Awful service history
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Until a mug comes along to buy it, they'd be best parting it out...
Bagsy the interior
Bagsy the interior
If it was around 10-11k at most, with a FULL inspection 2 carried out by a dealer or respected Indy of choice and any/all problems fixed, then it maybe worth a punt. It looks good from the exterior, and if it's got some service receipts with it all might not be lost, it could just be the service books a bit of a mess. Let's face it, if it's made 60k and the engine sounds solid after an Inspection 2 with no clear issues, then it could be cheap entry into M ownership from someone.....
Obviously, re-sale will be consideration so might be better for some thinking of long term ownership, still not a complete right off for me if the price was right
Obviously, re-sale will be consideration so might be better for some thinking of long term ownership, still not a complete right off for me if the price was right
AndyBeech said:
Indeed, a good point. I guess the main factor is will a dealer realistically drop 3k or so from the asking price, probably not. More likely will wait for someone who's not very clued up and blag it with the service book.
If I was in that area I would probably go for a look out of interest, any obvious engine damage would become pretty quickly apparent from a cold start....engine knocking, cam's/followers worn, VANOS noisy. Would take diagnostics to plug in as well and see if any error codes were present, interrogate the running values with INPA etc. All the other mechanical bits like suspension/brakes would be highlighted in an Insp 2, as well as the cams could be inspected, see what the shim clearances are, if they've ever been done!
If the dealers not willing to do that he'll be keeping that car for a long time I would think!
Yep id have a sneaky peek myself if it was near home , most of the major biggies cannot be hidden
My honest thoughts are somewhere down the line a genuine car has lost its service book resulting in a lower sale price to some clever clown who produced a fake & hoped to make a few ££ , the question would be how far back was the bad turn ?
You never know , its possible BMW still have records of service work for this car ? If not then even with Ins2 carried out its the classic football with dogsh1t on
plenty of folks want to play but no-one wants the next kick :wink:
My honest thoughts are somewhere down the line a genuine car has lost its service book resulting in a lower sale price to some clever clown who produced a fake & hoped to make a few ££ , the question would be how far back was the bad turn ?
You never know , its possible BMW still have records of service work for this car ? If not then even with Ins2 carried out its the classic football with dogsh1t on
plenty of folks want to play but no-one wants the next kick :wink:
