how do you tell......

[Bimmerboy91]

yea the guy said it is an "is". suspisious me, i think its a down graded M3 or a mis badged 318is, JUST TO ME. and the fenders @ 100 sound a bit off good price.

[Axxe]

If the M3 has exhaust bearings then I'm sure it also has cross drilled brake lines.

[JasonC]

so wait how do i know if my turn signal fluid is low or needs to be changed? I cant find the resevoir or anything!

LOL, look in your glove box for your owners manual. It should be in there, cause BMW would not want it to run low and burn up the turn signals.

[JasonC]

yea the guy said it is an "is". suspisious me, i think its a down graded M3 or a mis badged 318is, JUST TO ME. and the fenders @ 100 sound a bit off good price.

But what year "is" cause 88+ has the valance that looks like the white one in the picture on page 2.

[Bimmerboy91]

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[Bimmerboy91]

hm, you know that totally slipped my mind when i was asking him for prices. well if it has that valence then im sure its 88+

[JasonC]

If it is a 88 valance it should work. But if it is a 89+ valance it may not cause there will not be no place to mount your bumper trim too. Someone correct me if i'm wrong.

[Bimmerboy91]

what if i buy the bumper too? if i go again some other day i will definetly ask about the year.

[uofom3]

lol - "turn signal fluid"... i'm using that one.

[uofom3]

yea the guy said it is an "is". suspisious me, i think its a down graded M3 or a mis badged 318is, JUST TO ME. and the fenders @ 100 sound a bit off good price.

There is no such thing as a downgraded m3, at least here in the U.S.

It is a standard e30. People put all sorts of badges on the cars.

I think a hundred for the pair of fenders is a bit steep. For a little over 250, you can get NEW sport evo fenders. I would think more like 25$ a fender in good shape would be reasonable.

[Bimmerboy91]

i ment a downgraded M3 in the way that the M3 motor was taken and a regular 318i motor is taking it place. now your talking with 25 bucks each. how hard is it to swap out the aluminum bumps wfor the is bumps with the valence in the front? back?

[DEV0 E30]

i'm loling over here.

[DanielHStout]

This is getting out of hand...

[Fidhle007]

Actually, downgraded M3s are pretty common here, I see them at the shop a lot. People buy a normal M3 and realize how bad the gas mileage is so they end up swapping in a 318 motor and removing the fenders and changing the trunk redoing the rear window and getting a new front valence. We've actually done a few four-lug conversions for some of these people. It's good money for the shop but damn, it's such a pain in the ass because you have to do so much fabricating to get everything to fit right. Plus you have to make you mounts for the exhaust bearings AND in some rare cases you have to relocate the blinker fluid cooling fan as well. I constantly yell at these people when they come in and ask for a downgrade, I tell them they should just sell the car to some poor schlub who didn't know about the disadvantages of M3s and buy a 318. No one ever listens....

[Erick]

lol -.- you guys are scaring me.... maybe i should orders some spare exhaust bearings.