A few months ago I copped my first BMW which was an E36 325is.
I enjoyed driving the car and within the first two weeks the water pump shit itself and I redid the cooling system shortly after that I got the style 5's.
I got bored of the style 5's and was looking for 16x9.5s which I found but ended up making the car look a bit more normal for my tastes so I kept putting off wheels. After driving it I found myself falling victim to exactly what I didn't want to do and that was make it faster and better and basically a race car.
So I sold it like this with no wheels fixed the hood and all the other problems it had. I loved the car but I wanted something to chill in without having to force driving it when I needed to move.
I wanted an e34 but there were none available when I sold my car so I hit up a guy from the facebook BMW group who had posted his car a few weeks back. He still had gave me a price and threw in the wheels. Didn't have a clutch fan but didn't overheat which was my biggest concern above all the other things that needed to be addressed. Hood was wrapped in silver which I started taking off but got bored real quick. I found a bumper but one of the brackets is cracked so I have to get another bracket but I think I will just wait around and buy an M5 bumper which will probably be the only M thing I put on purpose. One thing i was really hyped on was the coilovers. My e36 had some maxspeeds which were ok but I could never get the drivers side as low as the passenger side. Although I didn't have to work as hard to drive over speed bumps with the e36 the overall enjoyment of my e39 is way more pleasing. More to come im the next few weeks before I get into more serious matters like wheels and more suspension bits.
I enjoyed driving the car and within the first two weeks the water pump shit itself and I redid the cooling system shortly after that I got the style 5's.
I got bored of the style 5's and was looking for 16x9.5s which I found but ended up making the car look a bit more normal for my tastes so I kept putting off wheels. After driving it I found myself falling victim to exactly what I didn't want to do and that was make it faster and better and basically a race car.
So I sold it like this with no wheels fixed the hood and all the other problems it had. I loved the car but I wanted something to chill in without having to force driving it when I needed to move.
I wanted an e34 but there were none available when I sold my car so I hit up a guy from the facebook BMW group who had posted his car a few weeks back. He still had gave me a price and threw in the wheels. Didn't have a clutch fan but didn't overheat which was my biggest concern above all the other things that needed to be addressed. Hood was wrapped in silver which I started taking off but got bored real quick. I found a bumper but one of the brackets is cracked so I have to get another bracket but I think I will just wait around and buy an M5 bumper which will probably be the only M thing I put on purpose. One thing i was really hyped on was the coilovers. My e36 had some maxspeeds which were ok but I could never get the drivers side as low as the passenger side. Although I didn't have to work as hard to drive over speed bumps with the e36 the overall enjoyment of my e39 is way more pleasing. More to come im the next few weeks before I get into more serious matters like wheels and more suspension bits.
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