Talk me out of making a mistake... E93 M3 vert

yupididit said:

In reply to golfduke :

I'll buy a BMW if you buy a Mercedes lol

hard pass.  Even the Mercedes badge terrifies me, ha. 

Congrats! With the AA exhaust on it, I bet it's loud! 

This was mine.

dyintorace said:

This was mine.

beautiful.... Do you mind me asking what trunk lip that is?!

In reply to golfduke :

Crazy, I feel the same way with any bmw past e46/e39. BMW's are more fun to drive though. Especially their N/A M-cars

golfduke said:

dyintorace said:

This was mine.

beautiful.... Do you mind me asking what trunk lip that is?!

I don't recall exactly but am pretty sure it was an ebay special the PO put on. Carbon fiber look but I don't think it was real, as the top surface was starting to cloud badly. It looked good from a distance though!

I also had the headlights professionally polished and sealed. Made a huge difference. Unfortunately, unlike the e46 models, you can't just replace the lens. :(

My indy guy, who made plenty off of me on my 135 explicitly told me to pass on the V8 cars unless I wanted to help buy him another fun car. Rod bearings, broken valve springs, ITB motor gears, etc. 

So as usual, I share my easy ownership experience and it bites me in the ass. 

Monday I went to take the kids to school and was going to drive the e92. It wouldn't go into gear when running. I could get it into gear and then start it, which caused a slight drag on the clutch and the car to creep fwd. first thought was the clutch pivot pin. 

Today I took it apart, I had a couple of those pins from my e36 and thought it would be a relatively easy fix, even if the transmission had to come off. 

Its a twin disc clutch and it looks like the captive disc shattered to pieces. The plastic pivot pin looked brand new. 

It went from a $20 part to a shopping cart worth $750 quick. 
Parts will be here 9/13 ... I'd still buy one :)

Damn. Nice driveway.....

Rod bearings are a thing on these.  Plus vanos.  I dunno, I wasn't all that taken with the motor, it just doesn't have very much umph but gets the same craptacular gas mileage of a v8 that does.

Considering its bought, I think we can cancel the "talk me out of it" part doc.....