Stolen M3 turns up 18months later as a clone...

dar2008 · 10-25-2021, 07:30 AM

Over in the UK last week someone advertised their M3 for sale on an M3 Facebook group. They listed it as an "Alpine Edition", which they thought it was having done a VIN check.

It aroused my suspicions because there was nothing "Edition" about it, and eventually I was able to prove it was a standard M3 that had been stolen 18months earlier.

Police are now investigating. You can read the full story in this M3Cutters article,...

https://forums.m3cutters.co.uk/threa...-clone.245330/

djsilverjohnson · 10-25-2021, 11:41 AM

Someone certainly went to a great deal of trouble to hide the fact that it was a stolen car!

dar2008 · 10-25-2021, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by djsilverjohnson

Someone certainly went to a great deal of trouble to hide the fact that it was a stolen car!

I don't think the cloner knew much about M3's, otherwise they wouldn't have made such a schoolboy error of cloning a standard M3 to an Alpine Edition's VIN number.

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djsilverjohnson Private First Class 116 Rep 161 Posts Drives: 2013 E93 M3 Join Date: Feb 2020 Location: Georgia iTrader: (0)	Someone certainly went to a great deal of trouble to hide the fact that it was a stolen car!
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