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Hello, the e92 is gone so I have no use for these anymore. Set of 4 17" "Sport Edition" wheels from Tire Rack with Yokohama Ice Guard snows. All four are in the condition of the one in the pictures, no rash, cleaned of salt every year before storage, car washed often in winter, etc. They all have functioning TPMS monitors and the tires measure 7-8/32", with most measurements being 8/32", date codes of 1514 as you can see. Sizes and offsets can be seen on the invoice from Tire Rack.
I would like $350 for the set. Text me at 262-657-5116. Thanks, Wally.
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Good point, things are crazy right now. I've driven by a few dealers that had actually spread out the cars to make the lot look fuller than it was.
I just go back to the last time I tried to trade this thing in three or four years ago. Nobody wanted to touch it because of the manual trans and rwd. Two dealers flat out said I would be better selling it myself and weren't even going to make a trade offer and one offered me $1200 (and this was at least three years ago when it only had like 150k on).
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CAR IS GONE/SOLD
Hello. Up for sale is my '07 328i manual transmission, rear wheel drive e92 coupe, 180,000 miles. Space grey with saddle brown dakota leather, sport package. The car has never been raced, autocrossed or otherwise beat on in the time I have owned it. I am an old man who just puttered around in it back and forth to work.
It's been my DD for about 7 years, garage kept. Used in winter but washed regularly, used very little in winter the last three years since I started working from home. Wheels shown have never seen salt. The car is very clean, there are rock chips in the front bumper cover and leading edge of the hood, commensurate with a car with half to two-thirds the mileage. There is a small (1/4" x 1/2") chip in the trailing edge of the driver's door that has been touched up and a small scratch in the lower edge of each mirror. The car has never been in an accident, it is all original paint. There are no dents or door dings. There are some small chips in the wheels but no curb rash. There is a chip in the windshield that has been epoxy filled by safelite. There is virtually no wear in the driver's side seat bolster.
Engine runs well and doesn't burn oil. A/C works. Brakes are good but I was planning on doing them shortly for cosmetic reasons. The clutch feels good and the delay valve has never been removed.
Recent work includes the oil pan gasket and two new front tires. New front control arms.
New Bilstein shocks and struts with all new mounts and spring rubbers @ 160,000. Water pump and thermostat done @ 150,000. Regular oil changes, trans/diff oil changes and brake fluid flushes.The car comes with a set of winter wheels and tires. Black "sport edition" 17" wheels with TPMS and have Yokohama snows on with 6-7/32" left. They are in excellent condition with no rash. The car also comes with one of those custom fit windshield sunscreen things to keep the dash from getting toasted (I only mention it because I noticed it sitting behind the driver seat in the pictures).
Thanks, Wally.
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Needless to say, right after making that post...SJM actually called me and said the reman house shipped the driveshaft to their supplier (napa, I think) last Friday. It will still be another 8-10 business days before it makes it into their hands. SJM said there would be no hard feelings if I canceled, which I think I am going to do because I am not going to get my money back on that deal. I know the driveshaft is on it's way out, and will disclose that to anyone I would sell it to because I don't hose people, I don't want that bad karma following me around, but the reality is it's not that bad, I've driven several people around in that car and none of them even noticed it.
Hi Rekpoint. My Dad did come to his senses last weekend, or my Mom laid the smack down on him, and he finally agreed someone else should own the car. I will be putting it up for sale shortly, here first, and for less than the low end of the above suggested ranges.
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Useless update here...
So the car is still setting in my garage nearly a month later still with a bad driveshaft. I have been waiting for my mechanic, SJM Autowerks in IL, for over three weeks now to get the parts in. I check in with them weekly and the last two times they have completely blown me off, meaning they said they were going to check with their parts supplier to find out where the hell the driveshaft is and call me back, then never called me back. This is really getting irritating.
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Thanks Pat. I figured it wouldn't make much difference on a car with this mileage when it's time to sell, this isn't going to be a top dollar car which get scrutinized on details. I just hoped someone here had experience with them to make sure I wasn't buying a problem. It's going to be over a grand for this job out the door, they are going to warranty the work with the Cardone part(s).
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Well this plan sort of hit a snag. For years, my Dad has been saying he wants to buy this car from me. I thought he was kidding, I mean he has nowhere to keep it, he has a couple of nice cars including a Panamera to drive, etc. Well when I told him I was going to sell it off he got all upset and reiterated he wants it and is serious. My Mom just rolled her eyes.
Until this shakes out I figure I had better get the driveshaft fixed to at least it's safe to drive. I am NOT doing this job myself. The shop I use wants to put in a Cardone, I guess that's what NAPA sells them. I always associated Cardone and Dorman with crap parts, but honestly never actually used either. I don't want to end up in a situation where people will turn their noses up if/when I go to sell it because of that axle reman choice. Any thoughts?
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Sorry about the delay, this is the only emissions related sticker I could find under the hood.
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Thanks guys! Are y'all taking into consideration the driveshaft is hosed? The follow up question to that would be if it would be worthwhile to fix it, meaning would I get more for it fixed than the sum of as-is plus the repair.
To be honest, I was thinking quite a bit less than that. Maybe I should just list it here and somebody who feels like doing the driveshaft job could get a deal.
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Hi guys,
I know I haven't been around here much and this is probably frowned upon to make these sorts of posts but...
I need to get a new(er) car with automatic for a variety of reasons. Therefore this thing has to go. The edmunds true car won't give me a value for it for whatever reason so I have no way to know if I'm getting hosed by the dealer (if I trade it in) or what to ask for it if I try to sell it outright. I know it's not worth a whole lot. I was looking at a 528i automatic several years ago and that dealer didn't want it because it was manual trans.
It's an '07 328i sport package with manual transmission, rear wheel drive. Space gray with saddle leather (obviously). 178,500 miles. The car is cosmetically clean with just the normal chips in the front bumper cover.
It needs a driveshaft, which is kind of prompting this. It is currently drivable but it's on the way out, there is the "rust colored powder of death" coming out of the rear u-joint. There are some other minor nits, but the major stuff like the a/c works. If it ends up going for sale here I will disclose all said nits as I'm one of those dreaded completely honest type guys.
It had shocks, struts, water pump/thermostat at ~150k, and within the last 3k front control arms, two front tires plus I just had the oil pan gasket done.
Any thoughts?
Wally
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On 4/22/2020 at 8:50 AM, gilber33 said:
For the exact reason you said. It's a communist country. They lock everything down and tell people to stay inside and they do it. Disease can't spread if no one is outside to spread it.
Got your point, still don't understand given the population density in those cities how it couldn't spread like wildfire before they realized they needed to go on full lockdown. And to reiterate, I don't believe their numbers, but it just seems it would have been so out of control by the time they went on lockdown, they wouldn't have been able to hide what was going on.
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One thing I've never understood from the beginning of this is if the disease is so infectious and deadly, why are there jillions of people dead in China? Those people are packed in like sardines in the cities over there.
I fully realize their socialist/communist/whatever the hell they are now government is going to bury the truth about how many people croaked out but there are so many American and European corporate interests over there at this point, there's NO WAY they could hide the numbers that should be dead. If nothing else they should be smelling the tens of millions of rotting corpses in Japan by now, right?
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On 4/17/2020 at 1:26 PM, patsbimmer1 said:
Found out today that my customer passed away this week from COVID-19.
That's awful, sorry for your loss. Like Chris said, this is the first actual death I have heard off line of the media.
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I got some good news last week Thursday, and I think we all need some good news about this.
I only know one person who had this disease, a friend of my Dad's/acquaintance of mine. Heard from my Dad that last Thursday he has fully recovered.
He went into the hospital on or around April 30th and tested positive for coronavirus. He went home.
The guy is a friend of my Dad's from the VFW, a Korean War veteran who is 90 years old. When my Dad forwarded me the e-mail that Mr. B had contracted the disease, I thought he was for sure a goner given his age.
Unfortunately I don't know a lot of details about how bad it was and such. My Dad is pretty freaked out about this so I didn't drill him for a whole lot of answers.
I hesitated to even type this given the only other person I told immediately slapped me down with "WELL PEOPLE HALF HIS AGE ARE DROPPING DEAD LEFT AND RIGHT!". But whatever, I understand some people are really concerned this is the end of the human race. With the talk here of hundreds of millions of people dying from this, I decided to take the chance and put out a positive note.
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Update...
They sold the car a few weeks ago and ended up netting me $500 more than the last time they "sold" it and things fell through. Yes, I actually got paid for it and everything. Somewhat unbelievable given we are in the midst of the coronavirus lockdown but they did it. I don't know where it's going.
I still have the MT 328i e92 so y'all won't be getting rid of me that easy.
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Well the third customer told me he is going to try to find someone else to do the job rather than wait. I've been down this road before and the way this industry is saturated now, odds of me ever seeing that guy again is low. Oh well...
After that I heard from my data source in Illinois that his boss is defying the Governor's order and making them come in to work! It will be interesting to see how that plays out.
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I got some good news this morning that two of the three active jobs I am working on will not be cancelled, the customers are willing to wait until my source in Illinois opens back up again on April 7th. Haven't heard from the third guy yet.
Bad news is my wife works at my daughter's school and she was furloughed without pay when this whole "shut everything down" thing started. So far they haven't said when they will open back up again.
I wish someone could explain to me this fixation on hoarding toilet paper. Are people thinking it's going to be the post-apocalyptic currency? Maybe where the single ply Scott's will be like $1's, Angel Soft $5's and the Charmin Ultra-Soft will be like $20's? I've heard stories of black Friday style fights in Costco over cases of TP. WTF??
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Not at all, I greatly appreciate any and all input about selling this car. I have a tendency to just give things away to get rid of quick and move on. Unfortunately, in my current situation I can't afford to do that with this one so thanks for taking the time.
Their contract states the commission is to be a MINIMUM of 12.5% of the asking price or $2500, whichever is higher, so in this case $2500.
I went into this thinking that I needed to store the car anyway since I already bought something else (non BMW 😞 ) and my garage is full. If they could sell it for what I needed to get out of it, then great, if they couldn't, then I just got 6 months of heated indoor storage for $395.
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No. The contract is pretty clear about having it for sale "on the side". Basically if you pull the car before the contract is over, you owe them the commission. They also have a clause that if you sell it to someone who saw it at Gateway after the fact, you owe them the commission. Not sure how they would ever enforce that.
I just signed up for another 3 month term with them, which doesn't cost anything. It it isn't sold by May when this three month term is over, I will probably yank it and send it through BaT.
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Thanks, eh.
Needless to say it's still for sale at the consignment place. They have it priced in the stratosphere but insist it's priced correctly. I wanted to argue with them but a US spec '82 320is recently sold on BaT for like $35,000. It was a nicer car than mine but who knows. E21's selling for more than $10 or $15k?? The world has officially gone crazy.
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Not exactly a storage fee. There was a $400 fee for them to do the walkaround video and IMO not very good pictures and then do all the listings. That's for a 3 month term, then if it doesn't sell, you can re-up for additional 3 month terms for no charge for up to one year. You can see the pictures on the Gateway Classic Cars Milwaukee website. They were taken indoors under sodium lamps, flash wash out, let's zoom up on the one rusty bolt that the car has, etc. No mention in the ad of it being a factory sport package, etc.
There's no need to comment on their asking price, not my idea and that's their procedure.
I don't know if it has 100% fallen through but I was told the 30-day buyers contract expires next week, I don't know if they collected a deposit.
My plan it to Bring A Trailer it if this doesn't work by next May or so.
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Question: How do you know a salesman is ________?
Long story short, the car is NOT sold. I got a call some two weeks after going in to sign the paperwork, title, etc that was supposed to be "come pick up your check" instead it was " there's a problem". Now I have a car setting over there on a signed (open) title and no insurance with all the spare parts including a minty set of wheels in the trunk.
Yes, I did specifically ask if there was any financing involved that might cause the deal to fall through and I was assured there was no financing involved and it was a done deal.
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After those pictures it went on consignment at Gateway Classic Cars Milwaukee location (which is actually in Kenosha, but whatever). The guys there shit when they saw it, Ruben and his crew did that good a job on it.
It sold within three weeks for more than I originally expected out of it, despite their poor pictures and relatively poor description. Seeing as they tack their commission on top, they must have gotten a lot for it. Well, a lot for an e21, borderline e30 money. The car is being shipped to California, at least that's what they told me.
It kind of sucks I had to sell that car, but it was a poor choice from the beginning. I should have bought a less nice one with more miles so I wouldn't be afraid to drive it.
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Picked up the car from Ruben today. It looks friggin' unbelievable! They are artists.
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