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[Sean563]

Hello everyone.

Looking at getting possibly getting e86 coupe soon.
As I’m going to be doing a lot less miles in the new year.
So here to learn more about the car.

Edit. Grammar.

 

[buzyg]

Welcome aboard Sean.

 

[Smartbear]

Hi Sean, lots of reading to do on here
Rob

 

[Ole gits rule]

Hello Sean,

Welcome aboard, great choice of car and good luck with the search

Sean

 

[Mr Tidy]

Hi and welcome to the forum Sean.

E86 is a good choice - but they can be addictive. :lol:

Now you just need to decide on M or 3.0Si and if the latter manual or auto, Sport or SE, preferred colours and any essential options! But that's part of the fun, and you should find plenty of info on here!

 

[Sean563]

Definitely.
M is sadly out of my budget. Was looking at 3.0 manual.
Still need to read into the sport and SE.

 

[Mr Tidy]

Budget was also my issue back in 2014. :lol:

If it saves you a bit of time the Sport has 15mm lower and stiffer M-Sport suspension, anthracite headlining, M-Sport steering wheel with a fatter rim, 18" wheels as standard rather than 17s and crucially M-Sport seats instead of Sport seats which are hard to find and aren't cheap if you do. But all the Sport features were options on the SE so some have one or more of them.

Anyway theese are Sport seats.



These are M-Sport.

 

[Sean563]

That’s great!
Well I think I will try for a sport then, the seats looks a lot better!

 

[Smartbear]

As Mr Tidy said, the SE can be found with the m-sport seats as they were an option from new-my previous 3.0si was an SE that had the seats & suspension from the sport model and as the engines are identical there was no discernible difference
Rob