[M3R1]

Originally Posted by Obioban

I’m pretty confident the e39 is the most reliable, cheapest to run M car there has been. It basically needs a chain tensioner every 100,000 miles and the secondary air system disabled (coding tweak). It has no significant or critical failure modes in the engine, trans, diff, or chassis. Electronics are independent, so if one module fails everything else keeps working.

It’s also from the era before BMW gave up on serviceability, so everything is still easy to work on.

There’s a reason there’s a bunch of them running around with 400,000+ miles. With low specific output comes low responsibility

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