mileage on your automatic e30

[stamar]

I have always assumed there are no autos with high mileage.

This is going to be good data for people shopping old autos.

I have my predisposition that the zf auto is below average lifespan.


how many miles are on your orignal e30 auto transmission?

100-150k
150-200k
200-250k
250k-300k

[Vivek]

I only know of two people on here that have autos...

[bowtie2bimmer]

my 87 convertible is an auto and the odo stopped at 155k... (PO said that was about 3 years ago)... It prob has way more now

[stamar]

but less than 200k you think?

im trying to find even one 200k auto.

[Sagaris]

I just did a 5spd swap on my car. 195k miles. The engine was replaced at some point in the cars history but I am not sure about the history of the trans. @195k the transmission functioned 100% normal without any noises or excessive slipping. So I am not sure if the transmission was original but if it is, it survived well.

[nrubenstein]

The one in my 330is car had 333,800 miles when I bought it. I've got all the records, which show over $30k in service, but I don't show a new trans.

It worked fine in the less than a mile that a I drove the car before I pulled the drivetrain and took it to the dump.

Buy, you know, it's not like I can say that it was never worked on with any ertainty.

[Huff]

I have a '91 auto as a daily. It's around 300k with the original transmission. My red car had an auto in it that was working just fine when I swapped it out. It had around 250k when it came out.

[SoEm0]

My 89 is auto. Odo stopped at 189k and that was like 4 years ago. Well over 200k by now

[CabbE30]

My auto died at 110k miles. But I was really beating on it to get my 5-speed swap going.

[Kershaw]

my red ix was an auto. it had ~170k miles on it. ran great.

[Robotin]

89 IX auto, 129,000 miles, still rolling... runs perfect...

[Robert]

my auto died at around 210k, i was going from 1-3 or neutral bombing it.

[pharow]

My odo doesn't work, but mine has well over 205K.

[SGT4677]

Our 85 coupe has over 280k on it,I have no idea if the auto is original but it runs fine

[Red88]

190k before it got rear ended.