So today we're going to feature BMWs least reliable vehicle available today.
Let's take a closer look at one and I'm going to walk you through the specs and
we're gonna also talk about how to search and how to hunt for these cars.
Let's go! Welcome back everybody Mark with Exotic Car Play Place. You know in my
last bunch of videos, we talked about some of the more reliable and unreliable
BMWs available on the used car market. Today I'm going to focus in on the most
unreliable used 3-series BMW available today on the market. I'm gonna share with
you also my personal experience of it. I should walk you through how I kind of
shop for this as well as a car that I personally test drove and an experience
I had with it. Which was sort of silly to be honest with you. As well later in the
video if you wait around you're gonna find out who the winner of the action
camera giveaway was, that I posted about 30 days ago. I now have that listed and
you will find out who the winner of this camera is going to be. First I start with
my favorite classified ads, then I type in BMW 335i, and that's typical for a
search of this type. You'll notice it's in Alberta, that's where I live. Then you
get the results, you start scrolling down, lots of different cars to look at here
at least locally, and you keep rolling down. You see different
versions excist and you see two-wheel drives, four-wheel drives, coupes, sedans
you kind of see the whole nine yards here, and there's lots of selections here
locally where I live. There's no question and no issue in finding a decent car. The
key is finding you know a car that's well maintained, well looked after,
reasonably decent mileage, and in my case I'm looking for special features like M
packages, DCT's, IS models, or possibly M packages. Now speaking of M packages, look
at this little gem. Here's an IS model with a DCT. That is a rare beast,
beautiful car, that might be a winner, the 335i and
that's what we're standing in front of. Guys do I want to buy one?
Yes I'm shopping for one right now, and that's why we're standing in front of
this beautiful coupe. Now that is the deal, so the 335s come in a lot of
different variations, you can get the convertible, you can get a coupe like
this, the two doors, you can get a four-door sedan, you can also get the XI,
which is the all-wheel drive, and you get the I ,which is the two wheel drive
version. Now what is a 335? A 335 is the standard three litre, straight-six engine,
but now for the first time BMW, in the e90, in a 92 series, bolted a couple of
turbochargers. That was the earlier generation with the n54 motor, and that
produced 300 horsepower, and about 300 foot-pounds of torque. It
made the car exceptionally quick. Now the cars I'm looking at generally have a
manual gearbox. That's a personal choice; I personally think these cars are more
sporty with a manual, and it gives them the extra little bit of magic driving
them with a manual gearbox over the automatic, even though the automatic is
shiftable, not quite the same experience. So the thing you're looking for with
these cars essentially, is does it have kind of the standard bumper arrangement,
or do you have the M package? There's a key ingredient. Do you have the basic
wheels? Obviously wheel package are huge in these cars. You get the oversized
wheel package, so do you want the M package? That's another thing, so a lot of
these factors are going to play into effect when you're shopping for these
cars. Now is it the most unreliable? Yes. Why? Well let me give you some examples
of why these things are more unreliable than any other 3-series. Well
think of the base 3-series, 325 or 330. Say a 330. Now you strapping on extra
technology, you're adding twin turbos, so there's more pressure, more heat, that's
creating other problems, that's creating fault areas. So what can you expect for
failures? Well aside from the standard routine stuff on a regular 3-series,
you can also expect to see problems with the vinyl system, because that's part of
these engines, and of course that effect, affects your timing, that has been a
problem consistently. You can also get boost related issues, so
turbos might produce boost, but you could have boost leaks. That's a problem with
these, that has been a problem in some of the cars, where they don't run full power.
They seem like they're running, but they don't seem to have that full power. A lot
of times it's just a boost leak issue, antifreeze leaks, also there's another
problem with oil leakage, and a lot of these cars seem to be susceptible to
leaking some oil. That is an issue, so whenever you're looking at these cars,
you want to make sure you find a good car that's been well maintained. So those
are some other issues with these things.
It's cutting power, so reduced power, so yeah it's not giving boost. There's
something definitely kind of broken, I think.
See if there's....
Yeah we'll just see the kilometers here. Know what? There's a little bit of a
vibration, or something, or a misfire.
So the winner of my giveaway action camera goes to, and I hope I'm not
messing up your name, Vianney in Houston, Texas, and I will be sending her a note.
She'll be getting this camera very shortly, and congratulations Vianney. I
hope you enjoy the camera, let me know how that goes for you, and we'll talk to
you then. So everybody, I hope you liked the video, make sure you subscribe, don't
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