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

[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.

[Marty Funkhouser]

An F10 M5 for just over £15 large. Certainly, sir....

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

[Marty Funkhouser]

Or maybe an S500??

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

[SpeckledJim]

Marty Funkhouser said:

An F10 M5 for just over £15 large. Certainly, sir....

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

That's an E60 you tease!

[BrabusMog]

SpeckledJim said:

Marty Funkhouser said:

An F10 M5 for just over £15 large. Certainly, sir....

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

That's an E60 you tease!

And a bit of a chavvy looking one lol

[Blown2CV]

BrabusMog said:

SpeckledJim said:

Marty Funkhouser said:

An F10 M5 for just over £15 large. Certainly, sir....

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

That's an E60 you tease!

And a bit of a chavvy looking one lol

nothing you couldn't return to standard relatively easily, particularly if you manage to flip that cherished plate but TBH it doesn't look to be particularly valuable or desirable - probs why it's being thrown in.

[SimonTheSailor]

Marty Funkhouser said:

An F10 M5 for just over £15 large. Certainly, sir....

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

And if it's sold by anybody called anything like 'Cars4You' I would run away !!

[Prinny]

SimonTheSailor said:

Marty Funkhouser said:

An F10 M5 for just over £15 large. Certainly, sir....

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

And if it's sold by anybody called anything like 'Cars4You' I would run away !!

Considering the reg plates are from “car planet” (google it), I wouldn’t just run....

It’s also got Accelera Phi tyres, these are the only tyres I have ever thought dangerous on a car. I’m sure they’re fine at 200hp, but they could not cope with full-throttle in the dry on my M6, in 4th Gear, at 3000 rpm. The S85 engine is not known for being a torque monster, but still... At 6000rpm+ the car would randomly torque steer across the road, and if that involved crossing a white line, it’d slew 15 degrees instantly. Even going around a constant radius corner at m-way speeds would get the car twitching. I strongly recommend that if you ever see these tyres on a car you’re looking to buy, you either walk away or negotiate a change into the price.

[alorotom]

Prinny said:

Considering the reg plates are from “car planet” (google it), I wouldn’t just run....

It’s also got Accelera Phi tyres, these are the only tyres I have ever thought dangerous on a car. I’m sure they’re fine at 200hp, but they could not cope with full-throttle in the dry on my M6, in 4th Gear, at 3000 rpm. The S85 engine is not known for being a torque monster, but still... At 6000rpm+ the car would randomly torque steer across the road, and if that involved crossing a white line, it’d slew 15 degrees instantly. Even going around a constant radius corner at m-way speeds would get the car twitching. I strongly recommend that if you ever see these tyres on a car you’re looking to buy, you either walk away or negotiate a change into the price.

And yet I am on the 3rd set of these on my Q7 and they are great - it handles perfectly in the dry and amazingly in snow and ice

Zero issues with grip and slip over what is around 60k miles now

Much improved performance over the continentals that were fitted when I purchased it which felt like they had been greased!

[Patrick Bateman]

Accelera on something like an M6 is madness.

[Marty Funkhouser]

SpeckledJim said:

Marty Funkhouser said:

An F10 M5 for just over £15 large. Certainly, sir....

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

That's an E60 you tease!

Brain fart. Apologies.

[ALawson]

Doing a very random search for petrol estates and this somehow came up. 2.8 A6. Didn't even know these exist.

https://www.christchurchcars.com/used-cars/audi-a6...

Sold already.

[ALawson]

Can any of the Merc beards on here advise what "Technical modifications (10)" and "Modification year 09/2" relate to.

https://www.mercedes-benz.net/p/uk/en/used-cars/e-...

Obviosuly being the other end of the country doesn't help either.

[LetsTryAgain]

alorotom said:

And yet I am on the 3rd set of these on my Q7 and they are great - it handles perfectly in the dry and amazingly in snow and ice

Zero issues with grip and slip over what is around 60k miles now

Much improved performance over the continentals that were fitted when I purchased it which felt like they had been greased!

So your opinion is Accelera tyres are better than Continental?

[alorotom]

LetsTryAgain said:

So your opinion is Accelera tyres are better than Continental?

In my direct experience from the Conti’s fitted and used when I bought it and the Accelera’s since, Yes. Year and season round performance has been much superior and zero issues with grip or stability and TC

[Helicopter123]

Lean back.

https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/...