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DANNYM
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Tue Mar 04, 2014 4:44 pm

just got my v5 back from the dvla the thing is my m3 got 6 uk owners is that quite high for a m3 as ive got 2 sports one with 10 owners and the other with 4 it doest bother me much with owners on the sports to me but 6 for a m3 ?
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Tue Mar 04, 2014 4:51 pm

DANNYM wrote:just got my v5 back from the dvla the thing is my m3 got 6 uk owners is that quite high for a m3 as ive got 2 sports one with 10 owners and the other with 4 it doest bother me much with owners on the sports to me but 6 for a m3 ?
you haven't said how old the M3 is but I'm guessing its an E30 so quite old?

cars like M3's do tend to have high owners, people who get bored, people scared by an ageing car with potential big bills, people realising they can't really afford to run them, etc etc,
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Tue Mar 04, 2014 5:19 pm

10 owners on a three-year-old car would bother me, but ten owners on a car over two decades old is no issue at all; if any of those 10 neglected the car, then it would be nigh-on undriveable by now.

People put way too much value on abstract numbers that mean the square root of f-all.
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Tue Mar 04, 2014 5:25 pm

Fooook the owners, where are the rust / bodge pics ? :)
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Tue Mar 04, 2014 6:18 pm

lol like that one pacerpete yes its a e30 m3 thanks chaps just got the v5 back and thought i would ask im not looking on flipping it so it doest really bother me how many owner it got and a individual thank you to pac1982 grrrmachine and pacepete
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Tue Mar 04, 2014 8:51 pm

6 owners?!! Raced and rallied by the last 5 :)
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Wed Mar 05, 2014 7:38 am

only takes one to f..... it up!
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Wed Mar 05, 2014 9:50 am

I wouldn't really worry about owners unless it's an investment collectors piece (not sure why owners makes a difference on classics). I am sure whatever the issues are from previous owner you will be able to rectify (just look through some of the members build threads).

M3's are like a box of chocolates you never know what your going to get, considering with a box of chocolates your guaranteed chocolate, with M3's your guaranteed rust/bodge of some kind.
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Wed Mar 05, 2014 10:05 am

Problem with the M3's and all other E30's is that as soon as the 80's yuppies started off-loading these cars and they became available to the general penniless, but aspirational, losers everything went down hill... the E30's renaissance, and claim for classic status, is now bringing to light all the bodged shitters.

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Wed Mar 05, 2014 11:48 am

agreed one of my sports are true and in good nick but the other i would as you say was a bodged car but time and buckets of money spent will see it in good nick once agein
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