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My E46 in that purple blue will forever be my favourite car. The purr of the straight 6 was lovely Just a shame they built the cooling system with such poor pl

• Dennip 2y ago
  The coolant inlet flange on a friends ~2015 730d, made of plastic, cracked recently. To remove & replace it you have to pull the whole inlet manifold and a whole host of other bits off.
• throw-qqqqq 2y ago
  This is a sort of weakness of BMW’s IMHO. It’s too easy to accidentally break some plastic bits while servicing the car and/or engine. It’s the same on their bikes in my experience.
• jajko 2y ago
  My first car was E46, used one already 100k km on it (put another 150k before transmission died), had a diesel V6 (travesty, I know). But it was still a very fun car with ridiculously low fuel consumption, total average was maybe 5.5l/100km. It was so cheap to run for me, maybe I was lucky. Now sporting petrol 5 series F11 and much less impressed, I think thats it for me and BMWs. Things I didn't even know are there break and way more often, electronics and sensor seems like really bad ones (weird warnings, I have to reverse super slowly to not hit anything since it reacts with quite a delay).
  • wil421 2y ago
    I did a hell of a lot of maintenance on my e46 and I think 2010 plus or minus 5 years were not the best modern BMW years. Things like plugs, ac compressor, idler pulley, coils, and the impossible to remove wheel bearing. I guess I’m a glutton for punishment as I’m about to get a bmw with a hot vee twin turbo V8. Not sure if the older n63 with technical updates is better or worse than the detuned s68 they are using now.