BMW 328i Restoration Project - BMWBLOG (blog)
I wanted a manual, but at 17 years old, I wanted girls more and I thought a BMW would help so I bought the only one I could afford. I’ve since moved on from it as my daily, as it was becoming too unreliable. Not that the car itself is unreliable, but when it has 240,xxx miles on it and is driven 100 miles daily, things start to go wrong. It’s also hard finding the time to fix certain issues, as they may be grueling and take more than one day, when it was my daily. I couldn’t start certain repairs because I knew it would take me a few days and I need to get to work somehow. So despite it being a beloved possession of mine, I needed to get a new daily in order to restore it. Now that it is my second car, my weekend project, I intend to restore it as much as I can and modify it a bit. The car needs much work before any fun modifications are done, however. The laundry list of things wrong with my E36 is longer than the option list the car came with. Though, now I can do it at my own pace and not worry about relying on it. The heat doesn’t work, and a leaky heater core is also my suspected overheating culprit, so fixing it should. Source: www.bmwblog.com
