Quote Originally Posted by megad
it's like talking to a rock, why bother

I could go find hundreds of threads on other owners like myself who cared for their cars and did not have all these problems

but it wont do any good now will it?


if I ever go look at trashed E36, I would look at all the faults you listed, there's another list with even more items on the E36 forum at bimmerforums


But to insist that every car will have all those things fail, regardless of location, care, garaged, etc etc the millions of variables, is, well... I guess I'll leave that to the other readers to decide for themselves. I'm sure that they, like you or me, can decide for themselves


I was up in minnesota all week, I saw a couple E36's rusted though in the rear quarters

now do they do that down here in georgia? no, they dont
The problem that you are associating with is that you believe these 'known failures' are rare occurances, and have to do with maintenence, when in fact they are occurances in MOST of these vehicles, be it design flaws, manufacturing errors, etc. Will 100% of these parts fail in 100% of the vehicles? No. I would bet money though that 80% of them do in 80% of the vehicles though.