The CAR WIZARD inspects Mint '78 BMW 320i
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- The CAR WIZARD inspects a mint '78 BMW 320i and shows the items that are needing repair.
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No gimmicks or stunts or clowning for clicks. Thanks Wizard, solid video
Exactly. No EVERYTHING THATS WRONG WITH ... just solid knowledge shared. Subscribed.
ametistihiomo no GOODBYE EVERYBODY FOREVER! for the 53rd time
Nice car. Love your honesty with your customers. Wish more mechanics were like you.
wow, brings back memories of a simpler time: coil, distributor, spark plug wires, throttle cables, ah the good old days of analog everything. So simple.......
I miss this era of BMW. I had a 1973 3.0s and a 1982 528e and those were far better cars than today's over engineered disasters.
Lovely car ruined by the heavy USA bumper.
I kind of like the look. Plus you can sit butt on the front bumper
Yeah, but I had a 1982 BMW 528e with the big ugly bumper and someone in a then modern (1997) Subaru rear ended me trying to stop for a traffic light they didn't see. It obliterated their front bumper cover and I just had to clean their paint off my bumper. My car didn't have a scratch on it.
@@kevinpatrickmacnutt I had a 1985 535i and one time I accidentally put it in first gear instead of reverse and busted up the front end of a 1995 Ford Taurus pretty good. My car didn't have a scratch.
Its a fucking bench 😂😂
Fit a Euro (or "Rest Of World") bumper to it and it would be a great looking little old car!
That's a nice little Bimmer. Only thing I hate about it is the US spec front bumper. Would love to see that replaced with a smaller Euro spec bumper to tidy up the look.
Yeah, but Americans drive poorly and many park by touch, the 70s and 80s push bumpers are actually something of an asset if you live in the city or around morons... Just had someone tap my bumper at a stop light last week.
custom bumper tuck on mine looks just fine :)
Yeah first mod (not really even a mod) I would do.
@@braveladder1682aftermarket parking sensor will take care of that.
Back when BMW made a car that contained actual metal parts instead of all the cheap plastic parts they use now.
That rings true with every car ever built.
wtf are you talking about? there is plastic in this car and im sure its all dried out. the new ones hardly use plastic and is a better quality plastic. look at those door panels. i can do better than that. its just the tech they had back then
Every car now is either plastic or carbon fiber. And when I look at W210 mercs and they are just rusted to hell. Most examples in rust belt are just full of holes. I take plastic over that any day.
And no explosive / airbags ‼️
they were pieces of shit.320 was created for the disposable market.
I used to love these cars. I drove a 78 320i for many years, and I have to say that this one has been really pampered! I've never had one with AC, mine was deleted and I put in the non-ac console. The 2.0L shown here is a true soldier; BMW made the M10 from the 50's to early 80's. Easy to tune by ear to pass emissions, starting with valve adjust and ending with the AFM mixture tune. What makes it tricky is what prev. owners and mechanics that don't understand K-Jet have done to it. Vacuum leaks are always the main culprit, but people start turning the idle speed screw to fix the high idle, then move the factory set throttle stop instead of the idle screw. Then YOU get the car and wonder why the hell it's not responding! I also owned an 83 320iS. Love that car also, and rebuilt it's engine. These are fairly easy to work on, but as you know, cheap chinese suspension parts don't last! OCP is crap, the worst. Use Lemforder if you can find it, or Mahle. Gas smell- there are vent hoses above the fuel tanks that rot; the cloth covered stuff that makes it hard to see a bad hose. They are found by removing the rear seat, and you will see two access panels above each fuel tank IIRC. Passenger tank has fuel pump assy. It will always need a new oring when you put it back in. The vent lines/return lines etc go between the two tanks. You can lower the tanks a bit to get more access from above.
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My first BMW was an E30 316 with a 1.8 M10 run by a horrible Pierburg carb. Ran dreadfully, shame as the M10 is a superb engine in just about every other configuration! Went to an E30 318iS M42 which was amazing (still have one 26 years later.).
I've had an 83 533i and a 90 525i. Those cars made me bored of my E21 due to their more modern build quality. I always wanted an E30 though- M42 is a great engine for sure.
Most people don't understand K-jet and I'm one of those. But M10 from E28 or E30 had L-jet and with that it was probably the best 4-cyl enginge of its time.
John McDonald people also mess with the throttle stop on Alfa Spica fuel injection and the only way you can set it back to factory is with the factory special tool. Spica is great once it’s set right a lot of people think converting from Spica to dual Weber’s is cheaper but in reality a rebuilt pump is the same price as a carb conversion and the Spica injection runs smoother.
WOAH I did not expect to find all of this helpful information down here!
Old BMW's are awesome.
New ones are poorly designed garbage. Lease cars,36 months and dump.
Wizard, Thank you for making quality videos and thank you for not hawking cheap Chinese junk watches and speakers like some other RUclips channels.
Shots fired!
Nice car apart form the silly US spec bumpers. Rust should always be dealt with. Earlier the better. I hope you told the customer about it!
My god those US spec bumpers make a pretty car damn ugly!
Are you guys allowed to retro fit the proper bumpers now it's a classic?
yes
I own a ‘77 320i. They are fantastic cars. It’s my daily!
Wizard, every time I watch your video, I just can't believe the amount of knowledge you have. You are truly amazing! I know nothing about cars, yet I still watch watch every time :D
It’s why he’s a wizard of cars
Straight to the point ,no bullshit video...awesome job Wizard👍👍👍
Reminds me of a dental exam. Nice work Wizard!
Old BMW's are the only BMW's I like.
In the UK our e21`s were the 316 with a 4 cylinder carburettor 1.8, the 320 with a 6 cylinder carburettor 2.0 litre and the 323i with a 2.3 litre fuel injected 6. Bumpers were smaller, no cats and no air con - pretty basic.
Ah that's where I'm getting confused, I assumed all 320i's were 6 cylinder (apart from the modern ones).
I wonder how the current BMWs will age compared to these given the modern reliability issues
watch Hoovies garage and wizard videos on that pink M5 you see in the background. Total piece of junk IMO, lots of expensive and hard to fix things on that car that can make it undrivable.
Based on my experience with a 1985 BMW, I would say that the reliability issues are not new
Travis Watson Most current cars will be off the road long before this, once all the electronics start to fail 10-15yrs in there will be no saving them.
@@CarswithNash electronics aren't any harder to fix than anything else if you know what you're doing
Simplicity means longevity. Try this a new BMW, there will be a myriad Leaks, and sensors malfunctioning left rite and center.
Its about time these cars are getting some recognition.
Thanks Wiz for making this good quality content!
Watching is very soothing. The wizard is an honest dude, too:)
Wizard, there are lamps for on your forhead hea.. 🙄 spare your front teeth bro ;)
Describing the fuel injection as simply Bosch Jetronic doesn't explain much. It's K-Jetronic, which is totally different from D-Jet and L-Jet, etc., which are essentially EFI, whereas K-Jet is constant fuel injection
It's K jetronik he said it Early in the video
And don't forget KE-Jetronic witch is controlled by a simple computer
Hi from Russia, Wizard. Watching your videos with pleasure. Carry on.
Wow. Super clean. Good on the owner. Nice ride. I love engine bays on these old German cars: hoses and wiring is organized, clamped and routed. Open up any 1978 American car (e.g., Ford Granada or Chevy Caprice or Dodge Dart) and it's a mess.
And they didn’t have craptastic fuel injection, worn out guibos, nor the electrical issues of these cars either.
There were no Dodge Darts made in 1978😉 but I agree the fit and finish on US cars back then was horrible.
MrZdvy Haha. Yes. You are correct. Originally I wrote 1976 as the year but then edited it to correct it to be 1978 but failed to make same correction to my car models. Good call.
alliejr 😉👍
definitely enjoyed this video - i was always curious what mechanics looked at when inspecting a car for the first time
I love the wizard channel, no fluff , pomp or circumstance! Just real stuff.
I had an E28 525E for a while. Damn I love the old Sharknose BMWs!!
I had one of those too, owned it twice! One of the nicest driving cars I ever had. But later I got an M535i with a dog-leg box - oh my ;-)
I have an 85 535i that I'm hoping to put back together before the Hoovie garage month at the Wichita Cars and Coffee
Is that Cat illac yellow?
why there is no ball bearing turbos in it yet?
Those us spec bumpers look awful, :) but a nice car
I like them, maybe because i live in germany, and we always had the small ones.
WOW!!! I had a 81 320i 5speed
Luv it Luv it Luv it
Head gasket possibly failing hence bad idle when hot and back pressure in coolant pushing some out through the filler cap.
I thought you were doing a 3208 swap when I saw the yellow.
Cool vid as usual Wiz,love your channel buddy.Keep rollin bigman
I bought a '77 320i right before I graduated from high school in '92. Fun car but no A/C. I swear that summer was the hottest on record. That was the last car I ever bought without A/C. LOL
No a/c and no heat currently in my e36 ... fun times
Ac is for pansy ass people
And you survived it
@@chiclone-tests71 Barely. The car ended up spinning a bearing during 1st week of college after the summer break. Lessons learned but it was a fun car!
Don’t worry about not having A/C on that car. I had an ‘81 and the dealer add on A/C sucked donkey.
Love older bmw
More reliable than new ones.
Lifetime fill...
Certainly a REAL BMW.simple reliable and easy to maintain.unlike todays model that was overtly complex expensive and difficult to operate.
I owned a high mileage `83 stick shift. Loved driving that car, still one of my all-time favorites. Modern cars just don't have the same feel.
If your cruise control ever fails on the Diesel Caddy you can always use a brick because you are going to be running it wide open on the highway.
E21 3 series had no cruise control.
I remember in late 1977 going with my dad to the BMW dealer and looking at a brand new BMW 320 and my dad repeatedly saying "I'll NEVER pay $13,000 for a new car. We ended up with a new Honda Accord.
For my birthday this year, I'm asking for a car Wizard... hope I get one... 🤞🤞🤞🤞
You cut the video JUST when the door was about to shut with that satisfying clunk. Ugh!
My ‘79 - 320i I bought back in 1990, never looked that good... even though it had a fresh paint job. That engine looks amazing. Mine .... well I scrapped it for $500 and it’s trany was finished. Thanks for the video- it can be a fun little BMW to own. If you find the right one.
Loved the inspection video, do more! We all enjoy them! You did awesome, I felt like I was right there with you going through it! Keep it up buddy! Love ya Mr and Mrs Wizard!
Great inspection video....show the youngins how it’s done....Nice little old Bimmer. I owned a ‘73 2002 @ 1980.....which was this cars predecessor. Back then....this is what you bought when you wanted a nice small well made car.
Ever car in the UK over three years old gets an mot every year much the same as you did there except much more costs £45 but after repairs usually about £350 , i dread it every year.
if i see what cars are driving on the road sometimes, it is good they do an every year MOT on cars older then 3 years. If we have some people have their way, they would be driving without an MOT with all consequences regarding traffic safety. 350 pound in repairs is not much. My car an opel corsa 1.4 16v has recently got an MOT, it needed some maintenance and repairs 633 € in all, i feel good driving a safe and well maintained car.
BMW really made nice cars back then. And no computer chips and electronic nightmares.
Nice little trip down memory lane!
Engine color is spot on, it will look like a cat.when you open the hood at a car show
I like that you don't.slam hoods or ham hand customers cars . on t v car shows they like to throw parts and tools accross the. shop or at each other.
Look at the dive boards on that bad boy!
Thank you sooooo much for not putting music in your videos! please keep it that way!!
Please get the owner to put Euro bumpers on it. Those railway sleepers look fuggly.
I had the exact same car. Like Wizard said, it was painfully slow even for the time. But solid and precise handling. I can almost smell the horsehair seat stuffing.
It’s not de-icer fluid. It’s Rain-X windshield washer fluid
If rain-x washer fluid designed to be used below freezing is labelled as de-icer. So--- xD
I would happily swap my E92 for this thing.
I prefer the US spec bumpers on my '82 E21. You can sit on them, they're bumpers that actually do what they were meant to do....and they're so 80's.
My 85 and 88 Camry have those huge bumpers at least it save me trips to the shop when some morons bump to me accidentally
The E21 is in really nice shape. The US spec bumpers really don't do it justice. I'm glad you are making progress on the Cadillac project. More videos please!
I have a 323i! Absolutely love it!
love the old BMWs. huge thanks Car Wizard for showing us around!
2 of my must have again cars 320i, 280z.
THIS was informative! I’m not a gearhead so this really helps me learn what is what and what to look for on my classic car. Thank you very much Wizard!!!!
Dat thicc US-spec bumper :(
I wish I lived closer to you so I could use you for a auto mechanic...
Gotta say, i envy your calm nature. I get so pissed working on cars. Glad i never became a mechanic. Id be the Gordon Ramsey of cars lol.
That's an anger management issue. Taking it out on a car you don't own? Seriously?
In Europe we only did get 323i, but atleast it was 6 cylinder with 143hp.
We had the 320i in the UK. I had the 323i which was a really fun car.
UK 320 / 320i was M10 until 79 then six cylinder M20. First BMW I ever sat in was a mate's 78 320.
Only? There was many more. 315, 316, 318, 318i, 320, 320i, 320/6, 320i/6 and 323i
We also got the E12 318 320 320/6i and some other models with different engine configurations, from carburetors to fuel injection. the 323i was the top of the line E12
would love to see a follow up/update on the BMW
Good tips, nice video... but you really should get some better lighting for filming under cars (you can get camera friendly LED’s)
I got a 318i from a beach bum. The entire car stunk of feet!
That thing looks brand new
BMW made & sold these like hot cakes. Most are now piles of rust. Great to see a survivor.
looks a solid and wel maintained bmw
but all those little fixes can add up to a lot of dollars
old cars are fun to look at, but when you start driving them
its always something that goes wrong :D
so i quit that hobby
cars take to much money and the fuel prices dont help either
soon all of those old cars will be banned or to expensive to drive i think
for a more green environment
Paying for depreciation and interest adds up to even more than keeping an old rig running. Older cars work in cycles. Many things go at once, you fix them, and then vehicle is solid for a while until the next set of replacement things come up.
Why no bmw m5 videos...
I feel like they’ve been working on it for months!
@@thelastmemphian they have!
You can fit the BMW in the caddy engine bay lol
Holy cow a honest mechanic , you’ll never be short of work , very refreshing to see .
Knock on wheel weights on alloy wheels..... Nooooooooooooooo.
Yes, it's Bimmer, (not Beamer). As I recall, the term 'Beamer' is used for BMW motorcycles
You are correct!!
When you think, american bumpers couldnt even worse.. look at that MONSTROSITY! Such a great design, ruined 🤔
Be careful wizard, strong pornography this strong isn't allowed on youtube.
You accidentally the the word
@@bostyt50 what what?
@@yamahonkawazuki you don't want to say the P-word in comments sections on smaller channels. RUclips's algorithm has started to look for it an will turn off entire comments sections.
@@MrSomnix and we wonder why yt is going downhill. Theres some good pr0n as well. Cars bikes etcetera
I used to own a 320A around that year, maybe 77 or 78. That was the carburetor version, and it was a 2 door. The car was already pretty far gone when I got it, and I ended up selling it off cheap as I am not a mechanic and it would have cost more than it was worth to rebuild the engine which overheated and was starting to cause trouble. Pity, as it was a nice looking car. I am in Australia so didn't have the ugly American bumpers.
I like the yellow on the Olds diesel; it matches the color of diesel fuel containers and makes it look like a CAT bulldozer! I think your reasoning for the motor is completely logical as well as the reliability upgrades, but the selfish side of me wants to see a roots style supercharger or Banks turbo setup on top of that thing.
101hp. While technically an improvement over the 2002, it hasn’t lept up in value, so they can still be picked up fairly inexpensively. Fun to drive...something sadly missing in just about every modern Bimmer.
R u s t
Yeah I've not a UK E21 on the road in years. They don't get the love E30s do.
WHAT FUCKING FUEL LINES ARE THOSE FROM THE FUEL DISTRIBUTOR????
This is Bosch K-jetronic, and normally these lines are braided metal over very good plastic. This is true whether this is a Porsche 930 or a Volkswagen Rabbit; Where the hell did these come from?
Another EXCELLENT video!
Well, I am glad at least that you are painting your Olds diesel engine Caterpillar yellow, though I really think you will find that you've made a big mistake the first time you drive it. You have installed the equivalent of a non-turbocharged 1.6 liter 16 valve gas engine in a 5500 pound car~
"I've got it floored! I've got it floored!" NOCK NOCK NOCK NOCK NOCK NOCK"
My brother would charge twice as much for exhaust work so he wouldn't have to do it. I don't blame you for not doing exhaust....
I hope you figure out vacuum on that caddy. The Diesel doesn't make any.....
Sick of those cartoony Vipers
My first car was a 78 e21. I was excited to ditch the family Camry. Maybe a bit too excited. Great cars but the Bosch fuel injection needs love and attention. Still have the car though and I love it all the same
Nice BMW - looking forward to hear this diesel running👍
That M10 motor cylinder block was used for BMW's F1 turbo engine which eventually produced over 1000HP in qualifying boost. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_M12
The E21 (a.k.a. the original 3 series and obviously the one in this video) is a little gem of a car. I am biased, my first car was a 1976 E21 BMW 316. I'm in Sweden so it was a euro spec car, which means none of those ridiculous bumpers. I'm not sure if you had the 316 in north america, but it had the same M10 block but with 1.8 liter displacement and 90 hp. Very rev happy as well as very tail happy =)
I've also had a 1981 323i, which is the most powerful and BY FAR the most desirable version because it had the inline-6 m20b23 with 143 hp and mine was also upgraded with a lower gearing, seriously limited slip diff (I'm talking audible wheel slip on tarmac while turning), Bilstein coil-overs and the unique for E21 Recaro seats (which btw are seriously supportive as well as stylish, as long as you're not very large. I'm broad and fat by european standards which means i was exactly the right width to be extraordinarily supported). It had an aftermarket exhaust as well, which made such a glorious inline-6 noise! Oh what a car!
Thank you for the tour. The BMW brings back memories, I had a 1986 BMW 524td owned for 8 years, always leaked fuel from the injector pump because the PO hooked up a Waste Oil -piece of cr--#p-- system that ruined the pump seals. So I advertised on and had 30 interested folks from all over the U.S. sold to a BMW car guy and even made a profit of $500.00.. The 260 Z, I had a 2+2 version, removed the smog and installed webbers and headers- tuned on a Sun chassis dynomometer amazed at the power increase..also rebuilt the distributor. Looking forward to future undates on the 69 Caddy.
That car's in really good condition, the main thing with BMW E21s (the first 3 series, 76ish to 83ish depending on the market) is rust and this one just seems to have NO rust. That car in Sweden (and probably in large parts of Europe and particularly in the Netherlands) is worth money! Those bumpers are just a crime unto the designers though, they ruin the whole car! If you watch this video, please do yourself and others a big favor and google E21 pictures, because those bumpers SERIOUSLY ruin the design of the car. The E21 cars are just beautiful without those hideous US-bumpers.
Yellow should be banned for use on passenger cars. FUGLY!!! You should have researched Cadillac colors. Plenty of other options than YELLOW!!!. Hideous.
They had such a big bumper mainly because the front and rear end or not strong enough for the AmericInn safety standard at that time.
Wizard, you are making a BIG mistake mounting that diesel engine in this 5500 pound car! 90/105/120hp versus 5500 pounds: Sorry, but you have to pull in to traffic, and these engines will not sufficiently do that!
Good luck man, but please be careful~
Always pains me to see European cars from this era having their looks ruined by those god-awful US-bumpers.
I've had my driving lessons on this type of BMW. You reffered to the 320i as a "small" engine. May be right from your perspective, but for us Germans the 320 had been a larger engine. On the European market you could get a 1.6 liter and even a 1.5 liter version as well-both of them only with a manual transmission...
Re: The Cadillac valve cover color: David, what the heck are you doing painting the valve cover mustard yellow?! The correct color for a 5.7 diesel is a blue metallic with a hint of silver tint. Anything but what you've painted it, (except pink or purple). By the way, can I go car hunting with you next time?
Remember those old BMWs. My dad had 5 320s in a row, starting around '78 (give or take a year) before switching to 525s.
He drove a lot for business, tended to replace them every 2 years or 250000km.
A family friend owned that car, incredibly well made. He owned it for two decades. In the 90s, I bought a new 320i expecting similar quality...horrible car, flimsy and a constant source of trouble.