More on my 2800 sedan. The car was a bit of a mystery. My father bought it “new” from the local Denver dealer on 3rd and Broadway. But i noticed early on that the hood had been painted and thee were some obvious stone chips on the leading edge of the hood that had been painted over. I remember pointing this out to my father. He just ignored me. So i suspect that the car had been used or demoed so place. The other odd thing bout the car was that the interior was done in vinyl. I found later that supposedly no 2800 had vinyl but rather leather. The 2500 did in fact come with vinyl. So I suspected that this car was either re-badged as a 2800 or there were a few 2800’s that slipped thru without the leather. The other issue was the rear suspension. This car had some sort of air shocks that finally gave out at around 80,000 miles. At the time, I was living in the Seattle area. I took the car to the local BMW dealer. They were perplexed by these shocks and really had no factory replacements for them. So another mystery!! They replaced the existing shocks with new Konis, but they were clearly incorrect since they raised the rear of the car a good 2 or 3 inches. The car looked like it had been jacked up-not my favorite look. They said it was all they could do, so I drove off with my new Konis looking like I was driving a BMW set up for drag racing.

Anybody have any ideas regarding this mystery BMW 2800 sedan, please advise.

all for now