z4m new price drop 9750,00 now sold

Located in Plymouth

I have owned and enjoyed this car for the past seven years ..It has a full service history including 6 monthly oil changes.I have a full ten years of bills and receipts plus valve adj schedule printouts.

2006 Imola Red BMW Z4M roadster
94000 miles

Sat nav with intergrated dab radio
Reversing sensors
Roof motor relocated in boot
Heated seats
New agm battery
BMW wind deflecter
Newly powder coated 224m wheels
Polybushed rear suspension, including subframe
Stainless steel exhaust clamps
Engine oil and filter changed 1000 miles ago (castrol)
Brake fluid changed 1000 miles ago
Diff oil, gearbox oil , power steering fluid all recently changed (June) (castrol oil)
4 matching tyres with plenty of tread
13months mot no advisories
Lower tax bracket
Private plate included
price £9750,00

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Location?

Lower tax bracket ZM , a rare thing & fast becoming a major selling point
Get some pics up , car sounds ripe for staying on forum

How is this a lower tax bracket zM ? Looking on autotrader they all seem to be £570pa.

cooknerkid said:

How is this a lower tax bracket zM ? Looking on autotrader they all seem to be £570pa.

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A few early cars beat the change over date when the tax is higher

cooknerkid said:

How is this a lower tax bracket zM ? Looking on autotrader they all seem to be £570pa.

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Has to be registered before 23/03/06 to qualify for lower rate.

cooknerkid said:

How is this a lower tax bracket zM ? Looking on autotrader they all seem to be £570pa.

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Early/pre March 06 cars were rated under a different system, my Mazda rx8 missed the changes by a week and benefitted from cheaper tax as a result
Rob

The tax rate is £325 according to:

https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax-rate-tables/rates-for-cars-registered-on-or-after-1-march-2001

Buy a Z4M and save £245 a year! (put it towards the speeding tickets :? )

Thanks guys - every day is a school day :roll: :rofl:

Not sure I've ever looked at an older car like this for sale, to find a 100% clean MOT history - at the very least some arse has usually given an advisory about an undertray being fitted

Lovely looking car, good luck with the sale. Trying desperately to ignore it.

Lovely looking car that I would have been keen to see if I hadn’t recently swapped. GLWTS

fogle said:

As the wife of this owner this car has been looked after better than our babies ...of which we have had 3!!!! All genuine and exspensively looked after.....ignore all you like.

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I think when Tim said he was trying to ignore it, he meant that it sounds like a good car and he's trying to resist the temptation, rather than looking for an attack

Lovely looking car & priced well if all is as good as Mrs Fogle claims

wonkydonkey said:

I think when Tim said he was trying to ignore it, he meant that it sounds like a good car and he's trying to resist the temptation, rather than looking for an attack

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Exactly that yes

I had a chat with the owner Chris yesterday and have the answers to most questions any prospective owner would ask - does indeed sound like a special car that has been pampered.

I'll add the info shortly when I'm on a computer and not a phone (and will assume the OP doesn't mind)

Here is what I scribbled down...

Service history:

Pre-delivery inspection
1290k - running in service
11k (2008) - oil service
22k (2009) - inspection 1
36k (2010) - oil service
48k (2012) - inspection 2
54k (2013) - oil service
67k (2015) - inspection 1
78k (2016) - inspection 2
89k (2018) - oil service

In addition to all of that, 6 monthly oil changes by the owner with receipts/oil labels.

The HPI check shows 2 things I queried - firstly that the car is 'imported', secondly that the registration date is in June 2006 and hence well past the cheaper tax bracket.

As you've probably seen from the pictures linked in the first post, this car was an unused part of the press fleet - and seems to have originally spent time in the US having been formally registered PRIOR to the 1st March and is indeed hence eligible for the lower tax, fairly significant if you're planning on keeping it for the longer term.

There's also a very minor mileage discrepancy:

44,000 miles on 27/09/2011
44,039 miles on 14/09/2011

But I imagine this is simply down to the mileage being rounded down to 44k at some point - nothing that would concern me.

Lots of plus points to me as a prospective buyer - new tyres, refurbed wheels, relocated roof motor, recent all new fluids and what sounds like a fastidious owner, the kind I'd like to buy from.

I had a long [LONG!] think about this car yesterday, and concluded that as I pretty much 75% daily my current Z4 (depending on whether I have more than 1 or my children to move or not) - and am very precious about it - I shouldn't buy an 'M' until I'm in a position to have it as a sunny day only car, tucked away in the garage until needed; I'll just spend on my time worrying about it. I've also sunk a load of money into my 3.0 and should really get some enjoyment out of it before I move on. If I popped down to Plymouth to view, I'm fairly sure I'd just buy it.

Not affiliated with this car in any way, shape or form by the way.

If anyone is genuinely interested then PM me an email address and I'll send you the HPI report - it's just the basic £1.99 'MyCarCheck' version.

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Thanks for that info, very useful.

What's the general consensus on the import status. Is this likely to be classed as an import for insurance purposes? or is it a UK registered vehicle that happens to have been taken overseas?

Perhaps the OP can advise?

There's a mobile number on the Ebay ad Mark, might be a better bet.