BMW and M Power Owners

Robi said:

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"No cash alternative or refund is available if you do not wish to receive or wish to cancel this warranty. You may transfer any unexpired period of warranty to another private owner but not to a buyer engaged in the business of purchasing, selling or servicing of vehicles."

"5. For annual policies only and provided that a refund has not been claimed, any balance of your BMW Insured Warranty remaining may be transferred to another private owner, subject to our approval, who buys your vehicle from you but not to a buyer engaged in the business of purchasing, selling or servicing motor vehicles."

"Monthly policies are not transferable. BMW Insured Warranty cover is not transferable to you from a motor retailer"

Also confirmed via a call today.

I either need to buy privately and continue an existing policy (no thanks) or buy an AUC car. Buying from a non-BMW dealer will mean starting a new policy at the new customer rate with no discount.

Toyota have called me every single day since last week. I get the impression they're desperate to sell me the car. In 6 days the listing has gone from £37,997 to £37,484. Less appealing as it doesn't come with BMW Insured Warranty. An option could be to drop the price further or ask for additional years of Toyota warranty. However, I have no idea how good the Toyota warranty is.

It also doesn't leave a great taste that Toyota explicitly stated that BMW warranty was transferable, when it's clearly not.
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This seems awfully expensive.
Any reason you are after such a low mileage example?
I paid £33k for a 36k mile M2 (non-Comp) over 2 years ago, AUC, 1 owner, every option bar heated steering wheel.
At that time, Comps were even available for less than £37k, and there are loads for sub-35 now!
 
ShivP said:
This seems awfully expensive.
Any reason you are after such a low mileage example?
I paid £33k for a 36k mile M2 (non-Comp) over 2 years ago, AUC, 1 owner, every option bar heated steering wheel.
At that time, Comps were even available for less than £37k, and there are loads for sub-35 now!
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I tend to keep cars for many years, so I'd prefer a lower mileage/owner example that isn't going to be worth peanuts when I come to sell. However saying that, I only do about 6k miles a year so it's not like I run cars into the ground.

I've had my M135i for 8 years now. It was an AUC car at 12k miles, now sitting on 53k.

The example linked above is expensive. I'm looking at any LBB/Sunset Orange cars with both packs and <30k miles. I wouldn't be against something marginally higher but anything close to or above 40k is just a no go really.

As of right now there are 3 LBB or Sunset Orange cars with both packs on AUC. 52k miles at £31k, 37k miles at £36.5k and 49k miles at £34k. In my mind it's a no brainer to spend £1-2k more to get a car with 20k less miles. You are right however, it is very expensive as an overall package.
 
Hmm, BMW warranty coming up for renewal, but like an idiot I paid for a year, and have blown through 60,000 miles by 5k. Their renewal quote seems good, but they don’t know I’m now over 60k. Go to their website, login, new quote, zero excess, £1,200! It’s over £1,300 if I want roadside!:eek:

Play around with the numbers, £250 excess, no roadside is better, £574 annually or £60pm which is a big amount more, £720! I haven’t used it at all, it’s been faultless, now comes the quandary! It’s a 2015 428i Gran Coupe, 65k miles, passed every MOT I’ve had it, three times now, without even an advisory. Which, by the law of averages, means something expensive is going to go wrong. Mind you I said that last year too!
 
Anyone used Zimmermann brake discs before? My fronts are coming towards needing replacement so I'm actually looking to upgrade them to the M Performance variants, which was a dealer-fit option from new. From BMW directly the discs alone are £733. Brembos are £711. Pattern Zimmermanns from AutoDoc are £270 :eek:

Normally I'd just go OEM, but a near £500 saving is insane. Reading reviews online is a mixed bag.
 
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IC3 said:
What is going on with the front headlights...

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is it not just a reflection from the photograph? I am assuming you are referring to the lenses being a bit cloudy? Otherwise they are just the standard basic headlights on that generation of 5 Series. Ideally you'd want one with the Visibility Package for the better lights, but that is a particularly rare car in that it's one of 6 or so months worth of production that had the newer version of iDrive with the much better instrument cluster before the facelift version was introduced from July 2020 production.
 
ShivP said:
This seems awfully expensive.
Any reason you are after such a low mileage example?
I paid £33k for a 36k mile M2 (non-Comp) over 2 years ago, AUC, 1 owner, every option bar heated steering wheel.
At that time, Comps were even available for less than £37k, and there are loads for sub-35 now!
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This is definitely a contender. 2020, 28k miles, 3 owners, FBMWSH, both packs, heated steering, speed limit info and CarPlay for £35k. It still has 1 service left on the service pack.

It's in immaculate condition for the age (dealer described as 9/10). No damage to alloys or stone chips on the bodywork. 4S tyres on all corners with 4-5mm tread left.

Interestingly enough the dealer sold the car twice before so knows the previous 2 owners.

Unfortunately not an AUC car but it's priced well enough that I wouldn't have an issue adding on a Comprehensive policy immediately afterwards (£1546 with £250 excess and no roadside).
 
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[TW]Fox said:
is it not just a reflection from the photograph? I am assuming you are referring to the lenses being a bit cloudy? Otherwise they are just the standard basic headlights on that generation of 5 Series. Ideally you'd want one with the Visibility Package for the better lights, but that is a particularly rare car in that it's one of 6 or so months worth of production that had the newer version of iDrive with the much better instrument cluster before the facelift version was introduced from July 2020 production.
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It is, went to see it as it was 15 min from my original destination, car was resprayed on right hand side, right front wing and rear boot has filler 450 microns was the highest reading so not too bad. Front was resprayed which seems standard for most cars...

Headlights looked fine, but there was a noisy bearing sound and the car vibrations were worse than our 3 series.

I'm shocked at how bad the interior finish is tbh, plastic's are creaking/crackling, I think the G20 might have slightly better Interior finish.
 
IC3 said:
It is, went to see it as it was 15 min from my original destination, car was resprayed on right hand side, right front wing and rear boot has filler 450 microns was the highest reading so not too bad. Front was resprayed which seems standard for most cars...

Headlights looked fine, but there was a noisy bearing sound and the car vibrations were worse than our 3 series.

I'm shocked at how bad the interior finish is tbh, plastic's are creaking/crackling, I think the G20 might have slightly better Interior finish.
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I had a 2020 530e as a courtesy car last year and it was like driving a cloud. One of the quietest cars I've ever been in. Definitely something off with that car if it was creaking a lot.
 
I had a G30 LCI and it was brilliantly screwed together. Felt like it was hewn from granite, no reason the pre-LCI would be any different.
 
aaronyuri said:
I had a 2020 530e as a courtesy car last year and it was like driving a cloud. One of the quietest cars I've ever been in. Definitely something off with that car if it was creaking a lot.
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Robbo said:
I had a G30 LCI and it was brilliantly screwed together. Felt like it was hewn from granite, no reason the pre-LCI would be any different.
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When I compare it to a Mazda CX5 2020 I picked up with my mate over the weekend, the Mazda has better finish inside, the leather stitched dash felt more premium tbh.

It's a shame Japs don't make interesting/exciting cars anymore...90/00's really was the golden era.
 
IC3 said:
When I compare it to a Mazda CX5 2020 I picked up with my mate over the weekend, the Mazda has better finish inside, the leather stitched dash felt more premium tbh.

It's a shame Japs don't make interesting/exciting cars anymore...90/00's really was the golden era.
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Perhaps some elements could be better, the dash is just a normal material with some fake stitching. Go and look at a decent example before making any decisions, if you’ve come away thinking it feels poor compared to a Mazda, it must have been particularly rough!
 
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Robbo said:
Perhaps some elements could be better, the dash is just a normal material with some fake stitching. Go and look at a decent example before making any decisions, if you’ve come away thinking it feels poor compared to a Mazda, it must have been particularly rough!
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I've seen plenty enoguh, half of which were AUC cars...
 
IC3 said:
I've seen plenty enoguh, half of which were AUC cars...
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What car have you got now? The 5 Series is widely regarded as one the best quality cars around. I felt my LCI stacked up well against my current 7 Series, which is about as good as it gets this side of a Bentley etc.
 
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