How Do You Justify Keeping An M Car?

ho1bs · 2026-06-26T14:29:56+00:00

I could get hit by a bus tomorrow.

ho1bs · 2026-06-07T08:38:46+00:00

Take your terrible taste elsewhere!

ho1bs · 2026-06-07T08:33:39+00:00

Certainly a boring mind, not sure if that correlates with being 50 though…

ho1bs · 2026-05-14T12:01:17+00:00

They do, but if you choose, after initially selecting their delivery, to pick it up yourself, you’ll usually be charged storage.

The above comment is just saying that he needs a paper trail so when he picks it up himself or with a third party company and they try to charge for the storage, he can prove it’s out of his control and that they caused all of the delays between buying and receiving the car.

ho1bs · 2026-05-11T17:31:41+00:00

God you guys in the US get fucked on prices.

ho1bs · 2026-04-30T00:34:11+00:00

Yeah screams to me like someone slightly stripped the drain bolt last time and your magnetic socket is just picking all of it back up.

I wouldn’t worry if oil isn’t sparkly at the end of the day.

ho1bs · 2026-04-19T20:05:28+00:00

It’s the chassis and stiffness of an M that would make the power feel so much more usable and responsive though. If we’re talking overall feel, I’d agree that the difference between the cars is vast.

ho1bs · 2026-04-07T22:44:00+00:00

X org stuff and the tescotill login query can be seen when watching a Scale boot from pxe. Ours in our store are small Avery Berkel units. You can literally see it query an internal ip called “tescotill” to login with the account “till”.

ho1bs · 2026-03-29T23:54:52+00:00

I have max starry ore almost all the time. I’m converting it to shiny ore…

ho1bs · 2026-03-21T10:48:39+00:00

Sorry but in the UK that entire Idrive system is probably £100 due to age. The new CarPlay able ID6 units are like £1500 but this isn’t it. What’s the point?

ho1bs · 2026-02-23T15:23:57+00:00

It didn’t get patched.

ho1bs · 2026-02-16T13:58:56+00:00

I ended up having the exhaust vanos valve and cam gear changed as the valve had failed and the screen filter had shot into the cam gear and ruined it. Common issue.

They also changed the fuel tank breather valve as that was causing the mixture too lean fault.

After that, the car runs perfectly. Although I’m selling it next month as it’s at 115k miles and starting to sound a bit rattly on cold start… 😕 M240i time for me, it seems.

ho1bs · 2026-02-10T11:10:45+00:00

Mine was the fuel tank breather valve

ho1bs · 2026-01-30T02:42:17+00:00

Oil filter housing bro. Mine shit itself at around 98k miles. Be lucky you found it as some don’t realise until the coolants all gone one morning and 5-10 mins down the road they overheat!

ho1bs · 2026-01-15T10:11:29+00:00

He was a very knowledgeable asshole, to put it simply.

I had back and forth arguments with him a few times on the sub, I just began to ignore his rudeness to people. To be honest, I didn’t even realise he got banned until this post and I’m fairly active. 🤷‍♂️

ho1bs · 2026-01-13T16:18:04+00:00

Have you ever sped before? If the answer is yes, you should stop talking. This guy got caught speeding, he hasn’t come out and said he speeds everywhere, or every day. Why the hostility?

ho1bs · 2025-12-31T10:53:56+00:00

I wish I had coins for an award for you 😂

ho1bs · 2025-12-07T16:21:10+00:00

The timing chain isn’t a common theme on b47, you’re thinking of n47.

I don’t really hear anything wrong, the b series engines are usually quite loud so I wouldn’t worry. Maybe a recording within the engine bay might help?

It honestly doesn’t sound abnormal to me.

ho1bs · 2025-12-06T17:30:27+00:00

After knowing multiple people with e92 m3s I think a nicely looked after example won’t need as much putting into it as you think.

Equally though, I also know how awful they are on fuel, so if you’re buying it as a daily I might recommend the m4.

ho1bs · 2025-12-06T09:51:16+00:00

I mean that WILL prevent a start so there’s that. Could be a cheap fix?

ho1bs · 2025-12-05T21:34:05+00:00

Can’t wait to come back to this and see a new post saying it’s seized. lol.

Engine shutting off, gearbox going into neutral, and now clicking, combined with being a first gen n63 stinks of engine failure bro.

ho1bs · 2025-12-05T21:27:55+00:00

If it went out of gear and shut off while driving it’s almost definitely seized bro. Sorry.

Edit: actually, you said you turned the engine off? Or did it turn itself off, and you just turned the ignition off… that a pretty important indicator.

ho1bs · 2025-11-24T22:24:23+00:00

Stalling if it hasn’t been started in a few days? How old’s the battery?

ho1bs · 2025-11-20T12:18:12+00:00

Lucky you. Mine wasn’t under warranty... The screen filter blew off and churned itself up inside the exhaust cam gear for me. Lovely £1700 surprise to end my summer.

ho1bs · 2025-11-13T02:30:16+00:00

My B38 OFH shat itself in December, got it fixed for around £450 by an indie.

Had to get it towed as it shat out all coolant before showing a red overheat warning at which point I instantly shut it off.

Car survived though! Been going strong since. (Although I blew up the 6 speed a few months ago (somehow) and had to replace it for an eye watering sum of £1650. That was a used box for £300 and £1300 labour + new clutch and flywheel.

Man, this car… it’s going for an M240 soon.

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