Monday, December 17, 2007
Saturday, December 15, 2007
My purchase
At last... After more than 3 months of searching and disappointment i finally found a worth to buy BMW E34 M50B25. In this post i will try to overview the pluses and minuses of the car, what needs to be fixed and of course the prices.
Good cars don't stick in the online ad sites too much, so as soon as new ad appeared i called the guy. The car was quite good looking in the photos. It was a 1992 BMW E34 Sedan with an M50B25 engine., the price in the ad was 1800€. After a test drive i decided not to wait any longer and bought the car for 1710€. The price is quite high compared with others these year E34's, but have a look what it has.
The details
First of all, it has a working condition system with 2 section climate control, it is very rare that air conditioning works in these year cars and the repair of it costs a lot. Moreover it has electric mirrors, electric windshield, electric front and rear windows, but the driver rear window engine is missing. It also has heated front seats. Whole interior is relatively in good condition. The best thing is that this E34 has the M style bumpers, sideskirts and spoiler. Together with 16" alloys 225/45 in front and 245/45 in the rear it looks great.
The engine
At first looked and sounded great. But after checking the compression i was a little bit sad. It was ~20% lower than the original one. For now i did not test the car on dyno stand, but most probably that the power and torque amount lost is about the same as in compression. What is even more sad, the generator mechanism and generator belt are almost dead, the cooling system has a leak and from somewhere engine leaks oil. This part of car will need most fixing...
The body
The body of my E34 is in good condition, i did not see any signs of rust. The bad thing is that the front passenger wing is damaged a little bit and the front bumper was lost in the very first days of test drives after buying the car.
The budget and photos
In the next post i will overview the chassis and interior of the car. Seems that there will also be what to fix. So far i spent 1864€ - 1710€ the car, 125€ for insurance for half a year, 9€ for registration of the car and 20€ for diagnostics of engine and chassis. For now take a look at a few pictures of the exterior:
Good cars don't stick in the online ad sites too much, so as soon as new ad appeared i called the guy. The car was quite good looking in the photos. It was a 1992 BMW E34 Sedan with an M50B25 engine., the price in the ad was 1800€. After a test drive i decided not to wait any longer and bought the car for 1710€. The price is quite high compared with others these year E34's, but have a look what it has.
The details
First of all, it has a working condition system with 2 section climate control, it is very rare that air conditioning works in these year cars and the repair of it costs a lot. Moreover it has electric mirrors, electric windshield, electric front and rear windows, but the driver rear window engine is missing. It also has heated front seats. Whole interior is relatively in good condition. The best thing is that this E34 has the M style bumpers, sideskirts and spoiler. Together with 16" alloys 225/45 in front and 245/45 in the rear it looks great.
The engine
At first looked and sounded great. But after checking the compression i was a little bit sad. It was ~20% lower than the original one. For now i did not test the car on dyno stand, but most probably that the power and torque amount lost is about the same as in compression. What is even more sad, the generator mechanism and generator belt are almost dead, the cooling system has a leak and from somewhere engine leaks oil. This part of car will need most fixing...
The body
The body of my E34 is in good condition, i did not see any signs of rust. The bad thing is that the front passenger wing is damaged a little bit and the front bumper was lost in the very first days of test drives after buying the car.
The budget and photos
In the next post i will overview the chassis and interior of the car. Seems that there will also be what to fix. So far i spent 1864€ - 1710€ the car, 125€ for insurance for half a year, 9€ for registration of the car and 20€ for diagnostics of engine and chassis. For now take a look at a few pictures of the exterior:
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