New Toy - M140i
Discussion
I doubt you'll get the second service in and I think the new plan is designed so that it's very unlikely to happen.
Most cars seem to be stretching services out to 20k plus unless you rag it around constantly or do all your driving in stop-start town traffic, scenarios where also doing 12k+ miles per year to squeeze the second service in seem unlikely. Even Pete (VerySideways) who uses M235's as his Petrolhead.tours tour cars driving them enthusiastically all round Europe on driving holidays still has both his cars predicting service intervals above 18k miles!
Most cars seem to be stretching services out to 20k plus unless you rag it around constantly or do all your driving in stop-start town traffic, scenarios where also doing 12k+ miles per year to squeeze the second service in seem unlikely. Even Pete (VerySideways) who uses M235's as his Petrolhead.tours tour cars driving them enthusiastically all round Europe on driving holidays still has both his cars predicting service intervals above 18k miles!
LocoBlade said:
I doubt you'll get the second service in and I think the new plan is designed so that it's very unlikely to happen.
Most cars seem to be stretching services out to 20k plus unless you rag it around constantly or do all your driving in stop-start town traffic, scenarios where also doing 12k+ miles per year to squeeze the second service in seem unlikely. Even Pete (VerySideways) who uses M235's as his Petrolhead.tours tour cars driving them enthusiastically all round Europe on driving holidays still has both his cars predicting service intervals above 18k miles!
My 325i N53 was last serviced at about 37k. It's currently on 44k. The OBC is currently saying that it's due in 20k miles.Most cars seem to be stretching services out to 20k plus unless you rag it around constantly or do all your driving in stop-start town traffic, scenarios where also doing 12k+ miles per year to squeeze the second service in seem unlikely. Even Pete (VerySideways) who uses M235's as his Petrolhead.tours tour cars driving them enthusiastically all round Europe on driving holidays still has both his cars predicting service intervals above 18k miles!
Nearly 30k between oil changes?!?!
It has an easy life :-)
LocoBlade said:
Most cars seem to be stretching services out to 20k plus unless you rag it around constantly or do all your driving in stop-start town traffic, scenarios where also doing 12k+ miles per year to squeeze the second service in seem unlikely. Even Pete (VerySideways) who uses M235's as his Petrolhead.tours tour cars driving them enthusiastically all round Europe on driving holidays still has both his cars predicting service intervals above 18k miles!
Yup, our pair of M235i's are up to 19k miles and moaning about front pads in a few hundred miles but don't need oil service for another couple of thousand miles.Over 20k miles between oil services! They work hard but they also do very few cold starts, I can only assume that's a factor.
Edited by VerySideways on Thursday 16th March 20:08
My next company car is an Estoril 5dr, adaptive dampers, reverse camera, sun protection glass, comfort pack full black panel display, sport auto, pro nav, and something else I can't remember. I like the 435d and will miss it, but was offered an M240 and said ok, but it won't be here until May. That's Mineral Grey sport auto, and will have adaptive suspension and some other bits, so will use this until then.
Should be good, as I've only used the M135i once which was sort of fun. Just working on fitting some bits, possibly MP Kit, MP brakes, MP exhaust, door projector led's and maybe an MP steering wheel with race display, but no doubt they won't let me fit it all haha. I think it will end up with the MP Kit and exhaust only as already discussed, we'll see.
Should be good, as I've only used the M135i once which was sort of fun. Just working on fitting some bits, possibly MP Kit, MP brakes, MP exhaust, door projector led's and maybe an MP steering wheel with race display, but no doubt they won't let me fit it all haha. I think it will end up with the MP Kit and exhaust only as already discussed, we'll see.
Mine was delivered last week and I love it. I went for the poverty spec model but it has all the things I really need/want (apart from rear parking sensors perhaps).
As anyone else who has one could tell you it's really very fast! I've been using it every day to get to work and back (a mix of A roads and motorways with a tiny bit of town traffic at the end) and it makes for a fun commute every day.
Fuel economy so far hasn't been the best though... 27.7mpg over 420 miles. I guess the novelty of flooring the accelerator at every opportunity might wear off and the economy might improve!
I'm leasing the car on a 3+23 deal at £318 a month 10k miles p.a.
As anyone else who has one could tell you it's really very fast! I've been using it every day to get to work and back (a mix of A roads and motorways with a tiny bit of town traffic at the end) and it makes for a fun commute every day.
Fuel economy so far hasn't been the best though... 27.7mpg over 420 miles. I guess the novelty of flooring the accelerator at every opportunity might wear off and the economy might improve!
I'm leasing the car on a 3+23 deal at £318 a month 10k miles p.a.
PeteinSQ said:
Mine was delivered last week and I love it. I went for the poverty spec model but it has all the things I really need/want (apart from rear parking sensors perhaps).
As anyone else who has one could tell you it's really very fast! I've been using it every day to get to work and back (a mix of A roads and motorways with a tiny bit of town traffic at the end) and it makes for a fun commute every day.
Fuel economy so far hasn't been the best though... 27.7mpg over 420 miles. I guess the novelty of flooring the accelerator at every opportunity might wear off and the economy might improve!
I'm leasing the car on a 3+23 deal at £318 a month 10k miles p.a.
As good as it sounds I dont think thats cheap.As anyone else who has one could tell you it's really very fast! I've been using it every day to get to work and back (a mix of A roads and motorways with a tiny bit of town traffic at the end) and it makes for a fun commute every day.
Fuel economy so far hasn't been the best though... 27.7mpg over 420 miles. I guess the novelty of flooring the accelerator at every opportunity might wear off and the economy might improve!
I'm leasing the car on a 3+23 deal at £318 a month 10k miles p.a.
Your basically renting it for 2 years for well over £8000, and limited on milage.
If a brand new base car is £25300 online, take £8000 off after 2 years, and its like selling it for £17000.
You cant get a 5 year old m135 for that, especially with less than 20k miles.
nottyash said:
PeteinSQ said:
Mine was delivered last week and I love it. I went for the poverty spec model but it has all the things I really need/want (apart from rear parking sensors perhaps).
As anyone else who has one could tell you it's really very fast! I've been using it every day to get to work and back (a mix of A roads and motorways with a tiny bit of town traffic at the end) and it makes for a fun commute every day.
Fuel economy so far hasn't been the best though... 27.7mpg over 420 miles. I guess the novelty of flooring the accelerator at every opportunity might wear off and the economy might improve!
I'm leasing the car on a 3+23 deal at £318 a month 10k miles p.a.
As good as it sounds I dont think thats cheap.As anyone else who has one could tell you it's really very fast! I've been using it every day to get to work and back (a mix of A roads and motorways with a tiny bit of town traffic at the end) and it makes for a fun commute every day.
Fuel economy so far hasn't been the best though... 27.7mpg over 420 miles. I guess the novelty of flooring the accelerator at every opportunity might wear off and the economy might improve!
I'm leasing the car on a 3+23 deal at £318 a month 10k miles p.a.
Your basically renting it for 2 years for well over £8000, and limited on milage.
If a brand new base car is £25300 online, take £8000 off after 2 years, and its like selling it for £17000.
You cant get a 5 year old m135 for that, especially with less than 20k miles.
That said, I have to disagree slightly with your observation on price as although mine has 33k on it, if someone offered me £17k for mine I'd bite their hand off! And mine isn't even a poverty spec model!
M135i has to be one of, if not the best bang for your buck car at the moment.
snorkel sucker said:
Prices of used M135i are all over the place thanks to BMW and their massive discounts.
That said, I have to disagree slightly with your observation on price as although mine has 33k on it, if someone offered me £17k for mine I'd bite their hand off! And mine isn't even a poverty spec model!
M135i has to be one of, if not the best bang for your buck car at the moment.
On Autotrader as I write this the cheapest with 30000 miles on is a blue 63 plate at £16995.That said, I have to disagree slightly with your observation on price as although mine has 33k on it, if someone offered me £17k for mine I'd bite their hand off! And mine isn't even a poverty spec model!
M135i has to be one of, if not the best bang for your buck car at the moment.
Loads of high milage and cat d for a few grand less, but anyway we are talking of giving a M140 back just 2 year old, and less than 20000 miles (in fact 16000 I think) and there is no way there is any 2 year old cars with that milage any where near that price
When I did the sums I didn't realise that you could buy the car for as little as £25300 so you're probably right and I might well end up out of pocket vs buying it outright with a bank loan and then selling it after two years.
The limited mileage does actually more or less suit me on the basis that it uses a lot of fuel and so is more of a toy (albeit one I use to get to work) rather than family transport.
The limited mileage does actually more or less suit me on the basis that it uses a lot of fuel and so is more of a toy (albeit one I use to get to work) rather than family transport.
PeteinSQ said:
When I did the sums I didn't realise that you could buy the car for as little as £25300 so you're probably right and I might well end up out of pocket vs buying it outright with a bank loan and then selling it after two years.
The limited mileage does actually more or less suit me on the basis that it uses a lot of fuel and so is more of a toy (albeit one I use to get to work) rather than family transport.
Looking into it further, I am not sure the discount is quite as good as it appears, because part depends on you taking out a PCP deal and paying intrest, so maybe the difference isnt that great after all. The limited mileage does actually more or less suit me on the basis that it uses a lot of fuel and so is more of a toy (albeit one I use to get to work) rather than family transport.
nottyash said:
Looking into it further, I am not sure the discount is quite as good as it appears, because part depends on you taking out a PCP deal and paying intrest, so maybe the difference isnt that great after all.
The discount on the M140i isn't (or at least wasn't last quarter, unless it's changed?) tied to any finance so you could get the same contributions on a cash sale. The M240i is slightly different in that half of the £3k contribution was via BMW Finance so you do need a finance package, but you can just get £5k of it on HP through them to earn the discount then pay it off in full within 14 days and you only pay interest of a few quid to cover those days and still keep the discount.This outfit tend to be fairly competitive, so this level of discount (around 21%) is probably a good starting point
http://www.broker4cars.co.uk/Buy/New_Car.jsp?selec...
http://www.broker4cars.co.uk/Buy/New_Car.jsp?selec...
Kolbenkopp said:
Hi folks! Sorry, bit of a thread ressurection, But a question if I may: what's the current street price / typical discount for an M140i in the UK? Bought outright if that makes a difference WRT potential deposit contributions.
Ty,
KK
Tony Lewis at Berry BMW Heathrow seems the cheapest for these, see http://www.babybmw.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=80&am...Ty,
KK
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