Overpaid isn’t a word that exists in the BMW enthusiast’s vocabs for this old old school, especially when you will work on it and restore it to its glory. I’m glad you found this car and excited to see what you will do to it. Your channel helped me a lot to rebuild my Vanos. 🙏
funny enough I bought a 95 e36 m3 in November of last year off Facebook, paid $8k for it car was clean and built well but had 200k on it. I rebuilt the whole car and can't be happier. I've put back more than 8k into car but hey gotta play to play. I don't plan on selling the car ever so in my eyes was 100% worth it for the piece of mind.
My E36 was the first and biggest "unresponsible" purchase that I've made in about 10 years, but it puts a beaming smile on my face every time I drive it and I still think to myself "I can't believe I own an E36!" Granted, mine isn't an M3, but the 328i still has plenty of pep for what I need! Buyer's guilt is always something that you'll experience, especially with such a large purchase, but if it makes you happy then I think it's worth it.
My theory is that he ran turbo, blew head gasket and then sold. The reason i say that is you can see the coolant overflow stains on the reservoir. Showing theres excess coolant pressure.
Good Luck with the project. I searched for 58 days and looked at 11 e36 M3’s before finding one I liked for my project car. Rust is a big issue and lots of trade offs when buying a 25 year old car.
Dude that's a great price for that mileage and condition on an m3. Where I live that would have gone for more than that by 3-4k. Congrats on the purchase man!
If you are concerned about exhaust pitch Supersprint gives the really nice euro higher pitched exhaust note if you want to move away from the more bassy rasp. And for drone if you buy some sound deadening material and put it under the trunk carpet the drone will be greatly reduced. Sweet car look forward to videos with it.
Nice e36! I started out with almost the same thing last year. I paid $9k for a "nice" e36 M3. Needed some work but it is coming along. I am putting an S54 in mine rn. Love the steering wheel.
I paid $7400 for my Daytona manual coupe last year. It had 210k miles, I think you got a good deal. You got real low miles. My car is probably a 6/10 exterior, 9/10 interior.
I paid 7k for a 97 M3 but it probably need a little more than 2k to look similar to yours and its condition. Tbh though, I don't regret it, such an amazing chassis and powerplant to play with. Cheers!
Yo man that's a great price for what you got. Outside of the repaint(which would be a deal breaker for me) it was a nice buy considering today's prices.
killer deal considering the prices of all the extras. glad i found your channel! just bought my first manual + e36 but own a few other old bimmers. lookin forward to the vids
Looks like a great base for a project! Sometimes you just know the right one when you see it and +/- a little on the price isn’t worth the worry. Keep the vids coming-all your e36 stuff is super well done/entertaining and has been incredibly helpful for my ‘95 M3 project!
Great price. I have my 97 E36 M3/4/5 with 105k and in mint condition thats going to be up for sale soon. Have records back 15 years and its been cared for well. Will be pushing north of $20k for sure.
Unfortunately youre right. Bring a trailer finally showing the world manual cars are worth a damn! But the unfortunate part is i just now started making disposable income after 8 years of window shopping so I’m just in time for any manual car to go up. Oh well! Ill be haggling on CL and posting on BaT hehe
The car is pretty rough but you're probably right there pricewise. The thing is it'll be a dual purpose car and if anything major wrong you will fix it. It's so sad seeing what rust does to these things. I've had M3 sedan since new and I keep it pristine.. in southern california we get absolutely no rust if you take care of it except possibly very minor surface rust on things like control arms and subframes. Though I never plan to sell I've been waiting years for the prices to skyrocket. I'm very curious what someone would pay for mine looking like it just rolled off showroom floor.
Very nice car Pawinn! And the most important; the body is perfect. And the m3 e36 prices in Europe are sky-high for years already. Give it a good polish and after that an AvalonKing ceramic coating. I did this to my e93 and it came out like new. Such an amazing product!! Dutch regards, Nico.
Thanks Nico! Yeah man the body being straight is the big motivator on buying this car. That's wild that prices for these cars are still going up in Europe. And yessir I'll take your advice with the polish and ceramic coating! Best regards from the US, Pawinn
These car typically command the most resale value if completely stock condition and if low mileage will of course be the best. But in this case motor swapped paint is not original interior has seen better days I think this if it’s not rotted at best is good place to start a very expensive resto. I agree you definitely overplayed this at best 1000-1500 is generous. But that’s my opinion they’re tough to find but after your done cleaning it up and restoring some of it will likely cost you total 15-20k you may have been better off seeking a cleaner example out on bring the trailer or something like that.
For that milage I think that's a deal you wouldn't regret. my girlfriend just got a 95 with no rust shit clear coat and 232k for 5 large all it needs is your typical vanos and full service I have followed you before I bought my 99 cosmos back in 18 now, then I got for 6k on 170k most things addressed definitely not bad but those prices are rising like SpaceX rockets so this goes for everyone interested if you can obtain it, do it now!!!!!! Extra jealous about those manual vaders mine as a California car was reupholstered but I prefer manual vaders.....👌👌🔥
i live in new england, both of my e36s have 240k miles on the chassis with zero rust, my 95 m3 just has a tiny little bit of surface rust on the jack point from a scratch but it only took 5 minutes to fix.
Even with today's market, I feel $9k is overpaid. $7500 I would think would be perfect. Maybe because it just looks dirty to me...probably interior/exterior details would make it easier for me to see the $9k value.
I hear you with that! 7500-8000 was my target price for the car, but yeah if the paint was buffed out/cleaned up I think it would have justified more on the price I ended paying for it. I'm just mainly happy that the car seems to be very mechanically sound.
Woah, no way! I know I've seen in the states that really low mileage, clean, and stock m3's are going for like $18-22k USD, but dang it's crazy they're that expensive in Australia 😯! Thanks for sharing, as I do feel much luckier now knowing this 🙏
A RUclipsr who titles their video "overpaid for my E36 M3" and puts the price in the BEGINNING of the video, rather than in the end after 7 ads? What is this sorcery? I had forgotten I was even subscribed, but definitely waiting to see what you'll do with this. E36s (not M3) are some of the cheapest fun to drive car around me, though even pov spec 1.8 prices are going up nowadays :(
Haha I hate leading people on in videos so I just cut to the chase:). Thanks for sticking around and staying subbed on my channel! More content to come!
I think you got a smoking deal for an E36 M3 with only 123k mi given today’s crazy and insane used car market. Early 2000s grocery getters with more than 150k mi are being listed for 6-7k.
Thank you! I am starting to realize that what I got is a great deal with the rising prices nowadays. It's crazy how much the used car market is changing 🤷🏻♂️
Honestly with the miles I don’t think you over paid at all you can find clean ones less then 12-13 coupe vert or sedan now you can’t get non m’s for less then 6
i think it's probably a 7K car. The only real value is the low mileage. But is that even the original engine? Is it built? Definitely, if it was turbo'ed it saw a hard life. I'd sell the shifter and buy a CAE as there's absolutely no side play, and it's the best thing ever. every other copy shifter feels like shit in comparison. Still, rad if it's the only thing reasonable in the area. CA cars are obviously nicer but yeah on the other side of the country also.
Totally hear you with that man! And nope I recently managed to get in touch with the previous owner before the guy I bought it from to figure out more of the car's history. Turns out that owner swapped out the turbocharged s52 setup and swapped in another s52 with about 60k miles on the engine (stock aside from bolts ons like 24lb injectors, power pulleys, the m50 swap). Car just started throwing a CEL too so I'm thinking it needs a fresh tune on it as well since that previous owner did not really mess with the tune despite the SAP delete, m50 manifold conversion, etc. Thanks for the suggestions with the CAE shifter, it's definitely something I'll be considering along with a DSSR and other shifter bits. I appreciate the feedback brotha!
Honestly with cars these old it could be both, haha. For sure I think for my car it may have had a respray done in the past (at least on one side of the car cuz a previous owner reached out to me to tell me about a minor fender bender).
9 grand for an e36 m3 isnt much. This vid is now 2 years old i see and even 2 years ago the e36 m3's were like 15 to 20 grand here in holland. So 9 grand is a awasome price if you ask me🤷♂️
Is there any way you could tell me I’ve I should keep my 36’s I’m in the south east so are market is completely different these cars do not rust down here only place is in the trunk so I think I should just let them appreciate
Hey man, I viewed this car with my friend. The previous owner turbo’d the motor and then blew it and swapped motors. Ended up passing since it was a salvage on CarFax.
So I can't get to your Facebook because I did have a couple of questions for you regarding that CX racing Turbo manifold you are using. Just tells me the link is broken or that page doesn't exist :(
Hey sorry about that! Accidentally left the link in the description to my old fb page that I closed a while back. But hmu on Instagram in the dm's I'll try to help🤘
If you’re happy, you didn’t over-pay. Looking forward to this project.
Thanks doc 🙏. Me too 😁
In today's market $9k is a great price! Prices are climbing quick!
Yep n for that amount of miles they go for 15-30k n low mileage ones are goin for 40-50k ridiculous lol
Overpaid isn’t a word that exists in the BMW enthusiast’s vocabs for this old old school, especially when you will work on it and restore it to its glory. I’m glad you found this car and excited to see what you will do to it. Your channel helped me a lot to rebuild my Vanos. 🙏
Totally understand where you're coming from. Thanks for the love! I'm glad my videos helped you with your bmw 🙏😎
awesome man! welcome to the M Club!
Thanks fam!
funny enough I bought a 95 e36 m3 in November of last year off Facebook, paid $8k for it car was clean and built well but had 200k on it. I rebuilt the whole car and can't be happier. I've put back more than 8k into car but hey gotta play to play. I don't plan on selling the car ever so in my eyes was 100% worth it for the piece of mind.
Hell yeah man, so glad you got another E36!!!! Looking forward to this build.
Thanks man me too!
My E36 was the first and biggest "unresponsible" purchase that I've made in about 10 years, but it puts a beaming smile on my face every time I drive it and I still think to myself "I can't believe I own an E36!" Granted, mine isn't an M3, but the 328i still has plenty of pep for what I need! Buyer's guilt is always something that you'll experience, especially with such a large purchase, but if it makes you happy then I think it's worth it.
Got my 8.5/10 E36 M3 half a year ago for 7.4k! Surprised its been appreciating this fast!
My theory is that he ran turbo, blew head gasket and then sold.
The reason i say that is you can see the coolant overflow stains on the reservoir.
Showing theres excess coolant pressure.
Dude that's a good deal. Wish I could find a 9k E36 M3 here is SoCal. Looking forward to this project.
Good Luck with the project. I searched for 58 days and looked at 11 e36 M3’s before finding one I liked for my project car. Rust is a big issue and lots of trade offs when buying a 25 year old car.
Thank you! I hope your build goes well too :)!
Alright bro, love the car, you didn't overpay. Just getting finished with a turbo build on my e36, looking forward for your project!!!
Dude that's a great price for that mileage and condition on an m3. Where I live that would have gone for more than that by 3-4k. Congrats on the purchase man!
Hey did u 6 speed swap
Thanks man! I'm excited for the videos ahead 🙏
If you are concerned about exhaust pitch Supersprint gives the really nice euro higher pitched exhaust note if you want to move away from the more bassy rasp. And for drone if you buy some sound deadening material and put it under the trunk carpet the drone will be greatly reduced. Sweet car look forward to videos with it.
I’m pumped for you!!!
Thanks fam ❤️
Nice e36! I started out with almost the same thing last year. I paid $9k for a "nice" e36 M3. Needed some work but it is coming along. I am putting an S54 in mine rn. Love the steering wheel.
With only 120K Miles and minimal rust, you got a good deal in today's market. If you clean it up you could sell for way more.
Exactly
There was a point in time about 3-4 years ago where the price of an e36 would inflate $100-$200 every month or so. Now they range from $9k-$16k.
Another E36 project gonna be dope!!
I paid $7400 for my Daytona manual coupe last year. It had 210k miles, I think you got a good deal. You got real low miles. My car is probably a 6/10 exterior, 9/10 interior.
Love it. Congrats on the new project car. I need to do more with my e36
Thanks man! And I hope your future e36 projects bring you fun and joy 🙏!
I paid 7k for a 97 M3 but it probably need a little more than 2k to look similar to yours and its condition. Tbh though, I don't regret it, such an amazing chassis and powerplant to play with. Cheers!
Congrats brother, turn it into a track machine. You’ve already got most of the hardware. The apex wheels look sick too.
Yo man that's a great price for what you got. Outside of the repaint(which would be a deal breaker for me) it was a nice buy considering today's prices.
killer deal considering the prices of all the extras. glad i found your channel! just bought my first manual + e36 but own a few other old bimmers. lookin forward to the vids
you got a lot of good upgrade goodies and pretty clean car, plus you like it! Good deal in my eyes with respect to the market.
I don't think you overpaid, seems like its already had some money spent on it with the bushes, strut bars etc. Look forward to further content on it.
Looks like a great base for a project! Sometimes you just know the right one when you see it and +/- a little on the price isn’t worth the worry. Keep the vids coming-all your e36 stuff is super well done/entertaining and has been incredibly helpful for my ‘95 M3 project!
I have that same "bump" on my cosmo's m3 hood.
Great price. I have my 97 E36 M3/4/5 with 105k and in mint condition thats going to be up for sale soon. Have records back 15 years and its been cared for well. Will be pushing north of $20k for sure.
Unfortunately youre right. Bring a trailer finally showing the world manual cars are worth a damn! But the unfortunate part is i just now started making disposable income after 8 years of window shopping so I’m just in time for any manual car to go up. Oh well! Ill be haggling on CL and posting on BaT hehe
The car is pretty rough but you're probably right there pricewise. The thing is it'll be a dual purpose car and if anything major wrong you will fix it. It's so sad seeing what rust does to these things. I've had M3 sedan since new and I keep it pristine.. in southern california we get absolutely no rust if you take care of it except possibly very minor surface rust on things like control arms and subframes. Though I never plan to sell I've been waiting years for the prices to skyrocket. I'm very curious what someone would pay for mine looking like it just rolled off showroom floor.
Very nice car Pawinn! And the most important; the body is perfect. And the m3 e36 prices in Europe are sky-high for years already. Give it a good polish and after that an AvalonKing ceramic coating. I did this to my e93 and it came out like new. Such an amazing product!! Dutch regards, Nico.
Thanks Nico! Yeah man the body being straight is the big motivator on buying this car. That's wild that prices for these cars are still going up in Europe. And yessir I'll take your advice with the polish and ceramic coating! Best regards from the US, Pawinn
I just bought a 1996 M3 for 6k 98k miles! Lucky find the paint could use some touch ups and the front seats are trashed in rips
These car typically command the most resale value if completely stock condition and if low mileage will of course be the best. But in this case motor swapped paint is not original interior has seen better days I think this if it’s not rotted at best is good place to start a very expensive resto. I agree you definitely overplayed this at best 1000-1500 is generous. But that’s my opinion they’re tough to find but after your done cleaning it up and restoring some of it will likely cost you total 15-20k you may have been better off seeking a cleaner example out on bring the trailer or something like that.
hella low miles, this things sick and a good buy. hopefully we can see more videos on this
For that milage I think that's a deal you wouldn't regret. my girlfriend just got a 95 with no rust shit clear coat and 232k for 5 large all it needs is your typical vanos and full service I have followed you before I bought my 99 cosmos back in 18 now, then I got for 6k on 170k most things addressed definitely not bad but those prices are rising like SpaceX rockets so this goes for everyone interested if you can obtain it, do it now!!!!!! Extra jealous about those manual vaders mine as a California car was reupholstered but I prefer manual vaders.....👌👌🔥
Hi Pawinning, it'll be great to see more videos of this E36 and the OG E36 👍🙂
Definitely planning on it 🙏😎
@@Pawinning That's great, look forward to watching them 👍
i live in new england, both of my e36s have 240k miles on the chassis with zero rust, my 95 m3 just has a tiny little bit of surface rust on the jack point from a scratch but it only took 5 minutes to fix.
Good find, it's definitely in better hands.
Looking forward to this project
Even with today's market, I feel $9k is overpaid. $7500 I would think would be perfect. Maybe because it just looks dirty to me...probably interior/exterior details would make it easier for me to see the $9k value.
I hear you with that! 7500-8000 was my target price for the car, but yeah if the paint was buffed out/cleaned up I think it would have justified more on the price I ended paying for it. I'm just mainly happy that the car seems to be very mechanically sound.
Excellent price especially considering all the responsible mods already done
Finally some coupe content
Cheap mate, over here in Aus they easily go for $40-$60k AUD at the moment. Think yourself lucky :)
Woah, no way! I know I've seen in the states that really low mileage, clean, and stock m3's are going for like $18-22k USD, but dang it's crazy they're that expensive in Australia 😯! Thanks for sharing, as I do feel much luckier now knowing this 🙏
As an e36 owner I will say these prices have skyrocketed in the past few years. Kinda crazy seeing some of the asking price on some of these clappers
A RUclipsr who titles their video "overpaid for my E36 M3" and puts the price in the BEGINNING of the video, rather than in the end after 7 ads? What is this sorcery?
I had forgotten I was even subscribed, but definitely waiting to see what you'll do with this. E36s (not M3) are some of the cheapest fun to drive car around me, though even pov spec 1.8 prices are going up nowadays :(
Haha I hate leading people on in videos so I just cut to the chase:).
Thanks for sticking around and staying subbed on my channel! More content to come!
I think you got a smoking deal for an E36 M3 with only 123k mi given today’s crazy and insane used car market. Early 2000s grocery getters with more than 150k mi are being listed for 6-7k.
Thank you! I am starting to realize that what I got is a great deal with the rising prices nowadays. It's crazy how much the used car market is changing 🤷🏻♂️
That thumbnail picture is so beautiful!
Thanks! My buddy Eli @ignitiontube took it 🙏
We are car enthusiasts of course we over pay 😂
Preach 😂
Honestly with the miles I don’t think you over paid at all you can find clean ones less then 12-13 coupe vert or sedan now you can’t get non m’s for less then 6
In Australia you won't find one for under 30000 AUD which is 23000 USD so i'd say bargain from where I sit
That's s50b30 and s50b32 so that proper
Just picked up a 95 m3 5spd with 135k clean fl car 9k as well
i think it's probably a 7K car. The only real value is the low mileage. But is that even the original engine? Is it built? Definitely, if it was turbo'ed it saw a hard life. I'd sell the shifter and buy a CAE as there's absolutely no side play, and it's the best thing ever. every other copy shifter feels like shit in comparison. Still, rad if it's the only thing reasonable in the area. CA cars are obviously nicer but yeah on the other side of the country also.
Totally hear you with that man! And nope I recently managed to get in touch with the previous owner before the guy I bought it from to figure out more of the car's history. Turns out that owner swapped out the turbocharged s52 setup and swapped in another s52 with about 60k miles on the engine (stock aside from bolts ons like 24lb injectors, power pulleys, the m50 swap). Car just started throwing a CEL too so I'm thinking it needs a fresh tune on it as well since that previous owner did not really mess with the tune despite the SAP delete, m50 manifold conversion, etc.
Thanks for the suggestions with the CAE shifter, it's definitely something I'll be considering along with a DSSR and other shifter bits. I appreciate the feedback brotha!
Ive seen paint chip underneath weather stripping on e36s just as you mentioned.. not sure if that was overspray following a respray or a factory flaw?
Honestly with cars these old it could be both, haha. For sure I think for my car it may have had a respray done in the past (at least on one side of the car cuz a previous owner reached out to me to tell me about a minor fender bender).
You didn't overpay. In fact, in a coule of short years it will appreciate nicely.
that 9k nothing man, here in Hungary they go around 20k (if there is any on the market, its pretty rare)
9 grand for an e36 m3 isnt much. This vid is now 2 years old i see and even 2 years ago the e36 m3's were like 15 to 20 grand here in holland. So 9 grand is a awasome price if you ask me🤷♂️
Have a word with matt from obsessed garage for advice
U did not over pay. Trust. Lowmiles, coupe black manual m3. Unless salvage
Is there any way you could tell me I’ve I should keep my 36’s I’m in the south east so are market is completely different these cars do not rust down here only place is in the trunk so I think I should just let them appreciate
M50 swap on m3? I don’t get it. What’s so special about the m50 over the s50?
Hey man, I viewed this car with my friend. The previous owner turbo’d the motor and then blew it and swapped motors. Ended up passing since it was a salvage on CarFax.
I’m looking to buy one but I don’t know where to look. Any Recommendations?
Definitely think it had a turbo in it, maybe with the previous motor 🤔
I agree, possibly had a different motor in it 🤷🏻♂️
i paid 7kNZD for a sedan 328i ZF lsd
Irp shouldn't have that much slop
Nowadays in wa they are all 16k plus
Thats a great car
9k for an m3 is nothing lmao, m3 in my area is minimum 20k+
My video release timing was terrible haha. I agree the pricings are soaring up lately!
@@Pawinning idk where youre located at but where im from they always been expensive lmao
So I can't get to your Facebook because I did have a couple of questions for you regarding that CX racing Turbo manifold you are using.
Just tells me the link is broken or that page doesn't exist :(
Hey sorry about that! Accidentally left the link in the description to my old fb page that I closed a while back. But hmu on Instagram in the dm's I'll try to help🤘
@@Pawinning Shure will, thank you my friend. I gotta create an account on instagram. Ill do that when I get on break, im at work right now.
Sounds good! I just saw your message, and will get back to you asap after I digest it and brush up on what I did with my turbo build 🤘😎
Anything 6k plus is m3 price
dam thats way to much my guy ngl
So fucking cool ✊✊✊
Thanks! 🤘🤘🤘
Also my car has 290k miles💥
How much? $7k?
I'd bought it for 9k, if i had >50k.
Got mine for $2700
That pretty cheap I bought my hardtop m3 for 5k 4K for the body 1k for the hardtop