Thoughts and comments on this E46 M3 please

[richterswil]

The silver M3 at this dealer looks like good value to me:

http://www.rylandmotors.co.uk/22658/ryland_showroo...

What is the general opinion of fellow PHers?

I know it is pre facelift and grey interior isn't for everyone but it has low mileage, is in a nice colour and seems like a lot of car for a little over £10k.

Appreciate any comments.

[denyer00]

It's a nice car mate but i don't think it competes with others out there, It depends if you like the colour combo I suppose.

[thehos]

looks clean enough quite nice mileage, but that is where it stops, grey interior is awful esp on a tit silver car, will make it harder come resale, hardly any spec either, has a sunroof tho, wouldnt say good value, priced about right from a dealer.

But as always if you like it have it, but do your research first, imho theres a lot more out there with more spec for the same money, its a buyers market at the mo, I'd would want to be buying that for a 4 figure sum

[thehos]

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2400525.htm

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2071720.htm

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2276788.htm

after a quick look on here!

[richterswil]

Thanks guys - appreciate your comments.

To be honest I am not wild on silver - my problem is that I am struggling to find something which ticks my boxes - it might be a buyers market but I can't seem to find what I want:

- coupe only
- must be manual
- max 70k miles (less preferred)
- Carbon or Imola preferred but other colours considered (not Phoenix)
- must have full history inc 1200 mile run in service
- would prefer only a couple of owners but that may not be realistic (my concern with 4 or 5 owner cars is that there is a higher risk that money will have been saved on servicing etc)

There are plenty of "nice to haves" of course but off the top of my head I can't think of any of them being deal breakers.

Max £12k (and at that I don;t want to be buying new tyres of having an Inspection 2 next month!!)

(There was a car at Marcus Fothergill recently that I would have bought but it was sold by the time I saw the advert)

[richterswil]

thehos said:

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2400525.htm

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2071720.htm

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2276788.htm

after a quick look on here!

We were obviously typing at the same time!! Will have a look at the links - thanks

[richterswil]

richterswil said:

thehos said:

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2400525.htm

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2071720.htm

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2276788.htm

after a quick look on here!

We were obviously typing at the same time!! Will have a look at the links - thanks

Thanks.

Link 1 - looks fine but aside from a different colour interior (which I appreciate might help come resale time (but I'm more concerned with buying than selling at the moment!) I don't see it offers much over the car I linked for a £1.5k premium, unless I am missing something?

Link 2 - saw this car and it looks OK but I thought the interior was worse than the grey one I linked!! Is the blue interior generally better accepted than grey?

Link 3 - wrong gearbox (aside from that minor matter it looks excellent).

[thehos]

richterswil said:

richterswil said:

thehos said:

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2400525.htm

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2071720.htm

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2276788.htm

after a quick look on here!

We were obviously typing at the same time!! Will have a look at the links - thanks

Thanks.

Link 1 - looks fine but aside from a different colour interior (which I appreciate might help come resale time (but I'm more concerned with buying than selling at the moment!) I don't see it offers much over the car I linked for a £1.5k premium, unless I am missing something?

Link 2 - saw this car and it looks OK but I thought the interior was worse than the grey one I linked!! Is the blue interior generally better accepted than grey?

Link 3 - wrong gearbox (aside from that minor matter it looks excellent).

Re link 1, this car has a lot of extras, hk sound upgrade, and heated seats, what your looking for is a full row of buttons just above the gearstick, thats a private sale, knock 1k of and you'll be on to a winner, dont worry about the red seats, I would be more than happy to swap with my heated black ones

[thehos]

oh and full BMW history, I noticed the link you gave just said full history, I got caught by that once

[milu]

I had a carbon with grey interior a couple of years back.
Admittedly the interior/ exterior was a contrast but nevertheless I really liked the grey.
Most black interiors at the time were shiny and a bit cheap looking IMO.

This was on low mileage £25k cars.
Hence I was happy to have a light interior which if in good condition looked classy.

Got to look after the carpets though!,

[mat205125]

denyer00 said:

It's a nice car mate but i don't think it competes with others out there, It depends if you like the colour combo I suppose.

Very "John Major" colour scheme, however the sunroof option makes it quite desireable IMO ..... I really wanted a sunroof car, however the option is rare, and I couldn't find one in budget at the time.

[Nedz]

Very "John Major" colour scheme, however the sunroof option makes it quite desireable IMO ..... I really wanted a sunroof car, however the option is rare, and I couldn't find one in budget at the time.

Very "John Major" Great choice of words! Cant stand the grey leather myself to be honest.When i was looking for an M3,a couple of estoril blue cars came up,one of which i went to view and was completely put off by the grey interior.Red or black in my opinion.

[mat205125]

The Estoril cars I saw also had grey leather when I was looking. Estoril wasn't top of my list, however I was dying to find an Estoril with black leather to see how it looked.