anybody got a nice m3 for sale?

[alsheikh]

hi folks i am exhausted! its been 4 months and i cant find a good clean example m3 convertible smg...please get in touch if you hav one or know someone with the sat nav option preferably titanium silver and black interior thnx

[Vesuvius 996]

www.bmw.co.uk/approved

[Olf]

You're joking right? There's zillions out there. What's your budget - 5k?

[Olf]

No hold up he's right. There's only 150 SMG M3's for sale on PH ranging from 6,950 to 31,000 pounds.

[dazren]

Adverts should be in the PH classifieds section here:

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

Includes an M3 for sale section which can be searched with filters. Also a wanted section where you may like to place an advert.

Good luck with the search.

DAZ

[alsheikh]

ok guys i forgot to tell you im on a budget, sub 19k and im hesitant in buying a car with mileage above 60k because by the time i finish with it, it'll probably be 80k which means hard to sell do you think? so ideally i want the mileage around 55k max.

[MPowerMark]

because a car with 75k on the clock will be worth so much more and sell so much quicker than one with 80k? lol come on man!

[Vesuvius 996]

alsheikh said:

ok guys i forgot to tell you im on a budget, sub 19k and im hesitant in buying a car with mileage above 60k because by the time i finish with it, it'll probably be 80k which means hard to sell do you think? so ideally i want the mileage around 55k max.

You're a bit out of touch mate.


If you're going to run the car with a BMW warranty then 60k MATTERS, as the warranty goes up from £1000 to almost £2000 a year. Otherwise BUY ON CONDITION. A 30k car which has lived in London may be much worse mechanically that an 80k car which has been warmed gently and then run at 90mph on the motorway all the time.

Oh, and MAKE SURE that the running in service was done on time. If it wasn't, walk away.

The engines on these cars can and do fail catastrophically (rare, but about £10k to fix I think) so you need to be careful.

Why not just buy a warrantied car from BMW? You can get them for your budget.

[croyde]

£2K a year for a warranty on an old Beemer! Is that just on the M3 or all cars. Jeez! and I thought Porsche were bad with their £900 policy.

[Vesuvius 996]

croyde said:

£2K a year for a warranty on an old Beemer! Is that just on the M3 or all cars. Jeez! and I thought Porsche were bad with their £900 policy.

M cars over 60k miles.

[Noel]

The cost for warranties has gone down, circa £750 and £1,500 above and below 60k miles, all the options are below...

http://www.bmw-warranty.co.uk/Pages/Information.as...

[Deniz.S]

Vesuvius 996 said:

The engines on these cars can and do fail catastrophically (rare, but about £10k to fix I think) so you need to be careful.

Hang on a sec, it's a BMW developed performance engine, not a speed six. Even stating the point is bringing attention to an issue which doesn't exist. Any failures in the past were fixed under warranty and all cars prone to it were recalled and sorted out. These engines are pretty much bombproof and this concern should'nt even register when buying a well sorted M3.

An M3 which is a melon can be seen a mile off, more than likely as it's owner will be wearing burberry and will have adorned it with replica AC Schnitzer tat.

Worry about a full service history/running in check/rtabs etc, but don't give a seconds worry to the engine as long as other important criteria are met.

Edited by Deniz.S on Tuesday 15th April 15:38

[Deutscher]

Vesuvius 996 said:

The engines on these cars can and do fail catastrophically

Absolute rubbish. You're thinking about 996s Mr. 996

[Vesuvius 996]

Deutscher said:

Vesuvius 996 said:

The engines on these cars can and do fail catastrophically

Absolute rubbish. You're thinking about 996s Mr. 996

Jesus H calm down.

[paoloh]

Deutscher said:

Vesuvius 996 said:

The engines on these cars can and do fail catastrophically

Absolute rubbish. You're thinking about 996s Mr. 996

Big end bearing shells fail and fk engine completely. £14k repair bill. Fact

[stuthemong]

Fact, if and only if the recall wasn't carried out on the pre 03 cars some years back. So if you get a pre march 03, which youll have to with your budget, youll need to make sure the recall was carried out.

If not it really could go bang and dont buy it, if so, I think it a very very low %age risk that engine will pop, <1%.

[paoloh]

Not strictly true. Mine was a 3 month old 54 reg when it went bang with 4k on the clock

[alsheikh]

hmmm some good points to take on board...is there anywhere else i should be looking apart from the usual autotrader/pistonheads sites?

[POORCARDEALER]

seen plenty of M3s with knackered or noisy engines.

[Huliganov]

Use Autotrader. Register on there and you can fill in the fields that meet your criteria.