my saffs sat in the back yard with a knocking bottom end, engines bottom ends ready to whip out but im at work that much at the minute i simply cannot get time to take out and get it sorted!!

tax is due and i just wanna use the damn car, got in in febuary and havent had a chance to use it much cos of the crap weather up in geordie land we been having constantly and the fact i cant take it to work as i finish at 2am and its a tad noisy with a screamer pipe/wastegate that has a habbit of opening at low revs.

time is of the essance here cos i will get sick of it and bust it like the rest of them.....

anyone else in a similarly shit situation??
Tell uncle sean all about it lol

 

nope mines running, just aint got time to enjoy it tbh

 

yeah

 

Yep mines off the road.
Going next week though, making way for 2 new projects so i'm excited. Going back RWD too

 

mines fucked
so i bought another car and am selling it!

 

mines been off the road since last november needing a clutch and some strengthening to the rear axle. its a slow job but im getting there.
im not that fussed as i have a couple of vans and a golf to run about in

 

i no bud i have owned mine for 3 years and drove it for 6 months when i first got it then parked it up with all good intent to get it re painted as the rear arches where shot. i then hit a bad time with money and when i got money sorted i got her out the garage in feb this year asked my mate to paint it he promissed me it would only take a month 7 months later i got the car back i am now in process of putting her back together but well pissed i missed this year summer (if you can call it summer) i just soo excited to get it back on road and so busy with work

 

we seem to have late summers here for some reason, if thats a help

 

yep mine! spent a load on it.driven it 6 times.and have a few issues. gearbox,steering rack,sump,rear bushes,70 odd bhp loss somewhere

should have been on the perf ford stand at combe and nat day but not to be


next year! next year!

 

Mine has been off the road for about 2 years and is striped :-( but is goin very soon so i can sort myself out financialy and work wise as hopin for a career change then another RS will under me ownership within the next 2 years hopefully !!!!

 

Not gutted, But its off the road.

Shims are fucked so needs a rebuild, piston 2# is leaking, and the clutch bearing has gone.

Got no money to fix it, I'm off work atm!

 

yeah mines been off the road all summer with a broken driveshaft! ive bought one now so its just a case of fitting it! but with no garage its weather permitting!

 

Well i got home to find some jealous Cnut and done this, so im gutted cos it wont be going to national day

 

mate dont supose you have family living in walthamstow do you

random i know but i worked with someone when i had a cossie and said her uncle had one woth the reg thats ment to say "montie" but looked like "minty"

 

ben,get it done on insurance and go.

 

yeah my car failed it test drastically, so i broke it and now im carless, im well gutted, still trying to find a cheap runner for the time being, but theres nothing about, i have 250, but cant find anything suitable, and its hard to get to work for me with no buses, its a very long walk from bust stop to work, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr i neeeeeed a car soon . why do things always go wrong at the wrong time

 

mines down getting a cage done,and its killing me not being able to use it.

just been down a workmates house and he got it even worse, THREE awesome cars, none working

a 350bhp stripped (carbon everything, plastic windows, the lot) Pulsar thats almost done, just no windscreen/tax/mot/insurance.

a 540bhp dog boxed caged up monster scooby thats not even registered (and has THE loudest exhaust ever )

a 2dr impreza rally car, awesome cage, double skinned sills you can jack the car off, firewall, seam welded chassis, the lot. but its a bare shell

 

they carnt do it till monday

 

wouldnt it be easier to do 1 and a time to concentrate on ? although common sense doesnt seem to come into it in the car game

 

bastards.

but at least glass is easier to fix than paint.

 

Mines been off the road for 18 months now but fook me its looking good, painted the underside today, now just got to get the thing back together, to be honest i gave up with the idea of taking to shows this year as it would of meant rushing it, and that just aint going to happen.

Steve

 

a mate had a 325i and we snapped the rear wishbone clean off while abusing it, apparently its a weak point on e30`s?

bugger about the vandalism, i hate seeing owt like that
i bet you could get that fixed for under Ł100 fitted? local lads to me used to charge Ł40 for screens like that and Ł20-40 for mint used glass. maby worth a ring round in the morning?

wish mine was a simple driveshaft, i`d be on the floor in the rain fitting it to get it running again!

i hope we do get a late summer

really really want to use mine, even on standard injectors running in will be enough to put the grin back on my face.

 

The Cossy is going well at the minute *touches wood*, the Alpina hasnt moved off me drive in about 3 months as im too lazy to take it down the garage and sort the box out

 

thats something ive never heard before and ive been into e30's for a few years now. i cant even recall it being metioned before on the 27000 member site i frequent.
poor workman blaming his tools?

 

possibly, i know they currode on the axles, we fixed with angle iron and a mig welder, abused again and guess what, it broke free again LOL!!

1 used axle later the car was sold.

a few folk up here commented on the axles being weak?
who knows..... bad luck probebly.

 

That sounds like a job that could be fixed real quick, why not get on it?

 

ive been running nearly 300bhp through my standard rear axle with no real problems for a couple of years now.

 

Sorry to see the vandalism and hope its all sorted now, someone on s2forum just had a coupe quattro nicked and drove into as much as possible.

My s2's still driving but need the clutch sorting as any boost in 3rd,4th,5th and it just slips up, still holds in 1st and 2nd tho

So its coming off the road for a rebuild/bigger turbo whilst I mess around with a 2 door escort estate

 

gutted mate, aye this geordie wheather is shit

 

i work 7am to 7pm 2 days 7pm to 7am 2nights and 9am to 9pm 2 additional days, no garage with roof only back yard and most important at the minute, no engine crane!!! got a lend of a hoist after the weekend and 3 days off work so it WILL be out, crank measured and shells ordered.
headgasket etc already waiting and i cant fuckin wait untill its running again, havent had the car long and i pine for it to be fixed so i hope to fuck it dont rain while i wanna get oily!!

 

I got my 3 door back last weekend ,that was only off the rd 4 months

Running spot on now

 

Any pictures by chance? Links or whatever? Not green is it?

 

My S1's a bare shell...still got an engine to build and the rest wont be out till next summer

 

my 3drs only been OTR about 3 years

hopefully wont be long now tho!

 

Saff has been off of the road 4 years - going by the tax disc!
At the moment giving myself 2 weeks o get her ready for a ticket......Yeah right been saying that for longer than I can remember!

 

all 4 of my sheds are on the road but with minor teething problems!

 

im STILL waiting on a loom! as soon as this is done the rest of the car can be finished

 

i took the tank out of the nail last wed to put better baffles in it then i remembered it has to be runing on the 31st of this month as its going on the rollers lol better get my finger out

 

In answer to you thread title.

Yes a car i've just changed the engine in is off the road and i'm gutted. Cause it doesn't run right.

 

If I had my sparkplugs, mine would be on the road this weekend. Been off for two weeks now