E46 328i
Hi All,
I am considering buying my parents car and have a few questions about it.
The car is a W reg (2000) BMW 328i 70k manual with leather, aircon, parking sensors but no nav (I assume that was an option anyway).
Firstly, what do you think it's worth? It's got a couple of spots of rust, one where the rear wing joins the boot, and one lower down near the light cluster. These would need fixing, and they don't look to be in the easiest places to work on, so is budgeting around £500 too little of too much?
I was thinking of offering around £2000, they've been offered something like 1.5k as part ex if that helps. Any thoughts?
Now for the next bit, running costs.
I know tyres will be fairly expensive, fuel will be better, or similar to the car I'm driving at the moment ('R' reg 1.6 Rover 25, 25-28mpg :-/). Servicing is done at a local indy, who seems pretty good and servicing costs have never seemed too bad.
I'll be doing around 8k miles a year.
Am I right in thinking that the engine in this is fairly reliable? It should be steel lined. I believe it has vanos, is this going to blow up on me? Anything else that could throw up a big bill?
Thanks for any help, I'm hoping it will turn out to be viable, as I'm sick of driving around in that horrible bloody rover. :-/
Hi All,
I am considering buying my parents car and have a few questions about it.
The car is a W reg (2000) BMW 328i 70k manual with leather, aircon, parking sensors but no nav (I assume that was an option anyway).
Firstly, what do you think it's worth? It's got a couple of spots of rust, one where the rear wing joins the boot, and one lower down near the light cluster. These would need fixing, and they don't look to be in the easiest places to work on, so is budgeting around £500 too little of too much?
I was thinking of offering around £2000, they've been offered something like 1.5k as part ex if that helps. Any thoughts?
Now for the next bit, running costs.
I know tyres will be fairly expensive, fuel will be better, or similar to the car I'm driving at the moment ('R' reg 1.6 Rover 25, 25-28mpg :-/). Servicing is done at a local indy, who seems pretty good and servicing costs have never seemed too bad.
I'll be doing around 8k miles a year.
Am I right in thinking that the engine in this is fairly reliable? It should be steel lined. I believe it has vanos, is this going to blow up on me? Anything else that could throw up a big bill?
Thanks for any help, I'm hoping it will turn out to be viable, as I'm sick of driving around in that horrible bloody rover. :-/
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