?
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Tetley,

I have a complete blue centre console, I think the radio mount is there. will barter for some of your e23 bits?

has your E28 got a sexy leather sport wheel?

If not, I reckon new radio mounts are still avail from BMW and not expensive. there is also a radio support bracket which is often missing from E28's and holds the weight of the radio. its missing on mine so I will order one.
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Sorry lads, I've only just noticed this post. I'm so used to going straight to the 7 series section. Yup, finally got one, but theres a bit of a shopping list to go with it. I need a bonnet, passenger side front wing, rear bumper and one 14 inch BBS x spoke wheel & tyre. I will probably get a set of 15 inch BBS for it, but the priority is the bodywork. Apart from the bonnet ( damaged ) and wing ( rust hole ), it's a really solid car. Inner wings, sills, jacking points and boot interior all good, so there's something to work with. When I collected it on Monday 16th May, it had been standing for ages in the open, but it was bone dry inside, boot as well, so good news there. Someone has ripped the radio out and broke the piece of trim it sits in, so I'll need one of those too. I do have some photos of it, but I still don't know how to transfer them to this forum. I can send them by e mail if anyone's interested. Just let me know. Meanwhile, if anyone can help with the bits I need, this would be much appreciated. It surprised me and my wife how quick off the mark it was. It has a very noisy tappet, but hopefully that's going to be cured soon.
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Good on you dave!!! glad you finally found a car as i know you have been looking for a while, look forward to seeing some pic's when you get round to it!!!!
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People told you that looked awful??!! Do they have defective eyes? That looks like a very nice 6, can only hope someone is looking after her as all old ladies of the road should be looked after IMO.
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Originally posted by rubberknees50 rubberknees50 wrote:

Nice "6", hope she's still running!


Would be nice if she is still alive and well. She was a showroom display car when new from what I was able to find out, had every option available at the time in 1982. And even after 300k miles, everything still worked too.
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Nice "6", hope she's still running!
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That pic was taken at new owner before latest's house as I couldn't get the archive to go back any further. The black bottom was on when I got her, she had traces of decals on her sides too..635CSi.

She may have been scrapped by now, I am not sure. I gave her away back in December 04.

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