E46 m3 subframe issue production years6/20/2023 Buyers are well aware of the problem and will ask to see proof of a repair – if you want to keep the value of the car you have to deal with it. The only thing we can be fairly sure of is the more aggressively you drive your car the more likely an M3 will develop cracks and severe damage.ĭN: We charge around £1800 (+VAT) for a repair but luckily the cracking problem has coincided with M3 values rising dramatically in the last couple of years. JR: There’s no given mileage when it starts to happen – no science or pattern. There are E46 M3s of all descriptions in my workshop right now. JR: There are rumours that SMGs are immune and convertibles don’t suffer cracks – but they all do. They all either need doing or have been done already. Since we started we’ve done more than 147 rear axle carrier panel repairs and we’re fully booked up until the end of September. Every year I keep thinking it’s going to get quieter but this is our busiest year yet. James Redish (JR): We started repairing M3s back in 2011. Is it fact or overblown internet fiction?ĭan Norris (DN): If you’d asked me about this five or six years ago I would have said don’t believe what you read – it’s just another forum myth – then, suddenly, I started noticing all the CSLs we looked after were coming in with boot floor cracks, even cars with less than 18,000 miles.
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