Greetings from Vancouver Island Just got my first Ti (however my 6th BMW and 2nd E36). Bought it from the original owner who was too old to further drive a car. She was roughly 80 years old and her grandson and husband helped to facilitate the sale. Driven only 6000KMs (3700 miles) in the past 5 years and 133,000KMs total (82K miles) since she bought it new. Everything appears to be original aside from a more recent headunit with bluetooth and mic installed for hands free calling and bluetooth audio, also when I had it up on the hoist it appears to have had a newer cat installed at some point. Some needs: - headliner is beginning to sag - minute amount of surface rust, perhaps an inch in diameter at the back end of the drivers rocker panel. I checked behind the metal and it is rust free so luckily is only surface. - muffler needs to be replaced (rattles when shaken) - hatch struts shot - shocks and struts soft I immediately ordered: - air filter - spark plugs - oil filter - diff and tranny fluid - hatch struts - wipers all around - muffler After I get all that initial maintenance done I will attempt to find someone local to address the headliner, hopefully I can keep the original anthracite cloth. I will sand down the surface rust and bring it in somewhere local to touch up. Order supsension parts for a full refresh. Then move on to making it unique while trying also to stay mostly OEM. So throw on some nicer wheels, make it a tad lower, perhaps a steering wheel, stubby antenna, yellow fogs etc Once I get going I will begin a build thread. https://i.imgur.com/yPJHuwo.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/lNbfRFC.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/WnBEQq5.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/OFktYy3.jpeg |
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