My Once In A Lifetime Projek - E32 Alpina Wannabe

[Eggie86]

Just gave her another quick wash, including the rims. :love:

 

[Eggie86]

A couple of updates.

Last Friday night, took the car out during the heavy downpour, then when the rain almost subsided, guess what happened?

My left wiper actually broke. As in the whole damn metal arm just broke! Not the wiper blade, but the arm itself!

Saw the huge crack on the wiper arm, and it broke cleanly, leaving the part where the arm is bolted to the engine bay intact... Wow. First time I actually encountered a case of wiper arms disintegrating.

Now currently driving with only the driver side functioning [thank goodness!], and am waiting for mechanic to source for replacement. Tried calling few places and chop shops for E32 left side wiper arm, but they're out of stock. Some even suggested using modified E34/36 arm... I think I only need the part which is screwed to the body itself. Bavarian Auto quoted RM400++ for the left side. Goodness!

Anyways, reached a milestone yesterday - 260,260 miles covered. :love: Almost 419K kms.

 

[maxxsp]

Now currently driving with only the driver side functioning [thank goodness!], and am waiting for mechanic to source for replacement. Tried calling few places and chop shops for E32 left side wiper arm, but they're out of stock. Some even suggested using modified E34/36 arm... I think I only need the part which is screwed to the body itself. Bavarian Auto quoted RM400++ for the left side. Goodness!

Shouldn't cost that much. Ordered a wiper arm for my E34 from Bavarian Auto for RM130.00 only. Make sure you give them the part number for the arm itself.

 

[alantiong]

eggie.. u realy really rajin with your car lah.. i dun mind lending my car to you for a month... cos i know you will make it Kikilalatttt

 

[julianpang]

eggie.. u realy really rajin with your car lah.. i dun mind lending my car to you for a month... cos i know you will make it Kikilalatttt

You can lend it to me and it will be as kilat... hahahahha.

 

[Eggie86]

Shouldn't cost that much. Ordered a wiper arm for my E34 from Bavarian Auto for RM130.00 only. Make sure you give them the part number for the arm itself.

Thanks maxx. Will try to research on it again:

Managed to find this diagram... Hmm, not too sure which part I really need until I see the arm again. But seems like I need to replace the whole arm

 

[Eggie86]

eggie.. u realy really rajin with your car lah.. i dun mind lending my car to you for a month... cos i know you will make it Kikilalatttt

Hahaha. The worst I cannot stand is dirty windscreen and rims. :biggrin:

 

[Iylia H]

eggie.. u realy really rajin with your car lah.. i dun mind lending my car to you for a month... cos i know you will make it Kikilalatttt

if you lend it to me, i'll make it go like kilat a.k.a lightning hahaha

 

[alantiong]

offer only stand for eggie .. cos he will make it shine. and drive like uncle... the rest.. driving like montoya

 

[Eggie86]

offer only stand for eggie .. cos he will make it shine. and drive like uncle... the rest.. driving like montoya

Bro, I need to correct you.

LOL! I'm quite an aggressive driver. :biggrin:

But the shine part maybe can.

 

[V-Man]

^ haha...the Montoya in him has spoken...

 

[Eggie86]

Wakakaka... :24:

 

[alantiong]

yup.. there he comes..

eggie.. maybe your alpina wannabee's "fast" is still slow lah.. kakakka....

just joking

 

[Eggie86]

yup.. there he comes..

eggie.. maybe your alpina wannabee's "fast" is still slow lah.. kakakka....

just joking

Haha. No worries. Even though given a fast car, will still take some time getting used to each car's characteristics. :top: So even if the next day someone were to allow me to drive an Aston Martin or a Lamborghini, fine, straight line will probably look easy, but when it comes to the corners, it's easy to weed out the ones who are not familiar with the car. Haha. I was like that the first time I drove up Genting in my E32.

Didn't know how to modulate the car and using the lower gears to climb the hills...

The 2nd time I went there, this time during the Awana Run with the other 7s like Badrul, Yazmeen and Gregcwho, it was a much more fantastic experience. True, I was still 'slow' going up, but I felt much more confident about my car's abilities.

 

[Eggie86]

Couple of shots of the broken wiper arm.

As you can clearly see, the whole arm just cracked and broke...

Anyways, spent yesterday evening cleaning the rims after the heavy downpour the night before...

Look what I saw...

 

[evilnickwong]

It's a sign. For siput. You should put the big brother siput into the engine bay then. Hahahaha.

 

[V-Man]

It's a sign. For siput. You should put the big brother siput into the engine bay then. Hahahaha.

was just about to say the exact line...how ironic

 

[Eggie86]

:24: LOL... Siput ahh... :biggrin:

 

[bimmerholic]

make sure you dont penyet that poor fella with your springs....kesian that feller...

 

[-fm-]

I found this... old magazine in the store room hehehe :top: Motoring magazine (S'pore) May '88