Advice on purchasing M3 cab e36

[AndyP75]

Hi all

I'm looking at purchasing the e36 model of the M3 cabriolet.

I've never owned one, and don't know an awful lot about them. I've heard of one going locally which has done around 70k miles mark, but so far know nothing more about it at the moment, I'm waiting for a reply from its current owner.

Can you offer me any advice on purchasing this type of car, what things should I look out for, any work which should have been carried out by this milage or will need to be, common faults etc.

I'm not even sure how many 'flavours' of this car there are, auto, manual spec etc

Any advice or experiences you guys have had I would be greatful to hear.

Cheers!

[AndyP75]

It's manual, and I also believe completely untouched or tinkered with. I was thinking should it have had some belts or similar changed by this age it miles too? He's said there are no rust patches on it and it comes with the hard top. It was only ever used as a wedding car from new then this fella purchased it earlier this year. He's got a shed full of cars and is off loading some.

[AndyP75]

Ok cheers. Price wise? If it's a clean example, what should I be looking at?

[AndyP75]

Asking price is £4k, turns out the mileage is 137k which puts a bit of a different slant on it really...

[AndyP75]

Dark blue.
I believe fully serviced too.

[AndyP75]

It's a 1995 edition. Just asked the owner to see if it's an Evo.

I will be viewing this week- comes with an M3 private plate too, not that it affects the price but it's got to be worth a few quid.