your e30 useage, garage queen V daily driver v all competion

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how we use our cars

daily driver [in use all year round]
74
54%
bufty garage queen [off road for winter]
56
41%
competition only [track day,rally car,smoking drifter]
8
6%
 
Total votes: 138
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Fastroad
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Fri Mar 29, 2013 7:05 am

I got one queen for the home and one outside for daily abuse. Now that's enough about the wifeys. The cars are pretty much in the same order a garage queen and daily drive
scott180gtb
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Fri Mar 29, 2013 7:36 am

Bufty for me. No winter driving as my shiny arse end will get dirty.

Looking forward and hoping for a Indian summer. :D
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Fri Mar 29, 2013 7:55 am

Daily. Cars are to be driven, and these are especially nice to drive.
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Sun Mar 31, 2013 8:26 am

No option for those of us with more than one! haha

323i Daily (mostly ride bike though)
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Mon Apr 01, 2013 2:14 pm

Mines a garage queen, it wasn't intended that way it was origianlly purchased to be a bit of a hack, dog transporter and potentially future classic if we got lucky. However I think we got lucky so were careful about what goes in it these days but the dog still enjoys his little forays out in it. I love it but I'm not that precious.
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lyricalnut02
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Mon Apr 01, 2013 4:34 pm

Been using the tech 1 as a daily for the last year and its been thoroughly enjoyable.
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Mon Apr 01, 2013 4:38 pm

Mine's a trackday toy, don't really drive it in the winter so I only usually tax it in the summer months. I've got a van to use as a daily driver, but I wouldn't hesitate to get another e30 for a daily if I ever needed to :)
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Mon Apr 01, 2013 4:51 pm

Mine is a garage queen and I taxed/mot'd it from the beginning of march because of needing to get it to my new address from its storage location, so have used it on a few dry only days albeit the roads have been a bit salty :cry: When the bad weather passes the underside and arches are going to get a bloody good wash!

I wouldn't usually take it out when the roads are like this but I've had to fix a few bits and take it for a test drive and also the fact that I'm loosing a months mot and tax is annoying so I want to get my moneys worth at every best opportunity...
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Mon Apr 01, 2013 6:13 pm

in use all year, weather permitting.
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Tue Apr 02, 2013 12:01 am

Since putting mine on the road in 2011 its seen one autumn and winter and a few weeks before xmas time

cant see me driving it for a few years minimum now

reminds me i need to go out get it all waxed and hibernated.

Just cant come to terms in selling a one owner, low mileage rust free L reg touring
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Tue Apr 02, 2013 12:28 am

Both of the road.
One's garaged, and ones on the grass :D
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Tue Apr 02, 2013 11:26 pm

Daily!
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Wed Apr 03, 2013 1:35 pm

Don't own an e30 at present, but when I did (and when I do again), it's daily use all the way :)
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tomislav
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Wed Apr 03, 2013 1:44 pm

Competition mostly but gets driven most of the year too, except when i break it lol
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Wed Apr 03, 2013 4:22 pm

Normally it's a daily driver but it's the spent the last month off the road.
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Thu Apr 04, 2013 6:58 pm

I use my cab daily, 30 miles, all year round, MOT on my Touring has expired, not much needed for a ticket but this shitty weather i can't be arsed!! no garage :roll:
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Sat Apr 06, 2013 8:49 pm

My new one has just been tucked away in a freshly decorated garage. So garage queen all the way
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Sat Apr 06, 2013 10:14 pm

Been off the road 18 months, not really a daily driver now it's back on the road. But not a garage queen either. Avoids winter to slow down the decay...
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