Stupid question possibly, but this was the changeover year so it could be either - is it an E36 or an E46?
An E36 looks like this:
tinyurl.com/bs576
And an E46 looks like this:
tinyurl.com/8c8tx
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thanks both for your help, the car is coming from a trader with 12 months MOT, 8 months tax. It is going for £3995 and he will not accept anything less at all. He took it in part exchange for a Skyline.
I thought it was a bargain price myself, but as i say i dont really have a clue about cars. I have driven it and it is nice.
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Since my last response, I've found the ad from AutoTrader.
I don't think it's especially cheap and it is still a 7 year old car with a 4 cylinder engine, but the skirts aren't particularly noticeable, it has the 140 bhp engine, and there are lower mileage, lower spec cars for a good few hundred less. However if you want a high spec 318i then I guess you could do worse than this one, especially as it's not quite in E46 money.
(Anyone else wants to find it - do a search on BMW 318i with gearnob as a keyword).
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You did well to find that, didnt think i should link the autotrader listing incase everyone thought i was trying to sell it on here.
As you say it is 7 years old but all the cars i have seen of same spec and same sort of mileage have been over this price.
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Really, if you don't know much about cars you should get this car checked over by RAC et al. There's lots of thrashed BM's about - especially with the smaller engine that gets worked very hard. If the owner was trading for a Skyline then he probably wasn't the local vicar.....
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IIRC 1998 318i saloons were not 140 bhp, rather 115, the coupe was 140 and the 320 6 cyl 150.
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Cheddar, you're right, but... (and I should have made this clearer) I ran a reg check on the car at the RAC website to see if it might be a Japanese import, given the stock of the dealer selling it. (It's not, by the way, as far as I can tell).
It's actually a 318iS and they do have the 140 bhp engine. According to Parker's "01/02/1998 318iS Saloon (140 bhp) launched: 16" alloy wheels, air con, sports seats, sports suspension, colour coding, ASC+T traction control."
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Cheddar, you're right, but... (and I should have made this clearer)
OK so it is a South African built 318iS, a 318i saloon with the coupe's 16v engine, officialy imported as a run-out model of the E36 range, again IIRC most were metallic blue.
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