100,000 miles

[M3 Adjuster]

Originally Posted by bunker

adios resale value

Nope. Not at all. Check out High mileage E30 M3s

[BDO]

Originally Posted by rad doc

What?? Great use for a fun car. Its all relative. I have 67k and have enjoyed every second of it. Would have hated spending that much time in a boring dd.

Damn straight. I'll never understand the guys toiling in crappy, soul-crushing appliances so that they can take a 10km ride to the shops on the weekends in the "fun" car. I DD'd every single one of my Ms, and enjoyed every second of it.

To the OP - well done, here's to the next 100k.

[gongalongas]

Originally Posted by ASAP

100k miles is 100k miles... but these appear to be hwy miles, so ok at best. Prob not best use of a fun car.

It wasn't 100k straight miles of Tail of the Dragon, but almost all of it was on normal streets.

I've put 4,000 miles on two M cars through the alps and autobahn - Miami is nothing like that, but you can still have plenty of fun with a good car down here.

Btw I hate tail of the dragon. It's kind of close to my mom's house. I took the E92 on it, hated it, and though I'd give it another try the next year in my wife's stingray. Not my cup of tea.

[rad doc]

Originally Posted by BDO

Damn straight. I'll never understand the guys toiling in crappy, soul-crushing appliances so that they can take a 10km ride to the shops on the weekends in the "fun" car. I DD'd every single one of my Ms, and enjoyed every second of it.

To the OP - well done, here's to the next 100k.

Agree, congrats to OP.

To further address ASAP comment regarding "best use of a fun car": consider you may daily drive a Honda Civic and think 1M should be weekend/fun car, others daily drive a 1M and think a 911 Turbo is a great fun car, next guy may daily drive 911 turbo and have a 458, so on and so on. Again, it's all relative and I have seen it all the way up to a Veyron as a daily driver and 250 GTO for fun.

[jaymcars]

Originally Posted by NihonX

Welcome to the 100,000 miles club.

I never had any warranty work done except for the battery recall/bulletin.

I've been running modified/tune since 1200 miles.

What was the battery recall bulletin?

[ayao]

Originally Posted by jaymcars

What was the battery recall bulletin?

Let me google that for you:

http://www.1addicts.com/forums/showthread.php?t=805698

[The Big O]

Well done! Im sure you've enjoyed 99% of those miles. I've certainly enjoyed 99% of mine. I've done far fewer km's though cuz where I live, we have serious road safety issues so to reduce the chance of an accident I try reduce the number of times I drive the car per week. As a result I've only done just under 55 000km's (34k mls). If it wasn't for the fear of an accident I'd be on the same milage as you though

[NihonX]

Originally Posted by BMW335iOn18s

One last question. How has the clutch held up? Is it still original? Any hotspots/vibrations?

Mine didn't start slipping until 65,000 miles or so. I was fully modified at the time including meth and E85 daily. I've since detuned and removed some mods until I upgrade to a stage 3+ spec clutch and SMFW from MFactory. Until then, I'm only pushing around 380whp now. The stock clutch has some rattles at idle but not too annoying. It still holds strong during hard acceleration.

[ghardt]

Congrats on 100,000. Nice to see people drive these cars.

[sq86]

Congrats on hitting 100k and enjoying it. Surprising that you've gone through 4 HPFPs. I sold mine around 48k and never had an issue. I did have a rattle or two though.

[rich8566]

Originally Posted by Yellowceta

...Other than that, I have had the vavles walnut blasted at ~50k and installed a catch can shortly thereafter.

Does anything material actually collect in the catch can?

[TheBingoBalls]

Originally Posted by rad doc

Agree, congrats to OP.

To further address ASAP comment regarding "best use of a fun car": consider you may daily drive a Honda Civic and think 1M should be weekend/fun car, others daily drive a 1M and think a 911 Turbo is a great fun car, next guy may daily drive 911 turbo and have a 458, so on and so on. Again, it's all relative and I have seen it all the way up to a Veyron as a daily driver and 250 GTO for fun.

+1. People think you need to accerlerate/redline and push a BMW to enjoy the car. While that's the best way to extract every bit of performance from a BMW, you're likely buying a BMW because it just feels good on the road at speed limits. I don't need to go to track to notice the steering, suspension, etc. That stuff should be there on a BMW stock. You drive any BMW vs. Mercedes or Audi and this is obvious (though that's been sort of removed on the current BMWs).

[Artemis]

Originally Posted by E30 Racer

It's all about the quality of the miles, not the quantity

Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark:

• Marion: "You're not the man I knew ten years ago."
• Jones: "It's not the years, honey; it's the mileage."