318ti cali part out
 

1996 318ti/A cali package, arctic silver, base exterior, black leather interior (not sport)

Pictures: http://imgur.com/a/HLoUq

Car is currently at Bimmerwerks in Beltsville, MD
May be relocated to Silver Spring, MD

Engine has no compression, so everything else must go. Come pick and pull, local pickup preferred on the big items

Come get the car for $700 as is, or get parts

Sold:
Nothing yet

I can get pictures most evenings or on the weekend :smile:

And no this isn't my '96 328ti :tongue:

Dang, what happened to the motor?

If the exhaust mid pipe is in decent shape I'm interested.

Cali-top motor for me?! (did I beat BlackBMW's to one finally?)

Ha, sounds good. How can I confirm it works for you? I've never tried to open the top

Color?

arctic silver

Not exactly sure. I think they can be bench tested with a battery.

I'd take it for parts either way, so perhaps assume it is working and I can try to bench test it and if it's not we can work something out.

That might work!

Just curious, how much would you charge for the radiator lower housing? I just bought one from http://www.bmwdiscountparts.com and am thinking that maybe used was the way to go?

318ti cali part out
 

Haha! You're the man Bradestar.! Good to be on your toes. [emoji41]

12v to the motor to see if it operates without skipping is a good start. The real test is under load of a top. What I do is just open the motor up and check all the gear teeth. Toothless gears don't work so well. At minimum, you hope the top gear (installed) is intact.


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any one have a good gear from top motor mine is skipping works just not smooth flat spot in one gear

dont mean to jack this thread but Bradestar do you have a bad cali top motorwith maybe one good plastic gear

How are the inner hatch plastics (#6 here: http://realoem.com/bmw/enUS/showpart...diagId=51_2163 , #1,#5, #6, and #7 here: http://realoem.com/bmw/enUS/showpart...diagId=51_2181) and the passenger rear speaker cover (mine has the parcel shelf clip broken)? I am looking for plastics without any scuffs or cracks/cuts like my current ones. I am pretty much looking for ones in "like new" condition so I won't get my hopes up haha.

I'll work to get around to all the inquiries asap

The car isn't a gem by any means, I'll take a look and post pics

Your a good sport BlackBMWs. Thanks for that.

Smark, I tried PM'ing you but couldn't (something in your settings). Sorry I can't help you with that request.

Hatch, whenever you are ready send me a PM with details. Appreciate ya.

general pic added

http://images.craigslist.org/00J0J_6...So_600x450.jpg

Hatch,

very interested whole car PM sent.

Dear friends

I haven't got back to anyone about parts because I was confident we would be selling the whole guy to a local member today. He needed a clean body to swap his own M44 into, and we were supposed to meet to sell the car, but the potential buyer decided to take a look at the car without us present and decided it was not a worthwhile investment to swap his own M44 into this car because the DME and glovebox compartment were open (from previous diagnostics on the no good M44), takes minor effort to plug the modules back in and button up the glovebox. Nothing was cut or hacked. I tried to explain how this isn't an issue, he'd be swapping in his own engine, and would likely need to access the compartments anyway when connecting his his OWN DME/EWS. This car was being offered as is, I explained explicitly the state of the car and that we were diagnosing the DME and units, it baffled me why they backed out under those circumstances if they're swapping in their own motor. OBD2 is plug-n-play to an extent, given you have your own harness and DME and someone to align the EWS if you need. I wouldn't recommend using the one from this no compression motor. I hope this helps anyone else interested in the whole car, or any roller chassis on this site with the same hopes to swap in their own motor. I understand and recommended they saw the car in person, as I do for selling any car, so that's alright..

Another tip, please contact the seller if you've arrived to check out a car so they can come and meet and greet you and walk you through any questions you have, and possibly work out a deal if any concerns arise. I take pride in 318ti.org being a community of like minded buyers/sellers... checking out a car by yourself without the seller present on private property is not ideal and does neither party any justice.

I did take a tons of pictures, which can be found here: http://imgur.com/a/jRZJa

We'll be towing the car back from Bimmerwerks unless anyone else is interested in the car as is for $700

Cheers

Door panels?

Did you decide wether or not you are going to part out the car?
~thanks

whole car was sold