I'm feeling a BMW 3 Series E36 (m3 or not) All that I'm

non-op bumpin'

Looks like an Shitpostralian E36.

Look out for funnel spiders in it.

Get a M3, otherwise look for a newer E46 330i.

328is E36 are nice, but piss slow. Good alternative to a 240SX/FRS/BRZ though once you swap a E36 M3 diff and E46 330i brakes on them though.

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Finally relevant
97 318i
Anyways
Its one of the cheapest bmws 3 series to maintain
I've had the car approx 2 years, end of high school and now into college, and overall has been pretty reliable. (146k miles on it now, usually put aroound 160-200 miles per week, due to university being a 40 mile roundtrip everyday.)

So far the only main thing that fucked up my car was the fan stopped working or something like that, radiator wasnt working. Anyways went to tijuana once, shit overheated on me and blew up, but could have been prevented if i had noticed a few seconds before. Had a history of overheating, but ever since i fixed the fan and activated it by switch its been good. Also right now makes a noise by the bands that go around the engine, gonna check that out. Have spent around $250-400 in the car for the 2 years i have owned it. A good tip is to not buy from dealers, try getting the stuff from junk yards, and if you must from online stores.

Another thing is I take that bitch offroading and drifting and run it sometimes i bit too hard for its own good, and I have actually been surprised it still runs.

any questions or something specific you want to know, ask mate

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>>14896187
Just get a corolla m8.
Superior to the BMW in every way anyway.

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>>14899526

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I've put about 20,000km on my 328i and about 20,000km on my old 320i before it got destroyed. They both had power steering problems and sump gasket leaks, while the 320i also developed a problem with its window-lifting mechanism. These were all easy fixes and didn't cost any more in parts than other cars of a comparable age (don't be a dingus, buy parts from scrapyards). They aren't a flawless car, but they're far from being meme-tier unreliable like most of /o/ seems to think. They're also suprisingly resilient to abuse.

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pros
>cheap
>easy to work on
>fairly reliable (with good maintenance)

cons
>alot of stuff that can break (without maintenance)
>anything under the 2.5 feels pretty weak and not really exciting
>THAT FUCKING SAGGY INTERIOR (PIC RELATED)

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>tfw I think the non m3, e36 sedan is the best looking bmw ever made
>tfw they are dirtcheap
>tfw I'm afraid to get one because they are the ultimate sandnigger/turk/poorfag -car over here in holland

Anyone knows if the 325 tds is reliable ?
So far i know the injection pump can go full retard in some cases

>>14902413
keep your car really clean and nobody will mistake you for a turk

>>14899526
that sounds is probably your timing belt dieing, get that swapped out, if it fails, it will most likely take the engine with it.

>>14903042
It's REALLY not happy if you revv it cold. If the winters are really cold there, you might even have to have the car sit idle for a few minutes. Otherwise than that it's a really neat engine, revvs to what 6k and friend gets 5l/100 out of it.

>>14896187
Regular E36s (318, 325, 328) are pretty crap. BMW quality and reliability started to go downhill with the introduction of the E36 too.

>>14903871
>taking your car to the stealership
fucking $1000 for ignition coils and spark plugs? you can do that with like three tools in an hour

>>14896187
They're not that expensive to maintain. They're more than a Toyota of course but so is just about everything.

>>14899540
what year is that
and can you get it in the USA

>>14903871
>$150 for a hose
>150
>for a piece of rubber tubing

>>14906351
E90 body. And yes. But with usdm bumpers.

Bigger question: how expensive is it to own engine EXcluded?

I'd love to get a junkyard bound E36 with a blown engine and swap in a 4.8L LR4 and T5, but if the chassis is expensive to own in general, fuck that.

>tfw no cheap to hoon mafia car that I can fuck around with while open carrying my MPAP-92 filled with blanks shooting out the window ;_;

>>14903836
M42 is timing chain

stop me from buying a 1999 lancer wagon. that 4wd and manual is the best thing i've tried (even though the brakes failed before i got home and killed the car)

why should i buy an audi a8 or vw passat W8 instead?

>>14907872
The whole expensive to maintain shit is really blown out of proportion. I've owned 3 BMWs and all of them were pretty averagely priced to maintain. It used to piss my friend off who had a Vauxhall Astra, which seemed to break in various ways every week.

>>14903974
thanks.
Here winters aren't that much cold but they can be asses like -10°C, trying to start a '97 ford escort td takes 5 glowplug cycles