Serious Bashing on the '97 BMW M3 the CAR WIZARD just got from HOOVIE!

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[@HooviesGarage]

Check out Car Issues for what we did with this car, but to summarize, it is a flood salvage car with an engine that needs a Vanos rebuild, the trans is making noise, every light on, and then you'll see how horrific it looks underneath. My last drive up the car was screaming to let it die, the wizard obliged.

[@dintyshideaway9505]

How much did you pay the Wizard to take this again?

[@gortmog]

What if people did that to old 911s when they were cheap?

[@msiraco]

BUT THERE ARE STARVING KIDS IN THE WORLD WHO COULD HAVE EATEN THIS M3 TYLER

[@digofabu]

@@msiraco hahahahahha

[@JuanRamirez-rb6lo]

@@dintyshideaway9505 50Cent

[@adams7405]

Now retired I was involved with the development of the E36 around 1989/90 . The bean counters horrified me to be honest especially for the cheap interior.The engines were great of course and I was in body engineering to meet anticipated safety laws.They did well in the in house safety tests, NCAP would come along several years later and we had to concentrate on offset protection which we did build into E34 E32.Lower paint quality on E36 and while this rust is unusual,they were 70% hot dip galvanised as opposed to 100% for E38 E39.Profits were very good on these cars and a good well maintained one is worth having,the best being 325i 328i.

[@s3vR3x]

i'd like to hear more on the e36 development, tell us more!!!

[@renypayne11]

I would watch you tell some stories on your channel or vin wiki

[@rickySPANish_]

That sounds like a fascinating job!

[@SirDankNewton]

I'd love to hear more about it. It's fascinating to me to hear the development of different cars

[@blackterminal]

I've had a lot of Bmws and the E36 feels like a lot of corners were cut. None the less I still like it.

[@iainbagnall4825]

"The wing has lost its gloss" I'd say that's the least of this car's problems.

[@mbsnyderc]

I know you don't like BMW's, but this is a flood damaged car ,and should have been parted out before,but the hood and wind shield were reusable parts.

[@JaySvpreme]

Shoulda shipped it out to M539 restorations. He’d prob find some reason to save this rust hole. Love that guy

[@dannyipwn1203]

As a bmw owner. I need those cams. These cars can be parted out and a killing can be made. Those seats are worth 700-1500$. The cams are worth 500-700$. The heads are sought after. The rims are 500-700$. Mirrors are worth 250-300$. All of the M control arms and brakes are worth a good chunk. The axles are worth money. Depending on the year that 3.23LSD is worth 500-700$.

[@SmOgER10]

Exactly what I was thinking. I'm not BMW enthusiast but it's pretty apparent that there are plenty of quite rare good parts on it. It's not even "overused" which can be seen by condition of the seats, it simply has rust.

[@nekite1]

A lot of profit to be made from such a rare model.

[@digitalrailroader]

Exactly, there’s lots of good parts that can be used to keep other E36 M3s alive like drivetrain components, non broken Trim parts, and suspension components. This car is worth more as parts than as a whole car.

[@christopherdeguzman1137]

Huh?! Wizard did say that LongBeach will part out the car to sell the parts that are still usable.

[@briangodwin27c]

More money was made off add revenue. Wise choice

[@hotpuppy1]

It's not that bad. Come to Illinois and see what is still on the road. Makes Hoovie's Subaru look mint.

[@ismaela.6973]

Lol made me spit my drink, as a fellow Illinoisan I agree

[@DjDestinyChicago]

I’ve had worse lol

[@fiber9m]

I agree 100% you would be amazed to see some the cars on the roads here in Chicago losing parts as they down the road.

[@abdelrahimmohammed1814]

Facts

[@hexicalcat4937]

@@fiber9m I’ve recently seen a Pontiac aztek In a Taco Bell drive through in Chicagoland area leak gas the whole time in the drive through got his food and went to a gas station right across the street 😂

[@lilredexptsc]

That inspection tool joke had me dying 🤣🤣🤣. Mrs Wizard might see it later!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@estebansoria3037]

Bro that was fucking hilarious

[@dylanrampage9360]

She gonna learn today LD Wizard laying da pipe

[@holidaymail]

Came here for this lol

[@warrenmichael918]

I think she has a better wand she is used to seeing, its Magic too!

[@ghettomist1575]

This hurts me, especially since my older bimmer is getting some neglect by me. It’s been poorly treated by the previous owner and I so want it to be like it once was :( I am slowly catching up on it.

[@letsplayclassicgames5024]

It's really sad that someone let this car get this bad. I have had three of these cars in my life time and currently own one, the first one was in our family for 15 years and we only had to replace a radiator, was sold 12 years ago and is still daily driven to this day. These cars are extremely reliable when kept up, its examples like these that give older BMW's a bad name. This is my favorite car in the world and probably the only thing I don't agree with the Wizard on. But yeah that thing was trashed. Once the underside of these cars start to get rusty they go really quickly.

[@jwenting]

Correct. It's not the car, it the people owning them as they get older who trash them and turn them into clunkers. A lot of 3 series BMWs here last 20-30 years or more and still going strong because they're well maintained by people who love their cars, not junked by teenagers who don't give a darn because they got it from dad from a used car lot when they got their drivers license and neither maintain it nor drive it properly. Which is sadly the lot of a lot of BMWs in the US and a lot of hot hatches in Europe.

[@getchasome6230]

I'm trying to understand why he wanted this car. I mean he hates bmws to begin with, and you can't tell me Tyler didn't have the cash to cover the bill

[@letsplayclassicgames5024]

@@getchasome6230 alot of good parts still on that car. Tripple in value in parts what they could sell the car for whole in the state it's in now.

[@apscoradiales]

Agree!

[@tashreeq_SA]

I definitely agree. I recently acquired a 328i and it has been nothing but good. Some people don't see value in vehicles and that's why they make it trash like the one in the video

[@VolkerHett]

Hoovie seams to be a better car salesman than I thought!

[@herbiehusker1889]

Seams?

[@samholdsworth420]

Are you high or something you've been smoking hoovies stash?

[@anthonyslazas2898]

The hundred dollars off his bill!!

[@cabbagekitten]

He can't sell sand to the Arabs or snow to the Eskimos, but he sold a BMW to the car wizard. Incredible

[@imouse3246]

It was just to cover an oil change that he still owed.

[@daperturedan3454]

I’ve had a 1993 e36 for 4 years and it’s the best car I’ve ever owned. 60,000 miles, drift events, track days, road trips. It hurt watching this, the disresepect was real. Find a clean one and hold onto it, you’ll be suprised how good it’ll be to you

[@markismays2764]

It was a shit car 0 disrespect

[@pascutia]

@@markismays2764 Yup, saying this as a bmw fanboy. They just don’t hold up.

[@rpavlik1]

Psh, up here in the north we call that "light surface rust" 😉. Thanks for reassuring us anxious folks it was a hazard rather than any kind of asset. And thank you for being careful with your bashing 😁

[@NFMazdaspeed]

This is what every 10 year old winter-driven vehicle looks like here in the rust belt. Most of our scrap yards don't bother with vehicles over ten years. Not enough of them left on the roads to keep the junked ones around to sell parts. Straight to the crusher they go.

[@supertouring1]

Despite what people have said, I think the e36 represents the best balance of modern vs old school tech/design/performance.

[@aussie2uGA]

"Looks like it's been at the bottom of the ocean". Anyone else remember the sinking of the Tricolor ship around 2000? It had thousands of brand new BMW's and they all went to the bottom.

[@jbro507]

Thank you mrs wizard and thanks to all the teachers out there for sticking with it and with our kids through all this BS. Thank you!!!

[@MeakerSE]

That's nice but they really need to be paid properly for it.

[@steveramirez5316]

Oh stop both of you. What about all the ridiculous antics from teachers causing hysteria amongst the students. Most of us did our jobs. No big deal that’s what we all should do. Let’s all quit kissing everyone’s butts and just go to work.

[@atodaso1668]

@@MeakerSE They get the summer off lol

[@paulcarmi8130]

Stop. The public school system is terrible and has been for awhile. Young boys need male influences, and most of my teachers certainly weren’t men. That’s why we have an entire generation of socialists trying to ruin the country. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

[@EVILSPAWN1003]

Stop sucking up. Teachers of today have fu**ed up an entire generation of spineless socialists. We have nothing to thank them for

[@alexanderryan1176]

hahaha, car wizard thinks THAT rust situation is bad? you've never seen a car from Michigan. Cars here have that amount of rust sometimes after 6 or 7 years.

[@kgarba9253]

Seriously someone in NJ would ask 5k for this.

[@lawnmowerdude]

Lol yeah. Glad the cars going to get parted out but kept thinking that’s it?

[@finalstage8059]

Someone is gonna see this video in 10 years and gonna be like "these guys just smashed half a million bucks"

[@anthonyxuereb792]

I'm impressed that this BMW has managed to hang in there, I mean who knows what use/abuse it has undergone not only from a driver's point of view but from DIY mechanics aka butchers. Was it garaged or left to the elements, driven in ice? It's gone beyond the allocated number of rounds in the ring and is still coming back for more.

[@lyfzgoodgarage826]

I love bmws and it breaks my heart to see how the average bmw owner maintains there vehicles if you don’t have the means to keep the car going don’t buy it

[@TRUMPmyOSHI]

Not to mention they are very expensive new. Same go with Cadillacs - such nice cars but usually the used ones being sold were neglected.

[@hevog]

No reason to hate BMWs. It is not this M3's or BMW's fault as a company that this car is ruined beyond repair. This M3 was beaten up long before Mr. and Mrs. Wizard raised their hammers in this video. It's a shame that this great and classic performance car ended up like this. Again, no reason to hate BMWs in general.

[@M4rt_FX]

Wizard is pissed because Johnny the ninja has BMWs covered, plus he wouldn't fit well in most of them. The guy loves Range Rovers, the biggest most unreliable junk on the road! Not me speaking, statistics.

[@smwsmwsmw]

Wizard has indicated in other videos that his exasperation with BMWs generally lies with the poor maintenance they get once they're on their second or third owners. They're cheap to buy then, and new owners think they should be cheap to maintain, so they don't get the attention they need. Although those plastic valve covers...

[@vw5056]

Poors are going to seethe and hate because they secretly want a BMW but can't afford one or are too chicken shit to risk pricey repairs.

[@betterbeavailable]

Not a behaviour of a professional mechanic for sure.

[@RobbertW2]

Wow, Wizard was really going for it with those swings, thats some cropped up BMW hate coming out right there

[@Big1_]

Who doesnt hate BMW? 😁😆

[@y2ksierra]

@@Big1_ me 😅

[@Vaigue]

@@Big1_ I hate them, but I’d still own one. Maybe make me go broke after a few months

[@Big1_]

@@Vaigue What BMW you have??

[@mbp2112]

Less wizard, more tank.

[@rodblaine2514]

Ironically, I'm not a BMW fan but the 1997 M3 is my favorite one.

[@sebjebofficial6230]

E36 m3 is one of the few bmw I would actually own. Love those things.

[@jdamore44]

As a BMW enthusiast, this breaks my heart :( I had a 97 328iS and now driving a 03 e46 m3. Some of the most capable little cars of their era. This is a damn shame.

[@apscoradiales]

"..I had a 97 328iS...", had that too, then moved to the 1999 E36 M3.

[@skeetermcswagger0U812]

Yeah they're really popular!!!!! . for unpaid parking tickets left on the side of the road and filling up impound lots.

[@ButterNoToast]

Yeah but this car in particular is junk

[@daperturedan3454]

Yeah this was pure disrespect, it hurt to watch

[@dudenamedclem]

I'm with you my brother, regardless of it's condition this machine needed to go out with more dignity than this.

[@nikperi732]

Real disappointed to see a beautiful car run into the ground as badly as this. I live in Australia where E 36 M3's are rare and sought after. Hopefully it's good parts will help to keep other nicer examples on the road. 👍

[@dancearoundtheworld5360]

To me the car is fine, but americas have poor money management so stuff like this will happen.

[@diablocls55]

I’ve seen several here in Seattle and most here have indeed been driven into the ground. Amazing how they’re still running tho

[@ronjohnson8119]

Dance Around The World what the hell is fine with that P.O.S?

[@youxkio]

@@ronjohnson8119 Maybe living in a poorer country may lead to such assessment. Poorer countries always have a way to fix things much cheaper than in the US. I saw a team of guys in Vietnam recovering (reviving) a totaled Mercedes 190.

[@hank1556]

beautiful car is a great joke. getting this car amywhere near reliable and or at least half ass decent looking would cost significantly more than finding one thats already nice. this car is barely even worth parting out. plus making this video will net plenty of profit for all parties involved. but yeah muricans suck at money managment?

[@Cartier_specialist]

I'm gonna have to throw a flag for unnecessary roughness. I think the windshield was perfectly fine.

[@Mixz1890]

Gotta love when car wizard blames the car maker for road salt and negligent owners who couldn't even bother to do basic maintenance. By this logic you could say every car manafucturer is shit if you look at vehicles from rustbelt that haven't seen proper maintenance since 1998

[@vw5056]

Wizard is a clown who will do anything for KZbin views to make an easy shekel.

[@Cheepchipsable]

Yeah, expecting a 25ish YO car to be in great condition is a bit much - especially when he was talking about the paint on the spoiler.

[@betterbeavailable]

Wizard surely lost a lot of points with this stupid video.

[@tjnucnuc]

Imagine a would-be customer who didn’t know who the wizard was just coming in to get an estimate and seeing them do that 😂

[@claudiofiero8523]

"Anticipate payment, otherwise we will do that to your car as well"

[@plainbrownwrapper9688]

Wizard: lOoK aT tHeSe SmAlL hOlEs In ThE fLoOr PaN, ThE uNiBoDy WiLl ColLaPsE Me: looking at my Mustang Mach 1 that im putting an entire floor pan in waiting for it to collapse... nothing yet

[@vw5056]

He should rename himself Car Clown.

[@josephpbrown]

I see the 2 car wizard haters have met to singlehandedly decrease the brainpower of the comments section by 25%

[@roberthoffhines5419]

TO MRS WIZARD: my middle-school-math-teacher-wife has said the SAME THING about the kids' behavior here in Chicago North-shore. They do NOT know how to act/interact with people! We hear this could be bad, really bad in the future.

[@DrakeKillah]

Should've just shipped it to Norway and sold it here 😂 For a '97 E36, that thing was in MINT condition compared to 97's that have rolled over here for a few years. Wizard would've had an aneurism seeing all the rust on any car here. It's insane how much damage about 6 months of salt on the roads every year can do to cars.

[@sampsauusipulkamo241]

Same thing here in Finland. Luckily here in lapland they don't salt as much as in the southern parts.

[@g-man2507]

If the original owner bought a Honda Accord instead and put the money he saved both in purchase and maintenance costs in the NASDAQ and kept the car for several decades, he would have hundreds of thousands more towards retirement.

[@ADSImagens]

The interior looks surprisingly good

[@vviiper]

not really fair to discredit the e36. Its a really well built car, and a fantastic drive

[@AlvinBrinson]

As he said in a previous video it is more about the kind of owners used BMWs have than the cars themselves. People who want a BMW as a mere status symbol but don't cars enough about cars to maintain them and keep them in running order. Just run it into the ground and buy another one from the used lot. Not uncommon with luxury cars sadly as those with the money to actually maintain one typically buy new.

[@SpankMyFace]

This car is (was) 100% save-able, especially for an at-home project or a Lemons racer. But those seats are worth nearly $1k, the wheels are $500, the differential around $500, and the engine in the neighborhood of $1k.

[@majist0]

They literally said it's being parted out so let them enjoy beating the crap out of a poor old BMW that needs to be put out to pasture. No Lemons race will allow that much rust in a race.

[@cswann8]

Part of me was hoping this would be an ongoing restoration project so the Car Wizard channel would have guaranteed content for the next year (at least). But when we got a look underneath, I knew that wasn't going to happen. It's too bad the owners of this car let it get to this state, the E36 were some of the best BMW ever made.

[@DeathtrapCult]

E36s aren’t even strong enough to hold themselves together. How did BMW design a car that rips its own subframe out?

[@adrianrichardson5257]

It was a flood car. It never had a chance

[@michelanvalo]

Way too much rust to restore.

[@Smhghejtn]

I would like to respectfully disagree. Cars are meant to be driven and this owner got his moneys worth. I personally respect the hell out of that.

[@andeleputo89]

@@DeathtrapCult you’re thinking of the e46 generation. The e36 was overall pretty solid for the most part especially the sedan chasis

[@andriusGNR]

Everything is fine with this car, surface rust no big deal. If you have no idea about restoration than it looks bad, but for a handy man with good skills it's a very good and rare car.

[@mossmon]

My e36 325i was as badly rusted as this one. I spent approx 100h welding the chassis, the front legroom was the worst. Now fixed though and it was totally worth it.

[@ledzeppelin27]

I know where you can get an M3 powertrain and interior, just saying lol

[@LegitStreetCars]

You did the world a favor. I know rotted cars too well. Great job Mr and Mrs Wizard!

[@CarWizard]

Thanks. This was definitely NOT a Legit Car so we had to take care of it. 🚘 🔨

[@jeffystocker7457]

@@CarWizard destroy the rest of the car

[@Jaguarmaserati]

I love that generation of the M3, that and the E30. I was a little upset when you said you were gonna smash it and destroy it, then I saw the undercarriage of the car and shook my head. Looks like potential frame damage as well, so the car is a lost cause. A shame really. I've seen variations of this, even with high mileage, that are nice. This one.....damn.

[@1996FordBronco]

Frame damage? On a unibody car? Yeah sounds like you know what you’re talking about 😂😭

[@Jaguarmaserati]

@@1996FordBronco I am more knowledgeable on makes and models, not what makes it work. No need to be a twat.

[@Big1_]

That´s what happen when you dont know how to take care of your car... That car was drived on Salt and snow, and everybody knows that in order to take out the salt, you must wash your car everyday with a high pressure waster pistol... It´s the price to pay to drive on snow.

[@TRUMPmyOSHI]

@@Big1_ Not everyone has access to equipment like a lift to do that. The best they could do is take the car to the mechanic to Fluid Film it..

[@michaeltutty1540]

@@Big1_ Sorry Big 1. You are very much incorrect. My car gets washed with dish detergent at the middle of October, the same day the winter tires go on. It gets a good coat of Mothers California Gold wax and all the trim gets Back to Black. The car is then takes to Krown Rustproofing. After that it stays dirty, parked outside, into spring. 32 winters behind Arthur and 386,000 miles under him, and still solid. At the most, he looks maybe 3 years old underneath. I should add I live in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, where they use a dreadful salt/sand mix on the roads.

[@trifectaCA]

Worth 5k in parts even this condition

[@vw5056]

Worth at least $6k as is.

[@CerberusProject]

Who cares. Taking this pile of shit apart is not worth his time.

[@Lexus_By_Alberto]

This episode felt like a series finale

[@SergedeSouza]

Yeh, jumping the shark. I am not really interested in seeing people destroy stuff for "fun"

[@БранимирПетров]

Looks like I'll be the only one who'd say it - this car can be saved, even if the Car Wizard said otherwise. Yes, the new floors in back and the new paint would cost a lot, however I think it's justified, since this is no ordinary 318 compact. Mind you, i'm no BMW fan at all, but this is a dumb decision. Should have sold it to someone that would've brought it back.

[@johnnydeutschemark3620]

Бранимир Петров, I totally agree w/ you , this car would require sweat equity and parts but it could be saved, or at least driven a few more miles safely.

[@jamesdowney2077]

That rust looks like a typical midwestern car haha. That is on the extreme end, but there are worse ones here in the salt belt.

[@TheParchisi]

I think a lot of the interior issues are down to BMW starting to use biodegradable adhesives in the mid 90's per new environmental rules that were put in place in Europe. Needless to say, some of their first formulations didn't really stand up to the test of time.

[@kevinbarry71]

Just trying to make excuses for the penny pinching management at BMW

[@JurisKankalis]

I don't know - old WVs and audis and mercs are mede in EU - and they don't have these questionable issues in material choice.

[@bitchesjellyofmyname]

Not too sure about that one. I had a '92 E36 325 with every glued panel falling apart. I currently own a '93 E34 530 with no (interior glue) issues. Both unclapped original cars. I honestly think BMW were just being cheap on manufacturing costs for the E36

[@joshriver75]

Simply not true. For example, Mercedes of the era were notorious for wiring issues caused by biodegradable clading.

[@joshriver75]

@@kevinbarry71 In reality, it wasn't so much that its was penny pinching but rather dollar clutching. The problem was that the EU environmental powers made the incentives for meeting certain pollution standards so appealing that it left rushing out unproven and largely untested materials and used it as a way to remain lucrative.

[@ragweedmakesmesneeze]

I would have preferred watching a video of the Wizard parting this car out, while giving us a tour of the rust. "Here's some rust, but this part here is worth MONEY! Let's take it out and sell it!"

[@pawsnpistons]

But what do you think is worth anything at all? Its all rusted and destroyed. The backseats and rearlights maybe? Even the spare tire is trash.

[@vw5056]

Too much work for him. That's why his mechanic will do the disassembly.

[@betterbeavailable]

Instead he turned into a caveman.

[@jeffzekas]

Once a BMW gets this bad, the only way you’re gonna get your money out of it is to part it out - Although after the stress relief session, there may not be many parts left to sell

[@Gentleman...Driver]

They werent in the first place. You couldnt use anything from the exterior and the interior. Only things he can sell are the wheels and the engine. The engines are selling from 3,000 to 8,000 Dollars depending on the condition they are in.

[@seanottaway1615]

Bc they totally could have sold that crooked hood and windshield in the first place

[@meatmissilef111]

The wheels and fenders are usually worth money. Aside from that, it's scrap metal.

[@cheapneasy1981]

Makes more money out of content views then out of parts so your statement is wrong haha.

[@Mcbrand67]

@@Gentleman...Driver you be suprised how much these seats are worth. Very rare Vadar seats. If you can buy them here in the Netherlands they go for 2000 euro!

[@danielwatts9803]

the irratic shifts mentioned on the tranny is caused by high mileage, worn manual not automatic transmission shift pins. The manual shift pins usually start to become "hard to shift" especially when cold around 200k miles. Each gear has it's own individual "pin". Once the tranny is removed the replacement of the pins isn't difficult at all. If anyone is interested in a brand new complete set (every gear) of e36 M3 shift pins I have a brand new set, never opened and ready to ship. Leave your contact info. here.

[@kimhansen1504]

Actually im impressed... This car has lived a VERY Hard life with tons of abuse, and it's still going after 25 years.

[@vw5056]

Bimmers run forever. There is a minty early 90's E34 in Jewish Racing Gold around me that I'd love to own.

[@abdullahz4804]

@@vw5056 they dont run forever lol

[@cambridgemart2075]

@@vw5056 Only if you don't drive them!

[@mattfarahsmillionmilelexus]

I honestly feel sorry for that car. No M3 should ever suffer such indignity as that. And I don't mean the M.C. Hammer time either.

[@vw5056]

That rusty bucket Subaru should have been destroyed not this beauty.

[@Bbbuddy]

Oh, man, watching that old sledge swing back right toward the Ferrari gave me chills.

[@vw5056]

Would have been nice poetic justice though.

[@potatomongrel]

Hey those things cost more and are less reliable anyways

[@dvereckis]

@@potatomongrel The defination of a car not fit for the road.

[@potatomongrel]

@@dvereckis yep not a car any more just some asset.

[@01gtbdaily30]

You guys are going a bit hard on this car . I’d love to see any well used American car from 1997 that isn’t beat to crap and no your grandpas Buick century with a 3.8 L engine that has 10 000 miles and spent its whole life in the garage doesn’t count. As far as the shifter pattern not showing on the gear shift doesn’t matter because while driving your hand covers that and you can’t see it anyway. If you have to remove your hand before you shift to remember where the gears are you shouldn’t drive a manual .

[@Omgazombie2k]

I’ve seen plenty up in my rusty salt filled province that are still on the road without that much structural rust

[@01gtbdaily30]

@@Omgazombie2k I live in Alberta and if I see a car that’s over 25 years old it’s usually an import .

[@Omgazombie2k]

@@01gtbdaily30 Nova Scotia here lol there’s salt everywhere’s pretty much year round, y’all are lucky you got beet juice to help with the rust. People literally sell imported Alberta cars here because they’re “rust free” what I’m getting at is you can have old cars that are driven if you clean the salt and maintain them or just garage store during the winter and clean decently during the summer because the air is still salty and sticky during our humid summers

[@FabiWann]

This M3 is a project. A few ankle vents, some surface rust, brake lines and fuel lines and it might become a goin ta town rig.

[@letsplayclassicgames5024]

Well, I'll be dipped.

[@DavidsfarmlivesFAN]

Some 17 year old kid would have adored this thing 🤣

[@thadmachia9873]

Thank you for keeping someone safe! Always important to relieve stress or it will eat you up!

[@dgurevich1]

Ah yes the 'Jeremy Clatkson' method of fixing a car. In the words of the man himself "how hard can it be?"

[@kanalnamn]

I've been driving E36 for twentytwo years, and several hundred thousand miles with two 323i and one (euro) M3. I currently have one of the 323s and the M3. In fact the only real breakdown has been a water pump. These cars need maintainance, but nothing more than any other car.

[@ronkatz2066]

No more than any other car? That is incorrect. I have a 04 Lexus ES330(180k miles) and a 2006 Honda Pilot(250k miles). They do not require the maintenance my E46 does.

[@kanalnamn]

@@ronkatz2066 Ok. I have no experience with the E46.

[@ImmortalInflames]

Which makes you unqualified to make the statement "they need maintenance, but no more than any other car.." As you haven't owned other cars for the oast 22 years.. Buick & Holden's with there 3800's Honda with their work horse D15B2's Chevrolet with their ol' LS1 Toyotawith their modest but milage eater RZ's (Hilux) Such engine's are often neglected of any maintenance, even oil changes yet over the years many have passed 500,000K's and ones being maintained have pushed past the million K mark.. Maybe that is among the best BMW has to offer, but it's still quite a leap to the most reliable ones out there! Also then there's the question of cost if maintenance.. which can be a big factor depending on country. By all means love your BMW's - I don't doubt yours would be a hell of a car to cruise in!! & Let's hope BMW of now has a return to it's (pure) form in the future!!

[@josekanucee1428]

@@ronkatz2066 e46 owner here since new… we love it though.

[@kanalnamn]

@@ImmortalInflames I also own a (euro) Honda Accord and has been owning Volvos. They've all cost pretty much the same. Rear brakes on the Honda has been a problem. As I can get OEM BMW parts for next to nothing from Autodoc they're cheap to maintain for me. As far as I can tell this is a different story in the US. Honda parts has been much more expensive for me.

[@keithmatthews1673]

Compared with what the customers of Wes at Watch Wes Work bring for him to fix that is a good car!

[@Big_Island_Boi]

I did a cross country road trip in a '94 M3 coupe in Daytona Violet back in '95. The car was nearly new so still running great and we had a BLAST in that car. Such a fun trip... probably average about 100 mph on the highway... hitting 140 mph + at times. Raced ALL kinds of sports cars that we ran into on the highway as we crossed the country. SO much fun. I've actually really wanted that car--but in a convertible--ever since then. I keep my eyes open... but have never found one.

[@oliverbrookes27]

I remember the day the UK car tester took his special 'wand' to my 20 year old car and pushed it through the sill and into the drivers floorpan. Next stop the wreckers.

[@hatebreed79]

In my neck of the woods, she’s a “keeper”. That’s structural rust. Good for anther 5 years as a winter car and polish the paint and sell it to a kid for $500. They were just gonna crash it anyway…

[@Silversmok3]

5 years? Id give it two winters before that thing splits apart. Wizard was right to scrap it.

[@daperturedan3454]

They literally make aftermarket weld in supports that would fix the structural rust on the subframe

[@kaspernessa9660]

Some cars are not worth spending time and money on, and this is definitely one of them. The poor kid that would have bought it wouldn’t be able to crash it before it would brake down.

[@vw5056]

@@kaspernessa9660 not true at all.

[@kaspernessa9660]

@@vw5056 it’s just a bmw m3 and it is not worth that much when it’s completely restored, so this one deserves the junkyard.

[@clivewilliams3661]

Nothing is not salvageable, if you want to see how its done watch Car SOS or the myriad of US restorers. Its a shame that for the sake of a vlog the vehicle was condemned without giving a balanced view. If the intent was to part it out then that could have been said at the beginning. I don;t understand why the Wizard took the vehicle as the whole process could not have been economically viable unless of course that Hoovie was cash strapped and the Wizard was given no choice.

[@markbennett6658]

Yes definitely not beyond repair. Fuzz and his team would have that licked into shape in no time even after Mr & Mrs Wizard’s worst efforts!

[@faafaafowhigh]

I am the original owner to a '06 BMW 325XI (E90) with 267,000 miles. This has been the most reliable car I have ever owned!

[@stevesedlak6912]

I owned a 1997 BMW 328is (very similar to the M3). It was the MOST fun to drive car I ever owned. Fast and very precise. In the end it just got old and too expensive to keep on the road. It still makes me grin to think about my "more than willing accomplice to my commuting transgressions".

[@cgmoog]

With all the safety regulations I've never understood why stainless steel (or non-corrosive) brake and fuel lines are not required. Here in the rust belt I've seen lines rust out and fail on vehicles with little other rust. Worse some of the lines travel inside frame members and can not be easily inspected.

[@johnpearson492]

I had rusty break lines blow out three separate times on my 99 Oldsmobile. I honestly can not understand why they aren't required to make both brake lines and exhaust systems out of non corossive materials. I'd honestly pay significantly extra for a package that was engineered for use in the rust belt. Stainless exhaust system, aluminum body panels, proper high quality undercoating. It's frustrating living where they use extreme amounts of salt and watching your cara get eaten away.

[@gmiller442]

Just list it on Marketplace with “minor hail damage”.

[@gstevens6948]

🤣🤣🤣

[@goclunker]

As a e36 M3 owner, I sincerely dislike when clowns get a hold of this car, clowns like Hoovie. These are great rewarding cars that are very reliable when taken care of. Don’t clown out on this car. Don’t be a clown like hoover

[@sinclaircupcake4954]

Don’t listen to all the hate on this, this car was totaled mechanically and structurally. This car got the best outcome for what it was. It’s desirable parts sold off for other projects and quick and easy ad revenue smashing worthless parts. Great video

[@pw510577w]

This may have a VANOS filter screw, which is supposed to be changed regularly, but it tiny, and most people don't know about. If it's not changed the VANOS system will not work properly. I know this because I used to work in the Parts department at my local BMW dealer here in Australia.

[@ryanpham3308]

Such a shame to see an M3 E36 in such a derelict condition.

[@Smhghejtn]

Respectfully disagree. It’s a car, the owner got his moneys worth, it did what it was built to do.

[@ralph02136]

@@Smhghejtn it's meant to be driven and maintained fool not driven and neglected. This isn't a civic or some regular car

[@yamaha226]

@@ralph02136 Civic is alot better

[@ralph02136]

@@yamaha226 said no one ever 🤣🤣

[@yamaha226]

@@ralph02136 Just because i got alot of money doesn't mean i like throwing it away on BMW junk. I don't need attention that bad.

[@josephalthaus3210]

This brings a whole new definition to Big Miserable Wreck lol Btw, thank you Mrs. Wizard for your service as a teacher!

[@rafalg2113]

I was worried when you took out the hammers, but then really relieved when you spared M3 specific parts. I'm no M3 junkie, but whether you like BMW's or not those parts will certainly be invaluable to someone.

[@heikkiremes5661]

Maintain your cars, people. If you live up north rust proofing is key. Couple of cans of POR15, brushes of various sizes, elbow grease and a couple of hours. It's worth it.

[@kamillgran7902]

I had a 1981 320 and it had 367k miles on it. I bought it from a German chef and drove all through college. My ex made me sell it! That was a sign right there!

[@Ballador]

I honestly would have removed the front windshield since it was in good shape and taken out all the pieces that would be valuable, like the windshield, rims, motor, and other expensive stuff

[@dvereckis]

There is a bad glass shortage here in Canada I had to wait 2 weeks for a windshield for a 97 suburban and over a month for one for a 94 buick roadmaster. The glass could have been the highest value part on that car.

[@betterbeavailable]

Almost everything in that car was salvageable and worth money.

[@mj_aussie_coaster_travels8310]

I would be been keen to see someone actually take it on and repair it. Anything can be repaired if you’re keen enough. It’s not always about money.

[@ragnarironspear1791]

We in the UK have an MOT every year after a new car is four years old . That wouldn't make it to the inspection station

[@AdamIsUrqed]

Some cities/counties/states have emissions inspection. Some areas inspect for rust/wear, and all states inspect for title rebuild after salvage state on title when a vehicle is fixed. I live in an area with NO annual inspection for any reason except for the aforementioned title state change. I have seen cars on the road rhat have been t-boned, rear ended, and rolled with partially smashed front and/or rear glass. Law enforcement can cite for operating an unsafe vehicle and, iifc, can impound a vehicle if they deem it unsafe for conditions such as bald tires and such. America is extremely lax when it comes to used vehicle safety.

[@johnw3379]

The wizard holding his inspection tool...he looks like a medieval warrior

[@pebear]

When I got married in 1990, my Wife and I went to Viena and Munich for our honeymoon. We took the BMW tour. Every work stand had a beer on it. The trash cans were full of one-shot minis of various hard liquors. Everyone on the factory floor had a snaps bottle hanging out of their back pocket, kind of like cowboys have a snuff tin in their back pocket. When I was on the train from Viena to Munich, we went into the dinner car for breakfast around 07:00 and we ordered bacon and eggs and tea / coffee and all the Austrians and Germans had beers and snaps for breakfast. Its a wonder their cars can even get into first gear. If I drank like a German I would be on the fast track to AA meetings...They drank like fish and smoked like chimneys.

[@ayedee6681]

This is how you FIX a BMW .... says the Wizard! ..... I actually feel sorry for the car.

[@stevceblazevski8124]

It's heart breaking to see somebody got this car to this level It's from the era when BMW used to value quality over quantity

[@pissupehelwan]

Someone abused it really badly. It's got less than 150K miles on it....someone did a number on that alright.

[@noth606]

hardly, BMW stopped GAF about quality in the early 90s or late 80s depending on model, a million buttons of which at best of times half ever worked at any one time. A friend had a 328i of this gen with an M3 engine swap and last I saw him he had spent 5yrs trying to get it done. It ran, off and on, sounded great when it did but it always had more stuff that didn't work than what did work, and it spent most of the time in pieces. Meanwhile I had a VW New Beetle with way more mods that worked 100% about 95% of the time, the 5% not working was me tearing it apart to mod it more. Never had a beamer and never will, VW, Opel, Toyota and Mitsubishi may not be as 'cool' but they work, unlike BMW.

[@GuardiansOfNorth]

@@noth606 So an idiot tried to do an engine swap and failed, and now BMW's are bad because of that?

[@bigmcdee8681]

I gotta say, there was one good bmw made, my e36 318i bmw I had growing up had 300,000 miles on it. When we sold it, it still drove brand new and had only seen the check engine light once, for a busted 5$ hose. It pulled hard and was fun too!! It actually inspired me to buy a newer bmw! That I quickly sold due to being unreliable :( well that backfired….. still miss that little 4 banger bimmer though. Every time the KZbinrs knock bmw I just remember that little red bmw that was more reliable than anything in life yet even after all these years. Wish the new bmws were like that!!!

[@LoopBooost]

What do you own now and what bmw did youbuy that was unreliable?

[@bigmcdee8681]

@@LoopBooost since then I had a couple cars, but all the other bmws I bought were unreliable. But very recently I took the plunge and bought a new to me bmw i3. People said the reliability was pretty good. Even though I was nervous about the purchase the i3 has been incredible! 100000x the car any gasoline car could EVER be ;)

[@FreddysCarsaAndChaos]

As someone who has owned multiple bmws, people hate on these older cars so much. Me and my brother have both had many cars from bmw to kia to chevy and the only car that has never left us stranded was our ratted out 98 323is. 205k and whoever owned it before us rolled it and it sat in a field for a long time. Body looks identical to this. Bought it for $600 and 7 years later weve only done plugs, 2 wheel bearings and 1 pvc hose. And my 2002 m3 has only broke down once in 6 years. Its all about who owns a car. PS coming from upstate ny this is just a normal amount of rust hahaha

[@tjnucnuc]

Those of us with spouses who don’t want anything to do with our cars envy you and yours.

[@subsilkdj]

I had the same underneath on my e36...mine looked mint on top was like a show car... but was like titanic when we got it up on the jacks. The rear suspension mounts were particularly close to coming through the frame. I could have had it passed on its road test - no problem if you know people in the trade...but it could literally have killed someone. So ended up scrapping sadly. Your poke through the floor of this bought back many painful memories! Otherwise it had been a great car

[@TRUMPmyOSHI]

So sad. Recently I was going to get this beautiful dark gray 2006 4Runner, like you said like a show car, at a NJ dealership, that is until a mechanic lifted it up and looked underneath it to see almost about the same rust as what’s in the video. Very very sad. 😞

[@midnightlexicon]

Such a shame to see such a beautiful vehicle in such a deplorable state.

[@EdgyNumber1]

That exhaust system looks like the original! Should've got money for the wheels, seats, window glass, lamp clusters. What a waste.

[@67daltonknox]

Makes my '95 E36 M3 look like a new car. This was the beginning of BMW's descent into madness, when weight saving allowed every sensible engineering decision to be tossed aside.

[@ukmk3supra]

The body might be too far gone, but the drivetrain and interior parts are worth saving :(

[@pops55650]

They are doing that

[@BigHumz155]

Take the engine and the coilovers and send this to the scrap pile 🤣

[@nature10879]

A friend had one of this with a manual transmission with 280k miles. The mileage counter wasn't even working at that point so who knew how many miles it still had. That thing run silky smooth with rubbery shifts. Such a fun light tight car to drive. I always felt one with the car spinning it

[@KartiacKID]

I had a 2002 e39 540i m-sport and it was the easiest car I’ve had to work on… till someone pulled out in front of me on a 55mph. Only had 145,000 on it and the clutch was still good… but mine was not rusting like that and it was my winter car in Cleveland

[@williamdjunaedi2357]

As a lifelong BMW enthusiast, this really insults and offends me. I understand that this particular example is unsafe and can be parted out, but you have crossed the line, by smashing what was once a beautiful example of probably the best handling and most well balanced car I’ve ever driven in my life, the E36, which is so fun in the corners, especially on track. No BMW deserves to end up and be treated like this, it breaks my heart so much, and it infuriates me to see it being sledgehammered. And to whoever says they hate BMW, it hurts and enrages me even more, as I love BMW with all my heart and dedicate my entire life to my passion for BMW. There is always a better way to solve the problem, just by simply parting it out, for other examples to live on. This has gone too far.

[@truckernation7886]

They literally said they are parting it out. The turd will live on

[@WhoThisGuy515]

If you are offended to such a degree so easily, the internet may not be for you...

[@vw5056]

@18:00 "someone is going to die." This car would not have been the first car that was restored. Yes, Wizard, there is enough of an E36 following, especially the M3, that an enthusiast would have restored it to its proper glory. You're such a hero for destroying an already classic car under the pretext of safety.

[@m0rb1d43]

Just looking at those brakelines in the front alone this car would have failed the yearly safety inspection here in The Netherlands many many years ago. I have never seen brakelines this rusty before. O.o

[@danielseelye6005]

That's in better shape than my 1995 Dodge Dakota pickup truck and, being in Michigan, means I can still drive it since we don't have inspections. If we did, pretty sure at least 25% of all vehicles would be yanked off the road and there would be a massive riot.

[@drunkenhobo5039]

@@danielseelye6005 You not think of getting them fixed? It's not a particularly expensive job. And brakes are kind of important.

[@danielseelye6005]

@@drunkenhobo5039 I misread OP, I thought he was referring to the body of the M3, not just the brake lines. My brakes are just fine. Thanks though. 👍

[@tag206]

@@danielseelye6005 Yeah, I've owned cars that are 10 years newer, and 10x worse.

[@janiilola5810]

I have seen brakelines rustier than that on cars that HAVE passed their yearly safety inspection here in Finland. A car that's 25 years old, long harsh winters and a lot of road salt and presto that's what you will have. Yes, that particular car is a piece of crap especially with the rust on the floorpanels but other than that, there wasn't anything truly shocking to me per se. Obviously that car hasn't been cared for at all and it shows. Scrapping it for parts is definitely the thing to do.

[@Epotheros]

I feel like the end was the Wizard finally getting out all the pent up stress he had for years when ever he had to work on a BMW.

[@Silversmok3]

WHAM “….that’s for putting the timing chain in the back of the engine” WHAM “….that’s for that throttle body job” WHAM….

[@increiblepelotudo]

When the wizard attempted to close the hood, he was making fire beats! Like seriously, someone who knows their way around an MPC, should sample it!

[@billyrayvalentine5220]

2 things; 1. From that cars previous life in the hood ( before Tyler) Long Beach will find at least one bag of dope somewhere... 2. If you all come back in the morning and that thing has completely repaired itself like Christine...get the hell out of there double quick! But take pictures first!

[@MapOfEurasia]

Oh my god that's baaad! That thing is ALL hazard ⚠️😂 Save the valuable parts (even the engine and trans) and scrap that rusted chassis! Maybe find a good shell and do a sleeper E36 👀