Scares me to death, but if its as easy as it looks someone could get a sweet deal.
http://www.cars.com/go/search/detail...nal&listType=1
Scares me to death, but if its as easy as it looks someone could get a sweet deal.
http://www.cars.com/go/search/detail...nal&listType=1
I'd be all over it if I didn't already have mine.
Why are you so terrified of it? It's just stolen parts (if the ad is honest). Not a problem.
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Looks good to me. Is that mystic over natural brown?
Just needs an OEM or Dynavin navigation unit, and remove the ///M badge, and it looks set...
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Originally Posted by jiggz
Definitely worth looking into.
good looking car
Te passenger carpet molding is gone, there are some kind of odd angle eyes that aren't all working, the nav unit, the hvac control unit may have some issues, and the stock air intake box is gone. Theft recoveries scare be because you know they were beaten to the max when they were stolen. Know body ever stole a car, and then drove it respectfully. East coast cars scare me right now too. All that said, I think this is the prettiest color combo BMW ever made in any car ever. I hope it gets bought by someone planning to return it to its former glory!!!
Things I noticed that I would closely at:
- radio/nav unit gone, that's obvious, but did they take it out properly or just cut the wiring harness? Replacing that wiring harness could be a PITA.
- air box gone, tab on expansion tank missing, probably was a BMW Performance Intake so understand why it's missing.
- angel eyes are loose in the headlights, doubt that was from gentle driving.
- interior passenger side carpet edge trim missing, what wiring did they mess with in there?
- wheels look brand new, if this was a stolen car one would suspect they took the wheels, so are these some cheap aftermarket wheels? Also, if they stole the original wheels, did they set the car on cinder blocks or drop it on the ground? What could they have messed up in the suspension or other places under the car?
- it was a stolen car, how gently do folks drive a stolen car? What other problems could be lurking? (A friend of mine had his 1970 Buick GS conv stolen a few years ago, it was recovered the same day minus the wheels, radio, battery, air cleaner, carburetor, etc. the odometer showed the car had only been driven 15 miles but when my buddy got it reassembled from the insurance claim, the engine had a spun bearing from the car being roughly thrashed, necessitated a bottom end rebuild.)
- M emblem on the trunk -- poser alert, lol.
Might be a decent buy if you go into this with eyes wide open and look at the above and the whole car carefully. And then plan to keep it a long time because it has a branded title that likely makes it harder to resell this car.
Was this the car that was bought from Appleton, WI a couple of months ago and then driven to Texas? We have a thread here somewhere about the new owner picking up the car and driving it home, believe he was a former USAF guy. I hope it wasn't.
I don't think this was the car from WI. That car had more miles I think.