Off-market E92 M3 opportunity. Smart buy or wait for ideal spec?
Need some E92 M3 opinions.
I have an off-market opportunity through a coworker on a 2008 E92 M3 DCT with around 145k miles for around 21k stock. Clean title, enthusiast owned, and supposedly very well maintained.
It’s actually a stripper spec car with cloth seats, no nav, and carbon roof which I think is pretty cool. Rod bearings have been done twice and it had a Blackstone oil analysis done recently that came back clean.
The thing is it’s still not exactly my ideal spec. It’s graphite grey and I really wanted:
- Interlagos or another brighter color
- lower mileage
- maybe manual if possible
Front and rear bumpers could use paint from rock chips but otherwise sounds pretty sorted.
For people who already own these cars:
- does 21k stock sound reasonable in today’s market?
- would you prioritize condition/history over spec?
- would you hold out for the “perfect” spec or jump on a mechanically sorted example?
For context I’m in Southern California and work around BMW race/performance cars so maintenance itself doesn’t really scare me.