Coupe
\noriginal French-sold car<\/p>\n
non-kat, ABS, Klimaanlage, Zentralverriegelung, Leichtmetallfelgen, el. Fensterheber, Alpina recaros seats<\/p>\n
for sale mobile.de 9\/2003:
\n155000km, EUR11000
\nStainless Steel exhaust, maintenance history known since new, timing belt replaced by BMW 5000km ago, tyres 7000km.
\nPierre Lancrenon
\nF-77230 Dammartin
\nTel.: +33 – 6 \/ 16833180<\/p>\n
mentioned by owner pegase747 on m5board.com messageboard 8\/2006:
\n“Meet my car since 5 years : ALPINA B3 2.7 !!
\nI baught it with 118000km ( 170000 km now or a bit more than 100000 Miles ) on the clock, and had all the maintenance bills from BMW workshops, all the maintenance history of the car is known.”
\n“I baught mine from a man who was very knowledgeable about Alpina, but who was not passionated of his car.
\nLuckily, as a purist, he asked to remove th LPG conversion that was fitted by the previous owner ( a man who used it daily for his work as a seller, and who had also 2 more Alpinas ??!! ), and sold it to me instead of letting it rotten in his garage. I am the 4th owner.
\nI found the advertise on BMWorld ( french magazine ). The car has been test driven also in BMWorld issue #13.”<\/p>\n
pegase747 on r3vlimited.com 7\/2006:
\nALPINA B3 2.7 !!
\nI baught it with 118000km ( 170000 km now or a bit more than 100000 Miles ) on the clock, and had all the maintenance bills from BMW workshops, all the maintenance history of the car is known.
\nThose cars are rare in France either, because they were registered officially one by one from one of the BMW dealer near Paris, and that is not the case anymore, so it is really hard to get an Alpina with french papers now ( dealing with french administration to import an Alpina in France takes around 3 years and there is no guarantee that you can get plates… !!!! )
\nQuick reminder on Alpina factory :
\nAlpina is a car “factory” registered as such in Germany and not a tuner, so every Alpina cars are dully registered as “Alpina” brand and not modified BMW. My registration certificate doesn’t mention BMW anywhere. This is since the early 80’s and doesn’t apply to E21’s and early E30’s.
\nWhen an Alpina is built, here is the process : the car leaves the BMW factory as a 325i or whatever, then it goes to Alpina factory, where the car is stripped of everything, optionnaly re-painted, and rebuilt with Alpina modified engine, suspensions, interior, instruments and so on.
\nthe etched BMW VIN number is then crossed out bvut still readable for body traceability. A new Alpina VIN number is etched on the RH strut tower. the BMW VIN plate is removed and replaced by the Alpina VIN plate. The car is now and Alpina and sold as such.
\nAll the BMW parts were under warranty by BMW and the Alpina parts were under warranty by Alpina. BMW has even made some special modifications for Alpina fittements ( like the E36 B8 4.6 V8 engine mounts, directly made in the BMW factory on Alpina request ).
\nAlpina still works closely with BMW on some developpements like Twin tubo diesel engines…
\nThe BMW roundel badges remain in place. and the Alpina roundel padges are all fakes, as well as many so-called Alpina parts you can find on Ebay.
\nOk here is the car :
\n– Alpina B3 2.7 NON-kat ( No catalyst )
\nserial number : 224 out of 257 B3 builts ( includes Allrad ix-based, touring Allrad, touring ix, convertible )
\nHere is the ALPINA VIN plate :
\n– year 1988.
\n– French original import.
\n– based on 325i from 1988 ( phase 2 ).
\n– engine displacement 2693 cc.
\n– 210 HP as it has a non-catalyst engine, same as the previous C2 ( B3 were all fitted with a catalyst, but for some reason my car never had it, I had that confirmed by an email from Alpina factory ).
\n– max speed 230km\/h or 143mph.
\n– The exhaust is custom made stainless steel from the Alpina headers to the end.
\n– Engine RPM red zone at 6600rpm, Bosch Alpina modified ECU.
\n– Valve cover and intake manifold are anthracite painted ( original Alpina )
\nBy the way the ALPINA engraved valve cover on M20 are not Alpina made, and all are fake then !
\n– 4 Progressive Alpina lowered springs ( best handling\/confort ratio IMHO ).
\n– Original 325i 18mm front sway bar.
\n– Rear Alpina 3 positions Adj. 14mm sway bar.
\n– original 325i gearbox.
\n– LSD 25%, rear axle ratio 3.73.
\n– Additional fuel tank, total capacity is 97 liters.
\n– dashboard originall Alpina wood covered.
\n– RECARO seats ( best of the bests ) original Alpina color ( front and back seats ), door trims fabric inserts also Alpina fabric.
\n– Alpina cluster ( tachometer up to 260 km\/h, Alpina branded, red hands all round, 95 liters guage).
\n-center left air outlet replaced by Alpina-VDO digital instruments ( engine oil temp, LSD oil temp, engine oil press, air intake press ).
\n– MOMO Alpina leather steering wheel.
\n– picture of the additional fuel tank, on top of the regular tank ( total is now 97 liters).
\n– front and back Alpina spoilers ( front is cracked and need to be repaired ).
\n– rims are Alpina 7×16 front and 8×16 rear, tyres 205\/50×16 & 225\/45×16 respectively.
\n– spare wheel Alpina 7×16
\nOriginal on my car from the factory :
\n– No Alpina logo or stripes.
\n– Alpina Black\/blue metallic paint.
\n– Additional fuel tank.
\n– Air conditionning ( rare in Europe at that time ).
\nThe car have been converted to run on LPG in a previous life, it cost it a cylinder head, but the system has been completely removes and the cylinder head replaced by an original Alpina ( I have the bill and it was not cheap ), the only reminder of this insane conversion is the hole in the rear below the bumper, for the LPG tank refill ( the tank replaced the spare wheel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Coupe original French-sold car non-kat, ABS, Klimaanlage, Zentralverriegelung, Leichtmetallfelgen, el. Fensterheber, Alpina recaros seats for sale mobile.de 9\/2003: 155000km, EUR11000 Stainless Steel exhaust, maintenance history known since new, timing belt replaced by BMW 5000km ago, tyres 7000km. Pierre Lancrenon F-77230 Dammartin Tel.: +33 – 6 \/ 16833180 mentioned by owner pegase747 on m5board.com messageboard 8\/2006: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e30-b3-27"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buchloe-archive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buchloe-archive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buchloe-archive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buchloe-archive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buchloe-archive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buchloe-archive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buchloe-archive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buchloe-archive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buchloe-archive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}