How long have you had your E30

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kieran325
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Mon May 21, 2007 8:38 pm

Ive just gone through my service history and had a look at the log book :eek:

I got my Sport on the 26th Oct 1995 8O that's 12 years of Sport ownership....

How long have you had your E30 for ???
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Mon May 21, 2007 8:42 pm

Had mine going on 5 years now :D
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Mon May 21, 2007 8:43 pm

Nearly three years now ,never kept any car longer than this!


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Mon May 21, 2007 8:43 pm

since last september
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Mon May 21, 2007 8:43 pm

My dads had his M3 for about 8/9years not exactly 100% sure.

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Mon May 21, 2007 8:45 pm

a year and a half but only had 2 weeks with the bmw engine.
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Mon May 21, 2007 8:45 pm

Had my sport for nearly 6 years, till she was written off :x

Had the Tourer now for just under a year
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Mon May 21, 2007 8:46 pm

had mine for 2 and a half years, longest i've owned the same car
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Mon May 21, 2007 8:48 pm

about 12 years not
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Mon May 21, 2007 8:49 pm

4 years this month!
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Mon May 21, 2007 8:51 pm

comin up on a year now and still puts a smile on my face everytime i drive it! :D
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Mon May 21, 2007 8:51 pm

Two years now and loving every minuet. But the last two month :D :D :D :D :D
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Mon May 21, 2007 8:51 pm

Had mine for 9 months!
Longest ive ever owned a car was 14 months(RS1600i) :)
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Mon May 21, 2007 8:52 pm

Just under 11 years for my wife's touring; the red one in the sig. (which replaced a 318 saloon). Over half of those on LPG.
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Mon May 21, 2007 8:53 pm

11 months and Bl@@dy lovin it
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Mon May 21, 2007 8:53 pm

coming up 3yrs i believe, by far the longest ive owned a car!!
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Mon May 21, 2007 8:58 pm

just over 3 years for mine, far the longest i've had one and no plans to sell it anytime soon at all.
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Mon May 21, 2007 9:03 pm

I picked her up 10 weeks ago yesterday!

I don't normally own cars for more than a year.. This is my 4th E30 and the only car I've bought the same model of more than once :D
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Mon May 21, 2007 9:03 pm

Got mine in December 96.
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Mon May 21, 2007 9:04 pm

Found mine on eBay 29th Feb '04, did the deal 1st March, collected it 6th and shut it in the garage pending the registration transfer. That took until the following Saturday to come through, so I was fully E30 mobile Saturday 13th March '04. :woohoo:
This is why I no longer drive an E30......

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Mon May 21, 2007 9:06 pm

about three weeks now, still learning the ropes but loving every minute :D
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Mon May 21, 2007 9:07 pm

about a month and a half for one, and the next day for the other
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Mon May 21, 2007 9:08 pm

Got mine July 06. Second longest car i've owned. (Mint sierra saphire 2.0i Ghia Longest 18months)
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Mon May 21, 2007 9:09 pm

Over the years I've been offered silly money at shows, one guy offered 10k for it not long after i bought it, i declined at the time but as the years passed i kicked myself as i witnessed the value of them drop :-x

It will never leave me now, its original with genuine Alpina's on which cost me £1488 at the time so it would look as genuine as possible 8)

I remember the first day i drove it and felt important on the road cos i was in my black sport and they were in demand, i was proud at the age of 19 8)
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Mon May 21, 2007 9:11 pm

kieran325 wrote:Over the years I've been offered silly money at shows, one guy offered 10k for it not long after i bought it, i declined at the time but as the years passed i kicked myself as i witnessed the value of them drop :-x

It will never leave me now, its original with genuine Alpina's on which cost me £1488 at the time so it would look as genuine as possible 8)

I remember the first day i drove it and felt important on the road cos i was in my black sport and they were in demand, i was proud at the age of 19 8)
Kieran,dont live in Wythenshawe by any chance?
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Mon May 21, 2007 9:12 pm

had mine(1991 325 conv) just over 5years , 47k on the clock when I bought it, 2 prev owners, now on 121k, used it as a daily, never let me down untill last week (alternator failure) good thing was broke down at j11 on m25 managed to turn off motorway , 3 cars stopped to help me push it to safety ..... restored my faith in human nature..........best of all its going in for a full respray with dips, 3 months waiting list in after bank holiday , just sorting out rust on wheel arch just starting to bubble , small paint sinkage around washer jets, and parking dents stone chips, all minor , car cleans up nice but after respray it will be a posemobile with roof down...
Balck, black leather,dechromed, air con (working) pwer roof (working) hard top , was going to get hard top colour coded untill dips told me how easy they are to steal off the car...... (can you tell still lovin ownin it)...
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Mon May 21, 2007 9:18 pm

The red (325iturbo) has been mine for about 3 yrs or so, the white (316ilux) for about a year and the black (318i 4dr) one for about a month. Had my first e30 in 2000 (318i z 4dr), so 7 yrs of nothing but e30's :cool: even the misses drives one :D
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Mon May 21, 2007 9:18 pm

@ Eko
I'm in Manchester but not that side 8O , i don't think i could of kept hold of it for 12yrs living in Wythenshawe winkeye
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Mon May 21, 2007 9:25 pm

kieran325 wrote:@ Eko
I'm in Manchester but not that side 8O , i don't think i could of kept hold of it for 12yrs living in Wythenshawe winkeye
LOL,i know what you mean 8O
Was just curious cause i remember one on the road next to mine.
Matey always out polishing it,i mean like weekly.
At the time i just took it as another BMW,didnt even know of the E30 bit :o:
Their was me,cruising in my MK3 Escort thinking i was da man :D
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Mon May 21, 2007 9:36 pm

One and a bit years now, but does it count that my dad had it from brand new in 1987? I was 3 then, and some of my earliest memories are the journeys up from South Wales (he managed 2 coal mines down there during the week) back home to Leeds at the weekends. When I saw it going on Ebay for £200 and I recognised the numberplate I just had to buy it back :D
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kieran325
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Mon May 21, 2007 9:40 pm

Good story that ^^ but broken service im afraid winkeye
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Mon May 21, 2007 10:09 pm

4 years in july

lovin every minute
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Mon May 21, 2007 10:30 pm

4 years in April. No plans to ever sell her.....nothing out there thats interests me more.

1993 Lux Cab.
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Mon May 21, 2007 10:39 pm

2 Months and haven't had the pleasure of enjoying the E30 experience yet, It's been in Garages since day one not that it needed it though. and have no plans to ever sell, Looking foward to July/August where the majority of the big work will be complete. :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
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Mon May 21, 2007 10:42 pm

kieran325

Hello mate,

Where do you live in Manchester?.
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