My New 318is

[ajones13]

Just thought I would post up some Pics of my E30 318is. It's a Pre Production car which was owned by BMW Press Cars UK Ltd. I'm from Northern Ireland by the way. Love this site its great for diagnosing the famous idle problems.

Andrew

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x7/ajones13_photo/DSCF3019.jpg

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x7/ajones13_photo/DSCF3020.jpg

[swiss318is]

hello and welcome to the forum! i have never seen such a nice and clean car! please dont touch this pre-production car!! please leave it like this, you own a piece of bmw history!!!i hope you think the same!!

[ajones13]

Hi swiss, this car will be staying completely standard and will only come out for shows.

Thanks

Andrew

[swiss318is]

puhh... now i can sleep again!!!

[dude8383]

Very clean!

Welcome to the site :)

[FL318is]

Welcome to the club.

[CePa318IS]

Welcome and nice IS! Treat her right!

[Letsplayskatch]

Welcome from the UK :D
Looked to see if there was any Is's on PistonHeads.com today, and i found 4(!) after searching though 100 3-series pages, totalling about 1050 E30's and E36's! Our cars are getting silly rare in the UK - with the last count being about 900 actually registered on the road. In such a case - im glad youre keeping it as a garage queen, it will be a true collectors item if kept stock and mint!
Happy forum-ing! :D
Scott

[ajones13]

Hi letsplay,

I remember reading in BMW Car that the E30 318is was getting rather rare and increasing in value. I think what happened was when they became an 'old' car rather than future classic they dropped to a price level where the buyers tended to be 19-20 year olds with no appreciation for the cars. Alot where run into the ground with lack of maintenance due to cost while the rest ended up, upside down in fields or having their diffs explode in McDonalds Car parks. Not suggesting all 19-20 are like this though, mainly the citroen saxo/ rice boy brigade.

[Letsplayskatch]

Hey!
Yeah, that would make sense alot I guess. I see a lot of E30 owners about, though very few IS ones (ive only ever seen a 320IS here in oxford) due to its rareity perhaps. But no young IS owners. Im 21 myself, very lucky to have the IS, but I dont treat it badly at all.
The E30 has a bit of a stigma of being a chav car, so the more I act sensibly the roads, the more I hope I people change their perception :)

[hoevesruperd]

the buyers tended to be 19-20 year olds with no appreciation for the cars.

ok, cool cause i'm 21 so i'm not part of them guys! haha

you say you're keeping it stock.. but is that an M-tech rear spoiler?
was it intended to be delivered with those?

very nice car by the way, i love that interior!!

[ajones13]

Hi Alex,

Unfortunately the MTECH spoiler was already fitted by a previous owner, I have sourced down an original so thats coming off, if anyone wants and MTECH 2 spoiler in Brilliant red let me know.

[ajones13]

I know what you mean about the Chav stigma, lots just want it for its car park drift abilities. Didn't mean to cause offence to anyone who is 19-20 it's just here in UK we have a group called Chavs who hang out in car parks with neon lights etc etc and alot of e30 is's fell into their hands.

[Letsplayskatch]

Yeah, its hshame the E30 reputation has been crushed by the chavs. Hopefully they'll move onto the E36 :p

Did you guys get a different interior from europe? Here, we got this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/letsplayskatch/DSC00044.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/letsplayskatch/DSC00073.jpg

[Saxbo]

Really nice car, looks like new =) I could kill for those seats^^

[Letsplayskatch]

Well Ill be selling them at some point so you might not need to! :)