[wmealer]

Hi everyone, I just picked up my 9th BMW, a 1996 M-Sport automatic with 200k miles. This is my 3rd E36, previously owning a Hellrot '96 328i, and Arctic Silver '97 M3 saloon. My current daily is a '95 840Ci in Cosmos Black.

Rescued this 318ti a few days ago and drove it from NY to MS over a couple of days. Bought it as a casual project car to get cleaned up and a little more road worthy over the next several months, and also to teach my teenage daughter to drive. If the car survives the 4-5 years with my daughter, after she's done with it I plan to claim it back as my own and drop in an S52 with other M3/M-coupe performance mods.

The car did surprisingly well on the 1,200-mile trip home, notwithstanding its intermittent fuel gauge failure (must be a shorted wire somewhere), desperate need of an alignment, shimmy during braking (bad rotors and/or suspension bushings), and loud hum in the rear end under load (rear diff or driveshaft bearing?)