My BMW Z3 Almost BUSTED My Wallet!
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Only you wizard would have a Geiger counter in your toolbox 😂😂
'BUSTED My Wallet!' And now you know what BMW REALLY stands for.
Bring More Wrenches
N52 is the lords work
🤑 B.M.W, are laughing 😂 all the way to the bank, because they know stupid people will keep buying, and fixing their vehicles !!.
“Barely Mechanically Worthy”
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The old Coleman lantern mantles used to contain Thorium which is somewhat radioactive. In 1990 they replaced the Thorium with Yttrium which is minimally radioactive. This reduced the light output by 20% so the older mantles are somewhat sought after.
Interesting. 👍
I thought in usa they only made useless flashlights.
Man, we had so many of those Colemans in the Boy Scouts mid-eighties! Maybe thats what brought on all the early hairloss...
@wilsonlaidlaw: Thanks for that. I learn stuff here.
@@felicetanka And automotive clocks.
It isn't as much that these older BMW's are so maintenance heavy, it's that they are so badly neglected.
Yes, BMW parts can be expensive, but if you keep up maintenance per schedule, the costs tend to spread out over the years. This car is just another example of people selling it before or when it needed some expensive parts to be replaced and then the next owner(s) simply drove it without performing maintenance, leading to everything being worn out by the time the Wizard bought it.
As a BMW owner you nailed it.
Don’t forget to keep the cost way low FCP euro is life time warranty on genuine bmw parts including fluids.
Very true sir, been on the receiving end of both situations, well maintained car and sold before it blew up car. The well maintained car I kept for 200.000 miles and only replaced the suspension and brakes + whatever "expired" due to milage like fluids, belts etc. The next owner kept it for another 100.000 and never spent a penny on it. Bought it back for pennies from him as a donor car for some parts that were hard to find like seats, trims, etc. as the rest of the car was not worth fixing at that point due to neglect.
Any update on the BMW that was left without contact details or notes on problems? Having a BMW with the M54 six made the Grimes run down on things to keep an eye on of great interest to me and, while the combination of age, plastic and electronic components can make a trip to the mechanic daunting, the pre-Bangle 6 cylinder BMWs have a way of rewarding the experience when you get them back on the road.
After all of the mechanical fixes you performed, when do you think the paint will receive a detail deserving of the respect you have given the mechanical issues?
BMWs that were built 20 years ago are pretty stout. But now BMW has decided to go overboard with plastic all over the engine bay. That plastic dries out and when you have to replace it the cost is as much as a metal part.
3:02 the sound of someone who is no longer surprised by the odd things you own
such enthusiasm 😂
I don't get why he always slates German cars. Would 25 year old American car not need new shocks, bushes, hoses, etc? These parts are made of rubber, they will disintigrate at the same speed on all cars.
Any car would, I agree ridiculous comments.
He spent as much as the car was worth because the car was dirt cheap.
Those are totally the wrong tyres, guys clueless
Miata that age wouldn’t be any different or cheaper
Actually I've seen a number of the earlier BMW's he didn't mind working on: I've seen an E24 6-series (1977 to 1989) as well as a beautiful black little E21 3-series (1977 to 1983) that were the lucky recipients of the Car Wizard's magic touch.
Because he is american not german. Same in germany and Europe, people like german but critisize american made. What you do not know and do not feel attachments to is much easier to critizise, than something you might either have nostalgia or nationalistic tendencies for. If one dear brand has all sorts of issues it is easy to just find excuses, while if something foreign has issues it is easier to call it what it is, junk.
@@BigBearBjornaone of my best best friends brother in law works for ford, he was ordered to design them to be pieces of shit and calls them that. I’m aware of a few other of these sort of things but in short no one I know who works for an American car company I’ll buy or drive American. What does that tell you.
I love how the wizard thinks spending all that money will prevent the car from breaking down three months from now
I used to not get his purchases of vehicles he doesn't recommend for his customers/viewers, but I think I get it now. He's a total car geek who likes the unusual and can (hands-on and financially) repair, enjoy and indulge his interests. He'll indulge an impulse until he's content with it, then sell it and grab another. Confession: I kinda envy him for that.
@@NVRAMboi Agreed. His recommendations are also for most people, whereas he's in the position to get parts at cost, and either not pay shop labour or only the labour of his employees.
I ended up replacing almost everything in the engine bay of my mini Cooper S except for the engine block itself, and it still gave me gremlins. These cars are perfect when they are new, but as they age single parts replacement no longer results in reliability, because by virtue of their design individual parts are meant to work within the same level of precision with which they were put together from the factory (The German way). They are nice and fun to drive though if you're willing to put up with their temper tantrums :D
@romanaldaine6210 was yours an R53?
The M52's actually a very reliable engine. I'd want the manual version but each to their own.
Guys let’s say you bought z3 for 7 k spend mor 5k the bring the car really good shape still cheap for you have nice convertible to cruise on weekends !!!! Stop cray
Add some bracing to it, honestly it transforms them from soggy to tight as a drum, beautiful cars a design classic in my opinion
You can fix it Wizard!
I wish I had your skills so that I could take care of my lady's car like you do. 👍🏻
He don't do the work the man's full of shite
Streten from M539 would not even call it half sorted. Parts arent that expensive. The labor to do it is. Easy car to work on
Anybody who knows Sreten from his videos truly understands these cars. The man's ability to turn BMW junk into BMW gems is well deserved and so is his success on UA-cam. His UA-cam channel is truly a DIY must-see.
Cool Z3 but missing a pedal 😢
Lot of granite countertops would set off that Geiger counter too.. Take it to the market when you buy seafood! 😂😂
This is all normal deferred maintenance for a BMW with 100K on the clock. This is a solid car. But wait - no sagging glovebox?
The Z3 is a reliable car for being over 20 yrs old. Today we are seeing brand new American cars getting engine replacements within 40k miles. Very big difference in quality despite what the haters want you to believe. I've put more money into my husband's 2015 Yukon in repairs than my Z3 for example.
I’m digging the new and frequent BMW videos, Wizard - I know it’s not usual but certainly unique!
Anyone else first think the green Christmas tree was a butt plug? Asking for a friend....
Nice Z3, these and the Z4s are the easiest BMWs to work on. Love em.
Glad you are able to count your Geigers. Most well-prepared tech I have seen. 😀👍
That is a cool and lovely little scooter for the Mrs. Nice Job. New Coleman mantles use Yttrium not nearly as radioactive compared to the old-style mantles that used Thorium. Coleman used Uranium glass in the glass lamp shade in the old-style gasoline lamps (used indoors). The trade name was Kremelite or Kremax. Due to uranium military usage in WWII, the Kremelite glass was no longer available from the late 1930s. The glass glowed in the dark and when exposed to a black UV light. The mantles emit alpha particles - not really that harmful - just don't breath in the smoke created when you burn in new mantles.
The hazard with the old mantles when they were used with a flame (in the active mantle), they transitioned into a hard metal oxide matrix. If these mantles were disturbed, (crushed by hand, etc.) they turned into a fine dust, which could be ingested or inhaled, which stays with you forever.
Sadly soon all combustion cars and trucks including classics will be banned from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-(
In Germany the Green Peoples Party gave order to shorten fuel supply from 2025
on by reducing all conventional fuel stations to only one state operated central gas station per city or county. Car washs will be forbidden too because they are climate killers, now they want to slow down all the gas station pumps from 20 litre per minute to 2 litre per minute...From 2027 on in the EU certain car spare parts will be banned too....as exhaust systems, turbo chargers and even some engine and gearbox oils...California and New York will do the same from 2027 on.... So no investments should be done in oil burning cars any longer....They even created a new kind of crime here, called emissions and smoke crime.!!! (BABVVEN & TEBBVEN & BEFVO laws)!!
Needs a full detailing for sure! VanGo? Awesome car! Love the 90's Bimmers
as a German speaking, these old BMWs are very reliable if you do preventitive maintance. Most parts are cheap here and if you take care of your car, its value rises quickly
Bullshit...BMW's require no more maintenance than other cars.....replacing lots of parts is not "preventive maintenance"==it is called REPAIRS.
Exactly what I said. Pretty easy to pick out the BMW enthusiasts who understand these vs. the trolls and haters simply regurgitating the same phony garbage being circulated on the Internet. Those that KNOW, just KNOW. There's quite a number of very popular UA-camrs who understand these cars much better than the trolls I see here, including Jonny the Car Ninja and Sreten at M539 Restorations. Sreten in particular has built a remarkably large and loyal UA-cam following for his willingness to take on restoring a number of BMWs from the 80's through late models. Remarkably, he even took on a very difficult and challenging restoration of an E60 M5, replacing the notorious camshaft bearings on that car before they failed, which would have turned that E60 M5 into a very large and very expensive paperweight were it not for his timely intervention.
@@houseofno STILL MONEY PITS...period
@@houseofnoDang the cam bearings are also notorious on E60 M5s? I thought it was just the rod bearings, & a bakers dozen of other expensive issues, as reported by multiple BMW mechanics.
I don't see how they're reliable if you have to replace half the car. I would say a Toyota is reliable since they don't need any of this work doing in the first place.
So Wizard how much did it cost to get fixed?
So even the „reliable BMW“ are not really that reliable hmmm…
Z3s are amazing and i LOVE the Aubergine paint code BUT an automatic. Yuck. Swap time.
Rolls Royce coffee cups... Do they leak constantly??
That Smiths clock for the rolls royce silver cloud depending on condition is worth anywhere from $300-$800 USD.
"Wow that's shocking dear" and then he proceeds to continue to talk without hesitation lol. His wife is a trooper. They are a match made in heaven haha. :):)
I bet that Rolls Royce clock is worth more than that BMW. Someone out there has the car that clock goes to, sans a working clock, and is just itching to throw heaps of $$$ at the problem. 😏
THIS WAS A JOB FOR THE CAR NINJA!!!!!
are they bud vaces for old cars in the1920 to hold flowers
Just got quoted 3k for a new headlight on a e60. Adaptive headlights are spendy.
Wizard, you should bought that red Mercedes 450 SL from Euro Asian Bob for Mrs Wizard!
I spent some $16,000 in parts on one of my BMW's. More than the car is worth were it be up for sale. And? Not everyone sells their cars off. Some do their own work and keep what they own. I will never purchase a new BMW for many reasons. The increased use of plastic in places where heat-cycling is high. Anything larger than a 17" rim is bad engineering. (Side note. Males liked to pretend they do not track fashion trends. Yet so many are so concerned with having large diameter rims. They put aftermarket rims on their car in order to look "cool." Said rims almost never look good on either a BMW or a Mercedes).
You should have kept the 308 for yourself, how many cars does she need??
Had a ex girlfriend who was into uranium glass. Was wild to sit in the collection with a black light in the dark.
Is it just me, or is the z3 missing a steering rack boot clamp on the outer side (passenger)?
After watching Ms Wizards video on why she quit teaching I think she deserves to have fun and really enjoy life. Cool Z3
Give me an s2000 any day!
I've replaced all the things he mentions under the hood on my car aswell. He doesn't mention the fan clutch, the actual plastic fan and the intake rubber boot. But those should be replaced too.
That's a bud vase for masking the old car stink with flowers.
Great Selection Mrs. Wizard. I have a 2001 and love it! I bought mine for $5,000 and then also spent $5,000 to get everything checked and fixed. Car Wizard was spot on with cost!
"It can add up so fast"
*laughs in Land Rover*
A few years back I was looking for a convertible. I was looking at a BMW Z3 and went to some BMW forums and realized they are money pits. The first owner gets to about 60,000 miles and they fall apart and everything is expensive. I bought a 2003 Ford Thunderbird. That was also a money pit but I bought the Ford Premium Care and luckily it only cost me $100.00 per incident and there were a lot of incidents. I still have the T-Bird but glad I did not get the BMW Z3.
I sold my near perfect 1998 BMW Z3 M Roadster years ago with 25k miles on it. The only car I regret selling. Despite the mentioned maintenance costs, enjoy yours.
6k on a 6k premium car is not bad. Total 1.2k equals to a monthly rent for my studio. 😒
Did anyone else notice The Wizard's magic trick at 5:01 as he asks if we are prepared to be amazed? ☮
I see your rear window still has the crease. Please use the blanket provided with the vehicle to keep the crease from getting worse. I had 239,000 miles on mind and the rear window was still clear with no crease when I sold it.
I had a BMW Z4 for 6 years. It was a fun car to drive but I never had a visit to the dealer's shop that cost me less than $1,000.
No surprise, but these are super simple cars to work on if you do the work yourself. And they are super reliable if you take care of the couple of trouble issues inherent to any and all cars. Oh, NEVER MIND - scratch all of this because if I let the secret out I won’t be able to buy these on the cheap and fix them myself on the cheap.
The salt and pepper shakers might be Waterford Crystal. You should check them out as it was with other Rolls-Royce goodies.
As for the radioactive things.... check out a banana: Bananas are radioactive due to the radioactive isotope of Potassium it contains...
All of the uranium glass I have seen is much more green than that. Not all old green glass is uranium glass. Best to use a black light to really check it.
I still have my coleman lantern. It's got to be 40 years old or a little more
Remember driving and building them new at the plant
unfortunately, convertible tops, especially for older cars, get expensive quick.
At least you can still find the parts. Many cars after ten years old have no parts available.
It's the old adage; "If you can't afford a new one, you can't afford a used one". Thanks, Mr. and Mrs. Wizard! Enjoy the car! ✌️❤️🙂🇨🇦
You forgot the vanos seals ...make a big difference in gas mileage and Acceleration
I wonder if anyone has invented plastic windows for convertible tops that don't scratch/haze easily? Every top with that type of window looks so bad after just a few years.
Seems NORMAL - for a car of that vintage.. :) Grime's paycheck was part of the repair as well.
If I find a lens cap, I need to buy a camera to attach it to. Now that you have a Rolls Royce fender cover...
“Half of what I replaced was unnecessary.” Well that’s helpful.
More “not required at this moment but are known for failure, and were replaced preventively”
I bet those old glow in the dark wind up wristwatches would set that geiger counter off big time!
More money in repairs than the car itself? Why am I not shocked?
David, when is Leo the Fedex pilot from Memphis going to FINALLY get that gold '82 Corvette out of the shop? I think it has been there over two years....
Very soon actually
Not trying to get those Rolls Folks upset -
But Grey Poupon is really great with Spam!
Yo all I've driven for 15 years is BMW I've owned 9 different BMW models I currently own a E-46 M3 and a '06 🆉🅷🅿 both are convertibles I have seen and done Soo much with BMW models and E-46 Models are my favorite ones though I'm trying to sort out my M3 at the moment so I have some emergency services done before I can drive it before I get some things replaced I'm really looking for to getting my M3 all done this Z3 looks really clean glad you can get this back in Ultimate condition Wizard 💯
I have an 05 Ram 1500 140K stories to tell, owned since 07, and an 02 Durango with only on 71K.
All need cars need maintenance.
Hoses, control arms, W/pumps, batteries, belts, O2 sensors, tranny service,, head gaskets, manifold gaskets, etc.
No car is bullet proof.
The most dependable car I ever owned was my 01 Porsche 996 twin turbo.
13 years ownership, other than standard maintenance, brakes, oil, I only had to replace coolant reservoir, they tend to crack from compartment heat, and shifter cable.
Car was drop dead - call the cops solid.
I'm dishing out $9K for a 2000 Z3 2.5L with 79K miles tomorrow morning.
It's in great shape, (I hope) the only leak a low pressure power steering line.
It's amazing what they're going for today...
Your videos are making it easier to sleep at night,,thank you for posting
Do you suggest spring vs worm gear clamps?
Trust BMW to be the only brand where the damn BADGES are a maintenence item 😂
Oh no, Alfa Romeo are as well.
you of al people should no better than to buy a used beemer.....🤣
VANOS still strikes me as a name for a comic book villain…
Nice BMW worked with a guy who had one. His was a 5 speed. He let me drive it. It was fast and fun to drive.
Thank you for the video. My wife and I just bought a 99 z3 2.8 with 115k kms. Your Z3 videos are very helpful.
We used those Coleman lanterns when I was a Boy Scout in the late 1950s - early 1960s. The lanterns hissed. I was always afraid that they would blow up.
Owned this car myself for 10 years.. a 2000 z3 2.5ltr… it’s a money pit when something goes wrong and having to find parts
Shine a UV light or laser pointer on the “Christmas tree”. 😊 Also try that with the lamp mantles.
I find it interesting that in one video you say BMW's are junk and then you buy a Z3?? I have a 2001 Toyota Kluger (Highlander) and it has cost me just as much in repairs as what I paid for it. I guess all cars can be expensive, my car had a faulty fuel gauge and it cost me $700 nzd in parts to fix, just one example.
If you want to spend more money, take that car to that detailed Hoovie has used. They will make that paint glow
If ignorance were water. the Car Wizard would need flood insurance for the comments here. Contrary to what's being posted here, many of the pre-I drive Bimmers were actually pretty desirable cars (especially among enthusiasts that actually understood these cars) and are fetching big money on the collector car market including the Z3. The Z3 was fairly easy to maintain especially compared with its less attractive and more complex successor the Z4. Most BMWs of this era were actually pretty reliable if you kept up on the maintenance. Of course, the Internet being the Internet, many owners deferred maintenance on these cars and let them fall into disrepair, contributing to the somewhat unfairly maligned reputation the pre-I drive cars encountered. Here's a hint trolls: Camrys and Accords need maintenance too but people generally drive those into the ground and then go looking for another vehicle to destroy.
wow. okay. You are clearly a BMW fanboy. That is so sad. You don't know apparently that you can run a Toyota for easily 150k miles and not have to replace anything. And you can "defer", maintenance as you say on any Toyota for all those miles and it doesn't really matter. BMW people are so used to having to fix things all the time I guess. Honda is well sorted too. If ignorance were water.....lol
Wow. Your "water" comes in a 55 gallon drum. I bet you're at the top of your rocket science class too.
@@houseofno He's right, I've had a lot of old cars and non needed the kind of a maintenance my BMW does. In fact it's out of action atm while I replace the abs pump lol
I know all about Uranium glass! It is also called "vaseline glass". I don't have any pieces, but they are less than about 2% Diuranate, and while they will fluoresce under a black light, they pose no real radiation threat. There are plates and dishes from the 1960's called Fiestaware that use diuranate, and they need special care, since they have a bit of tiny radioactivity....
GREAT video!
Uranium in the xmas glass...
My girlfriend of 20 years has been going to the cancer center for the last year since she got out of Cleveland Clinic after a month and half in January and I’m sure that thing would be off the charts there. There signs in the bathrooms about washing really well after going to the bathroom and making sure the toilet is flushed and wiped off. I know it’s not appropriate but I’m assuming if someone was to take that into the bathroom it would being going off the charts.
Golly Gee, Mr. Wizard. if you hadn’t sold that Cadillac XLR, you wouldn’t had need to spend all this money on this BMW.
Come on mrs wizard your wallet needs busting to fix the interior,your husbands wallet is crying🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I bought a Z3 M sane year. It was a very sexy looking car, but I hated getting in and out of it. To me, it's an ergonomic nightmare with poor peddle placement and horrible visibility outward.
The Z3 looks great in your driveway but falls far short in driveabilty.
I was forced by a divorce to sell it. But the joke was on my ex. I actually hated the car and felt no remorse in parting with it.
I almost immediately replaced it with a 2004 Mini Cooper S, which is wildly fun to drive and far exceeded expectations.
The new intro is much better. It's nice and short too. 🎉
There's a local guy that has one of these for sale for $1500 , but it's got a blown head gasket.
I want to buy it and stuff a built turbocharged Chevy LS V8 in it...
Someone talk me out of this terrible idea...
Dude 😎 from England said that you must be a dummy
And brought the part's straight from the dealership 😢😢 when OME part's for that same bimmer will definitely do the same job or even better 😁😉🙂🙂🙂🙂😮😮😮😮😮
Tick tick tick boooooom,be careful wizard opening boxes you don’t know where they came from,take care next time🙏🙏🙏🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
BMW Z3, cool, I'll watch it! You get distracted for a second, and suddenly there's a radioactive Christmas tree!
I'm thankful that you produced this video - I've been taking a good look at some Z3s on marketplace and I think I'll stop looking now.
Why does she like the Z3 after previously saying she hates Miatas? A true Car Wizard would know better. #MiataIsAlwaysTheAnswer
You need to loose the hate for imports. I have an M Roadster and a Z4 3.0si and both are wonderful to drive and easy to maintain. Any high mile luxury car will kill you in repair bills if it has't been maintained. O rings dry out, they need to be replaced, regularly. The oil filter housing is a classic example. It's a 20 year old car for god's sake.
Kentucky, Grey Poupon... Van Bug my a$$, it has Scott from Kentucky Ballistic written all over it!
You should check the clock too!
Patiently waiting for Eldorado, i will ask questions, if you answer....