This M3 - Worth it or not?

You make a big assumption when you say it's an honest car, well other than it honestly being a car. I also suspect if you phone up Mr Suhail he won't have a fully documented (with stage based photographic evidence) of it's high quality rebuild from a company who specialise in rebuilding BMW M cars, so knows all the correct numbers for the suspension, chassis and other such things. A crabbing M3 with 180k on the clock is still a dog even if it's 6K and whilst it might be a fully reshelled rebuild, built up from scratch I somehow suspect not...

at £20k worth of damage, id expect the car to have been barely recognisable at the time :D
 
Well I phoned him and he sounds like a top bloke, going to see it this weekend.

Will be an ace upgrade from the 330i. Probably even take the cash with me so I can impulse buy it there and then.
 
Even the back seats look like they've been sat in the whole 170k odd miles.

Lol. That interior was once all matte. It now looks like an old Mazda (gloss wise) :p
 
Offer 5k, don't pay more than 5.5k.

Then if it breaks you got 1-2k for repairs. Just check engine/gearbox seem to run fine as 1-2k won't cover those breaking. ;)
 
If you buy a very cheap M3 you are likely to face some very expensive bills. You might be lucky, but it's not a risk I'd take as stretching to afford a car that in today's money would be close to a £60k motor is doomed to fail from the start. Also, this is what a fresh interior looked like back in 2002...

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I think I had people in the back of my car maybe for 20 journeys in its near 60K life with me.
 
That is not worth it at all. FYI I am selling my 2003 E46 that is HPI clear and done less than half the miles of that for £8000. The owner of that car would be lucky to get 5k for it.
 
I think it looks good (apart from the dogeared interior), but it will likely bite you in the arse.
 
Semi serious....

The interior looks.... tired? but theres certainly someone who will buy 'M3 INTERIOR RECENTLY CLEANED' on ebay.

Do that, couple of bucket seats and harnessess... Track car.

I'd say this with the only comment of, you'd want to keep the money between this and a decent one in an account ready to buy a new gearbox/vanos/engine/brake system/whatever... but I guess if it was a track rotter, you probably would squeeze a couple of days out of it before you had to start spending serious money...
 
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