RE: <E30> 86 M325 is anyone familiar with this ?

["Brown, Michael (DBDev)" <mbrown@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The really sad part is it's not even the nicer 325i, it's the eta engine
which is pretty enemic as it's really an economy engine. Glad you found all
this out before wasting time or, more importantly, money.

- -----Original Message-----
From: Mike Theuri [mailto:mikesoft@domain.elided]
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 10:36 AM
To: Drew Mouton; bmw-digest@domain.elided
Cc: DEVIOUSM3@domain.elided; mbrown@domain.elided; alex.fadeev@domain.elided;
EMendez@domain.elided
Subject: Re: <E30> 86 M325 is anyone familiar with this ?


Thanks Drew, As some listers have indicated, the car is not worth the
drive, it might have the m3 badge and seats but I also did a car fax
report on the car and a big red flag came up with the mileage, its jumps
from 100k in 1992 to 1995 -14,117 and then 1999 - 14,110 and then 
99000 in 2000,and nothing reported in 2001 for the next registration 
and I would be led to suspect something must be up with this car, the car
is in Russelville, AR. I saw it in the paper : 

BMW 1985 M325, 6 cylinder, 5-speed, good condition. 163,000 Miles. 
$1750. Call 501-968-2391. Russellville.

Car fax said this about the VIN :

1985 BMW 325
2D Sedan Compact car
2.7L L6 FI SOHC
Germany  

The price might sound average but for all its worth and given that the 
owner apparently bought it just over a month ago, I would stay away from
it. Thanks to my fellow listers namely Harry for the pictures, Michael, 
Alex and Ed for responding.

Mike Theuri
93 318i 

- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Drew Mouton" <drew@domain.elided>
To: "Mike Theuri" <mikesoft@domain.elided>; <bmw-digest@domain.elided>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: <E30> 86 M325 is anyone familiar with this ?


Mike,

You might head over to carfax.com and see what the VIN number tells you. 
Secondarily, BMW's VIN lookup (if you have a friend at the local dealer) 
can tell you exactly what model and what options were installed.

Alternately, where is the car? I'm sure one of the listas would be happy 
to check it out for you.

Drew

It appears that on 3/26/01 5:09 PM, Mike Theuri at 
mikesoft@domain.elided said:

>I came across a car which is an '86 M325. I talked to the seller who is
>selling the car and from his description (he is not BMW savvy) it appears
>to me to have all the thrills of an E30 M3. Its a 5 spd, about 160K on the
>odo. The Vin number is WBAAB5405F9512361, he lives quite a distance
>away from me and I am trying to determine whether this is worth the trip.
>I had a similar experience with an 85 M535 and it turned out to be a 
>regular M spec'd 535 that was over priced. Is anyone familiar with this 
>model. Thanks 
>
>Mike Theuri
>93 318i

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