How much for this...?

[Darren M]

I would say that colour combo - notably the interior and interlagos exterior is a bit hideous! 20k miles is fairly low but given the current market I'd be looking to get that car for more like 18k IMO, purely based on the colour combo. That would possibly give you a bit of cash to maybe change the interior to something better matching interlagos blue (black or sepang bronze or champagne individual).

 

[mikedav]

What I'm saying is that regardless of the condition of the car if people doent even bother picking up the phone then it makes no difference if its the worst or best car on the market.

True, if you advertise at a bargain price, of course it will sell; he could go further and take it to We Buy Any Car for £14.5k tomorrow...it doesn't sound like he wants to sell it that badly though.

I'd be looking to get that car for more like 18k IMO

...getting £3k off a £21k car at a main dealer will be fun Depends how long he's had it on the stock plan...

Of course whatever your trade in will be 'worth £700 due to the current climate, these are depreciating £1000 a day at the moment, but we can go to £775 if you buy today', and there is 'no possible way we can move more than £400 on that car, we would sell it at a loss. Honest'.

 

[VvrooomM]

No offence but your car is overpriced by the tune or around £1500 imho. If you are not desperate to sell then its OK to price it the same as a trader but if you want to sell then it needs to be priced under the 18K mark with a view to accepting early £17K. However if the car remains advertised for as long as yours then people start thinking there is something wrong and dont bother picking up the phone. For a £19k private sale I would expect to be buying a 07 car with less than 25K miles, recent INSP 1, not needing tyres, disks or pads, with all the right options/colour combination. Basically the best car on the market.P

No offence taken, it's all meant constructively.

While it is not an 07 car with less than 25k miles...

• It's a December '06 car
• It doesn't need an inspection 1 for 13,000 miles as it only had it's last scheduled oil service 2000 miles ago at BMW
• It doesn't need disks or pads
• It'd be a waste of £500 to put new tyres on when they've thousands of miles left in them
• Has all the options
• Can't do anything about people's preference for colour

I'm not so sure if it's only the price that are putting off callers, as it might just be easier to deal with a dealer (with dealer facilities) than deal with a private seller, and I'm not sure if yet another price reduction would help.

If I was to advertise it for £17.5k then it'd be the cheapest Z4MC by some way (and not for a low-spec example either), and I'd always feel that I'd let it go for much less than it was worth.

Looks like I'll just have to keep it :wink:

If its Dec 06 car, how can it not need its inspec 1 for 13000 miles???

Its four years old therefore by 2 year intervals it was due its inspection 1 in Dec'10, that is unless its got around around 60k on the clock. (1200 mile service plus 12k to oil plus 12k to inspec1 plus 12k to oil plus 12k to inspec2 plus 12k to oil with 13000 showing to inspec1)

 

[mmm-five]

If its Dec 06 car, how can it not need its inspec 1 for 13000 miles???

Its four years old therefore by 2 year intervals it was due its inspection 1 in Dec'10, that is unless its got around around 60k on the clock. (1200 mile service plus 12k to oil plus 12k to inspec1 plus 12k to oil plus 12k to inspec2 plus 12k to oil with 13000 showing to inspec1)

The time-based 2 year service interval only requires an oil change - so if you do 2,000 miles a year for the first 15,000 miles that you'll have a book full of oil service stamps.

The inspections are mileage based, and mine would have been due one at about 25,000 miles had it not been for the well-publicised new engine under warranty at just over 25,000 miles. Going by PMs I've, it's not the only on in here to have had one, but probably the only one who had it at around the same time as an inspection was due to make the gap stand out in the service history.

This new engine in effect reset the service interval and another running in oil change was carried 1,000 miles later, engine was run in over that period and was coddled for the next 5,000 miles before having one of its interim oil changes (done by me) and then finally feeling confident enough of using full revs & throttle.

The latest oil service was carried out on schedule 14,000 or so miles after the new engine was fitted, and the OBC is showing over 13,000 miles to the next - which will of course be the Inspection 1, with an interim oil service in 6,000 or so.