Who's has the highest mileage?
- Thread starter Terryvision
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It also depends on your view of what high mileage is. Yes to most Toyata Prius drivers anything over 75k is old and scary, but the vast majorty of BMWs started out as fleet cars doing motorway miles so there are many out there that are only a few years old with well over 100k on the clock. 5 and 7 series are particularly hard to find with under 100k. So personally I have no concern at all that my Z4 has 108k on the clock, the straight 6 engine is capable of doing well over 200k before it needs a major overhaul.
Plus having owned about 8 BMWs varying from 50k to 150k in mileage, the quality of the car has a lot more to do with how it's been looked after than mileage. I've seen some low mileage shitters in my time, including a 60k 645ci I looked at before buying the Zed.
Plus having owned about 8 BMWs varying from 50k to 150k in mileage, the quality of the car has a lot more to do with how it's been looked after than mileage. I've seen some low mileage shitters in my time, including a 60k 645ci I looked at before buying the Zed.
edd_jedi said:
I doubt the fleet example is applicable to many Z4s. 3, 5 and 7 series yes and even more so if they are dervs.
100k+ on some engines doesn't bother me one bit, the NA 6 pot BMW engines fall into that category.
100k is some kind of benchmark in this country where people suddenly think a car has been driven to the moon and back, treated like a dog and is on it's last legs at that mileage. Recently i've been looking at S4s with the 4.2 V8 and nearly every UK forum people say you should be wary around 70k miles and will definitely need the engine out by 100k for some essential maintenance. Check the US forums and people have done 200k miles + on that engine. Same with NA BMW 6 pots on the USA sites.
Liverpool
My Corrado VR6 had 140k when I sold it.
My 3.8 M5 had 180k on it when I sold it.
My 3.6 M5 had 160k on it when I sold it.
None had what you would call a 'pampered' life, as they were all my one & only cars at the time, so did commuting, track days, hooning trips, 'Ring trips, etc.
My 3.8 M5 had 180k on it when I sold it.
My 3.6 M5 had 160k on it when I sold it.
None had what you would call a 'pampered' life, as they were all my one & only cars at the time, so did commuting, track days, hooning trips, 'Ring trips, etc.
Out of interest mmm-five. How difficult/easy was it to sell those cars. I'm curious as I have a theory that stating mileage over 100k on some adds turns people off almost as much as saying it's a cat D. I think it's why a lot of traders on auto trader will leave the mileage off an advert if it's north of 100k.
They're very easy to sell if they're priced cheap enoughMowflow said:
The Corrado sat around for about 6 months after I'd bought my first M5, and I was dropping the price by about £500 a month to get rid. I should have stripped it for the parts, but all the original bits had been disposed of by the tuning company (my fault for not asking to keep them) so I'd have had to pay to replace them all.
Got £7k for the VR6.
My first M5 (1994 3.8 - which I had for about 5 years - bought for £15k with 60k on it, sold for £5k with 'issues') needed a bit of TLC to the bodywork which was going to cost a couple of £k, then I found out I needed a couple of EDC struts @ £800 each (plus ancillaries) and when I'd decided to go ahead with all that I lost one cylinder. Cost of a proper rebuild (i.e. one that wouldn't fail in 10k miles) would have been about £5k. Still did 160mph on 5 cylinders though
That was sold for spares to a guy in Scotland who drove it all the way home and then used it (and 2 others) to make the best of 3.Got £3k for the 3.8 M5.
The 2nd M5 (1990 3.6, with 110k on it) sold quite quickly on ebay and I split it between the car and the stack of spares I had. Didn't get a lot for them in total, but I bought it cheap in the first place so didn't lose anything. I only sold it because I got fed up with having to do one repair after the other. Nothing major, or expensive, but it just wasn't reliable. Even when I thought something had been fixed, the next item down the line on the same 'functional group' would fail. So I'd replace plugs, then coils, then leads, then TPS and each fix would last for a month or so before the next item failed. Final straw was when the crank damper failed on my trip to the 'Ring, stranding me at the side of an autobahn after a VMAX run. ADAC were as useful as a chocolate fire-guard, and despite having the 'plus' package which included repatriation, the best they would offer was a tow to the local garage that wasn't open until the Tuesday after the bank holiday (this was on a Saturday afternoon BTW and we were booked for a Monday afternoon return home).
Got about £6k for the 3.6 & parts.
So while the 3.6 M5 was being repaired (the offending crank damper issue wasn't found for a while) I had a long think and started looking at M3s (too common/chavvy), Z3MCs, e39 M5s, B10s Alpinas, Caymans, etc. One winter's afternoon I left work in London early Friday morning and planned a route to look at a few Z4MCs on the way home. Drove the first one and bought it there & then - salesman couldn't believe his ears. I shouldn't have been so impatient though, as I could have got a similarly spec'd Sepang/Light Sepang one from a more northern dealer for about £4k less.
richardjgreen
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105000 on a 2004
richardjgreen said:
Most of us here would have that kind of mileage if we didn't "dedicate" our lives to the forum.