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Originally Posted by ti cali ed Trim packages baffle me on bmw's. I have a cali ed. and I say this because it's a 1996 and it has the canvas sun roof. But it does have cruise, cloth seats, black paint, and a few other 'goodies'. And I've heard of a few other odd ball packages like 'club sports' and some even odder names that my back woods Iowa tungue couln't even say correctly. Places like kelly blue book don't even list these packages as options. When I was rear ended a while back the insurance company wouldn't value the car as anything more than a base because there books didn't show any other packages as well. Long story short there's by far to many packages for this being such a low production car. |
The packages are just collections of options that you could source on the car. 95 had club sport, sport, active, and winter packages.
96+ had mtech(sport) and active. There may have been the coldweather package as well, but not mentioned as much.
My 95 active/winter package had OBC, sunroof, alarm, heated door locks, cruise control and LSD. It sounds like you want an active based on the options you want, but most sellers these days are not going to know what the original package of the car is unless they've looked up the original invoice sheet.
Insurance companies will always value the car as low as you allow them to. You don't have to take their offers, and if I had something other than a base model, I would not accept an offer that had the car as such. Pretty easy to go to the dealer and get the original equipment sheet direct from them based on the VIN.
Wow, a Ti selling for 4,500? Has anybody seen or bought one recently for that price? I've seen 328's and somewhat decent E36 M3's selling for that price. These cars are lost a lot of value in the last several years and I would say that comparable model year honda/toyotas probably hold more value as they are perceived as being cheaper to maintain. I know I've seen some crazy ads with people asking stupid money for Ti's, but I've not heard of them being successful. And I'm not talking about some of the very rare, pristine models we see, even though I'd be hesitant to spend $5k on a 17yo econo-box..