E30 Zone

I got some new tyres the other day and to celebrate the loss of brain numbing vibrations, I tried a little top speed run to see if the engine was still making anywhere near std power (on a private road you understand).

Built up a bit of speed and bang.... the black trim strip around the top of the doors flew off!

Bloody car.

Jai

How fast were you going come on own up...

Pal

Same thing has happened to me twice

Glue the front edge down is the trick!

Ive got some spare ones here but posting them would be a nightmare

Honestly though, i've never heard of anything like this happening to anyone before

Pal

WARP SPEED captain!!

only herad of it happening once before, funily enough it was on a 318is too

billgatese30 wrote:only herad of it happening once before, funily enough it was on a 318is too

Does that make it a common fault on the iS then?? Hmmmm.

Know of 3 people who have had the same problem.

One person has used black tape to attach them to the car.

May i suggest using some bostik glue, or nip the leading edge together a little.

Hmmm....gonna have to check mine although i've been upto 120 without this happening. Was testing my 3.64 LSD and took it to the top of 4th before looking at the speedo

jonbuoy wrote:WARP SPEED captain!!

Still thats a first of something parting company from a standard car, seen bonnets flying off Rallycross cars many times though

This happened to me once on one of my 325i's and I was doing less than 60mph. Bit of JB Weld sorted that out.

had same problem on a 320i se, only doing about 70. made some noise when trying to fly away

Passager wing mirror glass shot out of the DTM's on my old M3 @ 145mph.

I have lost that bit of trim before on my old m10 on the m6. completely gone ata around 80+mph lucky there was nobody behind me!

Same here!
but mine was flapping about!

mine came off @ 75 hit a land rover behind and the other side came loose a few days later

Lost my drivers side strip doing 90+, really didn't know what had gone till I stopped! By the time I got back it was flattened and pretty much buried into the road, plus I aint going to play chicken in the fast last on the A14!

Still got the one I borrowed from the 318i I used to have although it never fitted quite right.

Glad I aint the only one tho!

Mark.

I was going flat out which was 130mph on the clock... Probably about 110 of your earth miles per hour! (didn't have gps till this week)

Jai

same thing happened to us at about 150 sounded just like a whip very scary

I have aslo had this happen and they are Ԛ£57+ VAT from bmw to replace and this was on my IS. so i got one off a touring and cut it down. thing was it also scratched my boot as it shot off

on my first 6 pot 5 yrs ago now 325i se 4 door lol ace motor slammed on its ass just cowboy stylee back then was hitting 120mph on the a1 on my way to peterborough to get a bloody passport lol it shot off and narily avoided going thru a ford Ka front windscreen lol at the time i just pissed myself laughing as it looked like a spear or something lol

ive just sold the last set i have of these or id have said i have them sorry man mad though how they love to shoot off.

That happened to me on my 325 the other day, passenger side went flying. Need to get a new one now..

Looks like it's not wise of follow E30s at speed!

Yep same here, hence the little wanted ad in my sig......

Lost mine too (and also on an is???) - the front edge flew off and was only hanging on by the very last piece. Sorted it by crimping the front section a little bit before sticking it back on. 7 years later and it's still there so my fix must have worked.

Mine is still missing after it flew off going down the M62!!! Wasnt doing anything over 70mph in the outside lane at all.