[Kicking Tires] The BMW E30 Touring That Almost Never Existed

It’s not often you find a modified BMW E28 in the wild. This 1986 535i caught our attention with its manual transmission, deep offset BBS wheels, and M60B40 V8 swap. “I really wasn’t in the market for another car,” said Jeremy Whittle, owner of this handsome looking E28, “but I wanted to revisit...

Electric water pumps are a point of contention. They tend to fail more often than their mechanical counterparts, yet at the same time offer benefits over the more simple, mechanically driven ones. This statement holds true for the electric water pump on the BMW N54 engine. A very common job to...

After years of anticipation and months of teasers, BMW has officially revealed their 2-series Gran Coupe.  Just yesterday, BMW revealed their all-new BMW 2-Series Gran Coupe in not one, but two variants—the 228i Gran Coupe and the M235i xDrive Gran Coupe. Before we start throwing opinions around...

It has been a few months since our last update on the BMW E36 M3 rally car and in that time, a ton of stuff has happened! We went from a bare shell in our last blog to a running, driving, and log-booked rally car that is ready to take whatever abuse we can throw at it. From day one, we knew that...

Even though the new BMW G80 M3 is sporting some heavy camouflage while running test laps around the Nordschleife, it's easy to see that the design is going to be far removed from that of the outgoing F80 M3. The G80 M3 was just spied out on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife during testing, caught on...

This M-inspired 1995 BMW E34 540i of Jason Grace is proof that you don’t always need to start with an M, you just start with the best BMW you can find. When it comes to the bigger 5-series, the M5 is the car everyone yearns to own in the BMW community. Just after that is the M-Sport version of...

If the ABS/DSC lights just illuminated on the instrument cluster of your BMW, it can be panic-inducing. After all, there's what, roughly seven warning lights that all illuminate simultaneously on the instrument cluster, more warnings on the iDrive, and an alert sound (as if the lights didn't get...

The BMW E34's trailing arms (a.k.a. rear control arms) are basically the meeting points for the rear wheels and all critical suspension components. The trailing arm uses a series of bushings to connect it to the vehicle’s subframe. When a bushing wears out, it can cause the car’s handling to...

Window regulators on the BMW E36 leave much to be desired. But then again most BMW window regulators leave much to be desired when it comes to their reliability. In this DIY, I'll walk you through my method of installing these window regulators as well as a few tips to ensure that the regulators...