Quote Originally Posted by tim
for a friend to get for his daughter whose getting her licence. He was going to get some econobox, but I convinced him to think about an old bimmer. I've seen the car and it looks really nice, but a couple rust bubbles. 150k. Serviced by my indy for the last 5 years. $3000.

what's the story on these.
issues we had: front end shimmies (we're used to that in our E34s), a/c woes (condenser leaks), distributor cap broke, guibo, it's overall a slug of a car. At that mileage, start looking for tranny problems, fuel pumps, all the relays, window motor issues, head gasket, catalytic converter, preemptive fuse replacement to prevent dead speedo and cluster. They're pretty tough, but do have their issues. Ours was an '86 528e that we sold in '99.