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- It's Hoover.
BMW in English stands for Bavarian Motorworks
or in street slang, big money waste.
They're known for their luxury cars
and even some motorcycle action.
- (sparkle)
- BMW first started off over 100 years ago
making aircraft engines, that's pretty fly.
They became a car manufacturer in 1928
which is the same year Amelia Earhart
flew across the Atlantic.
The next time she flew I hope that
wasn't one of them BMW engines.
- (airplane drones)
- The BMW E36 was produced from 1990 to 2000.
- (AOL log off ding)
- It came in a sedan, coupe, convertible,
a hatchback and a wagon.
The 1997 convertible 328i had original MSRP of $27,700.
Or if you're an intellectual,
you can get 27,700 cheesy roll ups from Takiki Babibi.
It's in the math.
Nowadays you can pick up one of these cars for two grand.
These cars depreciated hard, almost as hard
as it is to use a turn signal in one.
Today we sit down with an owner
and have a good old chat, driver to driver.
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- Buenos Aires, suspension
Fitment Industries dot com, you know the rest.
I'm here with Elon Musk.
- Yeah, yes sir.
- Jasper the friendly ghost.
- Yeah man.
- How's it going?
- It is what it is.
- What'd you drive here today?
(tires squealing)
- 2002 Chrysler Town and Country.
Trash.
- Cyber van.
- Hey, it's in the grand pile, right?
- Cyber van.
- What?
- Cyber van.
- Cyber, no, not yet.
- Okay.
(beep)
So stop beating around the bush,
what'd you pay for that wish you had Lambo?
- My Lambo?
Couple two or three dollars, 4500 give or take.
You know, good handshake.
- You got a good handshake for it?
- Yeah man.
- Who gave it to you?
- What?
- I heard you got it for a present.
- Yeah, 16th birthday gift.
- That's a pretty good car for-
- I got it from Trish.
Good old Trish.
- Did Trish pick it out?
- Trish picked it out actually.
I didn't even want the car.
- You didn't want a BMW 36?
- Oh dude, I was not even into cars when I got it.
I was like oh dude, I just want a Subaru, uh.
- You wanted a Subaru?
- I was like I want a WRX, it doesn't even
need to be fast.
I was like I'm gonna go snowboarding all the time.
Gave up snowboarding like four years ago
so thank god that didn't happen.
I was like all wheel drive just out here.
- You don't need a Subaru to snowboard.
- Growling, out here whipping the rig dude.
It was a WRX.
I was like dude, this is it.
I was like I could get a roof rack, everything.
I got a convertible BMW.
How is that gonna help me out?
- Now that you're rich maybe you can get
her a cyber truck.
How long have you had the car?
- It's been over six years.
So I got it as a birthday gift in October
so that was 20, 22 no?
- Six years?
You've been alive that long?
- Surprisingly, yeah.
I got my license six years ago.
- I'm proud of you.
- Old man.
- So those 328i's, they make about 190 horsepower.
- Give or take.
- Did you make it low because it was already slow?
- I tried, I don't know.
I didn't like it and then um,
I was like oh I could buy some cool rams for it.
Bought some style fives, hated it.
Well actually I loved it.
I hate style fives now.
And I was like oh, this thing is friggin nice.
Stock suspension, give or take.
(Slap)
Give or take stock suspension
so I was like you know, whatever.
And then I was like ooh, put some
two inch Lauren springs on this thing.
Got that reverse rake look because my
blown shocks really got me on there
and then, yeah.
Bought some coils at some point.
- You sound really passionate about this thing.
- Now we're here, yeah man.
- Okay, cool.
I like Town and Countries too.
- Really passionate, yup.
- All right, enough out of me,
let's hear from our extremely loyal YouTube community.
Hey.
(snaps)
Over here.
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- Navish asks, what's more painful, the cost
of installing the doors or the way
people look at you when you get in and out of it?
- Actually, the door hinges are bad.
- I know, they go up, down and like that.
- No, like, that's the cool part about 'em.
- Oh all right.
- The bad part is they hardly close.
(laughs)
I had to weld in the adjustment screws
because every time you push it,
it would go pfft and then like sit
all kitty wampus and like, give or take.
So I mean, when you pay $500 for door hinges,
you get what you get, yup.
You pay what you get for.
- You pay what you get for.
You can't tell me that it's easy
to get in and out of it either.
How awkward is it?
- It's not bad.
- Shut the fuck up.
(beep)
- I'm already big so like I have to get
out of it in a weird way because my foot like.
Like okay, so think about like if this
is like your seat, your foot goes far down like that.
- That's hot.
- So you know, like do a shin dig.
A whole dangle.
- I'm a big guy too.
So how do the vertical doors do?
They gotta make it, it's not any easier.
- No, I mean it's fine, it's whatever.
I don't care.
- Okay, all right.
Well as long as it's easy-
- Jingly in that thing, sitting like this
in there, just whipping the rig
because my seats are, my seats are broken
on adjustability so I gotta sit there
and I look like a child driving my car.
I always got my head up.
- You could drive any car and you'd look like a child.
- Always gotta have my head up like this
so I can see, so if you ever see a roller
with me, I'm like what's up?
- Turbo do TV, pretty cool name, huh?
- Turbo?
- He wants to know what's the best affordable mods
for a E36?
Not Lambo doors, we'll check them off.
- I'mma give away a secret.
Pete, listen up.
Folks, there's not a camera over there.
(snaps)
So extended bolts, a little bit of washers,
get you a little bit of camber.
That's all you need.
(scoffs)
Super easy.
- That's not good advice.
- Yeah, it's so not safe.
Realistically, wait what was the question?
- What are affordable mods?
Not bolts.
- Afford-, yeah bolts and washers.
Get you some camber.
Anyway, normally-
- Affordable mods outside of Menards.
- Not one, shut your mouth.
- Okay.
- So like a lot of what you can do
is like, E46 stuff, a lot of E46 stuff matches up
so like you can increase your front track with
and get angle if you just buy E46 stock control arms.
- See, now that was valuable.
- But, they're all made of aluminum
so that's to watch out so if you start
turning too hard and get in the danger zone
of hitting that.
- Danger zone.
- Johnny.
- Johnny, who's Johnny?
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Boots and WRX 10 says raise your hands if
you wish it was M3.
- Do you really wanna see me ruin an M3 like that?
- Yeah, that'd be kinda cool actually.
- That would be really sick.
I don't know, I mean.
- Raise your hand.
- No.
Well, I don't know.
- I'll raise it for you.
- I got like the-
- Got him.
Tricked you.
- Not like a, I'm not ever gonna say it's an M3,
'cause like I even blacked out like,
so I got like trim, I got bumpers, everything is M3.
'Cause people make clones.
People are-
- Are you that guy?
- No, I'm not a fucking poser.
- Okay, poser.
- Any M3 stuff, rip it out.
None of that.
It just looks better.
It's just nice, it's like the only BMW chassy,
chassy-wise doesn't change between like M3
I mean besides like other little stuff,
but appearance you can make it look cool, nice.
- So out of all that I didn't get
if want a M3 or not.
- Yeah, that'd be nice.
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- Tristan Mctacos says, I just saw a BMW driver
use his indicators correctly on the highway twice.
Should I report this vehicle as stolen?
- Run.
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Just run, sprint as fast as you absolutely can.
- How fast can you sprint?
- Three, maybe four.
- Yeah, same.
- Probably five.
- I sprint once, I did three.
Benjamin Allen wants us to throw hands.
He asks, air or static?
- Static.
- Why?
- No one said being cool was easy?
- What's cool about it?
- What isn't cool about it?
If it looks shitty rolling, that's the problem.
- That's what I wanted you to say
because you say if it looks good rolling
in the static, it's cool.
Guess what?
Every time I see them static cars rolling around,
the bumper's off, the rear bumper's off,
you have 'em inside the car and you're trying
to drive to the next show.
That looks like shit, it doesn't look cool.
- To be fair.
- What about all the oil you're draining down
the road, does that look cool too?
- Fuck yeah bud.
To be fair, I only take off my body panels
when I drove like to other states.
Like I drove it to Tennessee.
A car with negative 12 degrees of camber.
Drove it to Tennessee without just the front bumper.
- Or you could have aired up a quarter of an inch
and just drove it like normal.
- Got people with air still are idiots and ride low.
- Not all of 'em.
- So like, why bother?
It's always gotta look cool.
Plus like bragging rights.
- All right, Christina Marie Mary says,
my flow master Megan exhaust pipes fastback
master speed zone elevation up yours.
- Was that a question?
- I can read it one more time for you.
- My flow master Megan exhaust pipes,
fastback master speed zone elevation up yours.
- So.
- So other than the scissor door, flap door
wing door, beetle wing door switchblade door
swipe up door Lambo door, knock twice
before entering door, what else did you
have done to the car?
- All custom.
- I'm listening.
- No, that's it.
- Everything's custom?
- No, I don't know.
What do you want me to go through?
I sent you the list.
- You can talk about your clapped over fenders.
- Over fenders are clapped.
Those will be changed at some point.
- What happened?
Were you rolling cool, low and steady?
- Yeah, rolling cool.
I was going down good old 94.
Good old 94 was just absolutely whipping it,
then next thing you know, I'm drifting
going 70 miles an hour, skrrt.
- That sounds like something cool
to do in an E36.
- Yeah so and then I look and when I'm pulled over
and my tire just like, is like, I don't know,
it's hard to describe.
You'll see it.
- So did you DB it, is that what you're trying to say?
- No, the tire shredded and then-
- Why?
- Because my tow was off because I didn't have
offset bushing for my R tabs.
- Bless you.
- Yeah man.
- So okay, what else you have done on the car?
I know you sent me a list but I want to hear,
the people want to know what you had done.
They're confused, it's a confusing car.
- Yeah, it's different.
Must customs wing and pro tail lights.
- So why is your ambition to make this car
like actually fun to drive?
- That's kind of my goal this winter is
making it like more practical, so like
I relocated my fuel filter, I'm putting a skid
plate on my gas tank because I'm rubbing through that.
My motor's already touching my hood
because it's raised so high.
And I matched my camber now too.
- That doesn't make-
- I used to have negative 12 in the back
and now I have negative eight to match the front.
But I-,
- You have negative eight all around?
- Yes, it's negative.
- That's still a lot of camber.
- It's better.
When I ran it in the front I didn't have any problems, so.
- So you're saying you're doing all this
to make it more practical.
It sounds like you're literally just doing this
just so you can get it down the road.
- So here's the thing.
I get an anxiety attack about every time
I drive my car for the first time in a while.
- Why?
- But like, 'cause it's stressful.
I hit a lot of shit.
- That sounds cool.
- I am very much like one to earth.
I like the ground a lot, so much so
I hit it quite often.
- Okay.
- Big earth guy, big earth guy,
- Loves earth.
- Do you see the stickers on my camper?
My van?
- You have a camper?
You brought a camper with you?
- No, not this time.
- You could camp in a van.
- Yeah and then, yeah.
So I don't know.
Just make it more practical 'cause I love
driving the car, but it's just like
I don't mind hitting things,
it's just I'm hitting the right things.
Like my frame, I don't mind hitting my frame.
It's already split.
My exhaust is already in a half circle.
- So you ruined the car?
What does Trish think about that?
- Trish loves it.
- Trish does love your car?
- Yeah, she hated it.
- Does she ride in it?
- Yeah, she did.
She posted on Facebook once,
(metal ding)
She posted on Facebook once,
she was cruising with us down spring street, beavertuckey.
- Ah, beavertuckey.
Those were good times.
- That's the place.
- A lot of hillbillies coming back.
- Yeah, my sister's cousin.
So, yeah Trish loves it.
- Trish approved.
- Cool, thank you.
(beep)
What issues have you had with the car?
- The only maintenance thing that has
ever been wrong with the car is that
I had to replace the cluth.
Then, couple winters ago.
- Wait, how many miles are on it?
- A hundred and 60?
- I mean, that's about the time.
- Well no, that was with 95,000.
- What did you do?
Did you learn stick on that car?
- I learned stick on that car.
- That's fair.
- Yeah and plus like when we test drove it,
Trish beat the fuck out of it so it probably
was already slipping without-
- Trish, c'mon.
- Yeah, right.
- Could have sent it.
Could have sent it for the boys.
- For the guys, yup hey.
Yeah and then out of nowhere the car wouldn't start.
It was actually, I was about to leave for
Tennessee last year for Gatlinburg.
Slammed off Gatlinburg and then the car
wouldn't start and I was like what the hell.
I figured out after like my friend helped me
change the wiring harness, check the compression,
'cause it was like almost starting.
- Did that change the whole wiring harness?
- Yeah.
Like everything, like anything that could have
been wrong, we checked, right?
There was water in the gas tank.
I don't understand how it got in the oil,
but it was also in the oil,
but I don't have a blown head gasket
because it's never been a problem since.
- Why you trying to fill up your car with water?
Elon.
- Elon.
(laughs)
- You're a crazy guy.
Not only you make a luxury car, now you try
to make a water car.
I don't know.
(static)
Do you have any advice for somebody
looking to get a BMW E36?
- Coolant problems, always check if the coolant
was replaced, like the whole system was replaced
at some point.
Power steering leaking.
If it's an E36 it's gonna leak power steering,
mine does, it's whatever.
- Remember when I asked if you had any issues
and you were like I just replaced clutch.
- No, it hasn't.
It like hardly leaks.
Like it doesn't even drop.
Some comes out once in a while.
It's like a tinkle.
- You're turning me on.
- It's a tinkle, Dakota.
- Gotta tinkle is my gamertag on Xbox, add me.
- Anyway, so yeah, just and rust.
'Cause there's a lot of rust once in a while.
But they'll be like that.
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- I think that about wraps up.
Thanks for Jasper the cyber truck coming in
and talking about his E36 lamborghini.
If you need any wheels, tires, suspension.
(metal ding)
Fitment industries dot com.
- Yeah man.
- Yeah.
- Which camera am I supposed to look at?
Bye.
- Hey that's my line.
- Oh fuck.
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- Put your hand down.
Give me a bite of that.
- Want a bite?
- Thank you.
That's actually pretty good.
You know you're not that bad of a guy.
You get a bad rap.
- Yeah, I know.
- So long.
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