I made this thread >>15906881 the other day and was told

I had an E36 M3 at 154k, drove it till 180k when I got in a wreck. You'll be fine as long as you don't baby it too much and you keep up on common maintenance

>daily drive a 20 year old m3 in Massachusetts during salt/snow
>expecting a reliable daily driver

i seriously hope you dont do this

please

>>15922113
Im not in Mass lad. Thats just where the cars from.

>>15922113
btw i live in a coastal city in southwestern Connecticut

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>>15922119
>SW CT
>Still snows and you're probably a few miles from the water (delicious salt air)

Get a 330i ZHP/TSX/Legacy GT if you want a reliable daily. E36 M3s should be kept as second cars.

I feel like if you're worried about it and you have to ask, you're not skilled enough to keep it on the road

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>>15922226
>>15922191

ok.

>>15922235
Yeah, being nice as a current E36 M3 owner you really have to learn to wrench and keep in mind its still a 20 year old German sports car that cost $55,000 in its day. Don't rush and travel if you have to get a nice one. Get a second car if you want one that badly ($500-1000 Corolla/Camry/Accord or your parent's), and keep your nice M3 garaged or under covers (on concrete/asphalt) over the winter.

If I had to do it again, I would buy mine from a Southern State and been more patient. But I wasn't, so I bought a car that lived its whole life in Long Island owned by a person who didn't know shit about BMWs and now I'm completely surprised when I paid $6500 for a car with rusty shock towers ($5-600 to fix, but still sucks). Bodywork sucks dick to do compared to engine work.

http://hudsonvalley.craigslist.org/cto/5787481537.html

I'd get this ZHP, ZHPs are nice cars, 10 years newer, and that's a decent price. E46s had better rustproofing than E36s, just get the subframe checked out by someone who knows what they're doing (only real bad "rot spot" on those cars, tears and exposed metal rusts further).

http://newyork.craigslist.org/wch/cto/5777230187.html

Only one I'd check out in the area, looks ok but "virtually rust-free" while showing pics of it being driven in the snow don't give me confidence.

I'd look at these, ask for pics of the clearcoat damage, run carfaxes to make sure they were southern cars, and fly down to the one I like the most checking for VIN stickers, rust, and rear shock tearing, then drive it back up or ship it.

http://tampa.craigslist.org/hil/cto/5757614958.html
http://miami.craigslist.org/brw/cto/5723633301.html
http://miami.craigslist.org/brw/cto/5787561597.html
http://miami.craigslist.org/pbc/cto/5764784858.html

>>15922285

Thanks for the info. Seriously.


>http://tampa.craigslist.org/hil/cto/5757614958.html
>http://miami.craigslist.org/brw/cto/5723633301.htm


Im only interested in these two and I wasnt planning on having this as a second car but I guess it isnt a bad idea.

>>15922367
The one in Tampa sounds promising. Get copies of his receipts. It was originally an automatic; did he pay a professional to do the manual swap or was it a shadetree job?

>>15922285
I agree with this poster. I have a 1994 BMW (nowhere near as interesting as an M3, but about the same age) and there are so many things wrong with the car that I have to keep a second car just so I can get to work.

An E46 330i will not be as exciting to drive, but it would be a much better daily driver. Just watch out for the cooling system.