Whats your most expensive mistake ?? E30 wise.

[Colonel Sanders]

spunking over 10K on mine and still not having it running. my E30 hates me...

[robbo86]

I suspect my next one is going to be doing an IS conversion which I am starting today!

[e30bmlover]

Expensive? My E30 has to be the cheapest car I've ever had. Paid £2600 for it 7 years ago and its insured now for £2000 on a classic policy. All I've done is service it.

you are very lucky my friend... if i was to post exactly what i have spent on mine you would have a stroke.

[pnd]

Expensive? My E30 has to be the cheapest car I've ever had. Paid £2600 for it 7 years ago and its insured now for £2000 on a classic policy. All I've done is service it.

so in seven years you haven't changed the tyres or had anything go wrong except that covered by inspections 1 +2? this is truly remarkable and at variance with all my long experience of e30 ownership do you actually drive it?
in my experience even e30's that have been looked after will need a lot of regular maintenance these days let alone your average shed which will cost plenty to get and keep nice.
so far this year on my over maintained car i have had 4 new tyres, a new battery, a new rear wheel bearing two oil changes, a couple of ball joints and a new fuel pump and thats on a low mileage FSH from new car.

[fuzzy]

i suppose believing the crap a garage owner spouted and entrusting them to do my cosworth conversion cost me an extra couple of grand to put right with new turbos, wiring issues etc needed.

[steve_k]

well in the 2 years i've had my sport i've had the head gasket go on it & crack the head & end up paying £500 for a new engine (with less miles under it's belt than the old one) including fitting only for that one to crack it's head 3 week's later!!

it's only because of trev (b7) selling me a fully rebuilt (885 cast head) just before new year that it's still on the road otherwise i would have scrapped it.

apart from that i dread to think how much it's cost me.

in a way if i add up how much i've spent on it in the last 2 years i could've bought a brand new(ish) 325.

[SK360]

Expensive Mistake = Buying an E30 lol.

[maxfield]

Going sideways everywhere... Was getting through tyres like no tomorrow.

[Hyperion]

allowing a garage to correct the camber on the rear wheels....learnt my lesson and learnt alot about the car though..

[gudgeon]

With only 1 set of keys, locking my 3 year old in the car strapped into her seat.

(Am I the only person with a remote central locking fob that takes significant fiddling to work when you want it to but seems to trigger just by looking at it when you don't?)

I made the mistake of trying to remove the rear quarter glass without breaking it. It broke anyway and the seal cost far more than the glass.

Also I paid £250 for my first E30 with 2 months MOT, knowing that it would fail (cheaper than renting and got me through a difficult patch). I couldn't be bothered with fixing it (rear arches) and gave it away. Had to tell my wife I got £100 for it though ;)

[R4N_S_S]

i bought two of the damn things.

one hasnt moved in over 2 years of me owning it

[hubble]

I paid US$550 on eBay for a pair of sports seats...they never turned up

That's a beauty.

[1an]

Going sideways everywhere... Was getting through tyres like no tomorrow.

sounds abit like mine aswell, that with puting a m20b25 into my tourer along with an lsd

[hubble]

Letting my wife take the car only to bring it back with 2 badly scuffed Alpinas and a badly scrapped front m-tec2 valance, apparetly "didn't think it would hit the kerb"

I'd have filed for divorce . Scuffing Alpina rims is punishable by death

[ShepsEvo3]

Buying a 316

[hubble]

Mine was leaving the handbrake off my Fiat 127 which then mounted the kerb and went head-on into a tree.
It wasn't so much the car I was bothered about, but the embarrassment of my girlfriend watching at the front door...whilst her friend said ''Isn't that you car rolling down the hill''....

[toby]

leaving the keys at home to my highly specced E30 which i had just parked up after renewing all the bilstien suspension, brakes and a recent repaint, then to have my scum of little bro take it for ajoy ride, smash it into pieces, then leave it for a scrapguy to pick it up and wiegh it in never to see it again....

and i had just transferred the insurance to another car - so no payout...

gutted doesnt cover it - it still hurts

Commiserations. What a little git!

[toby]

Buying a Tech 2 Sport last year, spending quite alot on service parts and alot of time MIG-welding the rust then stoving it into a crash barrier a year later - Cat B write-off

Spunked £200 on a nice Hottuning six-branch for it too, now sitting in the garage with no car to put it on

Still, the cheque from the nice insurance company arrived today, and covers my costs

Oh no!!

Unlucky fella - I hadn't noticed you post this before.

Is that A2 northbound near Dargate?

[robbo86]

Is that A2 northbound near Dargate?

Near dargate by the looks of things but looks southbaound to me, just up the hill form herne bay!

[Speedtouch]

Yes, a previously unknown to me notorious accident blackspot at Dargate/Graveney, which claimed another car in the same week. I was indeed heading away from Herne Bay bound towards Aylesford (Westbound?)

More pics on pages 3 & 4 of this thread http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... c&start=50

[da4x4turbo]

Expensive? My E30 has to be the cheapest car I've ever had. Paid £2600 for it 7 years ago and its insured now for £2000 on a classic policy. All I've done is service it.

so in seven years you haven't changed the tyres or had anything go wrong except that covered by inspections 1 +2? this is truly remarkable and at variance with all my long experience of e30 ownership do you actually drive it?
in my experience even e30's that have been looked after will need a lot of regular maintenance these days let alone your average shed which will cost plenty to get and keep nice.
so far this year on my over maintained car i have had 4 new tyres, a new battery, a new rear wheel bearing two oil changes, a couple of ball joints and a new fuel pump and thats on a low mileage FSH from new car.

Come on, are you going to try and say that it's only an E30 that would have needed 4 new tires, the oil changed and a new battery? Regardless of what you have those things will have to be done!

To put that into perspective, I've "spent" approximately £1k a month on depreciation on my E92 over the last 12 months!