Year 2000/2001 530d turbo issues

[nellyleelephant]

Me and my girlfriend have just bought a house in France that we're looking to use quite regularly until we are in a position to eventually move out for good.

Currently we have been using her car, a Civic TypeR, which is a laugh, but is a little highly strung and high revving for 300 + motorway miles. The 530d seems to fit the bill perfectly....reasonable pace, impressive economy for it's size and comfort.

We had more or less decided that it was the car for us and were about to start looking around until i read about possible turbo issues, are the problems as scary as they sound or are the cases of failure relatively uncommon?

Thanks in advance
Chris

[nellyleelephant]

anyone?

[nellyleelephant]

i didn't know the petrol version was that frugal! What could we expect to get with 6k?

[nellyleelephant]

So SE is the way forward then! We're after comfort more than anything else anyway, so it's no great loss not having the Sport.

[nellyleelephant]

i guess there's little chance of finding one at a BMW dealership for reasonable money?

probably too old for their radar??

[nellyleelephant]

I've come across a 02 525 from Stratstone BMW for just under 6k.

Any ideas how the above compares to the 530?

Sorry for all the questions!

[nellyleelephant]

not sure if the following link will work, not the best when it comes to these things.

this is the one

http://www.stratstone.com/vehiclesearch/used/bmw-u...

[nellyleelephant]

We would do, but the civic has to go first!!!

[nellyleelephant]

Not sure how keen they would be to trade in with money going our way....

The civic is worth more, although they might not see it that way!