cruizin54
05-29-2018, 10:31 AM
I've been searching pretty hard for a ZHP sedan for almost 2 months. By hard, I mean multiple times per DAY hitting my various search buttons. I finally found one and am flying up to New Jersey tomorrow morning to see it for myself and complete the purchase if it is what it looks like. I had my son go last week and take a test drive. After checking it out and driving it, he put a deposit on it for me. He told me it is a beautiful car! Unless I find something overwhelmingly wrong, I'll be completing the purchase Thursday morning.
It is a 2004 imola red slicktop 6 speed manual with the alacantara interior. I have maintenance records from the current owner and from the previous owner when he listed it on the m3forum: http://www.m3forum.net/m3forum/archive/index.php/t-406010.html
The mileage at this point is about 165K. In the 6 years the current owner has owned it, he's only put about 14K miles on it.
I'll be taking a leisurely drive back to Florida next week. My son and I are going to do some camping and ATV / dirt bike riding in PA while I'm up north. Plan on taking Skyline Drive and then a slight detour from there to do Tail of the Dragon and a few other twisties in Western NC / Eastern TN. I did Tail of the Dragon last year in my Corvette and wish I would have had the time then to just stop and let the slowpoke that loved having me in his rear view mirror get a few miles ahead. I had a deadline, so I didn't pull over. Hindsight what it is, I probably should have.
This isn't my first Bimmer. I owned a 2008 BMW 335i for a few years. Twin turbo with the automatic. A couple years later, I was looking for a good ZHP and finally gave up and bought a 98 M3 sedan 5 speed. I had my share of troubles with the M3 and sold it about a year or so later. I was still working then so I didn't have time to fix it myself. I'm retired now and have a well equipped garage/workshop. I have two lifts (2 post and a 4 post), plus a lot of miscellaneous tools (welders, trans jacks, engine hoist, etc). Spending a lot of time right now learning everything I can about the E46's.
Hope to be able to contribute something here in the future. Right now, I'm yet another FNG.
Steve
It is a 2004 imola red slicktop 6 speed manual with the alacantara interior. I have maintenance records from the current owner and from the previous owner when he listed it on the m3forum: http://www.m3forum.net/m3forum/archive/index.php/t-406010.html
The mileage at this point is about 165K. In the 6 years the current owner has owned it, he's only put about 14K miles on it.
I'll be taking a leisurely drive back to Florida next week. My son and I are going to do some camping and ATV / dirt bike riding in PA while I'm up north. Plan on taking Skyline Drive and then a slight detour from there to do Tail of the Dragon and a few other twisties in Western NC / Eastern TN. I did Tail of the Dragon last year in my Corvette and wish I would have had the time then to just stop and let the slowpoke that loved having me in his rear view mirror get a few miles ahead. I had a deadline, so I didn't pull over. Hindsight what it is, I probably should have.
This isn't my first Bimmer. I owned a 2008 BMW 335i for a few years. Twin turbo with the automatic. A couple years later, I was looking for a good ZHP and finally gave up and bought a 98 M3 sedan 5 speed. I had my share of troubles with the M3 and sold it about a year or so later. I was still working then so I didn't have time to fix it myself. I'm retired now and have a well equipped garage/workshop. I have two lifts (2 post and a 4 post), plus a lot of miscellaneous tools (welders, trans jacks, engine hoist, etc). Spending a lot of time right now learning everything I can about the E46's.
Hope to be able to contribute something here in the future. Right now, I'm yet another FNG.
Steve