RE: Time For Tea? Respect Your Elders

[g3org3y]

Love the 2002, it's the car I grew up with.

Claypole said:

I'll get mine back on the road one day...

My father still has one in the garage. Needs 'a bit' of work though (bodywork wise). Interior/mechanics otherwise as they were when it was garaged 15 or so years ago!

[dinkel]

[5even7]

Nice car & nice video. Great cars, i've used mine as a daily for the last couple of years and enjoyed every mile of it.

[farmer chalk]

And this is to show that there are still some here in the UK... this is my 3.5 litre one!

[vsonix]

Dr Interceptor said:

You think he'd have fixed that front apron!

Lovely car though - nearly bought a 2002 Convertible at auction last year, fell in love with it!

I thought that, but then I saw it bouncing over some pretty gnarly pot-hole or bump on the road and figured it was probably something that had to get fixed a lot...

[jamieheasman]

I have a '75 Tii in my barn awaiting restoration. It was my daily driver for a few years until it was vandalised and eventually taken off the road. It's pretty rusty now but all the parts are available to rebuild it.....at a price.

A good Tii with a couple of sensible mods (LSD and 5-speed overdrive 'box) is as practical a classic as you can buy. A healthy one will deliver 40mpg and still do the 0-60 dash in 8 seconds. Best of all they handle beautifully - I loved it when it had been raining so I could kick the tail out going around suburban streets at modest speeds. Fantastic fun. If anyone has the chance to own one, take it, you won't regret it.

Compared to spending 30k+ for a Lotus Escort a Tii offers fantastic value for money.

[ScoobieWRX]

I had a 74 2002 in white. Great little car and fun to drive. Only things that were bad about it was when i bought it the drivers seat looked like it had been sat in by someone with razor blades in their arse cheeks. Totally shredded!!

Also the flexible propshaft coupling where it bolts to the gearbox and the rubber material around the centre bearing kept failing. Never got to the bottom of it.

Very cool car though and you will pay a premium for a nice one today.

[g3org3y]

jamieheasman said:

I have a '75 Tii in my barn awaiting restoration. It was my daily driver for a few years until it was vandalised and eventually taken off the road. It's pretty rusty now but all the parts are available to rebuild it.....at a price.

What kind of costs would one be looking at?

I've toyed with the idea of sorting our 2002 in the garage but I estimate at least 5k would be required to sort:
- replacing all the rubbers items
- new tyres
- various body panels +/- welding
- sorting out engine to get it running again
- bare metal respray

For that kind of cash, you can buy a decent example.

[Colonial]

Nearly bought a 2000 sedan a couple of years back.

Kicking myself I didn't.

[Huntsman]

5even7 said:

Nice car & nice video. Great cars, i've used mine as a daily for the last couple of years and enjoyed every mile of it.

Old BMW's make great daily drivers, I've done 18k miles in a 1983 520i in the last year and loved every mile of it too.

[SidewaysGav]

Hi BMW Freaks and all PHs, this is my 1600-2, I use it as a Ringtool, next trackday Nordschleife on Wednesday coming week, it is a nice classic that can seriously give more powerful cars a run for their money, I built with my mates to have fun and that is what i have eevery time i sit in it and start the engine and take for a drive down the local country lanes and somehow I always end up at the Ring. Turning up at the Ring with the car on a trailer behind my VW Westi van is real retro travelling. I own another 02 series a BMW 1600 ti from 1968 it is a GR.1 Rally car with history, that I am rebuilding at the moment.
Regards Gav (I live about 30 min from the Ring)
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Edited by SidewaysGav on Friday 26th October 08:56

[SidewaysGav]

Here another pic of me in my BMW 1600-2 giving it some stick through the lefthander coming up to Hohe Acht on the Nordschleife regards Gav

[SidewaysGav]

Here are a few videos with me driving the BMW 1600-2 around the Nordschleife and the Grand Prix circuit. The car filming is a Megane 250 RS
Enjoy Gav

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5VwhpFUrrA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QovrmoC9f0&fea...
http://www.myvideo.de/watch/470398/Quer_ist_mehr

[stolenink]

Benjaminbopper said:

It's emotion over performance - we tend to forget that on here sometimes.

Amen to that!

[LaurasOtherHalf]

One of my first memories is of mum rolling our 2002ti into a ditch when I was a young 'un

[braddo]

5even7 said:

Nice car & nice video. Great cars, i've used mine as a daily for the last couple of years and enjoyed every mile of it.

Very nice

A tii was second on the list of options when I bought my Alfa as an everyday car. A good round-light tii seemed to be pretty rare then (around 2005).

[LRdriver II]

Heres mine:





170bhp Alpina A4 setup..

[Blackpuddin]

[Guvernator]

Lovely cars and probably one of the cars responsible for my passion for all things petrol driven today. My old man used to have a 2002tii many moons ago and I can distinctly remember one European trip when I was about 7 or 8 where we were driving through Germany and a big Mercedes was being a bit boorish, stuck inches off our rear bumper. My old man decided enough was enough so the hammer went down and the little Beemer shot off, leaving the big Merc receding in the rear view.

I can remember seeing the speedo nudge past 140mph with us egging the old man on but my mum's frantic pleas to slow down ended the fun. Just couldn't believe how quick that little car was for the time. The same trip also saw a 911 Turbo whale tail blast past us at what must have been nigh on 160mph and my love of the motor car was firmly cemented.

[nogsk]

Had a 2002tii, was a quick car for it's time. Spent hours fiddling with the injection trying to get it idling right, then years later read that early tii's suffered with a cyclic idling problem, hours of my life wasted! That's my brother in laws 3L long wheelbase in pic.