Space-saver compartment.

[LowR3V'in]

How much do you guys think that think weights?
The compartment were the space saver goes in.

[LowR3V'in]

I guess maybe 10 pounds? or maybe 15/20? I really have no idea.

[Digitalwave]

What space saver?

[LowR3V'in]

The place in the trunk were you put the donut.

[Jand3rson]

Lesson #1 kids:

DON'T POST ON CRACK

[Stu]

The place in the trunk were you put the donut.

I think it's called the spare tire well.

[Rob]

mmmm, donut

[Werksmini]

Whats with calling it a donut? SPARE people SPARE.

[natorious]

there is nothing space saving about my spare.. dont all e30s have full size spares?

[M-technik-3]

Yes all e30's have full size spare tires.

[Jon325i]

Yes all e30's have full size spare tires.

To this day pretty much every BMW still gets a full-sized spare. My brother's '98 M3 has one as well as a co-worker's '03 325i.

Something that's becoming more uncommon these days with every manufacturer putting those bicycle tires in the trunk and calling them spares.

Jon

[Ryan Stewart]

Not really to this day. The E46 doesnt have a spare at all. It has that Mobility Kit (a really expensive way of saying "Slime and a compressor."

That "compartment" is actually part of the unibody. To remove it would involve cutting and welding.

[Rob]

same with the z series roadsters and coupes, probably the z4s too.

[e30Matt]

Want to have some fun? Put a can of Fix-a-Flat in a tire and take it to get it balanced, and see the techs scratch their heads for a good while. :)

[Sean]

The old E36 318ti also had a bicycle tire for a "spare".