Good afternoon everyone hope you all are havin a great day. So I know BMW aren't great cars but whats everyone's reviews on the 2003 BMW M3 E46 with a 6 speed manual? I have a cousin his uncle is giving away his car to him for free its been sitting in his garage for 17 years it still runs great and is in brand new car condition has very low miles (8,000) and has been well taken cared of. He's put a hold on accepting the car as he wanted me to get everyone's reviews on it before he says yes to owning it.
If it runs well, he is getting it for free, and it legit has around 8 000 miles, why not? My advice is, I would use it as a weekend toy but I would not daily drive it since as they age and get very high mileage things around start to break and it's typical on BMWs of that age. Also, BMW e46 M3s are starting to go up in value for nice low mile examples so maybe driving it on the weekends and not putting many miles a year on it can mean something. Plus it is a standard transmission that is bulletproof and that's what people want when buying an M3, the SMG automatics were garbage and fell apart.
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With that low mileage, and that condition, I would take it, take good car of it, but hardly use it. It’s not just a 3 series, it’s a super low mileage old M3. And it is a manual!
That is practically a museum piece.
If it were a high mileage M3, I’d say run away and run fast. Usually M drivers drive the shit out of their cars. Where it becomes an endless money pit.
While maintenance and repairs will be expensive, they will probably be few and far between with such low mileage.
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E46 are AWESOME CARS! Free is a total bonus - I love Scotty's videos but always cringe a bit when he mentions a crap car and puts up a picture of a BMW...I've owned an E30 that I drove for 10 years with minimal maintenance and sold it for double what I paid for it. I got my E46 (320i) last year with a small list of items that needed to be done, finished the list this summer. The garage quote was about $5,500 but I added up the cost of parts I bought and put in myself and I saved $4,150.
IT'S AN AWESOME CAR and lives up to BMW's motto, "The Ultimate Driving Experience"
If you are able to learn to do the work yourself, buy your own tools that you need to do the job, you can get parts for reasonable prices if you look around (ECS Tuning is a good site to start). Get a service manual and peruse the ubiquitous online sources (YouTube, E46 Fanatics, etc), know what your car needs, and do it! You won't regret it!
That's whatsup and alrigh thanks you