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It's 600, ie 1000km.
Ideas please - £2k limit, what shall I buy? Other than an e36?
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It's 600, ie 1000km.
Say what, i hope yours is in for a service and thats what you're getting while it's in there!
It's the usual utterly fail way BMW do anything. Have problem with a car, book it in for an entire day, have them say 'yes its broken book it in again and we'll fix it'. Mines fine, needs a service next month but I wont get a loan car as its only an oil service and I can use the Fast Lane service thing for it.
[TW]Fox;13592460 said:ISTR its in the handbook of everything they make. I'll take a look in the handbook of the X3 I'm getting next week and let you know
IIRC i'm sure I read somewhere that the M powered cars are even less and they say that 300m/litre is acceptable in those.
IIRC i'm sure I read somewhere that the M powered cars are even less and they say that 300m/litre is acceptable in those.
Thats nuts, that means the car could use 75 gallons of oil in 100,000 miles and that would be ok by bmw's book!
I'm sure I read it on a M5 or M3 forum when someone quoted it from BMW. Just can't find it now.
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Its the best option from my point of view by far - it's condition belies its age & miles and it drives beautifully.
But,I don't really want to effectively force his hand into selling it, saddling him with the outlay of a newer car.
Why?
He's over 70, and given what Gordon Brown's steerage has done to Pensions & shares of late, I frankly doubt (and I'm only guessing here) he really wants to shell out any more money at this moment in time.
Not forgetting he'd be daft to throw away the 528 - it still ticks all the boxes for him and owes him absolutely nothing!
Its Green which is quite apt.......
You could fix up your Mondeo, then swap it with your dad for his bmw. He gets a reliable car with decent mpg, you get more exciting drive. Win, win.
If that's what you want to think and makes you feel any better about being stuck in a 106 and not being able to afford to even purchase a BMW of any kind then yup.
Thanks though, I may just keep it now, other people in the thread have made me rethink the situation
Thanks though, I may just keep it now, other people in the thread have made me rethink the situation
LOL @ The thread! 
pretty much my take on it mate.
My Mondeo is a heap of Dog Poo and I would not wish it on my worst friend, never mind my Dad, and as I did, after a BMW, he'd detest the Mondeo.
Quick question, the 'box is different to the Steptronic? No? More or less reliable?
Quite, some people don't see that though.
As for the OP. Isn't the 323i just a crap newer version of the 325i with the same running costs as the 328i...or am I thinking of the e46 engines?
pretty much my take on it mate.
My Mondeo is a heap of Dog Poo and I would not wish it on my worst friend, never mind my Dad, and as I did, after a BMW, he'd detest the Mondeo.
Quick question, the 'box is different to the Steptronic? No? More or less reliable?
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Nine hundred max offer accepted with an mot and three month warranty (which will cover errant lambda's, sensors, bushes etc). I imagine the dealer acquired for three to four hundred, and the `body' job wouldn't be all that so you've aquired a relatively good deal mate. Bearing in mind your circumstance of not being so able to buy private (card payment only) you have done well Mr Bond.
I can't believe the rates at which some of these BMWs use oil! All of my previous cars have never used ANY oil and have never needed topping up even between 10,000mile services. The idea of having to pop in a litre of oil every 300-400miles, which (let's face it) is pretty much every time you fill up with fuel, would indicate that something is seriously wrong!
My previous car was a BMW and that never used any... is this just a feature of the modern ones?
My previous car was a BMW and that never used any... is this just a feature of the modern ones?
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Really there are so many variables that an absolute benchmark on oil consumption on which engine's will lose oil and which will hardly use any, really there isn't. Early history is a big factor if it's been thraped like perhaps a fleet or hire car. Jumping around the generations of the distant and recent past still doesn't provide any substantive info other than the default `keep it serviced' policy for minimal losses later on in the life of a BMW (or any) engine tbh. Certainly not in our temperate climate anyway.
e60 M5's use it at a rate of between 1 to 2 liters per 2k miles. Thats a known deal. Going way back, an m10 (e12, e21, early chrome bumper e30's, e28's) could lose none at all or up to a liter every 1.5k miles. An s50 could go to the same figures. They all float around that mean average of a liter per month.
I've seen it all from race cars to road going limo's over the last twenty years of helping my friend Nigel Moseley (Moseley Motorsport). It is refreshing when an engine uses less oil for sure.
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Really there isn't a hard and fast all knowing benchmark. I meant that on the first line, sorry.
I was worried about it before i bought mine but i have done 4k ish and only had to fill up once.
A slight inconvience at most.
(Although my last M50 engined bmw used none at all and it seems the m52s were the same)
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Cheers Q.
To elaborate on the above, I've dropped a deposit on it this morning (e36 328i SE) and pick it up probably Wednesday.
I can't wait to meet like minded e36 owners for fun times.....
Admins, please put the thread down now. Ta.
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