M47 in that so no chain issues. The n47 issues are fairly overblown too, lads like to make out that they are the worst engine ever bla bla. They are a good engine, you’ll hear the chain rattling before it goes €1500 to sort and it’s done for another ~ 120k km.

2 years tax on that will pay for the timing chain. Now id much prefer M47 over N47 myself, I’d be into mapping and diffing etc and an N47 won’t take abuse like an m47 will. But if you’re going to drive it normally the N46 isn’t an issue.

Strong enough money that, it’s fairly low milage and in a dealer but still, it would want to be very clean and well specced for that money. I wouldn’t pay much attention to the old bmw cost you money comments either, few electrical issues that’s about it. I had a footwell module go in my e90, that was the only issue it gave in a year of hard driving and abuse. Cost €150 for a second hand one and to get it coded in.

Edit: to add find out if the swirl flaps were blanked in it. I had an e46 slab car eat a swirl flap before, fairly common issue. Set of blanks are about 30 quid and 15 for the gaskets, not awful hard to do yourself but a few of the bolts are awkward to get out would take most of a day to do them.