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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 12:18 am

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-E30-325I- ... 20d1752fcc

Lovely looking car!

Your thoughts on price.. has it finally reached the time when it rockets up?
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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 12:23 am

Yummy seems to have started strong on the money though!
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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 12:30 am

was at 4100 now someones removed there bid 3200 looks nice what would you say its gona go for
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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 2:36 am

the exhaust tailpipes look odd to me? anyone else?
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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 2:37 am

smaller like 320 spec maybe?
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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 7:51 am

It's a lovely shell but has visible rust. It's got BK reps, and the LSD needs a rebuild. Lots of talk about leather gaiters and the stereo; zero info on service history, cambelt changes, and it doesn't even have an MOT. Therefore, it's just a 325i with a body kit.

This "sport" love is becoming a disease :mad:
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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 8:04 am

Its still a sport so even if its rotten and abused and has a stereo fitted with scotchlocks i would still pay over the odds for it isnt it.
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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 8:38 am

ditto people need to get it into their heads that sports are most in demand, always have been. Always will.

They were most desired when new and nearly new. Its always been the one "to have"
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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 8:47 am

26 bids... 7 Days to go. Someone has lots of friends! :D
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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 8:48 am

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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 9:04 am

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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 10:03 am

Grrrmachine wrote:It's a lovely shell but has visible rust. It's got BK reps, and the LSD needs a rebuild. Lots of talk about leather gaiters and the stereo; zero info on service history, cambelt changes, and it doesn't even have an MOT. Therefore, it's just a 325i with a body kit.

This "sport" love is becoming a disease :mad:
Every other post of yours seems to be about sport hate!
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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 10:22 am

SteSE wrote:
Grrrmachine wrote:It's a lovely shell but has visible rust. It's got BK reps, and the LSD needs a rebuild. Lots of talk about leather gaiters and the stereo; zero info on service history, cambelt changes, and it doesn't even have an MOT. Therefore, it's just a 325i with a body kit.

This "sport" love is becoming a disease :mad:
Every other post of yours seems to be about sport hate!

GRRRRRRR ! :)
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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 10:58 am

People who hate on Sports just seem butthurt that they are valuable. Not sure why, like any special edition of a car they maintain a value over base models.

Give me a nice chromie over a sport any day now, but there's no point bitching about it constantly like several zoners do.
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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 10:58 am

Grrrmachine wrote:It's a lovely shell but has visible rust. It's got BK reps, and the LSD needs a rebuild. Lots of talk about leather gaiters and the stereo; zero info on service history, cambelt changes, and it doesn't even have an MOT. Therefore, it's just a 325i with a body kit.

This "sport" love is becoming a disease :mad:
So what e30 for sale doesn't have rust or issues to sort, pretty much every e30 for sale these days has visible rust and rear arch and multiple issues, making the "sports have rust" thing a bit old hat and tiresome now

As Simon says (lol) sports are loved and desirable, don't hate the fact !
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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 11:02 am

Here come the Sport owners! :D
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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 11:03 am

SteSE wrote:Every other post of yours seems to be about sport hate!
I think the Wiki info/Sport hate ratio is more like 9:1.

My beef about sports is the same about Nike sweatshirts and iPods. It's the same cheap mass produced product, but with a special logo on it that somehow boosts the value 500%.

It's worse in Tech Help where people talk about fitting Sport engines as if those five letters have boosted the horsepower by 30% :mad:

In the case of Sports I won't deny that 25 years ago they were much better than the average 325i. But after this long when there's rust everywhere and all the special sports parts are knackered (the whiny diff on this one is the case in point) then I don't see the value in them at all.

In this case you've got a particularly un-loved example which has been tarted up with cheap paint and cheaper wheels, and people think it's worth at least 2 bags. That's self-deception to an extreme.
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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 11:07 am

SteSE wrote:
Grrrmachine wrote:It's a lovely shell but has visible rust. It's got BK reps, and the LSD needs a rebuild. Lots of talk about leather gaiters and the stereo; zero info on service history, cambelt changes, and it doesn't even have an MOT. Therefore, it's just a 325i with a body kit.

This "sport" love is becoming a disease :mad:
Every other post of yours seems to be about sport hate!
It,s not all in the Wicki. :)
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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 11:12 am

It's a tech 2, as desirable as rampant bum aids
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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 11:17 am

ross_jsy wrote:People who hate on Sports just seem butthurt that they are valuable. Not sure why, like any special edition of a car they maintain a value over base models.

Give me a nice chromie over a sport any day now, but there's no point bitching about it constantly like several zoners do.
Bang on the money. :D
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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 11:31 am

Grrrmachine wrote:
SteSE wrote:cheaper wheels, and people think it's worth at least 2 bags. That's self-deception to an extreme.
Why is it ? when rusty big standard 2 door 316 and 318 have 1-2k asking prices all over the place , and the fact you simply do not get any sport for under 2k these days or very rare/lucky, and you can break one for 2k probably , when a tech 2 kit fetch 500 and bk reps in nice enough nick fetch same as bbs, and 500 plus for a whole sport interior, 300 engine,few ton an LSD, etc etc... 2k is an absolute minimum starting price,fact
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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 11:33 am

polsta, find me a rusty 316 for two bags and I'll admit defeat and leave you to bask in your Sport glory :D
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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 11:53 am

No defeat in it it's just fact that any sport is 2 bags and worth that in parts, don't try turn it in me with sport glory , it's simple fact

2k 316 shed ?

How about a highly desirable 2.5k auto Quattroporte alpina complete bodge job ?makes that sport look a bargain at 2k

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271186473596?redirect=mobile
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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 12:31 pm

nice find Polsta :D

Maybe we should make some sort of Zone Grand National. Chose ten turds on eBay and bet which one sells first!
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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 1:04 pm

holy cr@p not this again! i think i might just kill myself (in my sport).

your average joe is always going to pay more for a sport as it had more bits from factory....THIS IS NEVER GOING TO CHANGE....EVER!!!!! be it right or wrong, they sell for more. wheter tom, dick or harry would prefer a chromie etc is irrelevant.

are they better? dunno, are they worth it? dunno. at it's best, a sport is only a £5k car anyway and if it is a good one, is great value. i dont think anyone is getting rinsed paying £5k for a car when they could have had an SE for £3k.

i don't know why i'm even writing this, i rise to the bait about once a year, so i'm done :D
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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 1:06 pm

Baiterzz. :)
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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 1:08 pm

Is the Sport faster?







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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 1:13 pm

Jim320i wrote:Is the Sport faster?







:twisted:
at killing myself? probably, bigger tail pipes for gassing :P
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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 1:18 pm

Why argue though when we all could go out and buy a 'baby' M3 which is better in every way (apparently)

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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 3:02 pm

sports are the ones to have always wanted a nice tec 2 brought mine a few weeks back its just nice to no its factory fitted with the bodykit etc

sports are worth double if in good nick if there looked after the cheapest sport now days are 2500 rusty min i paid 3k for min spent another 1600 sorting the body and i love every second looking at it
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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 3:32 pm

Jim320i wrote:Is the Sport faster?
To be fair, yes. Close ratio box, slipper and M-tech suspension all make it faster cross country.
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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 3:33 pm

The seller could have at least wiped the mildew off the leather handbrake handle first! :puke:
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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 5:16 pm

i'm so happy i could just shit!
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Post Sat Apr 13, 2013 6:20 pm

polsta wrote:No defeat in it it's just fact that any sport is 2 bags and worth that in parts, don't try turn it in me with sport glory , it's simple fact

2k 316 shed ?

How about a highly desirable 2.5k auto Quattroporte alpina complete bodge job ?makes that sport look a bargain at 2k

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271186473596?redirect=mobile
Thats just an ad by a deluded fool who thinks because he's got a E30 its a pot of gold, shi*e comparion for your aurgument in my opinion :D