High Mileage M4

[Scrubs]

Found an BMW dealer with a 2014 M4 with 72K miles on the clock which I can get for 34k.

Any thoughts on this and anything I should be concerned about? Obviously it will have the 1 year BMW warranty with it, and budget wise, going above 34k just now is not an option.

Any higher mileage M4 owners out there? I would be putting about 8k miles on it a year.

Thoughts?

[CooperS]

As per with any M car I'd wonder the value impact as you get closer to 100k as the warranty from Mondial use to when I had a M car two price cliffs one at 60k and then 100k.

I'd be asking for 2 years of warranty cover in the negotiations

[rich12]

Resale.

Keep it for two years and it will have near 90k on a 5 year old car whereas 90% of the others will have probably half that.
You buy it from BMW at trade price and either sell it to a dealer so losing both ends again or have the hassle to try and sell a car that most people wouldn't even consider unless it's massively cheaper.

I'm definitely not a mileage queen and i've had plenty of cars with high mileage but i'd never buy a car like this unless it was massively cheaper by some way.

I know you can't go over the £34k but an extra £2k seems to get one with half that mileage.

Edited by rich12 on Sunday 14th May 21:30

[hairyben]

If it was good and a keeper it wouldnt bother me so long as the price was right but you will get massively bummed on resale, for that reason alone it'd be worth paying more for a more desirable milage.

[helix402]

Don't worry. It's not high mileage.

[interstellar]

I know it's not the same but you could get a new 340i for that.

[JMBMWM5]

Personally I would give it a miss and look to pay a bit more for much lower miles.

[mmm-five]

interstellar said:

I know it's not the same but you could get a new 340i for that.

I know it's not the same but you could get a new 340 2 houses in Sunderland for that.

[XMT]

JMBMWM5 said:

Personally I would give it a miss and look to pay a bit more for much lower miles.

+1.

[R33FAL]

XMT said:

+1.

+1 Price would need to start with a £2X,XXX... considering the mileage

[claudereff]

I would swerve it, you could get some big bills plus might be unsaleable should you wish to sell. There is no cheap way to run one of these

[Andy OH]

There's a black M4 on BMW AUC for not a lot more with half the mileage. As someone said above the one you're looking at needs to start in the late £20k's. With 72k miles that's going to start costing you in maintenance. I'd avoid it unless it was priced as we've suggested.

[R33FAL]

Same price

Half the mileage

http://www.s-s-c.co.uk/bmw-m3-dct-4dr-start-stop-i...

[Andy OH]

R33FAL said:

Same price

Half the mileage

http://www.s-s-c.co.uk/bmw-m3-dct-4dr-start-stop-i...

I think the OP is looking for an M4 not an M3, but yes more or less the same car but with 4 doors.

[andymc]

R33FAL said:

Same price

Half the mileage

http://www.s-s-c.co.uk/bmw-m3-dct-4dr-start-stop-i...

and a 3 month third party warranty

[cringle]

I sold my absolutely mint 21,000 mile 2014 M4 for £37,200 back in december...so 34k for this car 5 months later is not a great deal at all. Don't be scared to haggle with private sellers, as the cars will still be under the original 3yr warranty and get a professional inspection if necessary.

[Wills2]

It's not the mileage that counts it's how the car has been driven and looked after.

[CooperS]

Wills2 said:

It's not the mileage that counts it's how the car has been driven and looked after.

Haha if resale is not a concern or your in a incredibly niche market where everyone knows everyone else like the TVR market

[Wills2]

CooperS said:

Wills2 said:

It's not the mileage that counts it's how the car has been driven and looked after.

Haha if resale is not a concern or your in a incredibly niche market where everyone knows everyone else like the TVR market

The market sets the price at any given mileage, so the I'm not sure what you mean? Low mileage car costs more so you pay more high mileage car costs less so you pay less....

I'm not referencing that car in the OP as that is over priced, but people who think a car falls apart after 100k miles make me smile.

No wonder so many cars are clocked these days.