Hello Fanatics. I've been a member for a while but I've never taken the time to post or start a thread. I've recently acquired a 2001 330CI from an insurance auction with a salvage title. What sold me was the car had a factory hardtop and the price couldn't be beaten. I will try to post more as I go along with repairs and upgrades. Here are a few pictures when I got her.
The car has already been fixed. It was pulled with a frame machine. Gaps are reasonable and doesn't pull to the sides. Wheel alignment is within specs. I'm just waiting for some comments before posting some more pictures.
I hope it was cheap, there's a lot of work to do to that (if you're doing it correctly) and you're probably going to exceed the cost of just buying a clear title car in a more desirable color combo.
It was cheap. Lets say I have less than $2500 including the purchase of the car. I've done all the work myself except for paint, plus I have easy access for parts.
Honestly, that's going to cost you so much. By then, you're going to think twice about that purchase. Not attempting to be negative but, that sucks. To add to it, it's an automatic, blah. Good luck.
If you can find a clean title 2001 E46 convertible with a hardtop for less than $2500.00 after repairs, let me know. I would definitely crush this one.
Op, you can have all the time of the world to do the project. I highly doubt you get a decent result with that frame damage, just the frame. I hope you have a 100k machine in your garage and prove me wrong. good luck
I certainly don't have the skills or equipment to get that thing into proper shape. But if the price was low enough, I might have bought it to part it out.
If it was straight, the hardtop alone has to be worth quite a bit, right?
All these negative waves! Sounds to me like a cool project. If the alignment comes out to specs, that's most of the battle right there because the front suspension is not adjustable except for toe.
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