E46 M3 For 18K anyone? - Link For Sale

Well to be fair, the buy-it-now prices are $22k, $22k, and $25k, so I don't think you'll be getting one of these for $18k... and the mileage is in the 75k to 100k range for each of those, which seems about right. Still a pretty good deal though.

-R

 

I drove 2 in the last 30 days. 01-02's at $30-32k with 30-35k miles. The market is good and when the E92 comes out you would still have a fine car.

 

That car has a salvage title...

 

Nearly all BMW cars have horrible depreciation. M cars hold more than the regulars, though. I wouldn't buy one. They make good lease cars, but once the warranty is up, repairs get very costly. I'd pass.

 

I don't believe they drop in price very quickly. The major issue is reliability. They are unstable cars and that's for the last 5 years worth of them.

 

Just expect to pay 2x the amount for parts compared to a regular 3 series and I woulnd' buy an M without a year of warranty. Who knows why they're for sale. The owner may have found an issue and is dumping it before it can be noticed.

I've seen that 40 times at least.

 

This is the biggest load of crap I have ever read.

I bought my 2002 M3 at the in Nov '01. Ive never had a SINGLE DAYS
PROBLEM WITH IT. I have every single maint record, and not a damn thing
has even gone wrong in 45k miles. Many BMW owners I know can say
the same. Very reliable.

People who make quotes like this dont own these cars.... They troll around
the internet chat boards and find 1 guy who had 1 issue with his car, and
then tell everyone on the planet how much they suck.

 

That's exactly what I was thinking... my M3 is 12 years old, has 100k miles, and runs like a watch. The only things that have been to it were either PREVENTATIVE maintenance or performance enhancements. Of the 15 BMW's my parents how gone through, none have been unreliable.


-Joe

 

I almost bought one aq year ago for low to mid 30's

 

Yep, I had one until recently, a 2004 Cabrio with SMG and had nary a problem with the car. It was quick, handled well, and I ran it as a daily without regard to weather conditions- I threw a set of snows on it for winter, along with the hardtop, and though it was not an offroader, it was still a pretty acceptable winter car. In more clement weather, the thing was fabulous to drive with the top down and extremely comfortable to boot.
The only downside was that it had a 'boy-racer' image. I do see a fair number of them on the morning commute- and, unlike the Bangelized, i-drived, 'cars of the future' that BMW now seems to dedicated to, it had a little of that old 2002 magic that made these cars so desirable when they were first introduced.
(My wife's new 3 sedan has some pain in the ass features, though- like turn signals that have a 'touch' feature that is, to me, impossible to regulate- i overcompensate, and instead of cancelling the turnsignal, wind up signalling the other direction. It is one of those convenience features, like the window button that is 'one touch only,' that creates more inconvenience).
But, we've had quite a few BMWs, along with MBs, Porsches, and assorted exotics, and the BMWs have been very good cars. (Less so the Benz).

 

I've owned a lot of BMW cars/motorcycles. Bulletproof!

 

my 04 has had 0 problems so far...34k hard worker miles on it too. i must say, although i own it, i drive it like it's not mine....he he

no complaints here

 

01 M3 with +80k miles daily driver no problems here. Only time it goes to the shop is for normal maintenance.

 

03' with 0 problems, 42k miles, these cars are bulletproof, sad to see them go for so cheap.

 

anything foreign (and not jap) is expensive to fix outta warranty.

 

The one you say was $18k hasn't met the reserve. So, if the ending bid was $18k, the person would NOT win the car because the reserve was not met.