The engine in the car you’re looking at has the codename N42. It has a timing chain rather than a rubber timing belt, so that should not need to be changed for the life of the car. However, life is ...

We've owned our BMW 318i since 2004, when we bought it new. We recently had a problem with the ignition key not turning in the ignition keyhole next to the steering wheel. The steering wheel itself ...

You don't say where you are located, but around here a $5000 BMW is likely to be a piece of crap with a lot of problems.

I’ve owned my 1997 BMW 318ti going on 11 years and I’ve taken the odometer past 215,000 miles on the original engine and transmission. I could not have come anywhere near that mile mark and length of ...

That the BMW marker resides on the hood of the 318ti is an oddity. There is something unworldly about the cellar-dweller version of the Ultimate Driving Machine-something that throws salt into that ...