High Mileage....Z4M...

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mikedav

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70,000 miles. He obviously liked driving his :)

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thats been for sale a while, i keep seeing it when i am on autotrader checking out the z4m coupe prices.
 
I think it's too expensive for the miles. 56 Plate cars are £21k-£23k now, so to compensate it should be £18k?

Mind you if you want to see overpriced, check this out ... good old Meriden!
 
Yeah, if it was cheaper it would be ok if you didn't do many miles.....

Think mine will be there in about a year, i drive 40k a year, which i should spread between my cars, but i just can;t get out the Z, hoping for some sun then the old mx-5 might get a dust off, help keep the Z honest....
 
Entwistlea said:
Yeah, if it was cheaper it would be ok if you didn't do many miles.....

Think mine will be there in about a year, i drive 40k a year, which i should spread between my cars, but i just can;t get out the Z, hoping for some sun then the old mx-5 might get a dust off, help keep the Z honest....
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Why so many miles in the ZED dude? You coummute to work over a 100 miles a day or somthing?
 
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Entwistlea said:
Yeah, if it was cheaper it would be ok if you didn't do many miles.....

Think mine will be there in about a year, i drive 40k a year, which i should spread between my cars, but i just can;t get out the Z, hoping for some sun then the old mx-5 might get a dust off, help keep the Z honest....
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Why so many miles in the ZED dude? You coummute to work over a 100 miles a day or somthing?
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I assume he, like me, uses his zed when driving to customer locations for business.
I can easily achieve 30k a year of purely business miles
 
yep, daily commute of 110 miles and occasional trip to Harrogate..... with business visits in between....

I know it isn't "sensible" to use the Z.... but i've never been "sensible"..... my plan was to use it 2 or 3 days a week and my old fun bus or mx-5 the others..... but i can;t stop going for the Z keys... maybe i'll calm down in a few weeks... or just accept the cost and carry on smiling :D
 
+49 said:
Why so many miles in the ZED dude? You coummute to work over a 100 miles a day or somthing?
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I did 20,000 in 14 months and I was unemployed for 8 months of those 14 months!
 
Entwistlea said:
yep, daily commute of 110 miles and occasional trip to Harrogate..... with business visits in between....

I know it isn't "sensible" to use the Z.... but i've never been "sensible"..... my plan was to use it 2 or 3 days a week and my old fun bus or mx-5 the others..... but i can;t stop going for the Z keys... maybe i'll calm down in a few weeks... or just accept the cost and carry on smiling :D
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I think you're perfectly sensible. We spend all this money on buying this car, may as well drive it while we can!

Mine will be up for sale towards the end of this year and it will probably have over 50k on the clock. 25k of this done by me!
 
Entwistlea said:
yep, daily commute of 110 miles and occasional trip to Harrogate..... with business visits in between....

I know it isn't "sensible" to use the Z.... but i've never been "sensible".....
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The depreciation 'saving' isn't big enough to warrant not using it....cars are always worth less than you hope come resale/trade in so may as well have got proper use out of it IMO!
 
These cars are made to be driven. Maybe it would be different in a F430.
But it is a BMW, a bloody good one at that.

Does anyone know the expected "max" miles? Before anyone says so, i am aware of all the variables that contribute to a cars life span.
 
I put IMZ4IN's 3.0i through some real twisty stuff in California's mountains and it felt like a new car.
160,000 on the clock then iirc :)
 
monzon said:
Does anyone know the expected "max" miles? Before anyone says so, i am aware of all the variables that contribute to a cars life span.
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I remember an 02 E46 M3 on Ebay in the US with 230,000 miles on the clock and going strong. It was years ago, the guy had a 500 mile a day commute or something. Basically the same car....couple on UK Ebay at present with 121,000 Miles and 133,000 miles...they will go on for a while as long as they are properly maintained. As long as a small percentage keep them as garage queens so we have some mint, low mileage examples to admire in 20 years time, the rest of us can drive ours

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133,000 miles eh? So I've got about another 112,000 miles of hooning about left before I need to think of a replacement :thumbsup:
Think of all that petrol :cry:
 
Engines last ages if looked after well.

By the time they are ready for work, it's often at an age that mileage isn't really a good guide, it's the use/hours it's had.

So a 75,000 mile car having done shorter harder trips and weekend driving at 15 years old might end up needing a rebuild as much as a 200,000 mile 20 year old car used more often but more steadily.


Ooodles of variables by the time it matters, and by that time if you still own it, you clearly like it, so a rebuild to make it like new isn't going to seem like a bad thing... it wouldn't to me anyway :D

Dave
 
my daily tri consists of about 50 miles on the M3 about the same on a nice windy A road and then about 10 miles to and from the motorway. So the car gets a pretty easy time, at least on the motorway where it cruises, the B is pretty easy going unless i decide to "play"... also means i get pretty good mileage out the tyres :driving:
 
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