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Evening all,
Have been searching around for a while for a 330Ci to replace my Mazda 3, and after viewing a few, I found a good one yesterday morning that I was happy with, so i bought it
Spent a lot of today cleaning it up and giving it a wax over, will be getting a machine polisher soon to give it all a proper going over, the wheels are also in need of a refurb but nothing urgent.
The details:
E46 330Ci
82,000 miles
FBMWSH
Leather
Nav
Bluetooth (that's being a bugger about working with my S4)
No bloody cupholders!!!!
All mine for the bargain price of £4,900
Love it so far, the power has proved excellent for joining motorways and overtaking, and as the first auto I've driven I doubt I'll be going back to a manual any time soon.
Fuel economy isn't proving too bad, had to bring it back home through central London, reset the trip computer before leaving and somehow managed 24 MPG with a mix of town driving and a short motorway journey.
Still waiting to get pulled over, as a 19 year old driving a BMW isn't exactly normal around here
Will keep thread updated with my experiences as I go
Have been searching around for a while for a 330Ci to replace my Mazda 3, and after viewing a few, I found a good one yesterday morning that I was happy with, so i bought it
Spent a lot of today cleaning it up and giving it a wax over, will be getting a machine polisher soon to give it all a proper going over, the wheels are also in need of a refurb but nothing urgent.
The details:
E46 330Ci
82,000 miles
FBMWSH
Leather
Nav
Bluetooth (that's being a bugger about working with my S4)
No bloody cupholders!!!!
All mine for the bargain price of £4,900
Love it so far, the power has proved excellent for joining motorways and overtaking, and as the first auto I've driven I doubt I'll be going back to a manual any time soon.
Fuel economy isn't proving too bad, had to bring it back home through central London, reset the trip computer before leaving and somehow managed 24 MPG with a mix of town driving and a short motorway journey.
Still waiting to get pulled over, as a 19 year old driving a BMW isn't exactly normal around here
Will keep thread updated with my experiences as I go
Thanks all manual was tempting but just fancied an auto for a change, plus they are more readily available.
Some lovely E46s there, looked at a few in darker colours but they were just a little too expensive for what they were unfortunately.
Lynch - I did a changeover with 6 months left on my old policy from a Mazda 3 2L and it cost me just over £120 to change that's with 2 years no claims and 1 year 7 months on my license.
manual was tempting but just fancied an auto for a change, plus they are more readily available. Some lovely E46s there, looked at a few in darker colours but they were just a little too expensive for what they were unfortunately.
Lynch - I did a changeover with 6 months left on my old policy from a Mazda 3 2L and it cost me just over £120 to change
that's with 2 years no claims and 1 year 7 months on my license. Excellent to see another young 330 owner. I was 19 when I got my 330i, almost 21 now. Have to say yours looks incredible clean and well kept, good spec too, apart from the auto bit anyway. Good price too. WackoJacko on here also is 19 and has a 330i.
Not a coupe but might as well stick a photo up of mine...
USDM E46 330i Style 68s by tlynchie, on Flickr
Not a coupe but might as well stick a photo up of mine...
USDM E46 330i Style 68s by tlynchie, on Flickr
Nice choice, hoping to get one of these for our next car. They strike me as an almost perfect all-rounder, reasonable performance without crazy running costs, practical, rather nice looking, what's not to like? These should be the default PH choice, rather than the MX-5! (As it happens I had an MX-5 and ended up hating it...)
GaryST220 said:
Looks great.
I would love an E46 330i with a manual box but finding a nice one with a decent specification is difficult.
I visited both sides of the country when looking for mine (and encountered an epic time waster in doing so I would love an E46 330i with a manual box but finding a nice one with a decent specification is difficult.
; I drove for nearly 3 hours to get there and walked away in under 5 minutes. That bad). Add in the fact that I wanted a face-lift model and it meant that it was very hard to find a good one. starting to see loads of last century models with rusting arches now.
We have a 2002 ci sport in black sapphire with black leather and the m-sport pack (suspension, wheels,steering wheel and a few badges
) had it for 7 years and its had an ABS sensor, a front caliper and servicing and consumables. That's it. Now on 92k so just finished running it in really.
It's going soon though looking for a Z4M coupe
We have a 2002 ci sport in black sapphire with black leather and the m-sport pack (suspension, wheels,steering wheel and a few badges
) had it for 7 years and its had an ABS sensor, a front caliper and servicing and consumables. That's it. Now on 92k so just finished running it in really.It's going soon though looking for a Z4M coupe
nice motor OP!
I was looking for one of these a short while ago, but ended up with a 318 Saloon. (i know! nothing close to a 330!)
cans fit quite well into the little sliding cubby behind the gear stick. Bottles not so good there however, and tend to rattle about on spirited drives and fall forwards causing a problem selecting 2nd gear!
ebay has many cup holders available, but they are not exactly cheap!
I was looking for one of these a short while ago, but ended up with a 318 Saloon. (i know! nothing close to a 330!)
CSully94 said:
No bloody cupholders!!!!
same in the saloon! WTF is that all about?? apparently the cup holders were an optional extra!?cans fit quite well into the little sliding cubby behind the gear stick. Bottles not so good there however, and tend to rattle about on spirited drives and fall forwards causing a problem selecting 2nd gear!
ebay has many cup holders available, but they are not exactly cheap!
mwstewart said:
What do you chaps get to the gallon on a mixed cycle? I struggled to get more than 25 average.
Haven't had much of a chance to get an accurate figure, but reset the computer when I picked the car up and then traveled home through central London and then had a 10 miles of 50MPH dual carriageway at the end, and the computer reckoned I managed 24MPG average which seemed pretty high for the stop-start traffic I was in, so I doubt its accuracy lol.TankRS said:
same in the saloon! WTF is that all about?? apparently the cup holders were an optional extra!?
cans fit quite well into the little sliding cubby behind the gear stick. Bottles not so good there however, and tend to rattle about on spirited drives and fall forwards causing a problem selecting 2nd gear!
ebay has many cup holders available, but they are not exactly cheap!
I know! Mine has a phone mount behind the gear stick so I can't even wedge a can in the sliding cubby, going to have to find a 3rd party one that doesn't look horrid somewhere...cans fit quite well into the little sliding cubby behind the gear stick. Bottles not so good there however, and tend to rattle about on spirited drives and fall forwards causing a problem selecting 2nd gear!
ebay has many cup holders available, but they are not exactly cheap!
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