Ya gonna have some major repair bills comin' at ya with the M3..especially with 44K Miles...

I'd avoid that M3 like the Bubonic Plague!

 

alot of smg's blew their motor, (happend at a bmw meet i went to, to an 04) they had a lot of problems, i'm sure they fixed it by now...but i heard quite a few blew their motors, dunno u might wanna look into that...



this might be a little more then u wana spend...but check it out anyway
https://my350z.com/forum/southern-california/215368-fs-02-bmw-m3-read-4-details-its-a-steal.html

 

There are many cases of blown engines in the 02-04 M3s. They are not reliable cars.

 

Considering the amount of depreciation that you will realize on the Z and mark-up you will pay for the M3, wouldn't you rather put a few thousand bucks into the Z and get a nice set of forged wheels or buy a nice chunk of a turbo kit? As a car enthusiast I think that would make me much more satisfied than owning a slushbox factory stock BMW.

 

laugh now, cry later?

 

Why don't you post a picture of you in the Viper and have your screen name on the picture? This way, we know it's you. I know the other forum's posters have been requesting for you to post some pics -- that thread is going on 30 pages and you still have not shown proof that you really own a viper, much less a Z.

 

BUY THE M3 STRAIGHT AWAY !!!!! AT THE PRICE IT WILL SELL QUICK... and they usually hold their value - convertable would be better tho !

 

good choice. go to m3forum.com or bimmerfest.com and ask around about the specs for that year, I know there were a couple of recalls for the 01-03 M3.

 

hmmm sounds interesting, is he related to the twins by chance?

 

here is the m3 i am talking about.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...3ARTQ%3AUS%3A1

i just test drove it. Everything is in perfect comdition. i think i will go for it.

anyone interested my Z?

 

Go for broke!...because you will be after all of the repair bills. Nice car though aside from the maintenance issues.

 

Yeah from what I here Z's never ever have problems.

 

I don't know if you know... but as a second owner you wont be able to take your "newly purchased used M3" to the local dealership and make the car CPO.
That's their way of making you buy preowned from them directly,
If you belive in any other warranties I just wish you best of luck,

 

i saw the carfax and it said that it had frame damage, an accident indicator and the warranty on it has expired, didint say anything about being salvaged though. i only have free carfax reports for another month if you need more tests just let me know

 

I wouldn't do it, but thats me. Those cars do not impress me especially when you can throw 5-6k into your Z, and smoke that car.

 

dude i love m3's but man maybe if a toyota or a nissan or honda had 44,000 miles on it then i would get one but dude an m3 its a beemer u just never no about the reliabiltiy some people have had positive experiances with them while others hate them cause there reliability

 

An M3 will be the only car (at the moment) I will trade my Z for but not really for an older model, but i don´t know how the M3 condition is so, that my opinion!

 

An E46 M3 for less than $30k will always be a great buy. Excellent engine, classic looks, very nice interior build quality (miles ahead of Nissan here). You'll be getting a car engineered to cost $55k, which shows in everything.

You may want to look elsewhere if that frame damage on CarFax thing is correct.

 

So wrong.. Own a bimmer for over 60k miles and you'll know how much it cost to repair all their crap. Sensor here bad, computer there bad. It's never engine breaking down, but rather the very annoying $10 computer chips that you've to replace yet the dealer has to charge you $100 for the sensor/chip about 10 times before finding out they've been changing the wrong one for the past 9 times.

Technology has nothing to do with cars. My friend's Honda Civic from '90 will run 10 more years before it breaks down where as '06 ford might just drop it's transmission on the ground tomorrow.

 

you are right about that. without BMW factory warranty i will go for broke.

so, i am keeping my Z.