New Member, and soon to be new owner!

[gingernuts]

Hi guys,

Ive just sold my E46 M3 in favor of a winter run about, but next year i am looking at getting a CSL/E92 M3. I have been to BMW and tried the E92 and loved it, but now that I'm going to have a spare winter run about, I'm now thinking the CSL is a much more viable purchase.

Is there any CSL owners in Scotland that would be willing to have a chat about their owner ship and let me have a look at their car (an more importantly hear it), to better ascertain the options I will want when I come to buy.

I have seen a few CSLs local to me (Perth) but never in a situation where I had time for a chat.

If you do have one and are happy to meet up send me a PM or email me.

Cheers

[Neil M]

Welcome to the register 'gingernuts'
There are a couple of CSL owners North of the border: Mark CSL, need4speed, Derek, Figas, Bryce to name a few.

No doubt they will post when they see your thread.

Tends to be a bit of a 'SB' (Sapphire Black) area up there, must be the climate :)

[Mark CSL]

You are welcome to have a look round my CSL i live near Livingston
but Derek+ lives in Perth and i am sure he would let you have a look around his CSL :thumbs:

[gingernuts]

Thanks Mark, much appreciated.

Ill wait and see if he pops up! I don't want to pester anybody! I think it must have been him I saw at Grassicks BMW perth, is his SB?

[Mark CSL]

That's his local dealer i was up there last sunday but at McD'S then over to creif to walk the dog :-D

[gingernuts]

Yeah, my M3 is going in there to have the subframe checked before its off to its new owner. Ive not found them very helpful to be honest, MINI were great with the Mrs car, but on several occasions I've expressed interest in a new M3 and they haven't even bothered to take my details or so much as given me a brochure. So i ended up going to Edinburgh by Broxburn and they were cracking help.

I used to live in Crieff, and my parents live between Crieff and Perth so know the area well. Lovely part of the world.

[Mark CSL]

I use eastern BMW in newbridge they work on my car all the time
Its local to me :notworthy:

Yes Creif is great and the roads are great for a Blast in the CSL we went up the Knock Hill then went to comrie and back over to braco we seen 3 red kites on the run over the moors :thumbs:

[need4speed]

Welcome Gingernuts :thumbs: could have been me at Grassicks as they look after my SB car too. I am just south of Perth in Auchterarder so drop me a PM if you need/want a run out before making your decision.

Cheers,
Grant

[need4speed]

Yes Creif is great and the roads are great for a Blast in the CSL we went up the Knock Hill then went to comrie and back over to braco we seen 3 red kites on the run over the moors :thumbs:

The Langside road over the moor between Comrie and Braco is an absolute belter! :supz:

[gingernuts]

There are some crackin roads about there. The road off the A9 after the Tibbermore cut off has a 2-3 mile straight which is my daily route to my unit where I work on my race car when I'm back from work.

Its a fairly good place to stretch the legs on an M3 without the chance of any plod!

The Sma' Glen and the road between dunkeld and Caputh are also favourites, along with the road between Pitlochry and Kirkmichael.

[CraigMillwardCroft]

That's his local dealer i was up there last sunday but at McD'S then over to creif to walk the dog :-D
And then back to McD's :whistle:

[CraigMillwardCroft]

When you meet Grant be careful of his handshake it's a killer :-D

[gingernuts]

Welcome Gingernuts :thumbs: could have been me at Grassicks as they look after my SB car too. I am just south of Perth in Auchterarder so drop me a PM if you need/want a run out before making your decision.

Cheers,
Grant

Hi Grant, I will definitely take you up on that when i get home from work as I'm always out at Trinity Gask a couple of miles from Auchterarder.

Its funny i would have thought I would have seen your car at some point seeing as your so close!

[CraigMillwardCroft]

Welcome Gingernuts to the mad house, good luck in finding a nice car the more refined black ones are the ones to go for as nearly all up there are black :thumbs:

[gingernuts]

Cheers! I think I prefer the SG something about them being faster I hear

[CraigMillwardCroft]

Cheers! I think I prefer the SG something about them being faster I hear
Just a rumour by the majority :whistle:

[gingernuts]

Haha. I think I will have to get a SG car, asl my M3 was Carbon Black so ill just get, "why did you spend all that money on the same car!"

[CSLScot]

You're welcome to give me a shout if you're ever around Musselburgh.

Mark, I thought Grassicks was the place to go for CSL owners up here, but sounds like you've had good experiences with Eastern. Have you had your subframe checked by them?

Any other votes for Eastern?

Elms is clearly the best place to go by the majority but its a long trek from north of the border.

[Mark CSL]

You're welcome to give me a shout if you're ever around Musselburgh.

Mark, I thought Grassicks was the place to go for CSL owners up here, but sounds like you've had good experiences with Eastern. Have you had your subframe checked by them?


Yes and all is good :supz:

[CraigMillwardCroft]

Haha. I think I will have to get a SG car, asl my M3 was Carbon Black so ill just get, "why did you spend all that money on the same car!"
If they cannot tell the difference there is something wrong, they are totally different cars I have had both :thumbs:

[gingernuts]

Haha I know what you mean, still have to justify the extra 12k to the other half though!

[CraigMillwardCroft]

Haha I know what you mean, still have to justify the extra 12k to the other half though!
If it's the other half get new car and just say expensive service bill :whistle:

[gingernuts]

Unfortunatley shes a bit more switched on than that! I think it will be more likely, "Here's my new car, Oh look a new handbag on the seat"

[CraigMillwardCroft]

Unfortunatley shes a bit more switched on than that! I think it will be more likely, "Here's my new car, Oh look a new handbag on the seat"
If just a handbag works she's a keeper :whistle:

[gingernuts]

Shes only 22, so I imagine the bribery price has plenty of time to rise!

[Bounce]

If just a handbag works she's a keeper :whistle:Handbag,I had to buy a new house:banghead:;)

[gingernuts]

Haha. Well at the moment i trying to convince her its an "investment" compared to other newer cars, and that I will sell it when we come to buy our first house.

[CraigMillwardCroft]

Handbag,I had to buy a new house:banghead:;)
:hahaha::hahaha::hahaha:

[CraigMillwardCroft]

Haha. Well at the moment i trying to convince her its an "investment" compared to other newer cars, and that I will sell it when we come to buy our first house.
I cannot beleive you gave the I will sell the car to buy a house one :whistle:

[CraigMillwardCroft]

Shes only 22, so I imagine the bribery price has plenty of time to rise!
There must be something we are all thinking here but will bite my tongue for now :thumbs:

[gingernuts]

Im hoping by the time Im ready to buy the house, I will have had a monumental pay rise to fund the deposit, because if the csl is anything as good and as hard to part with as my M3 then it wont be going anywhere!

[Neil M]

if the csl is anything as good and as hard to part with as my M3 then it wont be going anywhere!

Pardon - please remember where you are - these are hallowed grounds :notworthy:You'll get yourself excommunicated using language like that :hahaha:
"IF" there is no if's, ands or buts, the CSL is a completely different animal, it might share 90% of it's genes with an M3, but it's the other 10% that makes you smile, everytime you press the loud pedal :thumbs:
The CSL is a proper big boys toy, albeit somewhat asthmatic.:supz:

[need4speed]

Hi Grant, I will definitely take you up on that when i get home from work as I'm always out at Trinity Gask a couple of miles from Auchterarder.

Its funny i would have thought I would have seen your car at some point seeing as your so close!

I work overseas so don't get as many opportunities as I would like to be out in the car.

[gingernuts]

Pardon - please remember where you are - these are hallowed grounds :notworthy:You'll get yourself excommunicated using language like that :hahaha:
"IF" there is no if's, ands or buts, the CSL is a completely different animal, it might share 90% of it's genes with an M3, but it's the other 10% that makes you smile, everytime you press the loud pedal :thumbs:
The CSL is a proper big boys toy, albeit somewhat asthmatic.:supz:

Im yet to go out in one and have a good look at one in the flesh, but I know you are right and once I have it will be a slipperly slope.

I work overseas so don't get as many opportunities as I would like to be out in the car.

You home over christmas at all, Im back onshore tomorrow for just over a wekk.

[need4speed]

Im yet to go out in one and have a good look at one in the flesh, but I know you are right and once I have it will be a slipperly slope.



You home over christmas at all, Im back onshore tomorrow for just over a wekk.

I should be back between Christmas and Hogmanay!

[gingernuts]

I should be back between Christmas and Hogmanay!

Right thats stage one of operation CSL complete, M3 sold today to a nice gent who saw the car at the ring and recognised it!

When are you about this week bud?