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"E90M3" (e90m3) 10/27/2020 at 15:51 • Filed to: unnecessary car shopping with E90M3

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No, I don’t me looking at manual E9Xs or the cheap E90, what I mean is what’s been done to it.

At first glance there is nothing awry with this E90, looks like pretty much every other high mileage 13 year old E90. It wasn’t until I read the description that I found this E90 had a weird past:

That’s right, someone decided to repaint this E90 from crimson red to what looks like something similar to this:

Which is confirmed by looking in the truck.

This just begs the question, why would you repaint a car in another factory color when it’d probably be a lot cheaper to just buy a car that color.

Anyways, if you want a repainted E90, for some reason, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!

nerd_racing > E90M3 10/27/2020 at 15:55

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Probably a cheap hand me down.

I hate red cars enough to consider repaints. 

E90M3 > nerd_racing 10/27/2020 at 15:57

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Still doesn’t make sense, looks like it was a decent respray as well as you can’t tell from the doors.

Which would mean it’d cost a decent amount to do. So if you hate red that much, why not just sell the car and move on. 

wafflesnfalafel > E90M3 10/27/2020 at 16:01

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D on’t see that very often, though I work with a guy that did . He had a 90's v8 Thunderbird that he loved but ended up tota ling it (oopsie,) so he went out and found another one in a different color and repainted  to match.  It ended up looking better than his original one.  Not something I would probably do but w hatever makes you happy I guess.

E90M3 > wafflesnfalafel 10/27/2020 at 16:07

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When was this? If it was 5 years ago, makes a lot more sense than if it was 1993 and he did it, due to the fact that those aren’t exactly common anymore, let alone common in good shape. 

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > E90M3 10/27/2020 at 16:07

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I'm really confused too. BMWs of that gen had good paint all around so probably not sun damaged paint. Could be an off the books collision repair out of pocket where they just went ahead and changed it to a color they like more. 

E90M3 > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 10/27/2020 at 16:08

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I mean it’s possible, but doesn’t seem likely. 

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > E90M3 10/27/2020 at 16:12

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Well it being repainted at all doesn't seem likely. 

Dr_Watson > E90M3 10/27/2020 at 16:22

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Isn’t this what wraps are for?

Tripper > E90M3 10/27/2020 at 16:23

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Damn and it looks like a decent job, I can’t find any of that red...WTF?

One of my good friends owns an automotive training school. When we were all in high school, his father bought is sister a brand new Range Rover (this would have been P38 days) . It was grey, but she wanted it blue...So they repainted it with like 500 miles on the clock!!!

I’m hard against re painting a brand new car for no good reason, but the blue she chose... Estoril! I never admitted it but I wanted that car so bad.

E90M3 > Dr_Watson 10/27/2020 at 16:23

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Bingo. 

E90M3 > Tripper 10/27/2020 at 16:25

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It’s there, but you have to look for it.

That was really the only reason I could think something like this would happen. If I ever have too much money, an E90 M3 is getting painted a shade of green for me. 

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > E90M3 10/27/2020 at 16:33

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Or that blue door is from a donor car 

E90M3 > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 10/27/2020 at 16:34

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Maybe, but the door jambs are all painted nicely to match.

daveIT > E90M3 10/27/2020 at 16:45

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I was more impressed by “ No c heck Engine l ight” and “everything works. ”

daveIT > E90M3 10/27/2020 at 16:45

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The red paint adds HP now.

E90M3 > daveIT 10/27/2020 at 16:47

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Eh, they're not terrible if you take care of them. Not the cheapest cars to maintain, but reliability isn't awful. 

wafflesnfalafel > E90M3 10/27/2020 at 16:58

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exactly right - 6, maybe 7 years ago.  The second one was a Phoenix car so it was in great shape and got a good deal on it so it made sense. 

Jb boin > E90M3 10/27/2020 at 18:33

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Th e real question is : Who buys a red car with beige interior and wood trim ?

ONLY A LUNATIC WOULD DO THAT !

Roadkilled > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 10/27/2020 at 19:22

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I think that the “off the books collision repair” may be correct. Here is my proposed scenario. The repair shop had a wrecked blue donor car. Enough body panels were switched that it was easier to paint the remaining red parts blue than the other way around.

What doesn’t make sense would be why you wouldn’t paint the blue donor parts to red when they are off the car. Maybe they had a load of blue paint around and no red?

OK, now that I type it out, it sounds even crazier. Ignore this response as I’m almost certainly wrong. (Always count on Roadkilled for a wrong answer!)

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Roadkilled 10/27/2020 at 19:34

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Well it would explain the blue door sills and red trunk sills. Probably the most likely but still un likely.

E90M3 > wafflesnfalafel 10/28/2020 at 08:13

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That makes sense, at that point what you’re looking for might not even exist, so might as well deal with the respray . To me, t his is akin to buying a red car when you wanted a blue one when there was a car with what you wanted already out there. 

E90M3 > Jb boin 10/28/2020 at 08:38

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This is true, but I have seen a few like this. It’s probably because only the  sensatec in black and beige were no cost options for US-spec E9Xs.