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Message: <blockquote data-quote="anxious" data-source="post: 210928" data-attributes="member: 193">Got up this morning to diarrhorea.....3 times already since 5.45am. Cant really go back to sleep......still thinking about My E36 Experience ! I really dont know what u guys think about my experience. Probably a lot of u guys think what do u expect for RM40k, the car is bound to hv trouble esp if u had purchased ur ride three yrs ago for RM80k. Others may say what do u expect for a 12 yr old car.  So maybe my expectation was too high after a good 4 yrs driving my 1988 E30 w/o any major problems. Anyway I hope that is all in the past. As I said I look forward to enjoying my ride now. However the attitude of my mech yesterday who pretty much avoided my complaints tend to worry me a bit. Either :- i) my complaints were really trivialii) he did not hv any answersiii) he did not want to find any more problems with the car as I still havent paid him for the last bill After incurring more than RM13k with him over the last mth I thought I deserved more attention but he seemed to have avoided my car although I was at his virtually at his wshop whole day having taken leave specifically to sort it out. His workers sorted out some issues but he did not really address my problems. He had a cursory look right at the end and mumbled something about my klok sound every three seconds or so from under the dashboard being electronical rather than mechanical. He had no time to sort out my brake circuit light problem after the worker 's attempted to solve the problem by changing the switch failed. He then said he needed time to sort the wiring. I pretty much left feeling very unsatisfied having virtually wasted the whole day there. I hope my concerns are unfounded as I dread to hv to sort out more issues with the car. Having bought the car at what I now understand to be slightly above market for an average 1995 325, and spent anor RMM18k on it..selling it is really not an option.......but how much more should I pour into this car? I hope I am at the tail end as I have almost exhausted my resources and refuse to get into debt....that was the whole idea of buying an E36...get it cash, do some repairs and not worry about loans. All this could hv been avoided if my mech had just told me to walk away when i showed him the car b4 I purchased it. When I confronted him, he now says that he did tell me that he could tell what is inside the engine. Well that's probably what every other mech would say but I hv known this guy for 4 yrs and recommended many of my friends to him, so I expected more from him. I did ask him to do a MODIC test on the car b4 buying it and he told me MoDIC was ok...????, would a MODIC reveal error code if something wrong with the car....esp if one cylinder had low compression. Forget about compression testing as he told me he doesnt on cars people want to purchase....as the owners/selers may not like it. Thats probably bcos most cars hv slightly lower compression in one or more cylinders? In fact after I serviced the car with him and incurred my 1st bill (>RM5k), I specifically asked him whether the engine was ok and he said it was. I can go through the facts over and over in my head but I really hv no answers except that I hv to move on. You see although I may not be as technically inc;lined as some of u guys , I am very passionate as to my car. I really took care of my E30. With a little more money to spend I had hoped to enjoy an E36 and set out to get her. A blip in my judgment landed me in what has really been a nightmare and made me lose confidence in my mech who i've trusted all these years. I know I sound tragic but I feel so as this car thing is something very important to me. Well I cant help being overly dramatic...after all I'm Indian. Believe it or not , this is one of my worst errors in my 36 yrs.</blockquote>

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