I'm pretty sure I recognise the car from way back in my west midlands/shropshire days - however my memory has been smoked to death so completely unreliable.
Now I get why you got a pre-lci rather than an lci, as you are confident of its history and ownership.
Any yellow cogs in the past that were repaired?
I got this just because it was an honest car in good mechanical order and it was a damn site better condition than others I looked at that were also priced as much as 3-4k more than this, I did see a stunning silver blue one, but I just don't like that colour or otherwise I would have got that as it was 60k miles and everything had been done on it.
In fairness this car has had rod bearings, vanos, fuel pumps and actuators. The only thing this car has never had remarkably is a clutch which for a car with 85k miles is somekind of miracle but some owners get 20k and most around 50k, anything higher is pretty rare as these are known for eating clutches, but its a £1500 job at a specialist so not end of world.
Problems this car has is a slight rear diff leak, which I plan on fixing because I have a nice driveway and this car leaving its mark is somewhat annoying and the suspension is certainly showing its age, feels lose in front due to worn bushes but I have all new Lemforder front arms, already changed all drop links all round and the rear end creaking is very annoying and to be further inspected, most like a dry balljoint but could be a cracked spring as BMW's are know for that. It is a 2 tonne car with 85k miles so I went in eyes open knowing the car will need a few grand in suspension work to get it back to my standards and I am aware they can throw big bills.
In regards to issues I believe its been a pretty solid car its life, no yellow cogs, just some INPA errors from random sensors failing over time etc. and one of the adaptive headlights failed last year which the owner who I got it from purchased a new unit from BMW at £995 which I would have personally probably sourced one from a breakers yard instead of forking out a grand for a headlight but its at same time its a good sign that previous owners have not really coughed at spending, I have a folder with around £15,000 plus worth of repairs and services.