I bought a brand new 2003 CSL today!!
 

I was referred here as I had posted on M3 site but its great to find a CSL specific group

I found a 900km, Dec 2003 build CSL for sale last week and immediatley dumped my C63 Mercedes of 8 weeks and bought it today

Story goes like this...

First owner, an Aussie, lived in Singapore for what was supposed to be 2 years, saw a CSL overseas and decided he had to have one when he returned to Aust. Got his partner to find one in Australia which was the last of the 24 cars bought in to Australia. It supposed to be "engine unrestricted" you guys might help me out as to what that actually means.

He buys the car and has it put in to storeage till he returns only he is still in Singapore 6 years later.

Car has done 900km, thats right 900km, on the roller at the storeage facility has never actually been driven on the road ever as it got to the facility via tow truck.

I paid about 2/3 of new car price from 2004.

Looking forward to checking it out and changing all fluids and then running it in!!!!!!!

It has the radio and air con as did all cars that made it to Australia its too hot without air con over here

No pics yet don't collect till Friday.

Well done I'm envious of you, I would buy another low miler if I could find one.

And welcome

That is Mega mate :thumbs::thumbs: congratulations

Lowest I have heard and I thought Cosmicboys car was low on miles.....

Unrestricted means the 155 mph limiter was removed at factory - something owners could have done if they could produce racing licence....so it'll now do 250 mph ;)

Glad to see you made it over here Clyde, cant wait for pics as the car must literally be showroom fresh.

Lucky, how dod you come across that, not bad price either.

Suprised NZ didn't buy it for spares :-D

It was advertsied on an internet car selling site in Australia and first in wins!!!! Of course its RHD so probably makes it even rarer I guess, anyone know how many RHD v LHD they made???

Wow, pics as soon as you have it :thumbs:

Cool :smokin:

Welcome!

wow, i know of somebody over here who has a CSL that does no mileage and he was offered more than original retail for it, which was refused as it aint up for sale but 2/3 of original for a car like that is top. Good luck with the running in. bet your glad to get out of that hooligan's machine and into something more focused and down right, er hooligan! :thumbs:

Mine will be lowest if I get a new engine !! 0000000 miles !!:hahaha:

422 for the UK, handfull for Aus 20 or so iirc

not sure about any others

Good find - I'm very jealous! Pics as soon as you can please.

I wonder how long it will be before some of the more "used" cars start getting restored to their former glory. 5-10 years?

Bottom end re-build, it's in the tea leaves! Unless the man from BMW comes round, I hear he ain't like the man from Del Monte!

Congratulations for the new car :thumbs:

I know from BMW Motorsport that Rossi bought a brand new CSL couple of years ago.
BMW Motorsport found it locked up in the basement of some dealer and gave it to Rossi.

On this note, we should ask Valentino to join our forum :whistle:

Congraulations!

From bmwmregistry.com:

"
A total of 1,358 E46 M3 CSLs were produced to European specification between June and December of 2003 in both left-hand drive (823 built) and right-hand drive (535 built) configuration. (This figure excludes an additional series of at least a dozen pre-production M3 CSL prototypes built between September of 2002 and February of 2003.
"

sounds great, would be good to see some pictures :thumbs:

Exciting Stuff! I'd be hesitant driving it with such low mileage. Look forward to seeing some photos. :smt023

Nice one mate,and welcome on here.:thumbs::thumbs::thumbs:

Thanks for all the kind words, I and the car are sure in for a surprise soon as I have never driven one and this one has never been driven....2 virgins!!!:smt055

Thanks for the info re RHD cars there were definately 24 that came to Australia.

As this car is supposedly unrestricted.....haven't had that confirmed by BMW yet, what does that mean the likely top speed is now instead of the 155mph???

C.180 /185 mph:thumbs:

thanks, cheers:beer:

The clocks will tell you 180/185 MPH :whistle: ... a GPS device will be more accurate and read 168 MPH - 173 MPH as the manual gauges in the car tend to over read by quite a margin at that speed. ;)
I'd watch your mirrors like a hawk for the ever so militant Victoria Police :whistle:

I saw your big end shells yesterday :119: well, what's left of them :whistle:

Didn't somebody have 193mph GPS confirmed? :whistle:

That was a SG one right ?;)

http://www.easyfreesmileys.com/smileys/lol-058.gif

chasing one of the black ones of course :whistle:

Uh ... yes Rich ... that would be me... about 3 seconds before the fookin big ends blew !!! :hahaha::hahaha:

Last time at Ring F/O down the Dottinger in a limited Black motor, speedo was bang on 155, GPS read 149, and MattCSLnutt was wondering wtf I was slowing up for !

:whistle:

This thread also talks of limiters/top speeds:

http://www.cslregister.com/forum/sho...ght=speed+test

The most i have had to date so far is 169mph on GPS (180mph on speedo) and there is clearly still some extra 'go' left in the car but have never had the road space to try for more!

I think 170-175 is realistic. More to the point, that's enough isn't it? How many times will we have the chance?

Wouldn't that just be completely off the clock ? :whistle:

Yeah... the last 20 mph are hard work, even on German Autobahns :whistle:

Yeah... what was that all about m8 :smt017 I thought the Black ones were the Faster ones :whistle: My max speed down the Dottinger-Hohe was 168 on the clock (156 GPS) :whistle:

Fookin ell.....my first time round for me is likely to be nearer 68 ! :hahaha:

Wayyyy off. I dunno, never done, just something I "heard" - as Alex says, who really cares :hahaha:

:hahaha:

68 mph is dangerously slow :hahaha: ;)
You're more then welcome to sit in the passenger seat of my SG CSL for the roller-coaster ride that is the Nordschleife :beer:

I'll take you up on that, thx Matt - want a pax before my first turn...:beer:

Does the glove box come with the optional bog roll holder ?

That would be absolutely amazing if he did Alex! :hahaha: :smokin: :smokin: :smokin:

I believe that he has also very recently driven the new M3 GTS model too! ;) :drool:

No m8... but it sounds like I might have to install the optional "Jesus !!! handle" :whistle: