[MysticLlama]

Still love my e46 M3 a few years into owning it.

The rear subframe issues seem scary, but when I looked into it, reading deeper it seemed to only happen on heavily modded cars or cars that were signicantly beat on. I drive mine pretty hard and have it inspected fairly often and it has shown no signs of that issue starting. I have H&R springs which are slightly stiffer, but not by much.

Stiff coilovers and/or lots of track days seem to cause that problem, FWIW.

They do have a few things that will have to be done sooner or later. I finally did my rear trailing arm bushings at 85k, most people have to do them between 60-90k. Once they go you'll know it. Dealer charges $800+, but I got it done at a local shop for $550 including an oil change w/ the spendy oil.