Paint Question need help ASAP

[JoeyBello]

Hey guys, I can't remeber my login for bimmerfourums so I got an important question.

1994 325ic-- I looked at one tonight and it looked mint.. but something is rubbing me wrong about it.. first its dakar yellow- and they claimed it was a special order.. was it available as a special order? 2nd 95% of the 94's I see have the black lower skirts and spoilers.. i know 96-up they were painted.. this car's are painted yellow/match the body.. did 94's come optional painted? And if this car was special ordered would they have painted the bottoms or wouldnt they still be black? thanks!

[chrisbec]

Hi Joey, I think your right about the paint on the side skirts being a giveaway. My buddy has a '95 325is and the side skirts are painted grey same as my 95 ti. I would be skeptical about the Dakar yellow color, I know this was an M3 option in 95, but I don't know about any other e36 models. How about finding the color code tag under the hood on the strut tower. That will give you confirmation. Have a good look around the engine bay and in the jambs, it is pretty hard to change body colors without some evidence somewhere. Someone would have to go to great lengths to do a disassembly and paint to get yellow in all of the nooks and crannies.

[JoeyBello]

Originally Posted by chrisbec

Hi Joey, I think your right about the paint on the side skirts being a giveaway. My buddy has a '95 325is and the side skirts are painted grey same as my 95 ti. I would be skeptical about the Dakar yellow color, I know this was an M3 option in 95, but I don't know about any other e36 models. How about finding the color code tag under the hood on the strut tower. That will give you confirmation. Have a good look around the engine bay and in the jambs, it is pretty hard to change body colors without some evidence somewhere. Someone would have to go to great lengths to do a disassembly and paint to get yellow in all of the nooks and crannies.

The guy was being too shadey so I gave up on him. Oh well. still looking for a nice BMW. But alot of dishonest people out there and dealers are even worse. Alot of junk, abused, high mileage cars. Sometimes I wonder why I didnt just keep mine.

[tiFreak]

I've seen a Dakar 328is once on BF.C, he got it through the BMW Individual program, it had painted lowers too but it was a late enough model that it would have had those anyway, good call backing out though, if the seller seems shady they usually are

[JoeyBello]

yeah he wouldn't let me take it on the highway and wouldnt let me see where he lives, and asked me if i had insurance when I wanted to test drive it and was all weird like let me drive it to a residential area. And the car fax showed the car i snow noted as yellow on it a few years ag0-- someone else told me about the BMW Individual sticker and then I asked him and he checked and said oh yeah it has it.. but ended up backing out of tommorow - i wanted to take it to my mechanic to check it out.. soem shdey fuks on Craigslist.