What irritates you the most about e30s?

[Italian_Tuneup]

Here is what annoys me about E30s .... how readily owners will scrap a perfectly decent car because of minor problems...

[djjerme]

As an Alfa Romeo owner and mechanic, this comment is hilarious. You have no idea how good you have it.

As someone who’s friend is an Alfa nut, can agree, but also add rust issues on multitudes more than any e30 I’ve worked on.. His Berlina is Swiss cheese compared to the worst Salt Lake City E30 I’ve torn apart. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Kershaw]

For me it’s my foot catching on the kick panel when I clutch in my early model. Absolutely infuriating to the point I want to rip it out and throw it out the window.

I refuse to believe it's installed correctly. The only kick panels that catch my feet are the ones not installed in their dedicated slots.

The annoying things for me is you can't find them in junkyards anymore and BAT has ruined their pricing. Now every piece of shit is a few grand when 10 years ago you wouldn't have been able to give it away.

[Italian_Tuneup]

The cost and availability of parts is becoming more and more of an issue.

As an Alfa Romeo owner and mechanic, this comment is hilarious. You have no idea how good you have it.

[dcover7]

Rust, and water leaks causing more rust. I've spent way more time treating rust and scratching my head over water leaks than on mechanical repairs. IDK if that makes the e30 an amazingly reliable car or a car destined for scrap

[phillipj]

This (jack in the trunk is sub-standard) is the only legitimate complaint from that post.
All the others are nonsense and are solely based on the e30 being an old car and suffering "old car problems".

I'm not so sure - the "Central locking being iffy" is kind of a design flaw by BMW. I recently found this really excellent DIY and undertaking a fix, wanted to post it up here for everybody else who might be constantly having trouble with this (like me!).

[digger]

its been said already but the price of cars and parts is way OTT these days, plus parts are becoming harder to find.

[Slybeanx]

The stock wheel gap.

[Sh3rpak!ng]

fanbois.
'respect your elders' stickers on a car that's really just a warmed- over 2002.

^ guilty

the finicky driver window switch/wiring is quite irritating. I've "fixed" it 3 times only for the symptoms to persist..... but this is more related to old age than anything else.

non removable core support
stock headlights
headliner
shifter throw
steering rack like steering a boat

but honestly I adore these cars. they have sooooo much more right than wrong and it blows my mind that 30+ years later there are so many still on the road with hundreds of thousands of miles on them. I think it's a great testament to the more mechanically grounded engineering of many years past. And despite more parts going NLA as time is passing - I think it's also still fairly amazing how many intricate mechanical parts can be bought new. I'll keep an e30 or two or three until the day I die. Crazy to think that by then the e30 will be just about as old as a model T is to us now.

[Elysian]

just read it, pretty badass build! I noticed you are in Austin, I’m out in Spicewood, and I think I texted you about some BBSs on CL a few weeks ago. My daily’s trans grenaded so wheels have to wait..

I just started driving an e30 again like a week ago and in general, I just fucking love these cars, they are 97% perfect for me. Modern cars have spoiled me a bit. I do miss my steering wheel controls for the stereo/phone though.

It does irritate me that 33 years worth of other humans have had their filthy mits on the car and done things half-assed. That’s not great.

Yep, that's me

Closest thing to an E30 I've daily driven is an E24 My V8 build "ran" when I bought it, but didn't really drive, blown head gaskets and other issues with the motor made it not want to move. My other E30 never ran, I rescued it from a field only to store it in my backyard

[djjerme]

A Rockwell reference?! ^

Wondered who’d catch that Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[packratbimmer]

Genius ^

[Aleman]

That they don't make 'em anymore!

[Conrad311]

Been on it. My build thread is on the V8 subforum.

just read it, pretty badass build! I noticed you are in Austin, I’m out in Spicewood, and I think I texted you about some BBSs on CL a few weeks ago. My daily’s trans grenaded so wheels have to wait..

I just started driving an e30 again like a week ago and in general, I just fucking love these cars, they are 97% perfect for me. Modern cars have spoiled me a bit. I do miss my steering wheel controls for the stereo/phone though.

It does irritate me that 33 years worth of other humans have had their filthy mits on the car and done things half-assed. That’s not great.

[Digitalwave]

The cost and availability of parts is becoming more and more of an issue.