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Well, as I expected, my Alpina suffered the dreaded sub frame defect. Luckily, BMW did a FOC repair even though the car is circa 10 years old. For information, this problem is common on many early E46 BMW's. Basically any E46 from start of production until Feb 00 when they started using a...

Hi Has anyone on this site ever heard of or experienced an E46 Sub Frame ripping away from the chassis?

Interesting... have you done this before on a b3? If so, how do you remap better than Alpina as I would expect them to do the best to their own engines?

I'm amazed you have heard bad reports about the Swith-tronic box on the Alpina's. Every comment I have every seen gives it huge praise. I've driven many automatics and I can say for sure it's the smoothest, quickest change I've ever experienced. With the ability to use the switch-tronic manual...

Thanks for the welcome. It's an unbelievable car the B3 and the thing I like most is it's extremely rare compared to all those M3's (mine for example is one of 97). I live in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire and currently have no modifications on this car at all. As you can imagine, it's a very...

I wish my Alpina only used this much oil! The spec for my B3 is usual to use approx 1ltr of oil every 1,000km!, which it does. I even have a proper letter from Alpina stating this is normal and expected. Agree with Sid447, try the maf sensor. Pete

Hi New member here! Has anyone here got any advice / suggestions for performance upgrades for a BMW Alpina B3? Pete

Hi New member here! Has anyone here got any advice / suggestions for performance upgrades for a BMW Alpina B3? Pete