E30 Zone

I got back yesterday from a trip to Brooklands (Weybridge) from York, via Alton in Hampshire. I took the E30 and in 10 hours driving I didn't see a single E30 on the road

I don't do many motorway miles but I was expecting to see a couple at least
Are they all garage queens these days?

Fragged... or rust piles

Or parked at home like mine in not very sunny Hampshire

Cabbie is on SORN until April,used the touring to visit my dad in Stafford on Wednesday,and used it for work Thursday evening and it will go to work again this evening.So far this week the touring has racked up just over 320 miles!

im usually down that way and mine is certainly no princess! haha

I quite often do driving for work between 100-200 miles at a time, in and out of most midlands towns and cities and you are lucky to see 1 E30 a day that is driving, parked, whatever.

I also think E34's are thin on the ground, as is anything with the old traditional BMW front end (twin round headlamps)

Within the next 2 years I think the amount of spares/breakers will dry up, I was only thinking the other day that you don't see as many breakers in the for sale section these days.

Duke137 wrote:Within the next 2 years I think the amount of spares/breakers will dry up, I was only thinking the other day that you don't see as many breakers in the for sale section these days.

There are 8 on the 1st page alone..

I drive 5 miles to work and see 3 or 4 regularly...one house I drive past has 2 on the driveway!

So of the owner of the tidy 318is in Calypso is reading this - give us a wave you miserable old sod

They're getting few and far between as dailys. I've a 316 for daily use and an M3 for summer use which is sorned along with another 4 projects. It's nice to meet another one on on the road now.

+1 for sorned.

No E30 itch can be scratched until the Spring.

Would see one the odd time when i am out and about. Most of the time if I see one it is none kitted/modified one. Its very rare I see a sport around

Mines sorned, but i agree you dont see very many on the road

Jhonno wrote:

Duke137 wrote:Within the next 2 years I think the amount of spares/breakers will dry up, I was only thinking the other day that you don't see as many breakers in the for sale section these days.

There are 8 on the 1st page alone..

Point taken, bad time to post that then....

Not alot gets past you mate

Morat wrote:I got back yesterday from a trip to Brooklands (Weybridge) from York, via Alton in Hampshire. I took the E30 and in 10 hours driving I didn't see a single E30 on the road

I don't do many motorway miles but I was expecting to see a couple at least
Are they all garage queens these days?

I'm not having a dig but, I am quite serious, drive around a poorer area and it won't be long before you see one or more. I can't go to Bridgwater or Wellington without seeing one, but in Taunton they seem to be very rare!

I reckon Bahrain has most e30 per head, I will see about three or four a day on the move and several parked up.

As per OP I spent a month in Europe and saw a handful.

Sorn = gaylord

mines still a daily driver in standard form over the winter months!

I see usually 1-3 E30's a week when I'm out and about, last week I saw one up Milton keynes and One in Luton... I flashed at both but no reply

I see a few down here, mostly ropey old cabs.. and the odd touring, very few coupes.. apart from the rustbucket that lives at my local swimming pool and the sunroofless facelift 316 with the knacked oilpump that's been for sale since the dawn of time..

fragged or went to the scrappage scheme

I use my touring daily & regularly do 70+ miles on the journey to and from work.

In the last 6 months, I've seen 1 E30 (southbound on the A34) and that was a black LHD cab on Polish plates.

e301988325i wrote:

Morat wrote:I got back yesterday from a trip to Brooklands (Weybridge) from York, via Alton in Hampshire. I took the E30 and in 10 hours driving I didn't see a single E30 on the road

I don't do many motorway miles but I was expecting to see a couple at least
Are they all garage queens these days?

I'm not having a dig but, I am quite serious, drive around a poorer area and it won't be long before you see one or more. I can't go to Bridgwater or Wellington without seeing one, but in Taunton they seem to be very rare!

hah, it must be my oh so exclusive postcode!

i see a few around my way but most are rotting turds scraping through mot's by the looks of it.there all boggo models apart from a couple of 318is's.theres a sport sat up near me but the owner wont sell even though its fecked and he's not doing anything with it,not even for 500 notes.ah well ill go back next year and see what he says.

i cant remember the last time i seen one

Tom_Maverick wrote:Sorn = gaylord

mines still a daily driver in standard form over the winter months!

Ok then, let's hear the merits of keeping a 20yr old RWD car with no traction control on the icy/snowy roads that are covered in grit from December through January.

This will be interesting.

Topblag wrote:

Tom_Maverick wrote:Sorn = gaylord

mines still a daily driver in standard form over the winter months!

Ok then, let's hear the merits of keeping a 20yr old RWD car with no traction control on the icy/snowy roads that are covered in grit from December through January.

This will be interesting.

It won't last forever going through winter after winter in the UK

Once my touring comes back from paint it will be ready to brave the winter. Winter wheels on there way to me

I've seen a lot of them recently in my area. Red 325i Touring seen frequently heading onto the A127 from Romford, and once driving behind me for miles on 'the country route' from Ongar to Romford, tatty black 2 door and red 2 door in hornchurch. Silver 2 door on bottle tops towards Havering atte Bower, there's the gold-ish coloured 2 door that I've seen about for ages that's another Hornchurch car, and a silver one that I've seen a couple of times on Hornchurch High Road.

Also; ageing lady in an immaculate green bog spec 316 touring near Roneo corner, woman in her late 40s/50s in a very shiny red 318is in the same area, and there's a proper ageing dolly bird (sixties at least) whose wheels are white 2 door.

Moving over to ongar, silver 318 2 door that I enjoyed a 'two E30 convoy' round the country lanes with, and another tatty black two door.

There's handful round Redhill, Crawley etc.

I've been cruising around for the last few days in a Z1, only because I couldn't get out of the sorry spastic , actually, I am still in it !

pacerpete wrote:I've been cruising around for the last few days in a Z1, only because I couldn't get out of the sorry spastic , actually, I am still in it !

i would very much like to see pics of your Gracefull exit out of the said chariot

didn't see me in my bronzit miester! up and down the M3 daily at the moment. The alpina touring is on the road too. But u don't see hardly any these days.

pacerpete wrote:I've been cruising around for the last few days in a Z1, only because I couldn't get out of the sorry spastic , actually, I am still in it !

Pete, you must have looked like a giant Rollmop.
You were lucky to Leave Golders Green uneaten.

gooner1 wrote:

pacerpete wrote:I've been cruising around for the last few days in a Z1, only because I couldn't get out of the sorry spastic , actually, I am still in it !

Pete, you must have looked like a giant Rollmop.
You were lucky to Leave Golders Green uneaten.

You are correct Rob, it wasn't a good look. As a peace offering I thought I would show the locals that I was one of them, so I dropped the doors and pulled my pants down , alas it was a bit too cold for them to notice !

pacerpete wrote:

gooner1 wrote:

pacerpete wrote:I've been cruising around for the last few days in a Z1, only because I couldn't get out of the sorry spastic , actually, I am still in it !

Pete, you must have looked like a giant Rollmop.
You were lucky to Leave Golders Green uneaten.

You are correct Rob, it wasn't a good look. As a peace offering I thought I would show the locals that I was one of them, so I dropped the doors and pulled my pants down , alas it was a bit too cold for them to notice !

Think i preferred the first image.