If you’ve shopped for winter tires for your E30 recently, you’ve probably noticed that there aren’t many options. The stock tire size for E30’s (ix and M3 excluded) is 195/65R14. Unfortunately, it’s not a particularly common size anymore. Today we’ll look through what options we have for finding good tire winter tires.
During the 8 years (1984-1992) that BMW produced the E30 for the US market, over 2.3 million cars were produced, across a dozen model variants. As a newcomer to the E30 world, or as an old hand looking to pick up another, how can you make sure you’re getting the right E30 for you? Today on the Classic Bimmer Bits blog, we’ll try to give you a run-down of the various E30 models available, so you can make the right decision.
Hi! Welcome back to blog post #2 for Classic Bimmer Bits; we’re practically pros now. Hopefully you’re back because you enjoyed the first post, or you’re at least were curious to see if there’s a possibility of this being worth your time on a regular basis. Today’s post is a little more history, we’ll be diving into more practical content next week. If you do enjoy reading, go ahead and subscribe! I’ll do my best to provide helpful, engaging content, sprinkled with my own brand of terribly corny humor.
Last week I mentioned that Classic Bimmer Bits was born out of my love for E30’s. The question I’ll seek to answer this week is, how did I get into E30’s?
Hello! Thanks for stopping by the website, and checking out the blog. This is the first of hopefully many, many future blog posts. That being said, let me introduce myself, and Classic Bimmer Bits.
I’m Seth. I’m a husband, father, composites engineer, and, most relevant to this website, a huge E30 (and vintage BMW in general) enthusiast. I’ve owned two E30’s, an E21, and a 1974 2002. I love old BMW’s, in case that wasn’t readily apparent. I love the quirkiness, the looks, the thoughtfulness in design, the way they drive, the relative ease of working on them, and lots more. Since college, I’ve done all of the work on my cars. I’ve built up a pretty large mental database of trivia and knowledge about E30’s in particular. It occurred to me one day that with the amount of time I’ve spent scouring the internet for info on work I needed to do, and the amount of knowledge I’ve gained from all of that work, that I might be able to help other E30 owners. I think most of us who are into these cars like to work on them ourselves; that’s half the attraction.
