Best time to buy?
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I thought you just wanted to save a few hundred quid by buying at the right time! And break fluid has nothing to do with mileage, it's every two years. So in fact, you could easily have a inspection 2 without brake fluid if it didn't coincide. Brake fluid change is only about 50 quid at a main dealer any way. Would you really consider not buying a car because it needed a brake fluid change?!!! Or was a month or two over?!! WTFNinarvana said:
You say you want to keep the car for ten years. How many miles do you do a year? If you do 5k miles a year and keep the car for 10 years and buy at 25k miles that would be a total of 75k miles. If you bought a 40k miles car and did the same miles that would be a total of 90k miles. A difference of 15k miles over 15 years. Does that really make a difference? Er, no.
i thought on the ///M other than the brake and coolant fluid which is two yearly, inspection and oil changes are on the milage
when this tipic comes around everyone always seem to get into a right old lather, cars can have the most water tight service history but still see bearing failure and the like
when this tipic comes around everyone always seem to get into a right old lather, cars can have the most water tight service history but still see bearing failure and the like
Zeld4 said:
Yes it does. A 1000 miles per year!
I'll get me coat.
The thing is if you're not mechanically minded it's easy to get caught up on mileage, age etc as they are the measurements that give you confidence in buying something when you may not have the knowledge that these engines could probably go 200k miles.
Christ, she only asked the best time to buy - if I was her I'd tell you all to foxtrot oscar and not come back.
Zeld4 said:
Regarding your previous post, no I merely asked the question to see if MC owners felt this car was seasonal from their experience even though it's not a convertible. I also mentioned a confirmation over inspection 2 because there was discussion regarding the brake fluid intervals of the car Popey kindly linked to me, the inspection manual details that an inspection 2 includes brake fluid change.
I don't know why you are using the presumption of my annual mileage to attack my decision to look for a low mileage car, why on earth is this such a concern if it's what I want, as in 'I', the person who is buying this vehicle!
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+1Ninarvana said:I don't know why you are using the presumption of my annual mileage to attack my decision to look for a low mileage car, why on earth is this such a concern if it's what I want, as in 'I', the person who is buying this vehicle!
You're the one spending the money and you're entitled to try to find/buy exactly the car you want - although I think that the comments advising you that you may be searching for some time were perfectly in order as you may not have realised how few of your desired spec/mileage are likely to be around... (I think that that point has been hammered home now though :wink: )
PerryGunn said:+1Ninarvana said:I don't know why you are using the presumption of my annual mileage to attack my decision to look for a low mileage car, why on earth is this such a concern if it's what I want, as in 'I', the person who is buying this vehicle!
You're the one spending the money and you're entitled to try to find/buy exactly the car you want - although I think that the comments advising you that you may be searching for some time were perfectly in order as you may not have realised how few of your desired spec/mileage are likely to be around... (I think that that point has been hammered home now though :wink: )
yeah I appreciate the advice when it's well placed and understand it may be quite the hunt, thankfully I'm not in any rush, however if this car above is the one then it may well be a case of a premature find instead. I'm hoping to be viewing the car on Saturday.Haha yes I would probably do the same but it's fun being slightly annoying and once in a while if I get called a four letter word I'll just have to accept itMerrsh1 said:Zeld4 said:
Yes it does. A 1000 miles per year!
I'll get me coat.
The thing is if you're not mechanically minded it's easy to get caught up on mileage, age etc as they are the measurements that give you confidence in buying something when you may not have the knowledge that these engines could probably go 200k miles.
Christ, she only asked the best time to buy - if I was her I'd tell you all to foxtrot oscar and not come back.
So did you go and see it?
Ninarvana said:
Resurrecting an old thread, but since this car is still for sale, I thought I should post a note of caution for anyone considering this car. Assuming that this is the history detailed in the cars' book pack, then there are major discrepancies with this and the detail recorded by BMW. Please feel free to PM me for more info.
Ninarvana said:
Yes, I ran through the recorded history over the phone and only the last 2 services matched those recorded in the handbook, plus there was no running in service. This might have been an admin error at BMW, or the wrong service manual ending up in the car. But for me, there are too many question marks.
Thanks for sharing your experience of this one. It would have been a very long and disappointing trip if you hadn't prompted me to check the history.
Crumbs that is a massive discrepancy! Unfortunately I can't remember which dealer the book was stamped as having the running in service at. I did a full hpi on this car before I viewed it as I learned it had outstanding finance on it at the time of sale but notably it had a couple of number plate changes so perhaps the reg on the car wasn't the original reg and BMW only have the details listed via the original registrations on their database, food for thought? If that car didn't have it's running in check it's definitely one to avoid!
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