Are you a car guy?

[rage2]

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See, I think if your idea is to resell that an M3 is a poor proposition. Not only do they depreciate like a motherfucker, unless you snag one with low mileage you take a huge portion of the market out of it because not many people want a moderate to high mileage BMW. Additionally, as the M3 is the highest performance variant, you further reduce the market to those who know and desire that particular model. You also have to battle the people who feel an M3 must have been bagged on. Your choice man, but if the idea is to resell that's one of the worst cars you can pick.

Depends on the M3. E92 M3's bottomed out a year ago and is now going up slightly in price. Private sellers asking crack money for them lately.

[bjstare]

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I think that guy has two trucks, on a 2004-2008 F150 and one a slightly newer super duty. Both have every possible bit of stick-on chrome or reflective stuff. Always driving slow, and I think it's the same older white dude driving them. That guy makes me smile, h'es living his dream obviously.

I actually bought my first house a couple doors down from this guy. Last time I was in the neighborhood, it was a Ranger and a Super Duty. It's just so outrageous, but you can't help but be happy for the guy, cause he thinks they're the hottest trucks on the road. He really is living the dream.

[you&me]

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Depends on the M3. E92 M3's bottomed out a year ago and is now going up slightly in price. Private sellers asking crack money for them lately.

Plus, a lot of the market had been based on import-ability of US cars, which had previously increased the rate of deprecation. With the current forex, competition from imports is all but eliminated, and in some cases reversed due to exports, so supply has been constrained and the market has firmed up over the last ~18 months... You can see the same thing in anything that was commonly imported... I have a friend that just made money on a 997 Turbo after he imported it almost 4 years ago!

[ercchry]

im happy that im not alone on the M3 thing! i enjoy looking at them on kijiji and noticing a flat market almost 2 years later than when i got mine... which still seems like a decent deal with the m-mode, idrive, edc, 6spd options i snagged

[shakalaka]

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Depends on the M3. E92 M3's bottomed out a year ago and is now going up slightly in price. Private sellers asking crack money for them lately.

I have been looking at E46 M3's and noticed that they started to creep back up in price. Should have picked one up last year or something and now just don't feel like the extra $5K or so that each person seems to be asking for a car that's freaking decade and a half old.

[BavarianBeast]

I remember the days when you could pick up an E30 M3 for $20k. Now they’re selling for $70k+.

[LilDrunkenSmurf]

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I remember the days when you could pick up an E30 M3 for $20k. Now they’re selling for $70k+.

I've been keeping an eye out for an E36 M3, and they're still absurd. They're miled out, rusted, and beat, and they still want $15k+. I've seen a miled out but stock one list for $20k from a used car lot. I can't justify that.

I'd be in the market for an E92 M3 if I hadn't picked up my S2000 instead. When I was looking 3 years ago, an 08 was $35k, and anything newer was minimum $50k still.

That being said, I'd like to consider myself a car guy.

[pheoxs]

I used to be. Modded everything I could get my hands on, always went out to meets, events, car shows all the time. Pretty much all my friends lived and breathed cars too.

But then it sort of just changed. Sold the toy car for a DD and moved to Calgary and haven't really met anyone here to feed off their energy so have been lacking the motivation to grab another toy. Also there's not really and fun cars anymore to have as cheap projects. 5-10 years ago you could throw a rock and have a ton of 240s, rx7s, older supras, etc for sale all with plenty of potential. Now there's basically nothing for turbo rwd cars on the market. The few that around seem to be beat to shit or ridiculously overpriced.

[yipb]

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I've been keeping an eye out for an E36 M3, and they're still absurd. They're miled out, rusted, and beat, and they still want $15k+. I've seen a miled out but stock one list for $20k from a used car lot. I can't justify that.

I'd be in the market for an E92 M3 if I hadn't picked up my S2000 instead. When I was looking 3 years ago, an 08 was $35k, and anything newer was minimum $50k still.

That being said, I'd like to consider myself a car guy.

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/...nt=app_android

[LilDrunkenSmurf]

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https://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/...nt=app_android

Well there's my mistake. I was only looking in Calgary. Hot damn.

[yipb]

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Well there's my mistake. I was only looking in Calgary. Hot damn.

What do you think is a fair price for this? I am actually in the market too and stumbled into this thread

[LilDrunkenSmurf]

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What do you think is a fair price for this? I am actually in the market too and stumbled into this thread

Honestly, no idea. I'd love an E30 really, but I'll never afford one, and the wife told me I can't get another car. I'd ideally like to pay 12k for one, but I'm not sure what a fair market value actually is.

[A2VR6]

Oh man E36 M3's.... always had a soft spot for the 4 door.

[LilDrunkenSmurf]

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Oh man E36 M3's.... always had a soft spot for the 4 door.

I'd love to find one in techno violet. My second choice would be the green. Even if I did find one, the wife likely would discourage me from pulling the trigger. Apparently you can have too many cars.

[Tik-Tok]

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Apparently you can have too many cars.

There's no such thing. You just run out of room, so need a bigger place to keep them.

[flipstah]

I can't rebuild a transmission but always diagnosing electrical fires and haphazardly resolving them.

Does that make me a car guy?

[gretz]

It depends on if you caused the fires or not

[98brg2d]

I am not sure if I am a car guy anymore (or ever was according to some definitions here). I have never changed oil, belts or brake pads. I have rnr radiator, intake manifold, throttle body, removed egr, turbo manifold, all intercooler piping, sway bars, adjusted drum brakes, poly bushings on rear end of car (front needed a press), heli-coiled stuff, installed electrical and mechanical gauges, resoldered stock clusters, fuel pumps, modified fuel pump canisters, rebuilt rising rate fuel pressure regulator, run fuel and vacuum lines, fuse blocks, sensors, made little brackets etc. I am not sure if I could do all of that anymore, without taking an inordinate amount of time to get it done. Mind you, all this turbo stuff is on an originally non-turbo car. In my mind, adding things on and taking them back off is easier than removing and replacing stock components since they are usually designed to be done by the home mechanic whereas there is an assumption in the design phase of a new car that an experienced mechanic is going to be doing things like timing belts, cam seals, clutches etc.

So I haven't done anything that most people would consider "basic maintenance" and conversely have done many things that people that do "basic maintenance" would never touch. I have actually been asked if I am a car guy before and my answer was that I like cars and can do some work on them but not the basics and no engine or transmission internals. I bet there are a lot of people in my situation that have done stuff that at first glance seems very hard but is actually probably the easier stuff to do.

[flipstah]

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It depends on if you caused the fires or not

Does thin smoke randomly appearing through vents while driving count as a self-induced issue?

[rage2]

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Does thin smoke randomly appearing through vents while driving count as a self-induced issue?

Buying a Porsche 928 automatically qualifies as self induced.