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ELUSIVEJIM said:
E34 BMW 520i
1 owner from new
67,000 miles
£1,800
MOT history is very good also
https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk/
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/b...
That looks great!1 owner from new
67,000 miles
£1,800
MOT history is very good also
https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk/
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/b...
SuperHangOn said:
Max M4X WW said:
derin100 said:
In a continued quest for improving the headlamps on the E39 Touring and suspecting something may be awry in the form of perhaps a broken adjuster on one side, I decide to order a set of four and set about opening them up.
Just as well that I did. Here's a what I found. All FOUR where broken!
Not only does that mean that neither side could be adjusted in terms of the vertical or horizontal directions, it also means that they'll tend to aim too long thus foreshortening the throw/range of the beams.
I actually found it quite a difficult and tricky job to replace them. All the YouTube videos I could find on how to do it ranged from "really not very good" to "utterly unhelpful". The first side took me 3 hours to open, dismantle, install the new adjusters and then reassemble the headlights. The second side with the benefit of a little better understanding took me 1.5 hours.
I'll take the car up to my mechanic's next to get them properly aligned.
I know quite a few other Threadists have E39s so it might well be worth checking yours to see if any are broken because it seems very common indeed. The company I bought them from have an Ebay shop and have sold over 2000 of these on Ebay alone...and that's just for the Angel Eyes type variant! The adjusters themselves only cost £2.75 a side:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/291250784635?_trksid=p20...
If any Threadist is doing it and runs into difficulty PM me. I can talk you through some of the steps or procedures that the YouTube videos don't make clear, omit and that really held me up or ways that I found easier.
Did you clean the projector lenses and insides of the front lens also? From experience I have found them to be dirty.Just as well that I did. Here's a what I found. All FOUR where broken!
Not only does that mean that neither side could be adjusted in terms of the vertical or horizontal directions, it also means that they'll tend to aim too long thus foreshortening the throw/range of the beams.
I actually found it quite a difficult and tricky job to replace them. All the YouTube videos I could find on how to do it ranged from "really not very good" to "utterly unhelpful". The first side took me 3 hours to open, dismantle, install the new adjusters and then reassemble the headlights. The second side with the benefit of a little better understanding took me 1.5 hours.
I'll take the car up to my mechanic's next to get them properly aligned.
I know quite a few other Threadists have E39s so it might well be worth checking yours to see if any are broken because it seems very common indeed. The company I bought them from have an Ebay shop and have sold over 2000 of these on Ebay alone...and that's just for the Angel Eyes type variant! The adjusters themselves only cost £2.75 a side:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/291250784635?_trksid=p20...
If any Threadist is doing it and runs into difficulty PM me. I can talk you through some of the steps or procedures that the YouTube videos don't make clear, omit and that really held me up or ways that I found easier.
I don't think it will all have been entirely futile. If they end up functioning like the ones on my wife's similarly Angel Eye-version equipped 525i Saloon I'll be satisfied because they're "ok-ish". The way they were when we drove all the way back from SW France was truly atrocious believe me! Dangerous.
I'm not expecting them to be as good as the Xenon equipped ones we've had before. But having sanded and polished the lenses exteriors there was already a really noticeable big improvement. I hope that now, once they can at least be aimed properly again rather than pointing too low at the road, plus when I put in the better bulbs it will at least make night driving less worrying as it looks we might have another trip coming up soon to take stuff over.
If they were the way they were, I seriously just wouldn't do the trip in that car again at all because it would be impossible to avoid any night driving over that distance now that this time of year is upon us.
A haggle and a bit of a tidy up, this LPG'd one seems good value.
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...
I think you are realistically looking at just over 2 thousand once you have had everything done but that would be a recon box from a specialist i.e absolute worst case.
Could be something a knowledgeable specialist can sort - there are a lot of these boxes out there and it is amazing what specialists come up with to sort previously 'write off' style malfunctions
great bargaining tool as the vendor will just want it gone
Could be something a knowledgeable specialist can sort - there are a lot of these boxes out there and it is amazing what specialists come up with to sort previously 'write off' style malfunctions
great bargaining tool as the vendor will just want it gone
Stegel said:
Lowtimer said:
So: who would like to have a stab at why the width of a normal post-war car wheel is Imperial, whereas the width of the tyre that goes on it is metric?
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I wonder if it's the switch to aspect ratio percentages for tyres which would mean tyre sizes expressed in fractions of inches - although I grew up pre-metrication, I find working in fractions very laborious. /quote]
Krikkit said:
A haggle and a bit of a tidy up, this LPG'd one seems good value.
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...
That list of jobs done scares me. And I run a P38.... http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...
josh00mac said:
Krikkit said:
A haggle and a bit of a tidy up, this LPG'd one seems good value.
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...
That list of jobs done scares me. And I run a P38.... http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...
josh00mac said:
Krikkit said:
A haggle and a bit of a tidy up, this LPG'd one seems good value.
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...
That list of jobs done scares me. And I run a P38.... http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...
ELUSIVEJIM said:
E34 BMW 520i
1 owner from new
67,000 miles
£1,800
MOT history is very good also
https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk/
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/b...
At first glance those wheel trims do a passable impression of the Type I alloys from th contemporary M5. 1 owner from new
67,000 miles
£1,800
MOT history is very good also
https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk/
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/b...
Caruso said:
r129sl said:
Don't know which bit is worse... the chrome arches, the white dials or the silver mats.
Barge update. Regular theadists will know I bought an S600 with a strange 'vibration' noted in the advert. I assumed this would be the usual ABC pulsation damper problem. Today I changed said damper. It's not that!
Also in a lesson as to why you should not buy cars in the dark I found out the car is missing its front undertray. Not just the front section but all of it (probably 3 seconds from the bumper to behind the gearbox). Ah well ebay here we come, just hope S600 undertrays are the same as lesser rusted ebay scrappers.
Ben
Also in a lesson as to why you should not buy cars in the dark I found out the car is missing its front undertray. Not just the front section but all of it (probably 3 seconds from the bumper to behind the gearbox). Ah well ebay here we come, just hope S600 undertrays are the same as lesser rusted ebay scrappers.
Ben
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/122194082834
A bit of haggling and would get close to upper thread limit....
A bit of haggling and would get close to upper thread limit....
derin100 said:
In a continued quest for improving the headlamps on the E39 Touring and suspecting something may be awry in the form of perhaps a broken adjuster on one side, I decide to order a set of four and set about opening them up.
Just as well that I did. Here's a what I found. All FOUR where broken!
You really don't need the capitals and exclamation mark; every single person with an E39 knows already Just as well that I did. Here's a what I found. All FOUR where broken!
In fact, I was going to mention it when you said about the polishing the plastic and poor lumens output the other day, but then I thought, "no, it's Derin, he will know about and have checked that." At least it's a cheap job that should only need doing once. I didn't find it took so long at all once I'd got the front covers off, but they were a sod - SWMBO wouldn't let me bake them loose
BigBen said:
Barge update. Regular theadists will know I bought an S600 with a strange 'vibration' noted in the advert. I assumed this would be the usual ABC pulsation damper problem. Today I changed said damper. It's not that!
Also in a lesson as to why you should not buy cars in the dark I found out the car is missing its front undertray. Not just the front section but all of it (probably 3 seconds from the bumper to behind the gearbox). Ah well ebay here we come, just hope S600 undertrays are the same as lesser rusted ebay scrappers.
Ben
I bought my 210 in the daylight without those, not knowing it should have them.Also in a lesson as to why you should not buy cars in the dark I found out the car is missing its front undertray. Not just the front section but all of it (probably 3 seconds from the bumper to behind the gearbox). Ah well ebay here we come, just hope S600 undertrays are the same as lesser rusted ebay scrappers.
Ben
Biglips said:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/122194082834
A bit of haggling and would get close to upper thread limit....
That's lovely.A bit of haggling and would get close to upper thread limit....
Really shows off the E65 design at its best.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1992-MERCEDES-190E-AUTO-...
Looks lovely although I suspect the reserve will be quite high.
BigBen said:
Barge update. Regular theadists will know I bought an S600 with a strange 'vibration' noted in the advert. I assumed this would be the usual ABC pulsation damper problem. Today I changed said damper. It's not that!
Also in a lesson as to why you should not buy cars in the dark I found out the car is missing its front undertray. Not just the front section but all of it (probably 3 seconds from the bumper to behind the gearbox). Ah well ebay here we come, just hope S600 undertrays are the same as lesser rusted ebay scrappers.
Ben
Bad luck!Also in a lesson as to why you should not buy cars in the dark I found out the car is missing its front undertray. Not just the front section but all of it (probably 3 seconds from the bumper to behind the gearbox). Ah well ebay here we come, just hope S600 undertrays are the same as lesser rusted ebay scrappers.
Ben
Looking on ebay it looks like you might be in luck - the first one is listed for the S600, the 2nd just any W220. It looks like the difference is a small section which is cut out of the casting for the 600 (presumably for exhaust clearance), so it should be nice and easy.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/201693567275
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/122076831612
S600:
W220:
Had a similar thing with floor mats etc on a few cars- just an extra step to trim excess material for the awkward models
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