Project 'Modern E36' - My 2009 BMW 128i

[Jake]

Mileage: 60,680

Well, the car is "sold." I put it in quotes because although I've received a deposit, my credit union won't get the remainder of the money until tomorrow, and the car is still at home. A guy from Montana found the listing on Bimmerforums and bought the car sight-unseen, only asking a few questions about some maintenance and doing a FaceTime video chat at my suggestion (so I could "walk him around" the car and show the couple of paint imperfections and so on).

One thing I promised the buyer I would do, since I already had the part, was replace the oil filter housing gasket. I didn't realize how bad of a leak it had going on until I pulled things apart last night. The new gasket was $23 and I just saved the new kid a lot in labor costs.



Pretty simple job, similar to the E36. Air intake gets removed, drive belt gets taken off of the alternator, alternator removed, oil filter housing removed. There is a coolant line that has to come off - because yes, cooling lines run through the OFH - so you can remove one of the bolts. I only spilled a little coolant, thankfully.

The buyer is talking to a shipping company now to figure out when the car can be picked up. It's either going away on Thursday or sometime next week.

Sadness. Didn't want to sell, but a 1-series satisfies roughly 0% of my needs right now, and thus makes little sense to keep. And I do like that big blue Yukon.