Talk me out of a z4mr
Discussion
Janosh said:
Looking forward to photos and your report on how the S54 sounds wide open / roof down 
It needs an aftermarket exhaust, that's for sure. I know Hayward & Scott do a lovely system for the Z4M, which gives the 6 cylinder engine the noise it deserves! I drove a standard Z4MR and wasn't hugely taken by the soundtrack.Fantastic car though! Not hugely ruinous when it comes to running one either. I know one of the inspection/services is near £1K, so make sure that's been done, or is some time off!
I have the coupe, and do 25-30k miles in it a year, and I wouldn't call it ruinous.
The stealer list price of an I2 is £1200-£1400 depending on which stealer you ask, but if you use MainDealerDiscount or a specialist, you can get the same thing for half that.
My only 'issue' is fuel (about £7k of it a year), but even at my normal cruising speed of above 80mpm I still get 27mpg out of it.
The other (annualised) costs are minimal:
- 2-3 oil services a year (interim & scheduled every 7k miles) - £300
- <1 major service a year (alternating between an I1 & I2) - £700
- one set of rears a year - £360
- one set of fronts every 2 years - £150
- one set of brake pads & discs every year - £200
- one set of discs every 2 years - £500
So a total (excluding petrol/tax/insurance) of about £2000 a year to run - plus whatever maintenance pops up.
It's currently at 110k miles though and I've got a suspension & brake refresh scheduled for this year. I'm taking the opportunity to upgrade everything, so it's going to cost about £6k.
Then there's the issue of the billions of stone-chips/pin-pricks on the front end and a little dent in the bonnet, which will need doing soon too, but will be less than £1k and might try to have it done at the same time as I'm getting the suspension/brakes done (if funds/time allows).
The stealer list price of an I2 is £1200-£1400 depending on which stealer you ask, but if you use MainDealerDiscount or a specialist, you can get the same thing for half that.
My only 'issue' is fuel (about £7k of it a year), but even at my normal cruising speed of above 80mpm I still get 27mpg out of it.
The other (annualised) costs are minimal:
- 2-3 oil services a year (interim & scheduled every 7k miles) - £300
- <1 major service a year (alternating between an I1 & I2) - £700
- one set of rears a year - £360
- one set of fronts every 2 years - £150
- one set of brake pads & discs every year - £200
- one set of discs every 2 years - £500
So a total (excluding petrol/tax/insurance) of about £2000 a year to run - plus whatever maintenance pops up.
It's currently at 110k miles though and I've got a suspension & brake refresh scheduled for this year. I'm taking the opportunity to upgrade everything, so it's going to cost about £6k.
Then there's the issue of the billions of stone-chips/pin-pricks on the front end and a little dent in the bonnet, which will need doing soon too, but will be less than £1k and might try to have it done at the same time as I'm getting the suspension/brakes done (if funds/time allows).
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