rossomaestro wrote: ↑Mon Jun 21, 2021 6:51 pm
Hi everyone,
First time poster here - have fallen a little in love with the shape of the coupe and have viewed one this last weekend.
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-detail ... 4281950777
It’s a relatively high mileage car + the service history is not full, but at the price it’s a very clean example inside & out - drove well, looks good. 4 new Pilot Sports + restored wheels (which do look great).
I’ve got him down to £7k which seems reasonable but I’m just a bit worried RE the non-full service history. I currently have a 320D xDrive but frankly don’t need the diesel anymore. May well have both for a little while. I used to have a 2015 LCI M135i manual + am craving the engine to be honest.
Does it seem too good to be true? I’m not too worried about putting some money into it, just don’t want it to be a complete nightmare. Any thoughts appreciated! Cheers
I saw comment above ref MOT history (which sometimes I think gets a harsh time on the forums) but in this case it’s pretty poor. Combined with a lack of service history and you don’t really know what you are buying.
I wouldn’t buy that car unless it was in a rare spec colour wise, or if it was well under priced and I fancied a project and it wasn’t my daily driver.
At a minimum, you’d be looking at getting the brake lines sorted and a complete suspension refresh as both have been neglected for many years now.
After that, it’s the usual E85/E86 niggles such as the ABS motor, water pump, gasket refresh (rocker cover gasket, valvetronic motor gasket etc) plus anything else individual to the car. For example, why were the dipped and high beam lights not working during an MOT? What was done to fix that (was it a problem with the xenon units)?
Finally how long have the wheels been on the car? Were the tyres bought at the last service as the ad suggests, or did they buy a wheel+tyre set off eBay with the view to getting rid of the car?
What’s his/her reason for selling, and how long have they owned it?
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