what you pay for your first e30?

[Rosc0PColtrane]

£3900 for a spotless cab with 60k miles on it 4.5 years ago.

[oldskoolkool]

£275 for a F reg 316i in black off of ebay. First and current E30.

Came with a 12 disc multi changer as well, but also 4 holes in the boot where the previous owner had his "2fast2furious" style spoiler, and a loud DTM exhaust, which he proudly claimed "didint even come off a car, it was off me mates trike."

Had a couple of little problems, it was cutting out occasionally, so the previous owner decided it was the AFM and replaced it with an E36 one, but it turned out to be the Fuel relay, so the relay was replaced, and the old AFM re fitted, and the car now drives loads better.

Slowly going to rebuild it to its former glory, remove any remaining tat ( home smoked side repeaters with nasty runs ) and be taking it to RTTS this year, in a hopefully finished state!

[Chris-W]

It was an eighteen month old pre-facelift (just) 316i in Alpine White with a blue cloth interior and steel wheels Can't remember the exact price, but I think it was about £9,000!

[daimlerman]

I paid £950 for the 316i touring two and a half years back,and £185 for the 320ise laches 4 door that forms the base for the 2.7.Had the 4 door about 18 months now.Both are in daily use.

[JimmyC]

Paid £450 for mine and spent into 5 figures on it now

[Scruffymurphy]

£400 for a red 4 door 320i. 6 months MOT. Billstein shocks, spax springs, k&n filter. Lovely deep dish rims (I still have them). Very rusty rear arches. I drove it for about 6 months and sold it for the same.

[Fushion_Julz]

My 1st E30, I paid £700 for a 1988 325i SE 4dr. Bought from a very trusted source...Had just had a full insp 2 inc cambelt and it included 2 yrs' supply of Yoko SO2s.

The 2nd I paid £3950: 1987 M3 with 5yrs known history, totally original and 90K miles and excellent, if not quite mint, bodywork.

Just bought a 1988 320i Touring with 103K miles and almost mint bodywork for £220

However, had a few other BMWs before the 325...
I've had:

2002 ti racing car (shell and suspension bought for £200)
2002 tii bought for £300
1802 bought for £100 as a restoration project
E28 525i manual bought for £200 as a towcar
E34 530i SE manual (M30) bought for £500

[dobbie82]

1st (well hubby's tbh) £900 for a 1988 318i with only 42k on it in 2000
2nd £600 for a 1991 318i lux in 2005
3rd £102 for a 1987 320i in 2005
4th £450 for a 1990 320i SE touring in 2006
5th £850 for a 1990 320i SE Saloon with just 86k + FSH in 2006


Got none now

Paid £1500 for my X-reg Vectra 2.2 CD Dti... most i've spent on a car in my life!

[pictonroad]

£800 for mine..


Thinking about it my cars have got cheaper as I've realised that they just lose money..

Golf GTI - £5700
Xsara VTS - £3200
E30 - £800.

Aren't your cars supposed to get pricier as you get older?

[magoose]

paid £300 for 1st-318i with 120k
paid £800 for 2nd-320i se with 75k
paid £100 for a rotten 318is for a project, plan to spend about £2000 on it -restoration

[Kedge]

£1300 for my 318iS 3 1/2 years ago, still got it
£0 for an E21 316, sold for £350 (wish i never sold it though)
£2300 for a 325i Tech 2 touring, sold for £2200 inc a few bits i sold seperately.
£80 for a 318iS breaker, made plenty back on that
£246 for a 318i to run about in, broke it for a profit.

Looking for my next victim now

[ed325i]

My cab was £900
the 323 was £100
and I have just got a 02 plate mondeo for £15

[o22ie]

1st 5 years ago £50.00 320i (e-reg chrome) sold to a friend and it still going strong today after 220,000 miles.
2nd 3 years ago £300 325i (e-reg chrome) dreaded inner arches,, sold bits on ebay for about same money.
3rd may this year £1000 325i (e-reg chrome) already spent over £2000 on her with another £3000 earmarked

[mikeyboy]

my 318i was £350.00 came with recaro leathers with red piping. i sold this with cloth interior for £700.00. a good car!

my 325i was a bargain at under £300 every MOT from new, scorpion exhaust, loads of receipts, had it delivered to friends house to hide it from mum.

best thing was it was my mums friends drive it lived on for 6 weeks.

original otherwise 15 inch BBS alloys needed welding which i spent £600.00 on i bought it as a non runner but after 5 minutes of removing steering column cover it worked as i just had to plug in the plug to the ignition barrel!

Some people have not got a clue with electrical components!!!! LOL

[Brianmoooore]

Some people have not got a clue with electrical components!!!!

Tell me about it!!

[fuzzy]

£500 for a red 320 touring and £1200 for my current touring, pre engine conversion obviously.

[n1tr0_9]

Paid £370 for my 1991 318is with 140k

[Morat]

£800 for a pretty clean white 318 touring which had had a top end rebuild and everything worked. It went perfectly for a year without even tapping its tappets until I bought a 325 touring off ebay. Realised I'd made a bit of an error when I started driving it. Massive mechanical noise from the engine. It spent 2 weeks being fettled by our best local BMW independant before becoming a nice car.
Rear shocks/top mounts, front ARB links, viscous fan, rerouted the dodgy throttle cable which was picking up a lot of noise, and endless adjustments to the fuelling/idle until he got it working properly. Luckily he did it for nothing. A set of 15" BBS from dazleeds and now I'm just waiting on a rebuilt cylinder head to get it reliable again. Eek!

The good news is that they were both white so noone noticed I'd changed cars

[b4gga83]

£350 for a 318i auto, which was taken in p/x almost three years ago. Had an oil leak, water in the boot, and sanpped the window winder in half whilst closing the window.

Royal metallic blue with 15in bbs and beige interior, which I later swapped for sport leather also in beige/tan. Had some good times

Then a 325i convertible in alpine white with ox blood sport leather interior (red), 17in BK reps. Turned heads where ever I went! Bought a hardtop for it, then some w*nker decided it would be a good idea to cut out the windscreen and lift the roof away, left the car with the hood down in the pouring rain over night

Memories!! The straight six just howled

[greentouring]

I paid £2,100 for mine in 2004 and knocked the guy down from 2,500, but that was with only 60,000 genuine miles or so on the clock and she was pretty mint. She's only done 88,000 or so now; the only damage on her was inflicted by scumbags in London (various little dents and dings from jumping on the bonnet and so on).

I'd never owned a BM before and didn't really do much homework before hand, so overpaid.......If I'd known about this site then, things may have been different.

[JazzMan]

£800 for 325i with TSW 15's A very nice car for the money. Did have quite a lot wrong with it though. It ended up the donor for the Sportster where I replaced a hell of a lot of parts with new one. Did have a laugh with it before taking it to bits

[bryang]

£10,000 with approx 30k on the clock and FBMWSH for a 1991 J plate 2 door 325 SE in 1994

We still have the car now, with 75K on it. fabulous car and has required just servicing,a back box and a clutch slave cylinder in all that time..

[surj]

first e30 £175 316 2 door black 316
2nd swop for xr2 which was 316 4 door grey
3rd £150 320i auto 2 door grey
4th £3000 2 door yellow 327i
5th £500 325i 2 door grey with leathers m-tec i kit and gen alps and scopion
6th £1600 fully rebult 325i with m 3 wide arch bodykit 2 door red
7th £150 318i 2 door black
8th £300 320i se 2 door black
9th £250 4 door royal blue 325i auto with full ix kit and rare alloys but head was gone so i broke it
10th £150 320i se 4 door with leather and m-tec 2 bodykit in grey
and hopefully more to come

[brettski]

i paid £7995 for my first sport in 98 it was dolphin grey H83 OUY it had only had one owner and 71000 miles had it for 2 years bloody good car and my first rear wheel drive car

[aceraf]

1st - £800 - 320i SE(4-door) with Heated Leathers, ICE + Alloys
2nd - £150 - 316i (2-door)- Came with brand new 15" Fox alloys - Tax + MOT, can't complain
3rd - £2000 - 318i (Neon Blue Design Convertible) - Very good condition - had a bit spent on it since
4th - £1200 - 325i Auto (Touring) - Lowered + Came with Borbet T's (9j all round) - Tints/HID/ICE added since

(number 3 was my brother cab.)

More to come soon

[Jesus325iTouring]

£2200 for an '87 325iSE saloon,back in 1995,kept it for four years and sold it for £1200.

£240 for an '84 318i,that was in 2000,sold it to a local gypsy for £125 a year later.

£1900 for my 325i Touring in 2002,poverty spec,but was loaded with extras from factory

Still have it,no plans to sell it,I love it

[320Touring]

Paid £300 for the 87k 1 owner "Kiev Express" in 2005

spent a bit on it since then

[gra325i]

me?..
£850 fbmsh 2 owner 320ise 4 door

[josh-hocking]

my lips are sealed!! it was a bargain!!
11000 miles
loads of history
mint condition.. almost rust free!! harldy any.

however i dont want to say.

[tailoutcharlie]

paid £200 for the first one with no MOT and welding to be done around the filer neck head had been skimmed so many times the CR was fecked, gave up swapped it for an immaqulate mondeo Preg.

this one was £1200 and worth every penny

[jagga786]

i paid 1500 pounds for my one it was cabriolet blue colour i need a bmw covertible man no ones selling it my one was involved in accidednt 2 years ago number plate j526hmy any one got it plz let me know if you want to sell it

[david106]

£600 for a 325 touring with sport leather had it for a year

[zimm_zimmer]

got my first 86 325i which i swapped for my rs turbo,
my second 91 325i touring cost £450 and is a much better car!!!

[hubble]

£4500 for my first 325

£3000 for my second sport

£5500 for my current pride and joy

[oakey]

1600 for my tech1 sport