The seller of today’s Nice Price oregon No Dice M3 droptop threatens that if it doesn’t merchantability connected Craigslist, they’ll instrumentality it to Bring a Trailer. Let’s spot if we deliberation its terms tag volition prevention them the trip.

The 2000 Jeep Cherokee two-door we looked astatine yesterday offered small successful the mode of options oregon extravagance which meant that it had a batch going for it arsenic acold arsenic simplicity and easiness of attraction were concerned. Unfortunately, its parsimonious pleasures didn’t look to widen to its asking price. At $7,488, that was excessively affluent for our blood, earning the Jeep a 57 percent No Dice loss.

We’ve each seen those old-school infomercials wherever a merchandise is touted arsenic being the champion happening since bivalent booster shots lone to beryllium made adjacent much astonishing erstwhile the announcer says “but wait, there’s more.” That trigger operation is intended to motivate fence-sitters by making the thus-described wide worth overmuch greater than initially expected.

Today’s 1998 BMW M3 convertible is simply a spot of a “but wait, there’s more” benignant of a car. First off, it’s evidently an M3, which is simply a hotted-up variation of the modular 3 Series, present successful E36 guise. On apical of that, however, this 1 offers a slathering of Dinan go-faster parts that marque it an adjacent much intriguing deal.

The seller encapsulates the car’s attractions thusly:

In a nutshell, this car is ace cleanable for the miles, an implicit beast, and a full head-turner. If you don’t similar getting attraction from everyone astir you, this is not the car for you... lol

According to the ad, this M3 has been “Meticulously maintained its full beingness with tens of thousands of dollars worthy of attraction and repair records.” Some of that attraction progressive updating the cooling strategy from the OEM boobytrapped integrative bits to a Mishimoto setup arsenic good arsenic a caller rebuild of the Powerdyne (didn’t they marque the Terminator?) supercharger. The seller stresses that each the show parts are California thoroughfare legal, which is simply a sizeable feat for a car with specified a heavy seat of motor mods.

Altogether, the show parts are claimed to marque 300 horsepower astatine the rear wheels. Those wheels, by the way, are Dinan alloys and are wrapped successful caller Kumho rubber. There are tons of different mods connected the car, which is not wholly astonishing considering its age. What’s a small much astonishing is that the car has each of this hardware and has done 187,000 miles. That’s a lot, but they don’t look to amusement successful the Estoril Blau overgarment oregon the integrative bits and pieces. The bodywork appears straight, arsenic does the cloth of the top, though the integrative rear model could basal a thorough de-yellowing.

Other issues see immoderate curbing connected 1 of the wheels, a teardrop successful the leather connected the backmost spot squab, and the request to regenerate the hostility straps for the top. Perhaps much worrisome than immoderate of that, the seller says that the rear main seal has started to weep. That’s a gearbox-out occupation and portion it’s being fixed, renewing the clutch would beryllium a bully thought too.

Other than those issues, the car seems to beryllium a coagulated citizen, though 1 would ideate things similar bushing and bearings mightiness request immoderate emotion sometime soon. It mightiness beryllium worthy that concern successful clip and aboriginal disbursal seeing arsenic it’s a spot of a uncommon vertebrate and is acceptable up successful a beauteous decent fashion. Also, kudos to the seller for the broad statement (both bully and bad) successful the advertisement and for making disposable each the photograph documentation.

This M3 had been listed astatine $29,000 for a fewer weeks but seemingly didn’t get immoderate superior bites astatine that price. In that ad, the menace was made that if Craigslist failed to seal the woody astatine that price, the car was going to Bring a Trailer. It’s present been re-listed connected Craigslist astatine $23,000, and it’s up to america to spot whether the bites volition travel astatine that caller little price.

What bash you think, is this Dinan-ized M3 convertible worthy that overmuch arsenic it’s presented successful its ad? Or, bash the miles and the mods—and the price—pile excessively overmuch on?

You decide!

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