what you pay for your first e30?

[jbh]

just one thats always wondered me..


i paid £50 and a colour telly for a f plate 2 door 320 in blue 6 months tax 3 months mot

thought it was the deal of the year had sport cloth interiour lsd and tec2 spoiler central locking played up a bit but was a great car

[maxfield]

£300.

[d6dph]

£2300, First and only E30

[Brianmoooore]

£800 for the first one, £5280 for the second.

[StuBeeDoo]

I paid £1200 four years ago for a poverty-spec. 107k mile 320i Touring on 15" BBS, with 3 broken manifold studs (but almost FSH).
I've probably spent twice that on it now mainly in upgrades.
I don't care..... It never fails to make me smile inside when I'm driving it (done 44k in it now), and it's infinitely preferable to modern s**te.

[Nemo]

£500 2 dr 316i 154,000 miles with 15'' BK 388 alloys iirc 6 months tax and 12 months MOT but the front valance was pushed back as the woman that owned it before 'nose-dived' driving through a field! Funniest thing is that I still haven't straightened it out 4 years later!!

[bodger]

£200, f plate 325i 105 000 no tax no mot, zender rear spoiler, bilsteins, tsw bbs lookalike sh**e and 4 flat tyres

[smithy318i]

My 1st one was free.
2nd was £1000
3rd was £200
4th was £100
5th was free
6th was £88 and a botte of JD

[bazcoupe]

i paid £675 for a fbmwsh 93 316i touring then a day later bought another non running one for £50 (new fuel pump and it was fine) .

[gooner1]

£1300 on my 86 325i cab. Best 1300 ive ever spent,just wished that i had taken a shedfull of pics so i could compare the changes.

[kam-325i]

My first one, E reg 320i, was £550
My current one, G reg 325i was £650.

[trevski]

£4750 for my cab in 1999 still got it

[A1BMW325iSport]

255quid for a 320i

[dusty23]

my first one £550 318is 164000k lovely untill someone used it as a parking bay

[dimebag_from_hell]

Between 4 and 5k

[darkchild]

£1700 for a 1990 G Plate Alpine/Domestic Appliance White 316i on steels in 2001. Poverty spec but felt like a limo in comparison to my previous Pug 205.

My current 320i cost me £1100.

Most I've ever spent on a car was £8.5K on my E36 5.5 years ago Had my money's worth from it but don't think I'll ever spend more than 3K on a car again.

[oguz327]

I paid £2200 for my first E30, a Y plate 323i SE back in 1994

My current car, a 325 SE auto, or it was cost me £150 but should be worth a lot more now

[alex-e30]

i paid £850 for my first e30 it was a dog 318i, won it on ebay

the current one i paid £1700 its a 318is

[rebelcruiser]

1st one £650 320i se h plate 4 door caylpso red 157000 miles but rotten inner arches-headgasket
etc killed her off.
2nd one looking around for it now.

[schuey]

I paid £750 for my first IS
£400 for my second IS
£700 for my most recent 325i
Will be buying another IS this week cheap cheap! Made healthy profits on all of them!

[E30BeemerLad]

£500

God this thread is an old'un

http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... rlads+shed

[Speedtouch]

1st one: approx £1500 and a Triumph Vitesse with failing brakes for an '84 320i Henna Red 4-door, back in '94, sold two years later for the same amount.

2nd one: £800 from a local used car garage, '87 320iSE Lachs Silver 2-door, sold after a year for £650.

3rd one: £700 from a local free newspaper ad, '88 325iSE Black 2-door, sold after 10 months for £1200.

4th one: £1900 from an old school pal, '89 325i Sport Diamond Black 2-door, in need of some tlc.

Great value cars!

[E30BeemerLad]

oh and I paid £133 for my 2nd

[e30-320i]

i paid £400 for my 320i(f)

[dutu]

£500 for my first 318is
£50 for my second 316i doubled my money over the weigh bridge
£50 for 316 baur also went to the weigh bridge
£500 for the one i have now
still miss my 318is though should have dumped the boyfriend earlier instead of selling the car
only paid £200 for the m535i though

[Andyboy]

I bought my first E30 in November 1994. It was a metallic maroon (Burgundrot) 323i on the Y plate with bottlecaps, LSD and sports seats. It was £600 and the head was cracked but that was very cheap for an E30.
I used it for a while and although it ran very hot it went and went and went.

The cheapest E30 I had was free, the most expensive about £12'000 for a Sport Evo.

[lance1a]

R15 000 South African for a 1987 chrome bumper 4 door 316 carb. That was my first E30, though I had four e21/e28's before that. First ever BMW was 1982 2.0L 518 (twin Stromberg) automatic that was so slow it got bug-splat on the rear window. Cheapest....free.

[Brianmoooore]

It was £600 and the head was cracked but that was very cheap for an E30.

Similar to my first £800 one! That was supposed to have had a cracked head, but it turned out that the head gasket had been changed by an idiot.
Ran it for two years (until i had a drive in a 325!) and sold it for £1700.

[beardymat]

i paid £3500 for a 2 door diamondswartz 320i with only electric windows and nowt else
was eight years ago though, thought it looked great on 17" hockenheim replicas

my second was a £500 tech 2 sport which is the one in my sig pic.

[spook]

i paid 2700 for my 325i eight or nine years ago, its now morphed into a hartge wannabee

[oguz327]

It was £600 and the head was cracked but that was very cheap for an E30.

Similar to my first £800 one! That was supposed to have had a cracked head, but it turned out that the head gasket had been changed by an idiot.
Ran it for two years (until i had a drive in a 325!) and sold it for £1700.

Wonder if there are any Y plate 323i's left, I know mine was starting to rot in funny places back in 94 and must be long gone now!

[BMracing]

£350, last year. It was a trade in when I worked for Elms BMW..
White 4 door 325i, '89 G, 89,000 miles, 2 previous owners, specialist FSH, 2 previous owners, bodywork good, interior mint, mechanically superb.

[grantfk10]

I paid £1200 for my touring, spent twice that on her in the two and a half years I had her, sold her for less than half that, and now she might end up being a van???

[handpaper]

£150 for a Diamondschwarz (sp?) '88 318i lux 4-door, major rust issues but 7 months MoT, used it until that ran out. Replaced by
£350 Lachsilver '89 320iSE 4-door that did 44,000 miles in three years, 2500 of them on the Nurburgring! Died there September, replaced by
£500 Alpine white II '89 4-door 325iSE, very clean and original.

[eko]

87 316 carb £20
88 316i £100
86 318i £166
90 318is straight swap for above 318i
87 320i SE £600
91 316i £400
E36 323i £1300