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T here were 2500ish automatics registered.
If you want a 50k mile car you are looking at cars that have done on average 5k or less per year. There will be a miniscule amount of cars for which this is case, and even fewer will be for sale. It's going to be like looking for a needle in the world's largest haystack. How many people do you think spent £35,000 on a big executive saloon and then barely used them? A few people but not many. Most of the old guys who bought this sort of car and never used it bought an SE not a Sport.
What's more I'm not even sure what the point of it is. An ultra low mileage E39 isn't going to protect you against bills and neither is it going to be a world away condition wise from cars with higher mileage. I sourced a low mileage 530i Sport Touring (Under 60k) for my parents but only by co-incidence, I didn't care what the mileage was and it happened to appear. Compared to my lolmileage example there is little to tell them apart on the inside - my driver's seat is a bit more worn, my passenger/rear seats are infact far less worn and generally my interior is a nicer despite having 3 times the mileage (My rear seats still look virtually as new!). Externally mine is better as well. Infact the wear is consistent with what you'd expect on a car that's spent almost 10 years popping into town etc with its single owner from new. Tidy but not immaculate.
IMHO the key to a nice E39 is finding a rare 1 owner car and not necessarily a low miler. Whatever you buy you must accept these are 9-12 year old BMW's and WILL require bits and bobs replacing to freshen them up and will drop bills in the future. The way to avoid a shed is to ignore the 3-5 owner cars with cheap tyres, cheap servicing or dodgy mods and not fixate on the mileage.
If you are obsessive about low mileage buy something much newer as that's the only easy way to get low mileage.
If you want a 50k mile car you are looking at cars that have done on average 5k or less per year. There will be a miniscule amount of cars for which this is case, and even fewer will be for sale. It's going to be like looking for a needle in the world's largest haystack. How many people do you think spent £35,000 on a big executive saloon and then barely used them? A few people but not many. Most of the old guys who bought this sort of car and never used it bought an SE not a Sport.
What's more I'm not even sure what the point of it is. An ultra low mileage E39 isn't going to protect you against bills and neither is it going to be a world away condition wise from cars with higher mileage. I sourced a low mileage 530i Sport Touring (Under 60k) for my parents but only by co-incidence, I didn't care what the mileage was and it happened to appear. Compared to my lolmileage example there is little to tell them apart on the inside - my driver's seat is a bit more worn, my passenger/rear seats are infact far less worn and generally my interior is a nicer despite having 3 times the mileage (My rear seats still look virtually as new!). Externally mine is better as well. Infact the wear is consistent with what you'd expect on a car that's spent almost 10 years popping into town etc with its single owner from new. Tidy but not immaculate.
IMHO the key to a nice E39 is finding a rare 1 owner car and not necessarily a low miler. Whatever you buy you must accept these are 9-12 year old BMW's and WILL require bits and bobs replacing to freshen them up and will drop bills in the future. The way to avoid a shed is to ignore the 3-5 owner cars with cheap tyres, cheap servicing or dodgy mods and not fixate on the mileage.
If you are obsessive about low mileage buy something much newer as that's the only easy way to get low mileage.
No, I think thats a different windscreen.
Ok sure it's technically not mine but it's my Dads plane and I once bought him a bulb for it so I own a little bit of it.
You might want to tell your dad to get on the phone to the CAA as his plane is registered to VALLEY FLYING COMPANY LTD who presumably bought it from Enstone Flying Club...
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You replied pre-edit so that would be Enstone Flying Club you're referring to?
Interesting, as they sold the plane and it sat neglected for a while (according to some people that used to fly it regularly as part of the club ) - presumably before being bought by Valley Flying Company Ltd.
EDIT: Let's play fair: Hovis it up
Interesting, as they sold the plane and it sat neglected for a while (according to some people that used to fly it regularly as part of the club ) - presumably before being bought by Valley Flying Company Ltd.
EDIT: Let's play fair: Hovis it up
Deal 
I keep my car in the same hanger. His current, well sold within the last few days is a Europa XS - G-BYPM. Feel free to check that one out, infact you can see a picture of old man Prince in picture number 2 on the CAA website.
I keep my car in the same hanger. His current, well sold within the last few days is a Europa XS - G-BYPM. Feel free to check that one out, infact you can see a picture of old man Prince in picture number 2 on the CAA website.
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The 9-3 Aero is a cracking car for the money imho, dash aside i think they look really nice.
I'm not sure I'll ever sell it. Opened the rear door today to grab something out of the footwell and I'm still amazed just how.. completely perfect and as-new it is in there
I almost sold it to DRZ back in July. Had I gone through with it I have no doubt it would have been the biggest mistake I'd ever made. It's a truely fantastic car and I absolutely love it.
cheers bud
yes its a lot of car for the money
really good to drive and nice and fast