WTB: E36 sedan

[D_Eclipse9916]

The suspension bits...why are you paying a premium? Your doing it wrong.

i just mean things like the control arms/tie rods tend to cost a little more over the same non-M part but its not a huge jump. The aftermarket stuff all seems to cost the same.

I just cant bring myself to like E46 regulars. Seriously, their interior falls apart faster than an E36, are more expensive to maintain.

:lol: Ok, I'll fight you on that one. Having put 20k miles on an E46 and something like 30k on the E36, the E46 interior is completely and utterly bombproof. The only issue with the E46 is the soft touch rubberized coating crap they put on the sunglass holder and center console peels and flakes. A nice afternoon, a six pack and a can of spray paint corrects that for the rest of time. Otherwise it's rock solid. Door panels stay on, dash doesn't rattle, center console doesn't fall apart, etc, etc.

Fucking everything inside the E36 falls apart. Everything. Door panels fall off, door cards bubble, center console disintegrates and rattles, shift surround doesn't stay on right once the brittle tabs snap, glove box sags, dash warps around the center vent, seats get loose in their adjustment tracks, trim breaks etc etc etc etc. I've fixed or learned to live with all of the stuff I listed, never seen an E46 with anything like that.

Then we are oppsoite. My E36 M3 was A+, never did any single one of those things. However, I know most of them do have some of those problems. Your E46 must have been good, cause I saw every other E46 do those same things..