Hi All,
The time has come for me to thin the herd. Graduate school+living in a city means that owning three cars that I don't have time to enjoy doesn't make sense anymore. I have realized that I really just want to focus on a s52 swap with my 327i, so I need to raise some funds.
In light of that, I need to part ways with my 160k 5spd swapped D-schwartz on black leather 'iX.
I picked up this car a few years back with auto trans and a blown VC, as a weekend project/winter car. Since then, I have 5spd swapped it and replaced the VC and have brought it up to DD spec. It has been very reliable and of course is a beast in the snow. I have receipts and records for all I have done to it over the last three years as well as previous owners, not complete, but a good amount of records.
The Good:
-5speed swap with ~5k on it (new clutch, pressure plate, balanced and machined flywheel, TO bearing, guibos)
-Good VC
-z3 1.9 shifter and new bushings/hardware
-new outer CA ball joints
-CA bushings (replaced with e30M3's)
-new tie rods
-new front upper shock mounts
-new rear shock mounts
-new Timing belt, valve adjustment within the last 2k miles
-replaced steering coupler
-added oem premium sound
-super clean interior
-engine in great mechanical shape, much quieter than most m20's I have been around. (certainly more so than my 2.7)
-new bav auto plug wires and MSD coil
-brake pads and rotors in the last 5k miles
-wiring for heated seats, replaced the comfort seats with sports, but have yet to install heat straps in the sport seats.
The Bad:
-rust. its an iX in the rustbelt- so the normal - rear drains mostly,license plate lights, front quarters seem to have been spared, though.
-car was in a collision at some point in its life as front dr. side fender is a DOT-R and pass is primer.
-could use a good respray as the DS paint is pretty faded on the roof.
-car is currently on bottlecaps, as 2/5 iX weaves are pretty bent up
-needs new front drivers side wheel bearing
-small hole in outer pass CV boot (this happened a few weeks ago, haven't driven the car since and am hoping to fix it before sale
-odo failed within the last 500 miles.
-needs new parking brake shoes
- Could use some new shocks, the ones it has on it now are pretty soft - (my reference is Bilstien sports on IES3's on my other car, so I might be exaggerating)
-exhaust leak after cat.
Tires probably have ~2000 miles left on them.
Basically at the end of the day it is a mechanically solid machine with a really nice interior that needs some TLC on the exterior, and a few little bits, but would make a great winter machine to keep the salt off of your e46 or whatever.
2500OBO!
Car is located in yellow springs, OH. It can be test driven. I will put up a jack test video if there is interest. I want this thing to go to a good home - iX's are becoming rarer by the minute! Get a great winter car while these things still are around!
The time has come for me to thin the herd. Graduate school+living in a city means that owning three cars that I don't have time to enjoy doesn't make sense anymore. I have realized that I really just want to focus on a s52 swap with my 327i, so I need to raise some funds.
In light of that, I need to part ways with my 160k 5spd swapped D-schwartz on black leather 'iX.
I picked up this car a few years back with auto trans and a blown VC, as a weekend project/winter car. Since then, I have 5spd swapped it and replaced the VC and have brought it up to DD spec. It has been very reliable and of course is a beast in the snow. I have receipts and records for all I have done to it over the last three years as well as previous owners, not complete, but a good amount of records.
The Good:
-5speed swap with ~5k on it (new clutch, pressure plate, balanced and machined flywheel, TO bearing, guibos)
-Good VC
-z3 1.9 shifter and new bushings/hardware
-new outer CA ball joints
-CA bushings (replaced with e30M3's)
-new tie rods
-new front upper shock mounts
-new rear shock mounts
-new Timing belt, valve adjustment within the last 2k miles
-replaced steering coupler
-added oem premium sound
-super clean interior
-engine in great mechanical shape, much quieter than most m20's I have been around. (certainly more so than my 2.7)
-new bav auto plug wires and MSD coil
-brake pads and rotors in the last 5k miles
-wiring for heated seats, replaced the comfort seats with sports, but have yet to install heat straps in the sport seats.
The Bad:
-rust. its an iX in the rustbelt- so the normal - rear drains mostly,license plate lights, front quarters seem to have been spared, though.
-car was in a collision at some point in its life as front dr. side fender is a DOT-R and pass is primer.
-could use a good respray as the DS paint is pretty faded on the roof.
-car is currently on bottlecaps, as 2/5 iX weaves are pretty bent up
-needs new front drivers side wheel bearing
-small hole in outer pass CV boot (this happened a few weeks ago, haven't driven the car since and am hoping to fix it before sale
-odo failed within the last 500 miles.
-needs new parking brake shoes
- Could use some new shocks, the ones it has on it now are pretty soft - (my reference is Bilstien sports on IES3's on my other car, so I might be exaggerating)
-exhaust leak after cat.
Tires probably have ~2000 miles left on them.
Basically at the end of the day it is a mechanically solid machine with a really nice interior that needs some TLC on the exterior, and a few little bits, but would make a great winter machine to keep the salt off of your e46 or whatever.
2500OBO!
Car is located in yellow springs, OH. It can be test driven. I will put up a jack test video if there is interest. I want this thing to go to a good home - iX's are becoming rarer by the minute! Get a great winter car while these things still are around!
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