[MattPetty]

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Hello,

I'm selling my amazing 2005 330i. I purchased it from longterm member @prototyp last year, love every minute of driving it but my commute has changed and I need something more fuel-efficient. @Prototyp made such a great ad for the car so I'm just going to copy most of his content and beautiful photos. The mileage is now a hair over 115k, I've added an easily removable trailer hitch to allow mounting my 1-UP bike rack, replaced the battery, a window seal and kept up with the oil etc. I removed the tint also!

This is truly a tight, exceptionally well maintained, perfect driving example of a 330i. Must drive and compare to what else is out there. Call anytime 650-504-8800

Here's the ad from last year:

2006 330i
Sparkling Graphite Metallic
Manual transmission
ZSP Sport Package
Premium Package
Apex wheels, AS3 tires

102,xxx miles
Built April 2005, delivered in SF May 2005. Purchased from friend Sept 2008 @44k miles. Daily driver with healthy mix of infrequent commutes and regular road-trips. Kept clean, garaged. Have all records, 2 key fobs, original manuals.

VITALS and OPTIONS
WBAVB33566AZ85686

6-speed Manual Transmission
Sport Package: sport seats, big brakes, lower suspension
Premium Package: auto dim mirrors, homelink, Bluetooth
Black Leather
Brushed Aluminum Trim
Active Steering
Adaptive Bi-Xenon Headlights
HiFi Professional Logic7 Premium Sound
Fold down rear seats with ski bag
Dynamic Cruise control
Alarm pre-wire
Satellite radio pre-wire

does NOT have nav/iDrive, cold-weather package/heated seats, or comfort/keyless access.

EXTRAS
Bentley manual
OE BMW roof rails and Thule wind deflector (not installed)


MODIFICATIONS
- Early OE M Sport steering wheel (with thumb bumps)
- OE M Sport short shift knob (will include the original broomstick as well)
- OE M Sport Blackline taillights
- Rep splitter caps
- Blacked-out chrome window trim and grill (Plastidip)
- Huber Optics Ceramic window tint 40%/50%
- Michelin AS3 non-runflat all-season f 235/40-18 / r 265/35-18
- Apex Racing EC7 (BBS CH style) wheels with OE BMW center caps f 18x8.5 ET35 Profile 1 / r 18x9.5 ET35 Profile 2
- Simple auxiliary line-in for phone audio
- DRL and auto-locking coded off
- various interior rattles fixed with adhesive felt


MAINTENENCE
Have all records. Oil changes done annually (circa 5-7k miles).

Major things taken care of:
- Alignment Sept 2010
- Rear brakes OEM May 2011
- Replaced some broken valve cover bolts, no leaking found, gasket "is not compromised” June 2011
- Battery OEM Mar 2013
- Michelin AS3, Apex wheels Dec 2013
- Front brakes, intake air filter OEM Dec 2015
- Water pump and thermostat OEM Sept 2016
- Vanos solenoids OEM Nov 2016
- Bosch coils, NGK plugs (ECS Tuning kit) OEM Nov 2016
- Cabin filter Nov 2016
- Rear tires May 2018
- Oil, Coolant (most recent) Feb 2019
- passed 100,000 miles trundling through Milpitas 680 traffic coming back from a bike race March 2019
- Serpentine belt, tensioner and idler pulley (OEM ContiTech kit) June 2019


NOTABLE HISTORY:
- Warranty Transmission replacement circa 50k due to 2nd gear notchiness
- Also did clutch at the time “because we were in there anyway”
- Rear bumper scraped at dealer and repainted (twice)


RECALLS DONE
- OC3 Passenger Seat airbag-sensor Mat
- Driver's Front Airbag Feb 2019
- Blower Motor Wiring Feb 2019


STILL TO DO
- Oil Filter Housing Gasket starting to leak
- Driveshaft Giubo showing some cracking
- PCV Valve Heater recall letter just arrived

AND, EVENTUALLY
- Have a replacement windshield header trim/gasket but haven’t installed it yet.
- Will need rear brakes, front tires, and probably battery in the next couple years.
- Due for an alignment as it’s been some years.

THING I HAD MEANT TO DO WHEN I BOUGHT THE CAR BUT STILL HAVEN’T DONE
- M-Tech M Sport bumpers



SUBJECTIVE CONDITION
body 7.5/10
Fourteen years of roads and parking lots. Usual rock chips on the front bumper and hood, a few small door dings near the fuel filler and a scrape on the front bumper corner (thank you, BART parking), the rear bumper got scraped at the dealer and repaired, twice*.

Interior 8.5/10
Leather regularly cleaned and conditioned. Some minor wear on the front seat side bolsters, the rubberized ’soft touch’ coating on the rear console is getting sticky.

Mechanical 9.5/10
A total peach. Runs smooth and clean, pulls strong, no measurable oil consumption. Still easily passing smog checks. Suspension tight and firm. Alignment still good with dead-even tire wear.


Still feels special, particularly the moment you turn into a corner. Incredibly good to drive, grip for days will have you looking for winding side roads. Eats freeway miles all day long. The most comfortable seats. Holds an amazing amount of stuff for a smallish sedan.ˇ Logic 7 is still a great sounding stereo system. No mechanical issues. No accidents*. No warning lights. All windows, sunroof, A/C, CD player, and everything else works properly. Clean title. Smoke free, pet free.

[MattPetty]

[MattPetty]

And they're gone. First person to see the car took it for $8k.

[neoduffer]

Beautiful car. I'm looking to sell my similarly spec'd vehicle and I'm inspired by this post's quality content.

[Runnin'Rich]

This maybe the best wheel/tire size combo I've seen on the e9x platform. Perfection to me