If you want a sport looking version but a 328 body then it wont really cost that much more unless you buy brand new parts and are young in a crap post code and bad history with your insurance / license.
E46 pre vs post facelift
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If you want a sport looking version but a 328 body then it wont really cost that much more unless you buy brand new parts and are young in a crap post code and bad history with your insurance / license.
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Exactly. Not even with the increased insurance costs over a period of time as the saving in tax will negate most of it!
Its a good option imo.
Whats that website for BMW spares, where loads of crashed / written off ones get stripped or sold on to be stripped?
Its a good option imo.
Whats that website for BMW spares, where loads of crashed / written off ones get stripped or sold on to be stripped?
Fox is correct in that I don't have the budget for a good 330ci, also I currently insure a modded turbo japanese car so I'm sure I'll manage with a 328ci + bodykit
I don't want to bring the spec up to facelift, tbh all i'll prob do is fit the LED rear lights + sport bodykit. I just wanted to know if there was a killer blow that would make me want the facelift more (thus justifying the extra few grand)
As I keep saying a facelift model is more than an extra few grand. Are you confusing the introduction of the 330 with a facelift? It didn't happen with a facelift - there was one proper facelift, in 2003, a good 3 years after the 330i appeared.
Sorry for bringing this up again, i don't know about the OP'er but from what i imagine is that he was comparing the 328i to a sport (330). the 328i compared to a regular 330 but in facelift version would be ridiculous to compare.
Fair enough if all you're going to do is fit the kit to the 328 (even then the kit must cost pennies if you reckon 1k including the kit, fitted and sprayed), all i meant is that if you wanted all the rest of the stuff (sport steering wheel, xenons, suspension an brakes? etc) then it would have been un-economical especially as when it comes to re-sale (if you even consider that) it will be harder to shift and worth less than a genuine 330 sport which shouldn't cost you *that* much more if you're considering an earlier (2001) model, compared to a 99 or 00 328.
depends what you want out of your car i guess
Fair enough if all you're going to do is fit the kit to the 328 (even then the kit must cost pennies if you reckon 1k including the kit, fitted and sprayed), all i meant is that if you wanted all the rest of the stuff (sport steering wheel, xenons, suspension an brakes? etc) then it would have been un-economical especially as when it comes to re-sale (if you even consider that) it will be harder to shift and worth less than a genuine 330 sport which shouldn't cost you *that* much more if you're considering an earlier (2001) model, compared to a 99 or 00 328.
depends what you want out of your car i guess
then why not go with a 330 non facelift? not really that big of a price difference between that and a 328 is there?
It's not really much of a kit, more different bumpers.
330 comes in the new tax brackets iirc
not the early ones
Can't be done, as I own a 328i. Thought about changing the intake manifold to release some extra horse but it can't done = (