Previously Owned
robi4387's  BMW  e66  760Li  (2006)
Last updated: Monday 18th May
 

Bought for £3,200 in August 2017 at 217,696 miles. Sold for £1,000 at 229,712 miles.

2026 Shock - it is on Autotrader with an Android head and big speakers for &#163;8k no haggling but all the mechanical stuff that I thought beyond economic repair and a parts car now left for a punter to discover: valve stem seals, oil leaks, steering rack window, 9J front and rear, smokes and drinks and a few SRS warning lights - sad. <br/> <br/>2025 Update - So my wife has had enough of the electrical woes and my daughter wants her blind to work - sold to a dealer telling him everything that was wrong with it. <br/> <br/>2023-24 update. Apparently euthanasia is illegal so we fix it and I replace the door brake bushes, but more computer woes and now the OSR rear window and everything on that door is dead and a weird problem with ride height related to CAS. <br/> <br/> <br/>2020-2021 update for my 2006 760Li <br/>Is there a Dignitas for cars? Active air-spring-shock failed again. B-Pillar crash sensor. The oil-level sensor failed and a replacement from BMW also faulty. Firmware upgrade caused more problems than it fixed. Bonnet release. Brake-lines rusted. Computers waking. iDrive crashed unable to set date. Multiple sensor failures. Cyl 12 misfire that's 5 hours to fix. So, it's immobile and with the HiFi now dead I can't even sit and listen to music on the drive. <br/>It draws 0.4amps, so a cable to a trickle charger is like life support. I'm beginning to think that pulling the plug would be a mercy killing. <br/> <br/>2019 - I don't mind paying for brakes, clutches, tyres, oil coolers, aircon rads, windscreens. It is the endless messages warning of impending doom. Oh and when something is really wrong, think of a number and treble it. <br/>2017 Jury is not in yet. In fact after 4 months it is still in the garage being fixed.
Costs Over 96 Months
and 12,016 miles
Total Per
Year
Per
Month
Per
Mile
Depreciation:   £2,200   £275   £23   18.3p
Fuel (679 gallons @ 17.7 mpg):   £4,148   £518   £43   34.5p
Total: £6,348   £793   £66 £0.53
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