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Hey guys. Welcome back it's Mark with Exotic Car Play Place. Today we are going

to go and do some shopping for the most unreliable 3-series BMW because I am

looking at a new daily driver, and we'll go take a look down at some of the

dealers and see if we can find one of the cars that's right for me. let's go.

now I am down at the dealer and I've actually found two of the favourite cars,

two cars that I'm considering buying as the most unreliable 3-series BMW is

available today. now you're probably gonna ask yourself

why would you want to buy the most unreliable 3-series BMW? well it's mainly

because that particular BMW happens to be the most tunable car, and there's no

surprise that you know based on my channel, I like exotic cars, supercars,

fast cars in general. why wouldn't I want to go fast? so I want a car that's

tunable but I don't want to start with a hundred and fifty thousand dollar car.

I'm gonna start with something that most people can afford, and I'm gonna guide

you through this, if I decide to buy a car like this, then I'm gonna share with

you the experience. so let's look at this. I basically got two choices here now.

what I'm talking about is the 335 BMW. now why is the 335 my best choice? well

mainly because the 335 has turbochargers, and typically anything with

turbochargers is very, very tunable, and you can usually extract a lot of

horsepower out of a turbocharged car. so that's why I've narrowed my search down

to the 335. now there's a few selections in the 335s, some of them you can get up

to 2010 they come with the infamous n 54 motor that is notoriously unreliable

with the twin turbos, and then if you look at a 2011 and newer, then you're

basically dealing with cars that have been slightly improved, although they're

not perfect either because again anything turbocharged typically has

additional heat and stress and therefore reliability goes down the hole. so we're

gonna start with this one. here is a 335. now I found one, so there's two other

choices so aside from going with you know the n54 or the N55 engine, which is

newer. there's other choices like we have here the sedan, so this is the four-door

sedan, obviously this is pretty generic looking, pretty standard, they own the

marketplace for sports sedans in my opinion, and so here is a 335. let's take

a look around. this is a sedan, this one has the X Drive, so there's some options

you can go with the all-wheel drive, which I'm probably going to go with

because I live in northern climate. of course lots of snow where I live.

this one unfortunately has some kind of the small wheels so you probably want to

have that upgraded, but you'll notice the 335 has the dual exhaust in the back, but

looking at the taillights, that's one distinct difference, so just

the way it happens, we actually have a coupe here as well to compare this with.

so I'm considering the sedan or the coupe. I'm not sure like there's

angles of both that I really like, and you'll notice of course you know the

headlights are mainly the same. let's take a look at some of the exterior

features. obviously it's X Drive, you know, we've got this style, a mirror here, what

else do we have in these, in the sedan?

well this particular sedan here has the wood grain interior, it's very nicely

equipped here as well standard seats, power seats of course, lots of nice

finishing in these cars. now we go to the back now, the beauty part with the sedan

is it actually gives you, you'll notice one, two, three seats, and you get all the

foot space in here. so if you have three you know two adults and maybe a

child or three smaller adults, you can fit three people in here. so this is

actually a five seater and then we move over here, so we're gonna look at a coupe

now. that most people would agree that coupes are more beautiful

look overall. the style is much more attractive. this one here is the M

package, this car is particularly attractive, you know you've got the M

spoiler. on the front it definitely looks a lot more aggressive. now the wheels are

prettier here as well, the upscale wheels on here, you'll notice

the mirrors, it's a different style of mirror as well on the coupe, the overall

look is different for sure, maybe you've got to stretch body lines on the coupe

you've got this nice crease that runs along so this is a different different

piece and of course since we talked about the taillights this of course is

at 335 but the taillights are sleeker and notice they're kind of a skinnier

type of taillight on here as well here you've got the dual exhaust dual exhaust

on this guy as well so it's a very very pretty car now this one here happens to

have some junk in the trunk this guy here's got some spare tires

looks like some winter rubber in the back of the seat here so I can't show

you that in this case the downside with this coupe here that we're looking at is

yes it's prettier yes its overall a much more attractive car and this one's

actually got better upscale you know finishing versus the other sedan that

being said you can do that as well with the sedans you can find a better

equipped sedan but this one actually only has two seats in the back and I

can't show you that because of the tires in the back but the coupes only have two

seats as well this car only has two wheel drive rear wheel drive only I've

only got essentially the rear wheels drive in this car so less practical for

winter time less practical as well with the back seats because if you have kids

like I do then this is going to be a little bit more of a compromise of

course this is really more of a sports car than the sedan and so we look around

you'll notice that a traditional grille pretty standard fare there but overall

underneath is what really matters and that's why I'm looking at buying the 335

even though it's the most unreliable 3 Series it's because the tune ability of

the engine that's under that hood so let's maybe take a look and see have a

quick look so let's pop the hood of this sedan here

I'm gonna do the old that and there is the infamous n54 engine that we have

under the hood of this sedan now while it looks pretty stealthy this car is

extremely powerful and extremely tunable now they come standard with a 300

horsepower and 300 pound feet of torque unlike this very easy to access

that's BMWs always got that sort of stuff figured out now I'm down in there

there's some you know changing the serpentine belt can be a challenge and

some of the other things in here can be a challenge we all know that these cars

are notorious through high pressure fuel pumps are known to go injectors are

known to go this is of course a straight-6 so there's six injectors they

are known to fail as well you've got leaks from that valve cover

gaskets and look isn't this funny this everything looks very kind of moist in

here and so this is pretty typical to find wet top end on these cars not

uncommon at all of course turbos can go he's got cars also have the occasional

wastegate rattle coolant issues you've got leaks now the rad and everything is

tucked in behind here and there's your fan of course your rad is tucked down in

there neatly but of course that can be an issue as well as the water pump the

water pumps are also notorious for these things and that's going to be something

you can almost guarantee you'll be changing at some point so that is the N

for engine now the plus side now why would you buy an end 54 like this over

the end 55 which is the 2011 and newer why would you because these ones so far

have more tune ability and they definitely have

of in after-market support the end 55s are getting there but they're not quite

there yet so these are actually made to modify their their a better car for

tuning if you want to make the car go fast this is the engine that you want to

have the n54 this coupe this also has the m54

again more tunable then you get in the in the end 55 like the 2011 and newer

but again these cars are made to go fast and they are fun now the downside to

both of these particular cars is they're both automatics the downside here is

this car is actually an automatic I really want the manual gearbox this car

super clean otherwise holding up very well I'm not sure what the mileage is on

this car but again the fact that this is an auto I'm probably not even gonna

bother the salespeople about this because it's not really what I'm looking

for as well you've got that fancy the latest I drive in here pretty routine

stock steering wheel small and beefy and pretty typical for the BMW you'll notice

the wear and tear as well I've seen that on my x5 as well as m5 pretty standard

issues with these cars and that we're on that that material there so then the

question is again I know you've probably asked again and again if it's so

unreliable which it is why would you buy this car well mainly for the fact that I

want to go fast now that being said it is one of the most unreliable 3-series

BMW is available but so is an m3 of many of the generations and I've considered

shopping for one of them as well I'm really interested in possibly picking up

in m3 particularly the e90 series because I'm actually thinking about

considering strapping an ESS supercharger to an e 90 and make that

thing go really really fast so we'll see about that

but for now I'm looking at the 335 not because it's unreliable but because it's

tunable and the the problem here is these two

cars are automatic and for me I like driving a stick see why not remove one

more point of possible failure manual transmissions are generally inherently

more reliable while clutches do burn out it's generally not as big an issue as if

you have an automatic that burns out it's a much bigger repair so anyway I

would typically go with the manual and neither of these are manual

transmissions and therefore I think I'm gonna skip these two so I'm gonna keep

on looking so I really hope you enjoyed the video guys I just want to give you a

summary of some of the key differences between the coupes and the sedans and a

few of the different variations and why I would buy this car this in fact is the

car I'm starting to shop for the 335 with a manual gearbox and probably the

xDrive that's the car that I'm likely going to wind up with if I find the

right car so stick with me on the search everybody I want to share with you the

experiences along the way as I shop for these cars unfortunately these are not

the cars that I'm looking for here but we'll get to that so hope you everybody

liked the video you make sure you give me a thumbs up like subscribe and we'll

talk to you real soon thanks again guys buh-bye