Please do a front end swap

Love the all you're video's from day one mate but I agree with Taylor i like to see one complete project bro

When you going to upload some good content?

u cud have gotten e60 M5 with zero rust and delivery mileage on auction starting at £925

Chassis stiffeners should be a priority, apparently making the new m3 touring not wobble around like jelly was a tall order for the factory R&D M-sport guys

Unfortunately, body panels are not a straight swap, and there is a LOAD of modification / welding, especially the front and rear fenders, and rear bumper.

@@TheSorrow21 yes that is true but the only way to do it properly

Yes, go big or go home! So rear arches, exhaust, the lot

Someone has watched MCM 🤣

I'll come visit when it's finished 😘

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Little self promotion

Nope, not at all. The M3 looks good as it is

Nah, stripping imolarot coupe in whatever condition is an unforgivable sin. But it's Alex's car,his stupid choice.

Already been done, look up Calvin's Car Diary. He went the whole hog too, body panels, boot floor, the works.

​@@janprokopenko7928 Exactly his car so he can do what he wants with it. That's the car seen these days.

@@BRED510 my first thought 💭 Has he still got that?

Is it just me or does he seem.... deflated this time around?

​@@RollingRoadEFI A lot of work and a young child to carry about costs a lot of energy. 😉

@@lollypop9580 That's true. I love fatherhood, but it sure is consuming.

@@RollingRoadEFI I'm not convinced Taylor is enjoying dismantling a legendary car.

@lollypop9580 LOL.

No Touring car can be thing of beauty. It's Touring. Never meant to be beautiful.

@@eleonik76 You are so wrong

@@seancorrigan3531 For which part? I do understand though,that no man will admit his wife is fat or ugly,neither that his Touring is actually a ugly car. I am fully aware of that. Human nature. If you say that one touring car has better shapes than a coupe or sedan....then you have serious eye and perception issues.

​@@eleonik76850 R BTCC car disproves this.

@@eleonik76 OK…sure😂

2:15 "...keeping it together..." XD

You should buy one. I think it would be great for the channel.

@@abath3493 it was his 😂

THANK YOU. Alex saying that it's gonna owe him 18k so not worth restoring is so unbelievably short-sighted! Jump ahead 5 years and I reckon that car in decent working order will be worth over 30k, if not maybe 40k. Well worth the investment, imo. Hacking up this car to modify an estate is like giving a slim, 90yr old a heart transplant from an overweight 30yr old with a broken leg. This series is gonna make me cry.

I said the same thing. Also we were supposed to believe the M3 was his ''dream car'' yet a couple of weeks later and it's being broken up for the best bits to go in his touring. What a waste. E46 M3 values are only going one way and with Imola red and Laguna Seca blue examples demanding a premium it's no wonder matey claimed the shell.

I'll take it further and maybe weirder - Alex thrashed this car around roads and track with no problem, what's so wrong with welding up said cracks, or brace them together, whatever method is accessible, and continue with your day. How a car driving absolutely normally with cracks is going to be worse if those cracks are DIY fixed? I dont get it. It doesnt have to be factory or nothing is it, its real world

@@aidarhelpswithenglish4160 lots of places can sort RACP cracks. You can even install a new rear floor. It’s easy to sort. Alex should’ve found a carbon black SMG cabriolet to hack up.

wow, some cracks on the floor, such a catastrophy, like people haven't seen greater problems n restores..now lets swap the guts into a villager's wagon n get rid of almost healthy M3 body - that's such a brilliant idea..i'm simply shocked of some people n their thinking:/..the sanity is out there, somewhere...

Calvins car diary already did all this, it's a lot of work to do properly.

100% should do this 👌

Front fenders and hood dont fit the touring from the coupe. The coupe and convertible E46 have slightly longer hoods and fenders than the limo/touring. Same goes for the bumpers, those are about 2cm wider on the coupe/convertible. Mirrors do fit straight to the touring, but the Exhaust is to short, and youd have to swap in a different rear floor beneath the trunk from the M3 to make the exhaust fit. Side skirts look the same on the M3 and a car with M-Paket II so you dont have to change them. Ive seen a couple of those swaps made, most people use repair panels or straight up cut panels from a M3 for the rears. Front fenders and bumpers are available aftermarket that look like M3 parts but fit the Limo/Touring body. Same goes for the hood but you could also cut up a M3 hood and make it fit to the body, but thats most certainly more expensive than an aftermarket hood.

that's the plan!

​@@BRED510 CCDKZfaq channel Never finished the build 👀🔍🔎 Just stops after paint & interior. Bought the R back and forgotten about the Touring 🤷🏻‍♂️

I agree. Get a clean 318i as a base

Barney is a very special, forever car for me, and I want to make him even more special. Plus, the M54 is on 222k miles and is now pretty tired.

​@@AutoalexCars turn the m54 Into a table!

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Lol ,farmer detected 🤣

Great idea!

@@AutoalexCars Is it?

At least with non-M cars it is not a common problem. It is just something that happens to old cars when they rust. I have been into E46 3-series for already two decades and never seen or heard this happen to a car with the updated chassis. (cars built after February 2000) Personally I would not even buy an E46 with a "reinforcement kit", because then the car would not be original anymore.

Looks more like the previous owner ran out of talent than it’s been involved in a accident so car vertical wouldn’t of shown anything

Collaboration with a head to head versus comparison, drag race etc @calvinscardiary

Quite a few people have done m3 tourings now , mainly in USA

😘

This is also my fear.