Just something to see if it works. Mod on Duty!

[Jimmy Recard]

Atmospheric said:

We wouldn't touch it from this vendor, obviously. But an interesting F10, naturally aspirated, manual 530i





Ruined by the tinted light brigade, though

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2017...

I think I like that even more than the 550i up the page. Apart from the black grille surrounds and tinted lights, it's a very, very nice car

[Atmospheric]

Definitely not my sort of car, but not long now for what was £100k:






http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2017...

[tomic]

That 530i does look nice apart from the tinted bits.I didn't realise they were still selling NA 3.0 cars at that point. I had a 2008 330i with the same N53 engine as that one. It was really very nice on the odd occasion that it worked but it suffered repeated failed injectors and coils as well as the NOX sensor going and the HPFP, even after it was recalled.

I wonder if a 2012 car would be more well sorted. Mine was still suffering failures in 2015.

[louiebaby]

hornetrider said:

I hear you but that looks relatively poverty spec non? This looks tidy.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2017...

Possibly better. Does it have a reversing camera?

[p1stonhead]

Atmospheric said:

Definitely not my sort of car, but not long now for what was £100k:






http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2017...

BMW currently have an AUC X6M for £28.5k which I thought was cheap for what it once cost and that it would come with a warranty!

http://usedcars.bmw.co.uk/M/4.4-X6M/Nottingham/245...

[hornetrider]

louiebaby said:

hornetrider said:

I hear you but that looks relatively poverty spec non? This looks tidy.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2017...

Possibly better. Does it have a reversing camera?

Yup

[tomic]

p1stonhead said:

BMW currently have an AUC X6M for £28.5k which I thought was cheap for what it once cost and that it would come with a warranty!

http://usedcars.bmw.co.uk/M/4.4-X6M/Nottingham/245...

X6's are normally gopping but that one is particularly horrific. I can just picture the sort of person who'd buy it.

[Blown2CV]

X6 are horrible enough to be cheap, and therefore are worthy thread inclusions!! Worth stating again though - they are hanging.

[Thankyou4calling]

This is quite a car for the money. Is it an Alpina or just a body kit?

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2017...

[hornetrider]

Body kit.

[E24man]

Alpina haven't used the V12 engine since the E38 - the E65/66, F's and G's are all forced induction V8's.

[anonymous-user]

Vastly overpriced (£30k)
But why wouldn't you buy a brand new, armored 550i from 2006 with only 260 miles?

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2017...

[p1stonhead]

sleepera6 said:

Vastly overpriced (£30k)
But why wouldn't you buy a brand new, armored 550i from 2006 with only 260 miles?

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2017...

God I wonder how much that weighs!

I'd imagnie fuel consumption is measured in gallons per mile.

[Krikkit]

It's only B4-level (handgun, basically) armour, so it won't be as titanic as a higher-up level. B6 is where it starts to get really weighty.

[E24man]

sleepera6 said:

Vastly overpriced (£30k)
But why wouldn't you buy a brand new, armored 550i from 2006 with only 260 miles?

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2017...

Indeed vastly overpriced considering a gorgeous Claypso Red E32 750iL Protection with just a thousand or so miles went through an auction last year at under £10k. An E32 would always get my particular vote over an E65 but a Protection wouldn't get my vote for the sheer weight - anywhere from half to three quarters of a tonne extra leading to single figure mpg and silly things like stupid expensive tyres and suspension and oddities like no rear opening windows.

[cjcor]

sleepera6 said:

Vastly overpriced (£30k)
But why wouldn't you buy a brand new, armored 550i from 2006 with only 260 miles?

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2017...

Five months on, they have dropped the price by 7k...wonder how much further it will have to drop before it finds a home..

[ATM]

cjcor said:

sleepera6 said:

Vastly overpriced (£30k)
But why wouldn't you buy a brand new, armored 550i from 2006 with only 260 miles?

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2017...

Five months on, they have dropped the price by 7k...wonder how much further it will have to drop before it finds a home..

Surely its cheaper to just be polite to your neighbours?

[anonymous-user]

Ha, I was just about to comment that I posted that some time ago and then I realised it was me

You’d have to be pretty desperate to own a 550i to buy that but as a new car you can’t really complain, can you?

[ATM]

sleepera6 said:

Ha, I was just about to comment that I posted that some time ago and then I realised it was me

You’d have to be pretty desperate to own a 550i to buy that but as a new car you can’t really complain, can you?

Err you do know the bullet proofing makes the car weigh more than the QE2 so it will be slower than a slow thing going slowly.

[Krikkit]

ATM said:

sleepera6 said:

Ha, I was just about to comment that I posted that some time ago and then I realised it was me

You’d have to be pretty desperate to own a 550i to buy that but as a new car you can’t really complain, can you?

Err you do know the bullet proofing makes the car weigh more than the QE2 so it will be slower than a slow thing going slowly.

Not quite so much at lower armour levels, BMW claimed +250kg for that one, so about 3/4 people's worth.