BMW and M Power Owners
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I believe annual policies are transferable, monthly not.
Soldato
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I don't think it uses Google infrastructure for traffic, coverage varies with RTTI the main dual carriageway (A899) through town doesn't have traffic info via RTTI but does on Google. This is where RTTI isn't as good as Google/Waze if it sees traffic on a road it assumes the roads around it that it doesn't have any info on are clear.
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Yes, it's transferable.
One area where I consistently find Google traffic exceptionally poor is road closures. It almost never handles them properly and instead interrupts the lack of traffic flow as a clear road not a closed road. Multiple times now I've had BMW RTTI warn of a closed road that Google claims is open only to find it genuinely is closed.
Thanks, I presume I'd have to contact them if/when I sell the car? I've had absolutely no contact from them since I bought it.
The warranty is attached to the car. There is a form in the document you got when you bought it that the new owner can fill out if they want.
Are you going to replace it with a Porsche 911 and then decide 3 days later that you've actually got a new job as a travelling salesman and it needs to go? This seems to be becoming a habit
Are you going to replace it with a Porsche 911 and then decide 3 days later that you've actually got a new job as a travelling salesman and it needs to go? This seems to be becoming a habit
Cheers.The warranty is attached to the car. There is a form in the document you got when you bought it that the new owner can fill out if they want.
Are you going to replace it with a Porsche 911 and then decide 3 days later that you've actually got a new job as a travelling salesman and it needs to go? This seems to be becoming a habit
Point taken, I'll bite and try and explain.
My new job is 4 miles from my house and is till the end of the year with a high likelihood for another 6 month extension. I start on the 12th so next week is the last week of a 150 mile return commute. The new job would be a 15-20 minute ride on a bike or a 15 minute bus journey followed by a 5 minute walk. With it being in the centre of Gloucester, driving would most likely take longer and cost more. Or if I stay at the girlfriends flat then it's a 2-3 minute walk. So I basically have zero requirement for a car apart from biweekly shopping or the occasional drive to my mums or to visit friends. I don't need a £20k+ 5 series for that especially when I have a DC5 which is still fine on the road (granted, it's no 5 series, but it does the job). I got a Tesco bank loan to fund most of the car, the rest was paid with money I had laying around plus the PX for the Focus. I'd rather put the £445 ish loan payment on credit card debt than have it go on a car that's just sat there 95% of the time. If after the next year there's still a requirement for another commuting car I should have paid of all debt so I can just get another loan for another car.
Believe me, had I known I was going to get this job I'd have never bought the F10. At the time I was resigned to being at the current place till the end of the year at least, most likely well into next year if not 2019, so I figured I'd get something nice to spend 3h a day in and it's done a grand job. But since I bought it I was not only approached by my old job offering me more money but also another job which I've accepted via Linked In (which ironically I've come close to deleting as I never saw the use for it).
I know 100% I am stupid with both money and cars. I have spent a good few weeks looking at various different options and methods to get rid of the F10. I've looked at PXing it for a £10k E46 M3, then I looked at E92 M3's, then the 987.2 Boxster S. I have come to the conclusion (he says an hour after closing a Pistonheads tab with E46 M3's for sale) that I am being idiotic and the most sensible decision is to sell the F10 for as much as I can get. Unfortunately that means trying my luck at a private sale and when I invariably get no where, I'd have to go to the likes of WBAC or WYAC because I highly doubt BMW would be interested in buying it back for any decent amount of money unless I buy something from them, which I don't want to do. I am however yet to email them to ask.
I still like the idea of 2 cars so I'll probably by a cheap petrol Focus for the run around in order to keep dents off the DC5.
Sorry for the essay but I hope it goes some way to explain my rather absurd purchasing decisions.
Man of Honour
Seems BMW know how to make an engine and exhaust setup sound AMG levels of amazing after all.
Who's betting it's just a prototype showboat with a V12, and the actual M8 ends up with a V8.
I can't imagine it has a V8, it needs to differentiate itself from the M6, and BMW are hinting at substantial power with the M8, so I imagine at least a V10 is at play?
Man of Honour
That's the point surely. The 7 series carries a big V12 in its top model, and the 8 series is set to be the height of its class just like the 7 is in its. And it's about time BMW released something with 12 cyl that isn't a massive barge.
Man of Honour
That sounds awesome. One day it shall be mine.................
Not at all. This isn't a case of the larger the model number the bigger the price tag and engine. If the 6 dies, this effectively becomes it, otherwise you can consider a price tag of well in excess of £100k before starting. If it's an S class AMG Coupe contender, fair enough, but this won't need a massive V12 to shove it along. We could expect two variants though, an M and an M CLS or something?
cerainly going to be interesting what BMW do with the 6 series. I dont think its ever been a big seller tbh, maybe they will push the 6GC into the 5 series lineup, and ditch the cab and coupe maybe. Shame as the cab is a great car, im really enjoying mine! Makes you wonder if they will sell more, given the invetible higher price. doesnt make a lot of sense. The 6 is already pushing 90k in some configurations, so this thing is going to be way north of 100k surely; maybe 70 in "poverty" spec.
Or perhaps its just more model proliferation and the 6 lineup will stay as is, and the 8 become the extension of the 7 models.
If the 8 depreciates anything like the 6 series it will be a great buy second hand! Paid roughly 50% of the retail value for a 10k 18mth old one this year.
Or perhaps its just more model proliferation and the 6 lineup will stay as is, and the 8 become the extension of the 7 models.
If the 8 depreciates anything like the 6 series it will be a great buy second hand! Paid roughly 50% of the retail value for a 10k 18mth old one this year.
Soldato
Sounds V12'y to me.
I rode in the back of a 640d coupe today. You'd really have to value aesthetics over everything else to justify owning one over a 5 series because the space in the back is just pathetic. I'm 5ft 10" and I didn't fit behind the ~5ft 9" driver. My legs were wrapped around his seat, and my head was touching the headliner.
Fox will lambaste me for saying this, but I didn't think that the interior was quite as "wow" as people make it out to be. They could have done a better job with integrating the Pro Nav screen into the dashboard, and the climate control looked quite old. The engine was nice though!
Fox will lambaste me for saying this, but I didn't think that the interior was quite as "wow" as people make it out to be. They could have done a better job with integrating the Pro Nav screen into the dashboard, and the climate control looked quite old. The engine was nice though!
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Soldato
8 series will be CLAR same as 5 series and 7.