Posted by Gregory Szczyrbak on February 26, 1997 at 18:51:54:

In Reply to: 528i advice posted by Stephen Cassell on February 26, 1997 at 09:30:17:

1. Look out for rust (especially around the wheel wells) Crawl under the car. Look everywhere.
2. Go for a later model year (1980,81) as oppossed to the earlier ones (pre 1980). Less problems with fuel and air systems.
3. Supposedly, there have been problems with cracked heads. - not a problem with mine so far. knock on wood. The '81 is suppossed to be the better alternative to avoid this problem.

Greg 1980 528i. Stock