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Yeah I was under the impression from other forums that Enthusiast is pretty hated, some people will flat out refuse to sell to them. The asking price on a lot of those cars is ridiculous.
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God drat they want a lot of money for those cars. I love pretty much all M cars but for the price they want there are a ton of better cars out there unless you've really got a boner for a specific year/color/package combo.
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Feb 7, 2014 22:24
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Enthusiast auto is for lazy people who want to put zero effort into finding a car and don't care that they are overpaying by thousands. Their e36 prices are downright hilarious. 17k for an alpine on dove M3 with 88k on it? Ha.
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Feb 7, 2014 23:24
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I bet this $17,500 M3 was never raced or taken to an Oakland sideshow. Props for no engine mods, though. http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/cto/4296005893.html 
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Feb 7, 2014 23:37
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poo poo transmission, poo poo mods, oh but it has new 10 dollar RTABS! That car would have a hard time going for 8k I think.
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Feb 7, 2014 23:45
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Craigslist is stupid but idiots don't justify the pricing from EA. You can find good examples on e46fanatics, m3forums and bimmerforums. If you're dumb enough to buy an SMG you can get them for ridiculous prices because no enthusiast wants them.
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Feb 7, 2014 23:52
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Heck ya, you gotta find the nuggets on the BMW Forums or BMWCCA before EA finds them....it's just refreshing to see the stock clean cars they have compared to the poor 5th owner beasts with RIMZ on CL. My 135k 2002 330i E46 sold super quick back in December for right under $10k mostly due to BMWCCA traffic, 2nd owner, full records. Still get random emails for it since it was in the Bimmer mag. The car was proactively dialed in and taken care of and obviously worth more than the $6k KBB garbage. 
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Feb 8, 2014 00:06
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Unnngggh that car looks good. Stupid California hitler plates.
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Feb 8, 2014 00:07
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I took my front plate off here in San Diego about a year ago. Only ticket I got was in West Hollywood ($10). San Diego cops just don't give a poo poo.
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Feb 8, 2014 00:10
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At 340k my '84 528e is now actively trying to kill me. Today I decided to upgrade a little.  It even came with a present!  It is a 2002. I have never owned a car this nice. It has a god damned heated steering wheel! Now please excuse me while I go figure out how to turn the drat alarm off because I am bad with remotes.
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Feb 8, 2014 00:13
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A BMW and lots of PBR, are you me?
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Feb 8, 2014 00:28
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Damnit all you Touring owners are making me jealous. I feel like at some point I should own something besides BMW's (not counting my Subaru I had in college and parents minivan in high school). But there are so many I want to own, and when I see another car and think "hey that's kinda cool I wouldn't mind owning one of those" I think of about 10 equivalent or cheaper BMWs I'd rather buy.
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Feb 8, 2014 00:38
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Luckily I already own the only BMW I like that I can afford.
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Feb 8, 2014 00:41
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Any of you cold weather E46 drivers beware of your oil separator; mine froze up and failed (shut, mercifully) on Tuesday night, creating James Bond-like smoke from the exhaust and a gigantic oily mess all over my engine compartment after the increased crankcase pressure blew oil all over the engine bay through my (original) valve cover gasket. One cold weather CCV kit (which I might add isn't a solution to the frozen oil separator problem), valve cover gasket and oil filter housing gasket later and I'm back on the road. I'm just glad the CCV didn't fail open; it would have been new engine time if that happened.
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Feb 8, 2014 01:25
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Chinatown posted:I took my front plate off here in San Diego about a year ago. Only ticket I got was in West Hollywood ($10). San Diego cops just don't give a poo poo. You will eventually get your rear end handed to you since all the red light operators require front plate pics for their tickets and cops are enforcing. Hell, I gave up this fight in 2003 when I got a fix it ticket while the car was parked at a mall, fer crissakes....just don't care now as I want zero excuses to get pulled over.
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Feb 8, 2014 01:34
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I just run the car with the temporary tags and dealer placard... for years. Today I took the car in to get the wipers replaced under the ultimate service/free maintenance whatever it is. I wouldn't bother otherwise but I can't bring myself to spend money on wipers when they're free and I get a wash & vacuum included. In fact outside of enabling my laziness I think the best part about BMW maintenance is free car cleaning.
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Feb 8, 2014 01:44
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Cobalt60 posted:Based on his humblebrags, I'd gather Dr. VeliciBacon is fine with overspending for a hyper-custom middle-class-looking car. Not a doctor/rich. It's good to hear that the BMW engineers didn't leave much on the table. What's wrong with the SMG besides the fact it's convertible? Way heavier?
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Feb 8, 2014 02:44
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VelociBacon posted:What's wrong with the SMG besides the fact it's convertible? Way heavier? The SMG in the E46 M3 has very high failure rates and they are retardedly expensive to replace. The 6-speeds, on the other hand, are drat near bulletproof. So even ignoring the whole manual vs. auto debate, there are some serious factors that heavily favor the manual over the SMG for a used, out-of-warranty car.
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Feb 8, 2014 02:50
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Plus they are sorta miserable for daily driving.
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Feb 8, 2014 02:57
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I wouldn't buy a car with SMG either, but this is a pretty cool upgrade, and I have to wonder if it improves reliability: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTN_ylF5YRI
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Feb 8, 2014 03:40
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See Hello Ladies with Steven Merchant for the lifestyle of a "vintage" 90's BMW convertible owner.
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Das Volk posted:I wouldn't buy a car with SMG either, but this is a pretty cool upgrade, and I have to wonder if it improves reliability: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTN_ylF5YRI The original did all those things. Throttle cut on upshifts and blips on downshifts. I guess that upgrade does it... better?
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Feb 8, 2014 03:50
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Ziploc posted:The original did all those things. Throttle cut on upshifts and blips on downshifts. I guess that upgrade does it... better? I didn't think it did that stuff, huh, no idea what that is for, then.
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Feb 8, 2014 04:01
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The best OEM+ route for E36 bluetooth is still CD43 + whatever bluetooth dongle right? Long shot, anyone wanna sell me a CD43? I'm leaning toward Soundplicity. Though more expensive than the other DICE derivatives, they're still supporting the device in North America. Thoughts/experiences?
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Feb 8, 2014 18:37
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Crustashio posted:Enthusiast auto is for lazy people who want to put zero effort into finding a car and don't care that they are overpaying by thousands. Their e36 prices are downright hilarious. 17k for an alpine on dove M3 with 88k on it? Ha. There was a pretty clean stock black/white e36 M3 here for sale when I was car shopping last winter with like 80k on it that was selling for 9k. I didn't really want another BMW but it was mighty tempting to grab
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I'm considering selling my 2013 M3 so I emailed them a few says ago. Got an email back asking for pics but haven't heard anything else. I'm looking forward to seeing how much they lowball me.
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Feb 8, 2014 19:42
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Nodoze posted:There was a pretty clean stock black/white e36 M3 here for sale when I was car shopping last winter with like 80k on it that was selling for 9k. I didn't really want another BMW but it was mighty tempting to grab That's much more in line with good US pricing. I got my silver/black with 132000km for 13k CAD and atlantic canada has a huge rust/population tax. I passed on 10 other ones that had rust AND were more money.
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A manual '01 e46 wagon showed up on craigslist in my area, but it has 180k miles. What would you guys think of that?
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Feb 8, 2014 22:44
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Pretty Boy Floyd posted:A manual '01 e46 wagon showed up on craigslist in my area, but it has 180k miles. What would you guys think of that? Sounds like a steal, buy now!
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Feb 8, 2014 23:38
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I just checked out a 2010 White 135i w/ 42k miles.
Price is $23900 which I stupidly agreed to pending the car checks out PPI. To be fair though, this car has all the options I want and he's got other offers so I wanted to jump on it. My concerns now are what kind of maintenance am I expecting right off the bat?
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Pretty Boy Floyd posted:A manual '01 e46 wagon showed up on craigslist in my area, but it has 180k miles. What would you guys think of that? you'll have to do a bunch of odds and ends bullshit like the flapper door on the intake, bushings all around, struts and strut mounts, ball joints, tie rods, etc. it's not that much $ in parts, it's just a lot of poo poo to do. check rear subframe for cracking. this happens a lot, you will eventually need to drop the subframe (when you do the rest of the car) and weld in plates to help from cracking. if it's an m54 oil squirters tend to fall off and with all bmws, the cooling system may go at any time other than that, they're super cars.
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Pretty Boy Floyd posted:A manual '01 e46 wagon showed up on craigslist in my area, but it has 180k miles. What would you guys think of that? Jumping on this bandwagon, there is a manual 2002 wagon nearby with "bad valve stem seals". Owner says it goes through a quart every 300 miles. Car has 200k on it and had recent suspension and cooling system refresh. It can probably be had for $1000. Automatic head gasket + guides and seals job? Sounds like it could be a veritable rabbit hole of repairs. Thoughts?
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NWDub posted:you'll have to do a bunch of odds and ends bullshit like the flapper door on the intake, bushings all around, struts and strut mounts, ball joints, tie rods, etc. it's not that much $ in parts, it's just a lot of poo poo to do. Touring subframe failure is extremely rare. As is the oil squirter failure. Those require a lot of high rpm vibration, usually due to overly stiff motor mounts which are awful ideas for m5x motors.
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Pretty Boy Floyd posted:A manual '01 e46 wagon showed up on craigslist in my area, but it has 180k miles. What would you guys think of that? I wouldn't worry about miles from an engine/chassis longevity standpoint - just bushings and cooling system. The E46 is a solid car.
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BlackMK4 posted:The E46 is a solid car. Speaking of which, got to sit in the new 435i and M235i and I think my wife summed it up best (compared to our E46): "These aren't as nice. They feel kinda cheap." She did like (of all things) the M6...... Gran Coupe 
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aslewofmice posted:I just checked out a 2010 White 135i w/ 42k miles. Change the coolant, BMW doesn't do this automatically. You probably have another year or so on the battery, read back a bit for the discussion on that. About $400 at the dealer for battery and programming, less at an indy. Rotors are probably okay, but it depends on how it was driven. And yes, on the turbo, spark plugs are every 50k, and you should do a walnut shell blast around that time as well. The intake gets gunked up and you lose power over time.
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HotCanadianChick posted:Speaking of which, got to sit in the new 435i and M235i and I think my wife summed it up best (compared to our E46): It's a huge drawback to the 4, they didn't upgrade any of the interior bits over the 3 but are still asking for a premium. The tablet styled nav is also ugly as well as the boomerang thing and the connected to the grille headlights...I'm gonna agree with the 5 series yuppie snobs on Bimmerfest that you have to be in at least a 5 for the interior to really be where it needs to be in a $50k+ car. The 4 GC actually has a cleverly hidden hatchback that opens up a shitload of storage space without looking like the 3GT or a droopy assed Audi A7 - so that is kinda cool.  http://www.f30post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=941384
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The 4GC is a great looking car and very practical. It looks a lot better than the sedan and the coupe in my opinion, and I'm hoping it'll look even better in person. I've been gushing over the A5 sportback and A7 for awhile so I'm glad BMW finally has an offering that is similar.
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HotCanadianChick posted:Speaking of which, got to sit in the new 435i and M235i and I think my wife summed it up best (compared to our E46): The M6 GC is the only really nice looking thing BMW builds right now  Were you talking about the "GT" models?
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Crustashio posted:I've got a bill from BMW for a 2k brake job on an e36 non-M. Front calipers came in at 500. Each. Trambopaline posted:thinking about picking up a manual E36 coupe **** GOD. drat. COOLING. SYSTEM.  SD 135 Towed 3 by Execudork, on Flickr Even at -30, even having just loving crossed a FROZEN RIVER  SD 135 On the Ice by Execudork, on Flickr the cooling system went kaput. I'm guessing the water pump my mechanic put in less than a month ago has poo poo the bed, considering the temperature gauge shot up so quickly yet the vents were not at all blowing warm air. Either that, or it's air-locked again.  Insult to injury: the tow truck driver complained that my car felt like he was towing "a heap of junk" because apparently he could feel its 3 000lbs in his 18 000lb wrecker.  You didn't pick up the "light end" of my 50/50 car, jerk!actually you're not a jerk, tow-truck-driver, you let myself and my GF into your nice warm cab while you were picking up my worrisome ride and it was loving cold out there near the river tonight, thanks for coming to get us!
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