I got money back, yes.

I'm hoping that you got some cash on top of the trade for the WRX.

Looking forward to progress on the E30!

I sold an alpine white 1989 325iX back to andyhundley (who is a ginger btw). 

I then purchased a 2013 WRX, which I had ordered directly from Subaru. Had some specific requests that I couldn't find anywhere on a lot, and got a decent deal.

The thought process behind the WRX was that, I would continue to drive my 318is and whomever (wife or I) had our child, would drive the new car. You know, safety first, warranty, etc....Turned out that my wife didn't particularly care for the WRX, or she'll claim that she wanted me to have the new car. She took my 318is as her own daily driver. She didn't exactly pay much attention to keeping it clean, regrettably. 

So, a few months ago, I ended up having a significant failure to my WRX. Extremely long story short, a clutch and transmission needed replacing. Subaru claims I have a poor driving style and abused the vehicle. I can tell you thats not the case, and Subaru was never able to show how a clutch with 8,000 miles failed and caused a transmission to fail as well. They wanted $8,000 dollars for repair. After a month of fighting, and countless emails and phone calls, my car was fixed without cost.

Many of you may have seen my want to buy ad where I was looking for a cheap daily. I was under the impression my wife liked the 318is as she insisted on driving it. I was planning on buying a project car for cheap. After lots of discussion, the wife told me she didn't care for the 318is either... (Seeing a trend here fellas?)

SO- Three days ago, we traded the WRX for a used Mini Cooper S. It's a 2007 Cooper S with 42,000 miles. I forget the actual color, which is some sort of black but actually looks more like a dark dark blue. Wife loves it, so I suppose thats the important factor.

Today we washed it.

My little one helped.

So thats that. Now I get to finally get back into my E30 and back into the BMW world that I have truly missed. She's dirtier than I remember, and needs some loving. Here are a few bad photos.

To Do / Wanted List
- Wheels / Tires

    - Yes, the car is still on snow tires, shut your face.

- Suspension

    - Fairly certain I will be doing coilovers, who's helping?

- Keyless Entry

    - I have a few of these chinese kits around, they're slick, I'm tired of opening the car from the trunk.

- Lighting

    - Car only has one working brake light, and is in serious need of some projectors + HID's... 

- Serious Detail

    - The car has some light sun bleaching. I'll fix that.

I may start a new thread, I may update this one, who knows. Thanks for lookin, and I'm excited to see folks at meets soon!

Snap Understeer said:

Clogged PCV system will build-up crankcase pressure and pop seals/dipstick tubes.

If you weren't such a f*** sometimes, I would totally vote for you to be member of the year. You put some quality knowledge on this forum.

Earl said:

Turbo cars love to do it=)

That's entirely different.

Brian said:

That's still weird how it shot oil out of the dipstick though. I've never seen that.

Turbo cars love to do it=)

Had a family emergency on Monday night. I had to fly to my parents house in the. Negative degree weather, without warming up the car. Drove 80+ mph for about 8 mins, then turned it off... Didn't realize it then but I left a HUGE oil stain on my parents driveway. After the crisis, went home, parked the car. Came time to move it and I noticed a huge oil stain on the roadway. The front drivers side tire looked a little low as well. I moved it across the street (damn alternate street parking). Turns out that wasn't a good idea, not so much for the engine as the tire.

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No damage to the perfect shape 14 inch weaves.

The next day I did a wheel swap out in the snowy roadway and limped the car into the garage. Put it up on jack stands and found oil everywhere. Couldn't find a source. Popped the hood and found oil everywhere, even on top of the valve cover!! Didn't take long to find the oil dip stick had been lifted about 3 inches out of its "hole"... I'm confident that was the source of the leak, how it happened, idk.

Filled her back up with oil, did my best to clean the mess and she runs fine now. Just have one hell of a clean up come spring.

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Shitty photo of her from the window of my WRX after she got fixed.

There is some discussion on the m20 flywheel actually being just as heavy after all the required parts are added up.

Rampel... This isn't prolly Eco friendly, it's performance oriented. Some report better mpg, others no... It's getting better than my M3 was so I don't care.

alexw said:

Already have a chip. Mark D, likely the only thing I'd buy from Canada.

Its noticeably quicker. This is one car/engine that is supposed to really benefit from a chip.

Hows the clutch on yours? When it comes time to replace it, go with the single mass M20 setup from the 325i. Best bang-for-buck mod you can do for the 318

Back on topic, do they make chips that are set more toward the eco-driving persuasion?

Its noticeably quicker. This is one car/engine that is supposed to really benefit from a chip.

I've been slow on upgrades because I don't want to do anything while it's jacked up.