Beemer Lab

I got asked on eBay UK if my E21 steering wheel would actually fit an E30, which it turns out they don't. The wheel was then snapped up ...

Swapping seats round in a BMW E21 3-series is a nightmare, thanks to the floor-mounts being two different heights. To fit level-based seats ...

Met up with Jake yesterday and did the deal. He was getting the train down on his own from Newcastle, so asked if we could meet him in Manch...

Quite a sad time this week as the car is now confirmed sold, but it's nice to see it will be going to an enthusiastic new owner, a lad c...

I have a buyer organised for the car, coming to pick it up next weekend. Just throwing up some recent pics of the painted wheel arches.

After my disastrous few weeks I managed to get hold of a Bilstein strut-insert and get it onto the car along with the longer springs, meanin...

** UPDATE - This sold for the same £51 bid that was there on day one of the auction, but alas I missed the end. I've been looking for a ...

Is your front corner-indicator not working, but the bulb and fuse are fine? Mine wasn't and it turned out to be the metal live-clip that...

SPAX adjustable - like hen's teeth. Well, I've had a bit of a nightmare week. As I was replacing the front n/s shock-absorber with t...

Well my MOT, the UK roadworthiness test, has come round and the E21 is just too low to get into my local testing station, let alone up onto ...

When the seats arrived the rear one had a noticeably big tear on the top of the back-rest. By the time I'd finished cleaning them howeve...

Stock fit works, but leaves big gaps. As with the front seats I used HSVTurbos build [ here ] as a rough guide. His rear bench-seat is the a...

MJNewbs from eBay got back in touch and we finally negotiated a low enough price for the seats. The fronts are in great nick, only a slight ...

Hacking out the inner wheel-arches at the back to make the 16x9s fit left them in a right state, with a big gap up inside the wing. Being wh...