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Someone messaged me about three years ago with an ad for a E9X 3 series wagon for sale. I dont remember who it was now.
They were part of a BMW online community.
Am I describing you?
Might be on the hunt for a early 2000s 3 series wagon. NOT an AWD model, but automatic ok (as long as it has the sport shift stuff).
Likely selling the Land Cruiser, thought about ditching it and getting a wagon.
 
HMP said:
Someone messaged me about three years ago with an ad for a E9X 3 series wagon for sale. I dont remember who it was now.
They were part of a BMW online community.
Am I describing you?
Might be on the hunt for a early 2000s 3 series wagon. NOT an AWD model, but automatic ok (as long as it has the sport shift stuff).
Likely selling the Land Cruiser, thought about ditching it and getting a wagon.
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I can't help with the BMW, but I've been looking for a Land Cruiser, if you decide to sell.
 
HMP said:
Someone messaged me about three years ago with an ad for a E9X 3 series wagon for sale. I dont remember who it was now.
They were part of a BMW online community.
Am I describing you?
Might be on the hunt for a early 2000s 3 series wagon. NOT an AWD model, but automatic ok (as long as it has the sport shift stuff).
Likely selling the Land Cruiser, thought about ditching it and getting a wagon.
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I think it was me. Might have been a link off of the one of the BMW message boards or the BMW CCA groups. The Carolina chapter might be a good local source to start a search.
 
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Hey! I’d call myself a fairly decent bmw guy and can share my opinion… I absolutely love wagons, got a 2000 323i wagon for my wife a couple years ago and have truly enjoyed it. My experience is mainly with E36s and E46s so I can’t speak for the newer gens but they older ones are somewhat easy to work on if you like to tinker with that stuff. I’d personally go for the E46 generation (2000-2004) for the wagons if you can find a well maintained one that’s optioned well, I have a strong feeling they are gonna start to appreciate quickly in the next year or so it’d be a good time to buy haha. The manuals are quite hard to find but the autos are still decently fun. Here’s some pics of ours…

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lowspeed said:
I can't help with the BMW, but I've been looking for a Land Cruiser, if you decide to sell.
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Im sure it'll be up for grabs.
I had plans, plans change.
The FJ62 is cool, but maybe I"ll have another chance at one or something similar one day.
The wagon will be very practical.
 
HMP said:
Im sure it'll be up for grabs.
I had plans, plans change.
The FJ62 is cool, but maybe I"ll have another chance at one or something similar one day.
The wagon will be very practical.
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I've had several FJ40's and an FJ55. I'd be interested in more info about the 62 if you decide to let it go.
Thanks,
Don
 
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SauftShooter said:
Hey! I’d call myself a fairly decent bmw guy and can share my opinion… I absolutely love wagons, got a 2000 323i wagon for my wife a couple years ago and have truly enjoyed it. My experience is mainly with E36s and E46s so I can’t speak for the newer gens but they older ones are somewhat easy to work on if you like to tinker with that stuff. I’d personally go for the E46 generation (2000-2004) for the wagons if you can find a well maintained one that’s optioned well, I have a strong feeling they are gonna start to appreciate quickly in the next year or so it’d be a good time to buy haha. The manuals are quite hard to find but the autos are still decently fun. Here’s some pics of ours…

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Beautiful!

I was once a E46...wait for it...fanatic.
 
lowspeed said:
I've had several FJ40's and an FJ55. I'd be interested in more info about the 62 if you decide to let it go.
Thanks,
Don
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PM me your number and I can text pics and stuff when the time comes. It'll, likely, be sooner rather than later.

Im used the information provided by WV and Chris, looking around. . Some of the E91 are reasonably priced, in range of what I can do. Some....are not lol. But an E91 is something Ive been interested in for a long time and this year might be a good time to buy into one.
Or a nice E46 version (@SauftShooter what's the wagon's chassis code for E46?).
 
Can’t help with that, but in ‘04, I passed on a euro spec 5spd manual, 540 wagon for $9500. Beautiful, well kept ride, but the conversion cost woulda been ridiculous & I had to pass.
 
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From up north? Not with a 10 foot pole. Double that for any AWD BMW.

Zoom in on that mess. And the rust doesn't stop, at all, once it's down here.

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SauftShooter said:
Hey! I’d call myself a fairly decent bmw guy and can share my opinion… I absolutely love wagons, got a 2000 323i wagon for my wife a couple years ago and have truly enjoyed it. My experience is mainly with E36s and E46s so I can’t speak for the newer gens but they older ones are somewhat easy to work on if you like to tinker with that stuff. I’d personally go for the E46 generation (2000-2004) for the wagons if you can find a well maintained one that’s optioned well, I have a strong feeling they are gonna start to appreciate quickly in the next year or so it’d be a good time to buy haha. The manuals are quite hard to find but the autos are still decently fun. Here’s some pics of ours…

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Midsize wagons are so darn practical. It's a shame no one wants to manufacture them since they cut into the crossover market share.
 
Might check around local garages to see if they have any available. Might luck up and find one they’ll pay you to take! Kidding mostly. They can be money pits though.
 
You need to check the suspension bushings out.
Have they all been replaced?
If not that can get into $$$$.
Stay away from any that have been moded, you want a nice, clean stock one.
 
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They really are! We’ve moved so much furniture with this thing, and it’s gets somewhat decent mileage like around 30 on the highway that I can’t complain.
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One of the best vehicles I owned was my subaru wrx hatchback aka wagon. It took care of any Ikea, lowes, home depot, furniture store trips. At one point we fit a 72 in screen door in it. Fold the seats down and viola.

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I've gotten an incredible amount of stuff in to my focus hatch. Washing machine, gun safe, lumber. Awesome. I have also strapped a 28ft extension ladder to the roof.

If it won't fit inside, it will usually fit on the 4*6 trailer.

If it can hold 5 well fed Americans, I posit that it can tow 800 pounds!
 
Same! Dryer, transmissions, rear ends, sets of wheels you name it! I will always be a fan of wagons especially finely engineered German ones.
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I've gotten an incredible amount of stuff in to my focus hatch. Washing machine, gun safe, lumber. Awesome. I have also strapped a 28ft extension ladder to the roof.

If it won't fit inside, it will usually fit on the 4*6 trailer.

If it can hold 5 well fed Americans, I posit that it can tow 800 pounds!
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amnesia said:
One of the best vehicles I owned was my subaru wrx hatchback aka wagon. It took care of any Ikea, lowes, home depot, furniture store trips. At one point we fit a 72 in screen door in it. Fold the seats down and viola.

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I built a chicken coop when I lived in KY the dimensions were based on what we could fit in the wifes VW GTI. It is amazing the stuff you can fit into a hatchback We had the guys in lumber cut the wood to size.

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Europe still buys a lot of sports wagons they just don't ship them over here. I still want to get an Audi S6 Avant Sports Wagon. The RS6 Avant feeds its standard Quattro all-wheel drive through an eight-speed automatic transmission. The combination helped rocket our 5031-pound test car to 60 mph in 3.1 seconds and complete the quarter-mile in 11.5 ticks at 120 mph.

 
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I had a Volvo 740 Turbo Wagon back in the day. That was a great stealth car. No one looked twice at it but it was a wolf in sheeps clothing.

 
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