Purchasing a 08 E90 M3 Any advice ?

[MyMiniM3]

I currently have a 2016 M235i but have always wanted my E90 M3 and it's time. I know people are going to think I'm crazy but I just love this car. Here's the link for the vehicle I'm looking at.

https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/invent...ting=150451727

I believe she should be in good solid working condition as long as she was welll maintained over the years. The low miles help. I do have one simple question...I am for some reason a LED light lover and want the later year e90 tail lights in this car, is that possible? Besides for that any other information would be greatly appreciated.

[617E90M3]

LCI tails are possible, price seems pretty good! Tough to find clean m3's under the 30k price point

[whats77inaname]

http://www.m3post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1097395

[SDPLV]

I paid $28k a month ago for mine from a BMW dealer, and it had 20k more miles (!) than this and is DCT. Love the car! There is no other car I would really want in my life.

Only thing I'm doing within the next week or two is the preventive rod bearing swap (hysteria or not).

Remember, only 9,xxx E90s produced, even less that are manual, low mileage ~50k, and black.

I suspect this one (if service records, etc check out) won't be on the market for long at all.

No idea why they dropped the price by $5k. Airbag recall may still be active on this one, but thats not worth $5k off.

[dparm]

Originally Posted by MyMiniM3

I currently have a 2016 M235i but have always wanted my E90 M3 and it's time. I know people are going to think I'm crazy but I just love this car. Here's the link for the vehicle I'm looking at.

https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/invent...ting=150451727

I believe she should be in good solid working condition as long as she was welll maintained over the years. The low miles help. I do have one simple question...I am for some reason a LED light lover and want the later year e90 tail lights in this car, is that possible? Besides for that any other information would be greatly appreciated.

Yes, the newer LED tails ("LCI", or life-cycle impulse, meaning mid-cycle updates) can be retrofitted. It will require some coding but it's very popular and you should have no trouble finding resources doing it.

The problem with the sedan, however, is that the lights themselves are a slightly different shape so you'll need to get a new trunklid.

[jiggz]

Originally Posted by MyMiniM3

I currently have a 2016 M235i but have always wanted my E90 M3 and it's time. I know people are going to think I'm crazy but I just love this car. Here's the link for the vehicle I'm looking at.

https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/invent...ting=150451727

I believe she should be in good solid working condition as long as she was welll maintained over the years. The low miles help. I do have one simple question...I am for some reason a LED light lover and want the later year e90 tail lights in this car, is that possible? Besides for that any other information would be greatly appreciated.

The listing is taken down - did you buy it?

As others have said, you can retrofit the rear end to look like the 2009-2011's. Parts don't pop up here too often, but check your local CL. Or, ECS tuning has a full retrofit kit, minus paint & install of course -
https://www.ecstuning.com/BMW-E90-M3...hts/ES2219799/

The other big difference on the 08's is the older iDrive controller/interface. This can also be retrofitted, if you desire.

[jaekeem]

I hope you picked up the car, the LCI conversion on my end was a little under $1,100 painted and installed with coding. I will be picking the car up later today.

We're kind of on the same boat, I stumbled across mine 2-3 weeks ago. 2008 dct, no sunroof, with only 22k miles on the clock.