Alpina 3.4

[BlueEyedBoy]

Does this have Vanos?

[Slurms]

yes

[BlueEyedBoy]

Would you say that by 60K this should have been sorted out, or that its not going to be an issue due to the miles?

[The real Apache]

forget the vanos, if it's got a good history the much overstated vanos issues will not be a prob

[Slurms]

Right I’m not going to re-cover all the vanos rubbish that been written before but....

The much talked about "Double Vanos issue" really only affected the E36 M3 Evo in any great numbers. (sporadic reports of issues on the E46 M3 and E39 M5 are about equivalent with numbers for standard component failure)

Virtually all modern BMW's have either single or double Vanos (dependant on age) and it's simply not an issue. Alpina's being a derivative of the bmw blocks are equiped the same.

So unless your buying an E36 M3 Evo - it's irrelevant