E30 Zone

Do you covet it and only bring out on days when the sun is shining,use it every day or perhaps just as a track slag?

Be interested to see the different uses they get across the board.

Mine,now she isn't p1ssing fluids out has been put back to work to earn her keep!
Mine gets used everday,normally by the missus for knocking about in during the week and by me at the weekend for abusing Transit style!

Here she was today,hauling two apple trees and other garden detrious to the local tip.

my cabby only used between November and April during our convertable season, and then only if there is 0% chance of rain (which is quite often here!). During the extreamly hot summer months i take it out (roof up) about once a month to give it a run about, mainly to avoid gas loss from the AC.

My 1986 Mk 1 sport minter was used as daily driver by my wife for two years without an issue (except for brakes and fluids etc) and now has been sold to a Scouser mate (better i sold it before he nicked it ) who also uses it daily rain or shine (and our shine can see 50C+).

but i have a company car for my main use.

mrlee

Mine gets thrashed across Salibury plain from Andover to Warminster on a daily basis the other one hasn't moved under its own steam for two and a half years.

The daily hack on a clean day


john

Mine gets used as often as possible, The body is not worth worrieing about and shes fun to drive, no passangers just gets driven hard by me or the mrs...Hers just seems to sit a lot...

Only car so it gets a lot of use. Done 11,000 miles since August

i take it apart.....

then i put it back together again.....

would you like to guess what i do next?.....

Used everyday for work etc. Done just over 2300 miles this month. about due for a wash now!

mine is used everyday for work, no back seats in it so no more than one passenger and they are quite rare

mines used as daily driver

takes me to work and back everyday and anywhere else we decide to go, hasnt missed a beat yet

mines also a daily driver but i only do about 6 miles a day its dead at the moment tho

Mine was used only on dry weekends but now its got a new top im going to use it most weekends.
Best cure for getting rid of most of the crap accumalated at work in the week.Never fails to put a mental smile
back on my face.Dont mean i smil like a mental person , i mean ,well you know what imean.

Winter in the garage Summer weekends only 3000 miles in 2 years

Use mine mostly on weekends and usaully store it away over winter, also take it out on the odd trackday aswell



james.

Both E30s used every day for work.Weapon of choice for a longer trip is the 320(now almost run the 2.7 in)Also own a classic Daimler 2.5V8 saloon that winters in the garage...in bits.....

I drive mine

Mine just gets used when i need to drive. So it did 20k in the year iv had it which is very little for me. Its at home now and im down at college therefore it only gets used when im at home so hopefully the mileage will slow down. Iv take to looking after it and washing it around 4 times a week and always chammying it everytime i wash it etc etc.lol.

i only take my 325i sport out on dry dunny days. stored over winter-drive a pug d-turbo

mine is an everyday car and gets abused daily,the wifes audi is the sensible car

my sport gets a damn good spanking on a daily basis

and the auto gets the same if i can bare to be parted from the sport for long enough

sports gonna get a small rest sometime soon but only so i can sort a 2.7 out
then she will get ripped all over again

i never buy cars to look at or lock away

Quote "so what do you do with your e30"


That's an easy one for me to answer, I mainly kick it as I walk past it.

Both of my cars are used daily for work. One is doing over 300 miles a week and the other is doing about 20 miles a week so I may have to swap them over the winter to even out the use!

at the moment its in a garage covered over

but next year it will be used for track days and shows and will come out as often as possible

daily driver, give it some welly too most of the time. but during the week (mon-fri , ill do about 60 miles, and then do nothing but driving on my weekends!!

i also clean it, wash it, and try to fix it with my very limited knowledge

anything I damn well please.

thrash it, hump it over the worst roads in europe, move engines in it

and she still comes back for more

suffice to say, e30 to the grave mate

Mine gets used daily, abused etc

Keep it in a very dry garage and only use it on sunny days. It's a cab after all.

johnl320 wrote:Mine gets thrashed across Salibury plain from Andover to Warminster on a daily basis the other one hasn't moved under its own steam for two and a half years.

Andover here for me too.

Mine was driven for 2 months before being sent to a friend to build it into a track car. In March it will go to Germany and live 200 yards from the entrance to the Nurburgring.

I've got two E30s at the moment, Rhubarb and Custard.



By day Rhubarb ferries me to and from uni, by night I deliver pizzas in it!

Although at the moment it's so rickety I've been getting the bus to uni, and and taking it very easy on the pizza patrol - still trying to track down a strange knocking noise from under the car.



Custard is the dodgy yellow convertible that has no real purpose except getting on my neighbours' nerves. Started breaking it this weekend. Had a mixed day getting the interior out - on the upside I discovered that the leather sports interior is heated too, just hadn't been connected up. On the downside one of the bolts holding in the rear bench back is totally wrecked, gonna have to drill it out!

still no got that knocking sound sorted dude?

Nope - it's doing my head in. It must be something loose under the car as it happens only at certain revs, or when i'm driving down a cobbled street. Replaced the engine mounts during the week as they were completely rotten, hoped that was going to make a difference, but no change.

Rubbish thing is, I can pretty much guarantee that whatever it is, it's probably my own fault. I'm starting to suspect that when I took the gearbox and propshaft off to change the clutch I might not have put it all back together properly.

Might just bite the bullet and take it to a garage and let them track it down. Don't really have time at the moment to do it myself, it's exam time at uni, and even when I get an afternoon off to work on the car, I still have to be sure that it'll be back in one peice by 5.30 for work!

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tis what they built it for

Mine is my only car so gets used for everything. I get the train to work so it comes out some evening for food shopping trips and at the weekends to visit family and attend E30Zone meets

Sun, rain but not snow. I can drive in snow but I dont trust other people

mines a workhorse gets used hourly lol in whatever weather

mine is purely a toy, i dont need a car as I have a van for work which is fully paid for..

although I use the car because it's so much better to drive and handles so well and got some nice bird pullers on it too.
tbh i just go and see mates in it and make it look pretty lol

Same here my sport is a bit of a toy, i drive a van for work and the e30 mainly only gets used at weekends.

Had her 3.5 years now and this year ive been slowly getting bits upgraded for track use although it will still be used as a road car when its finnished.
I still clock up 8-10k per year in her, just wish i had a garage to keep it out of the elements during the week.

Hopefully there will be a 2.7 in there for xmas