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Originally Posted by khp3655
As the OP, I meant "money pit" in the sense of something always going wrong and needing attention to the point where lots of time and some money would be constantly spent fixing it and not much time driving it and feeling comfortable that nothing will likely go wrong.
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My Z4 is just the only E86 I've owned and I bought an 8-year-old sample with low miles (23K), so my experience is just one of one, but I've seen a few other E85/86 in the past 10 years and all seemed to be on par with mine as far as condition. If you find one that has been driven and maintained well, in my opinion, it will not be a money pit. I used to daily mine on a 165-mile daily round trip commute on some serious backroads in Central Virgina. It shared commuting duty with my E90 from December 2014 to 2019, when I added a E46 cabrio to the mix thru the end of December 2021.
For the four (4) full calendar years between January 2015 through December 2018 my annual mileage on just the Z4 averaged 17,300 miles. From January 2019 through December 2021 the annual average was 7,100 for the Z4. And those miles were all aggressively driven miles. The E85/86 is a tough little machine. I've put it through its paces. Remember though mine is an N52 car, not an M-car.
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."