What would you consider a major fault with the E30's

[ST1G]

My headlights turn off when the ignition is shut off.

[slammin.e28]

No head light warning. How many times have you left your headlights on and come back to a dead battery?

Never.

:p

[rzerob]

No head light warning. How many times have you left your headlights on and come back to a dead battery?

Edit: This is what I meant to say.

No head light SWITCH warning. How many times have you left your headlights SWITCH on and come back to a dead battery?

[barbierij]

gas tank rust. we have replaced the tank in 3 of 4 iXs so far. sand/salt just sits at the corner of the pipe (red circle in pic below)

[mucoyekul87ETA]

Dashboard cracks. I've been lucky to find my e30's clean from crack.
Cracks are to be expected on a lot of older cars that aren't well taken care of.

I f#*king love the m20.

[gtdragon980]

Well, being that my e30 is low mileage, I never suffered from shifter slop so I can't say that's the worst thing. Hell, my shifter in the e30 feels worlds better than the shifter in my e46. If anything, I would say the battery tray rust. Oh and m20's are fucking awesome. You guys just suck at maintaining them. :p

[slammin.e28]

Are you too good for us plebs now slammin?

You know you're always high up on my pedestal.

[ST1G]

M21 is fine only because it's a diesel.

M20 sux

Are you too good for us plebs now slammin?

[Stanley Rockafella]

The fact that when you take ownership of the car with the M20 motor, you have to do the Timing Belt/Water pump irrespective of what the PO says.

Maybe in SA people are that untrustworthy.

In the rest of the world, if you have sufficient paperwork, it's good

[bmw325_num99]

I am definitely not understanding the hate for the M20. It is my favorite of the 3 US market engines although that might not say much. Great torque, smooth, fun to rev in the I version.

That being said, M50s are great.

[IceWhite]

The fact that when you take ownership of the car with the M20 motor, you have to do the Timing Belt/Water pump irrespective of what the PO says.

[BobombETA]

Everything on the e30 was done proper except the steering rack.

How has nobody mentioned that? The 4 turn LTL rack in the e30 is TERRIBLE. even the m3 came with that appalling steering rack. The e30 should've come with a 3 turn rack such as the e36.


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Rear shock mounts breaking.
Shifter slop.
Battery tray rust.

Then all the problems remedied by installing e36 components:

Slow steering rack
Timing belts breaking
Periodic valve adjustment
4 lug

Overall, no major faults like DSM and Chrysler crank walk, Dodge truck rust, Tacoma frame rust, Subaru head gaskets, VR6 timing chain guides breaking, etc...

Duuuuuude. :)

[rzerob]

No arm rest.

[IronFreak]

M21 is fine only because it's a diesel.

M20 sux

Hater

[slammin.e28]

So you must dislike the engine that your 524td's powerplant is based off?

M21 is fine only because it's a diesel.

M20 sux