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What happened to the old car mrk?
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This sums up my feeling too. The best part of having a convertible is those surprisingly ok days, particularly in winter - chucking the heater on and just going for it - you'd miss this with a hardtop and lose the convenience.
To echo what others have said and to add that storage is just part of the massive faff involved in a hardtop. Okay if it was a roadster then the hardtop is easily stored in a cupboard, the E46 hardtop is massive, it needs its own room or dedicated garage space with either a storage trolley or winch system and at home is really the only suitable place to store it because let's face it, what guest is going to be OK with you storing your damn roof in their house for the day when you're staying over just so you can drive with the roof down. it is also a two man job.
They're worth £500 used, if the time comes I absolutely need one or if I ever do sell the car on I can buy one and get my body shop to spray it Carbon Black.
The softtop in the E46 is very well insulated, there's very little wind noise with just a bit of extra tyre noise coming into the cabin and to compensate for that the exhaust and engine note is much more audible with the softtop up than with the hardtop. You really won't notice that you have a softtop above your head as it's still headlined in anthracite etc.
Nice one
May I ask how much you paid for it? What mpg on one of these?
Around town? Low 20s tops, lower if you favour listening to that exhaust though. Motorway I was doing 32.1MPG recently but that was just cruising. I didn't buy it to get good MPG though
I believe PMKeates got 38 out of Nick's SMG a while back, I won't be aiming for any MPG records though. Just satisfying an idle curiosity for the moment.I paid a little under 13k for it.
I'll post a full thread about it in january once all the bits I want to do on it are done and I've had time to take some nice photos inside and out.
Local buyer, just waiting for confirmation which will be after the festive break is out of the way.
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As I said once I'm at home with how the M3 cab talks to me I'll play with DSC off because it's a completely different machine to my previous car!
This is the hilarious thing about the M3 despite having a few E46's before it, the M3 is just a different animal!
I don't think this is the case at all. I've never seen a hard top on an S2k in the summer. I put my hard top on around November and plan to remove it towards the end of March. Storage is an issue but it's not an issue big enough to want to sell it. Hopefully the hard top will make the car more desirable when I come to sell it, too.
That's all cool but what about the odd days throughout the weeks on many months that we get amazing weather and you're say, away for the weekend, hardtop on? You have to store it somewhere and you need an extra pair of hands!
This year has had some absolutely amazing days in all the seasons. I took my old car for blasts up and down the hills here and was dreaming of doing the same one day in a convertible. Those nice days snuck in between really poor wet/dingy days so it has been unpredictable but with just the softtop on it makes for an ideal opportunity with no faff
Value wise yeah it does make it a bit more desirable but I do not intend on selling this carfor the forseeable future and in fact I think I'd be perfectly happy keeping it into the ground if my current feeling towards it stay true. I'm not a BHP nut but I do appreciate a well balanced sporting ride and this appears to tick every box I ever had for my realistic ideal car
If I settle down in the near future then I'll just have to get a 2nd car, there's no way life commitments should ever get in the way of a man's best car-friend dammit
This year has had some absolutely amazing days in all the seasons. I took my old car for blasts up and down the hills here and was dreaming of doing the same one day in a convertible. Those nice days snuck in between really poor wet/dingy days so it has been unpredictable but with just the softtop on it makes for an ideal opportunity with no faff
Value wise yeah it does make it a bit more desirable but I do not intend on selling this carfor the forseeable future and in fact I think I'd be perfectly happy keeping it into the ground if my current feeling towards it stay true. I'm not a BHP nut but I do appreciate a well balanced sporting ride and this appears to tick every box I ever had for my realistic ideal car
If I settle down in the near future then I'll just have to get a 2nd car, there's no way life commitments should ever get in the way of a man's best car-friend dammit
It does, I will agree there m8. I've liked the hardtop look on the E46 more than the coupe for ages but that alone won't tip the pros/cons scale in favour of it Before seeing it in the flash I always thought "Oh no worry, I can buy a cheap but secure shed for storage and just put it on when needed" - Erm, not quite lol!
Before seeing it in the flash I always thought "Oh no worry, I can buy a cheap but secure shed for storage and just put it on when needed" - Erm, not quite lol!![[TW]Fox](/data/man-of-honor/2009.png){kind=avatar}
How do you drop the roof spontaneously on a crisp winters morning when the sun is out?
So, completely random... We're looking at cars shortly at a local importer but have noticed they have added a new car to their list...
http://visionautos.aps.autoplay.co.nz/VehicleDetail.aspx?id=440796&type=Wagon&playlist=NDQwNzk2
Its a 2007 BMW 550i Tourer with 40,000 kms on the clock, very low considering its age... Ignoring CIC vs the new one, would people pick this up (at that price) over a 2009 335i tourer with 54K kms and costing around $3K more?
Appreciate this is all NZ stuff, but being an expat I look to my UK friends for assistance!
Chris
http://visionautos.aps.autoplay.co.nz/VehicleDetail.aspx?id=440796&type=Wagon&playlist=NDQwNzk2
Its a 2007 BMW 550i Tourer with 40,000 kms on the clock, very low considering its age... Ignoring CIC vs the new one, would people pick this up (at that price) over a 2009 335i tourer with 54K kms and costing around $3K more?
Appreciate this is all NZ stuff, but being an expat I look to my UK friends for assistance!
Chris
Then leave it in Tesco carpark?
It seems like an awful lot of money for what it is, granted I have no feel for the market there. The engine would no doubt be lovely but I just don't know if I could pay that if the money could buy you a significantly newer 535 or even 530?
I think I'd rather the 3 if it's an Lci
I think I'd rather the 3 if it's an Lci
530s in the 2008/9 range with higher odometer readings sell for around $30K, the German marques hold their value very well here; for example a 2011 528i with 60K kms on the clock is sitting at around $45K in beige... I saw a 2001 540i sell for over $15K NZD recently!
The 5 series tourer has more practical value but the 3 series are generally newer.
