BrokenBiker
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My last lost of bikes totalled 370 for all of them, 1200 bandit, cbr600rr, xjr1300 and a fazer 1000 and I have 4 lots of 3 years ncb for bikes now lol
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You total sod...did you get that off eBay? I was bidding on a black 330 touring but it went for too much
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Just noticed the plate doesn't match the one I was bidding on and I think the wheels are different.
Go on then...what's it like?
Go on then...what's it like?
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Amazingly it was for sale less than 4 miles away from my home. In this spec there was only about 5 nationwide.
It's an auto as the manuals seems as numerous as Rocking horse poop.
It pulls hard all the way upto and beyond 120MPH (tested on my private runway).
I'd forgotten how driver focused the E46's are, the E90's flatten out the dash etc but this car wraps around you. It's got 142k on the clock but the engine sounds like a Swiss watch. Electric everything, seats, mirrors, windows, nav, HK audio, TV etc etc.
Needs a bit of paint work to make it tip top but no rust.
Paid £3.3k and that's a lot of motor and performance for the money.
Interior is mint:
It's an auto as the manuals seems as numerous as Rocking horse poop.
It pulls hard all the way upto and beyond 120MPH (tested on my private runway).
I'd forgotten how driver focused the E46's are, the E90's flatten out the dash etc but this car wraps around you. It's got 142k on the clock but the engine sounds like a Swiss watch. Electric everything, seats, mirrors, windows, nav, HK audio, TV etc etc.
Needs a bit of paint work to make it tip top but no rust.
Paid £3.3k and that's a lot of motor and performance for the money.
Interior is mint:
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It is a lovely looking car. Can I sound like a total annorak and ask if you could keep a roughy eye on the mpg it's getting? Just to keep the missus quiet as she reckons it's going to use more fuel than my megane did oil...
My missus father had a 728i and when he sold it it had 198k on it and the only abnormal sound was the water pump squeaking on idle.
My missus father had a 728i and when he sold it it had 198k on it and the only abnormal sound was the water pump squeaking on idle.
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I may end up with an auto given how rare the manuals are unless I hold out for a manual.
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To be fair mate I've never found the steptronic box all that bad. When it is in sport mode you have the option to sequentially shift through the gears with the gear stick.
You can still get tail happy with the auto box, just use sport mode and kick down.
All my BMW's have been autos, even my 335i coupe and that was 306bhp.
You can still get tail happy with the auto box, just use sport mode and kick down.
All my BMW's have been autos, even my 335i coupe and that was 306bhp.
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On a combined cycle you can expect 28mpg, more like 24 urban only.
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If you enter the last 7 digits of your VIN here http://www.bimmer.work/ you'll get the full, original factory build spec.
Although for a different series [I wanted an e60], I did the same - took me ages to find a manual, but when I did.........what a beauty!! The original order included just about everything on the options list, inc Comfort seats [heated, vented + massage
], auto xenons, Dynamic Drive [no big saloon should handle/corner like this] etc, etc. Can you tell I'm a BMW enthusiast. 
Good luck with your hunt.
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Better than I thought. Not bad considering
