Juniorbean's 2003 BMW M3 Coupe (Purchase on Pg 3)

Old 09-17-2017, 01:01 PM
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Juniorbean's 2003 BMW M3 Coupe (Purchase on Pg 3)

I wanted to share some photos of my amazing 2003 M3 with you fellow car lovers before it sells. I'm the third owner, have had it for the last 6 years, and it's currently sitting at 135k miles. Photos taken yesterday!




























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Beautiful

in 6 years how many miles have you driven ?

What has has been your total maintenance costs in 6 years ?
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I bought it with 82k on it. All maintenance including tires and part refresh we're about $6500. Not too bad.
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I'm trying to get one in that color right now. If my TL sells.
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Oh my. So clean. If only I had the money.
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Very clean! What's made you want to sell?
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707 hp family car. More or less.
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How much you asking? lol
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$17k
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Haha. You just have to have that hellcat.
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Old 09-18-2017, 06:23 AM
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Haha. You just have to have that hellcat.
I dream about that thing!
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What a great looking M3, you should have no problem selling it. Good luck with the sale..
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Old 09-18-2017, 08:48 AM
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Holy cow this is too weird. I was literally JUST talking to my wife about your car yesterday on a road trip. We were driving my truck and she was like, maybe we do need a road trip car (funny how things come full circle). I was like, well, there's this BMW M3 on the forum I've had my eye on and he's not terribly far from us.

Too funny. Car looks good
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Originally Posted by juniorbean
Holy cow this is too weird. I was literally JUST talking to my wife about your car yesterday on a road trip. We were driving my truck and she was like, maybe we do need a road trip car (funny how things come full circle). I was like, well, there's this BMW M3 on the forum I've had my eye on and he's not terribly far from us.

Too funny. Car looks good
JB, you need this thing!
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Looks showroom fresh.
JB, isn't the AMG the road trip car?
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I would do such bad things to that car ...
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Old 09-18-2017, 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted by SaaBaaDoo
I bought it with 82k on it. All maintenance including tires and part refresh we're about $6500. Not too bad.
not bad all
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Having recently bought a new Scatpack Charger, I can say with 100% certainty that a Hellcat in either the Challenger or Charger would be a ridiculously fun car.

There are some heavily discounted new 17's sitting around ($55k Challengers) but you must be willing to travel.
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Originally Posted by TL-GIXXER
Having recently bought a new Scatpack Charger, I can say with 100% certainty that a Hellcat in either the Challenger or Charger would be a ridiculously fun car.

There are some heavily discounted new 17's sitting around ($55k Challengers) but you must be willing to travel.
Oh, I know Here's my Scat Pack Charger with the M3.

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Old 09-18-2017, 12:24 PM
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Originally Posted by 00TL-P3.2
Looks showroom fresh.
JB, isn't the AMG the road trip car?
No, that's my wife's daily. The rest are trucks. The Tundra is actually good for trips but since it's all vinyled, trying to keep that to business use and towing only.

The Jeep is lifted and while it can be used on the highway no problem, longer trips can be interesting. It also only has 2 seats (we removed the rear) so we just use that around town and the FJ is lifted and loud (tires, exhaust, general FJ design) so while I don't mind it, it can be a long trip when using that.

Originally the Porsche was the road tripper, then sold that for the Vagon, which I then sold for the business stuff and used the remainder towards the AMG... so trying to convince the wife to get that road tripper vehicle again

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Originally Posted by juniorbean
No, that's my wife's daily. The rest are trucks. The Tundra is actually good for trips but since it's all vinyled, trying to keep that to business use and towing only.

The Jeep is lifted and while it can be used on the highway no problem, longer trips can be interesting. It also only has 2 seats (we removed the rear) so we just use that around town and the FJ is lifted and loud (tires, exhaust, general FJ design) so while I don't mind it, it can be a long trip when using that.

Originally the Porsche was the road tripper, then sold that for the Vagon, which I then sold for the business stuff and used the remainder towards the AMG... so trying to convince the wife to get that road tripper vehicle again
I drove it up to Knoxville,TN last week to get it out of the path of Irma and it did fantastic! That was also one of the first times I've been able to take it on some curvy roads with elevation changes and it was a blast! I mainly kept it tame so my 7 year old wouldn't get car sick in the back.
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Originally Posted by SaaBaaDoo
I drove it up to Knoxville,TN last week to get it out of the path of Irma and it did fantastic! That was also one of the first times I've been able to take it on some curvy roads with elevation changes and it was a blast! I mainly kept it tame so my 7 year old wouldn't get car sick in the back.
Too funny. We were probably about 2 hours or so from each other. We were in Banner Elk (not to escape the hurricane, but for a wedding) that weekend. GREAT roads up there! Only reason we drove the truck is b/c there were some dirt roads (hard packed, but still), so we left the AMG home.
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Originally Posted by juniorbean
Too funny. We were probably about 2 hours or so from each other. We were in Banner Elk (not to escape the hurricane, but for a wedding) that weekend. GREAT roads up there! Only reason we drove the truck is b/c there were some dirt roads (hard packed, but still), so we left the AMG home.
JB...stop flicking the man's tip and buy that shit!
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JB...stop flicking the man's tip and buy that shit!
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After my almost laguna m3 purchase...this would be super tempting.
my rental place has room for one more car in the driveway...

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JB, buy my V, I'll buy this.
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If you'll sell your V for $17k we may need to talk regardless
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at this point I may just pay the V off and stop bellyachin about the payment altogether.
I don't want to get rid of the S2000 nor the Audi beater either.
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Beautiful. Nicely done on caring for that M3!
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You my sir have problems I dream about having ...

i was gonna say something about you wanting the M3 with the $$ S4, but feels the OP might get offended...
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Love it, my favorite M3 generation
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still one of my favorite things about the car is the variable redline...
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still one of my favorite things about the car is the variable redline...
It is a very cool feature, but threw me off the first time I noticed it.
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it makes perfect sense....

if this was a 'vert, i would have sold the MR2 and made you an offer...
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how does the Charger compare to the M3 powerwise?
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Originally Posted by KaMLuNg
how does the Charger compare to the M3 powerwise?
60 mph and up the Charger walks it, but up to 60 it's pretty close. Best 0-60 time I got in the M3 was 4.8, the Charger so far is 4.6. However, I think the Charger could get down into the low 4's if I could manage a launch without wheel spin.
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no replacement for displacement... and it's newer technology as well... that M3 was ahead of it's time and would be an awesome road course monster...

the charger also has the 8AT right?

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