[WCM3]

Originally Posted by BickM

High mileage has a bad stigma, but if it was cared for and you get the extended warranty, you are fine.

I don't necessarily agree with you. When I bought my 2007 335i in 2008, it had about 28k miles on it. I checked maintenance records through BMW and it was always in their for maintenance oil changes, etc. It's definitely a lot of miles, but that car didn't give me any big problems until I sold it with around 49k miles. The only issue it had was a fuel injector. I feel like as long as the newer M3 is under 50k, I will be able to get it home and have it checked by a BMW dealer and they can fix anything that's a must under warranty.

I understand that everyone thinks BMWs should have an extended warranty, but I perform all the work myself anyway. And I have a decent amount of hookups for OEM parts. The only thing that's funny to me is that I have a 95 turbo M3 with 73k miles and this one is 14 years newer with only 23k less miles. ha.

My buddies have 180k-200k on their e36 m3s and are still on the stock engine. However, I understand these newer cars have technology out the wazoo that can go bad. Is there anything that's notorious on 2009 M3s that I should be on the lookout for? It's rare to find an 2009 sub $50k that's a coupe and alpine/fox red. The 2009s I believe have the upgrades idrive as well which is a plus.