2015 BMW M3 Long-Term Verdict - Motor Trend
In just under a year, we logged 25,830 miles on our Austin Yellow 2015 BMW M3. That’s an impressive amount of miles under my watch, since I live only 3 miles from the office, but I had a lot of help. Jason Udy made several road trips to Salt Lake City, Utah, and found winter driving an M3 over the San Gabriel and Wasatch mountain ranges to be a cool breeze—so long as common sense and Pirelli Sottozero Serie II winter tires were utilized. For local trips, I most often handed the keys to trusted online producer Carol Ngo for her 60-mile round-trip commute from L. A. to Orange County. Her take on living with the M3 echoed my own general sentiments and those of other staffers: “The color took some getting used to, but over time, I learned to love it. it definitely stands out from the rest. Aside from the brakes and squeaks, I loved driving it on empty highways, ripping along in Sport+ mode. ” We had no service issues with the M3—just two regular oil changes, both completely free of charge, covered under BMW’s four-year, 50,000-mile warranty. A creaking chassis and shrieking brakes were early and constant complaints that we tried to address at our oil change appointments and via correspondence with BMW’s headquarters. The brake issues only went away if we went to the track. My initial seething frustration with the dual-clutch transmission’s parking sequence faded to mere chagrin every time I failed to follow the correct shutdown sequence. Source: www.motortrend.com
