Hey, I know it is a ford forum but i dont belong to any BMW ones and I know there is lots of knowledge (and bollox!) on here!

I have been offered one for £500 with 8 months MOT and Tax until next May. Is a salloon, blue in colour. Has a couple of faults, slight leak in the rad, engine manag light on but that aside is fine and drives really tight. Car is on a Y reg. What are they like?? I am an engineer and used to work on cars when was younger so looking forward to bringing it up to scratch. I think the EML will point to a sensor, maybe a Lambda sensor. Rad can source one no worrys.

So what are they like? 1.9 petrol engine

cheers

 

it will never set any land speed records, but solid and reliable

for £500 you can't go wrong, Y plate will be E46 model, so thats a very very good price

 

My mate had one for a couple of years, sketchy service history and 150k on the clock. Wasnt a bad car but, little issues seemed to cost a chunk to sort though. Mainly leaks from rads, expansion bottles, corroded pipes.

Another mate has a similar spec on, 318 again, and goes ok, few issues when he got it costing a couple of hundred to sort but since has been fine. In general they seem pretty robust and can munch up the miles.

To be honest, although no rocket ship, they didnt feel massivley slow either and drove nice, a lazy cruiser you could say.

 

a lot of car for £500

 

bottom arm bushes can be a right pain

 

there more 3 series in my local scrapyard then there is all the fords in there...

 

Bargain mate for 500 quid

 

A guy at work has a V plate one done 235k miles. If it take abuse from a smelly old tramp look a like then a normal person will have miles of use out of it.