M140 Shadow Edition - just gone and ordered one

[duckson]

You can still order cars to your spec.

Must haves? Can really differ but I’d go with what was posted above inc metallic as that keeps you under the increased tax limit at ~£40k.

[BigShick]

I thought this was a good price for a used one with the options you would possibly/probably want:

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

If it was an auto I would have gone for it

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Deep Thought said:

I'm a bit late to the M140i party, but we are going to be ringing the local stealers RE: one at the start of the week.

So i've a few questions if anyone can answer them :-

Are they still available to order to build or are there only built cars left, or are there no new cars left? Would prefer brand new, but would be happy with 2019 or 2018 low miles car if needs be.

Wanting a 5 door auto as minimum spec. What are the "must have" options?

Still available to factory order (I believe until June). BMW have hidden the configurator to put people off.

From what I’ve worked out, the best deals run out this month. I was told that BMW won’t be providing any additional support beyond March. Mine was discounted by £10.5k.

A new car was virtually the same as a year old car.

Must haves for me were pro nav and heated seats. I’m not fussed about the adaptive suspension. I borrowed a car without it last year and got on just fine. I’d have liked a better colour than white, but didn’t want to pay for it because coming out of my company car scheme monthly costs were king.

There are stock cars kicking about, but I found they were either too highly spec’d so got hit with the extra tax or didn’t hav pro nav which I really wanted.

[Deep Thought]

Court_S said:

Still available to factory order (I believe until June). BMW have hidden the configurator to put people off.

From what I’ve worked out, the best deals run out this month. I was told that BMW won’t be providing any additional support beyond March. Mine was discounted by £10.5k.

A new car was virtually the same as a year old car.

Must haves for me were pro nav and heated seats. I’m not fussed about the adaptive suspension. I borrowed a car without it last year and got on just fine. I’d have liked a better colour than white, but didn’t want to pay for it because coming out of my company car scheme monthly costs were king.

There are stock cars kicking about, but I found they were either too highly spec’d so got hit with the extra tax or didn’t hav pro nav which I really wanted.

Many thanks for this

Was that a TRL deal or by your local dealer?

I will be ringing my local dealer tomorrow AM to make an appointment to go talk to them this week.

[HannsG]

Hi guys,

OP here, my local garage decided to price match TRL and also allow me to play with the spec. I was fairly shocked, they matched the deal to the penny and allowed to change alloy choice and so on. Also got a free service chucked in.

Nothing against TRL, it's just that the trip to Heathrow would have been a ball ache. And my local dealership have looked after my M3 for a number of years.

So I have chosen the following.

Estoril Blue
Adaptive M Suspension (Dealer thought I should leave off - I said no)
Folding Electric Door Mirrors
Heated Front Seats
Front and Rear PDC
Professional Media Package
Estoril Blue Dash insert for interior
Black leather with blue stitching
Orbit Grey alloys (I prefer these to the Jet black).

Car comes in April.

Very excited.

The choice on the adaptive was personal. And having read the countless threads about it it was a must have.

One again, Tony (TRL) was fantastic and I thoroughly recommend him. He has the deals guys, so make sure you ask him.

Edited by HannsG on Sunday 17th March 18:06

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Deep Thought said:

Many thanks for this

Was that a TRL deal or by your local dealer?

I will be ringing my local dealer tomorrow AM to make an appointment to go talk to them this week.

Yeah, via TRL.

My local dealer was circa £3k more over the four years because they wanted a £2k deposit and were about £15 a month more. They weren’t interested in matching TRL and said even at their price it was costing them to sell me the car. Plus the cheeky sods tried to add GAP and paint protection automatically adding even more to the monthly costs.

The other place would have matched it but were too keen / needy. Not sure where you are, but I think there are deals to be done with a dealer in Stafford given how they were with me.

What I liked about TRL is that it’s all laid out on his section on BabyBMW...base cost of £383 per month with no deposit and then a monthly cost for fear option, extra mileage etc. Heathrow isn’t local but doable at just under three hours on the train.

[Deep Thought]

Court_S said:

Deep Thought said:

Many thanks for this

Was that a TRL deal or by your local dealer?

I will be ringing my local dealer tomorrow AM to make an appointment to go talk to them this week.

Yeah, via TRL.

My local dealer was circa £3k more over the four years because they wanted a £2k deposit and were about £15 a month more. They weren’t interested in matching TRL and said even at their price it was costing them to sell me the car. Plus the cheeky sods tried to add GAP and paint protection automatically adding even more to the monthly costs.

The other place would have matched it but were too keen / needy. Not sure where you are, but I think there are deals to be done with a dealer in Stafford given how they were with me.

What I liked about TRL is that it’s all laid out on his section on BabyBMW...base cost of £383 per month with no deposit and then a monthly cost for fear option, extra mileage etc. Heathrow isn’t local but doable at just under three hours on the train.

Thats very useful thank you. We are in NI so unless the dealer(s) here can price match or come very close to it, then we're in to the realms of dealing with TRL then flying over to pick it up. Not adverse to that, particularly if theres £3,000 difference.

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Deep Thought said:

Thats very useful thank you. We are in NI so unless the dealer(s) here can price match or come very close to it, then we're in to the realms of dealing with TRL then flying over to pick it up. Not adverse to that, particularly if theres £3,000 difference.

No worries.

£3k is £3k at the end of the day. The main reason Ian that TRL has some no deposit offers which coming out of my company car scheme appealed because I didn’t need to put any of my own money into it.

It’s been very straight forward so far which is nice. No popping off to see the sales manager etc. Good luck with your purchase.

[Deep Thought]

Court_S said:

No worries.

£3k is £3k at the end of the day. The main reason Ian that TRL has some no deposit offers which coming out of my company car scheme appealed because I didn’t need to put any of my own money into it.

It’s been very straight forward so far which is nice. No popping off to see the sales manager etc. Good luck with your purchase.

Absolutely. I dont care how much people are making - £3,000 is a lot of cash. If it means me taking some saturday to fly to London and drive it to the ferry and get it home, then not a problem.

[Deep Thought]

Whats the thinking on the Orange? My wife likes the Orange whereas my preference would be the grey which is apparently dullsville

[HannsG]

Deep Thought said:

Whats the thinking on the Orange? My wife likes the Orange whereas my preference would be the grey which is apparently dullsville

Grey looks great. Orange and Blue were very close decision for me

Estoril in person looked fantastic.

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Deep Thought said:

Whats the thinking on the Orange? My wife likes the Orange whereas my preference would be the grey which is apparently dullsville

It’s bloody lovely, especially in the flesh. It changes depending on the light. It was my preferred colour choice, but I’m marginally over my target budget so stuck with recession white. The orange works really well on the shadow edition too. Do it.

[ilikejam]

Orange in Shadow Edition form is the bogs dollocks. I had a white one which also looked good, but as with Estoril they're just a bit too common a colour in 1 series generally. My preference would be orange, then red, then mineral grey.

[Deep Thought]

ilikejam said:

Orange in Shadow Edition form is the bogs dollocks. I had a white one which also looked good, but as with Estoril they're just a bit too common a colour in 1 series generally. My preference would be orange, then red, then mineral grey.

Our a45 was red so we would have a preference not to have another red car so soon.

Orange and mineral grey would be the front runners currently for us.

Spoke to the dealer this morn. Organising test drive for Friday PM or Saturday. Checking with OH as to what suits her best.

But yes the orange with the dark alloys holds a lot of appeal.

Did someone say with shadow edition you have your choice of black or anthracite alloys?

[ilikejam]

It's a few years ago now, but there used to be a guy on BabyBMW who made front splitters and they really just finished off the front end perfectly. Think it was about £180 delivered and painted gloss black and took me (a useless fecker) about 15 minutes to fit. Worth looking up.

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Deep Thought said:

Our a45 was red so we would have a preference not to have another red car so soon.

Orange and mineral grey would be the front runners currently for us.

Spoke to the dealer this morn. Organising test drive for Friday PM or Saturday. Checking with OH as to what suits her best.

But yes the orange with the dark alloys holds a lot of appeal.

Did someone say with shadow edition you have your choice of black or anthracite alloys?

Yes. The grey (orbit grey) is quite a bit darker than the grey in the nine shadow edition cars. The back wheels are the same as those available on lesser powered shadow editions. I quite like the M140 wheels so went with orbit grey.

[brickwall]

Personally I don't really like either wheel option. The orbit grey ones are only just the right side of 'pharmaceuticals salesman' . The jet black wheels might as well have "arrest me" printed on the side.

If I could have had silver I would have done so.

[Mr911lover]

Huge fan of the m140i having previously had the m135i as a demo when I worked for BMW.

I was very close to pulling the trigger when they had them on offer at £359 per month but cheaped out and went for the Cupra.

Take a look at motech, they do a lot of M lites and offer some good spacer and spring packages.

[Driver101]

Mr911lover said:

Huge fan of the m140i having previously had the m135i as a demo when I worked for BMW.

I was very close to pulling the trigger when they had them on offer at £359 per month but cheaped out and went for the Cupra.

Take a look at motech, they do a lot of M lites and offer some good spacer and spring packages.

Motech have a bad reputation. Overpriced, poor quality parts, poorly fitted and they were not even checking the alignment of cars they'd changed the suspension.

They now also offer remaps. They fell silent when questioned who was supplying the generic map after initially being defensive.

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Driver101 said:

Motech have a bad reputation. Overpriced, poor quality parts, poorly fitted and they were not even checking the alignment of cars they'd changed the suspension.

They now also offer remaps. They fell silent when questioned who was supplying the generic map after initially being defensive.

Interesting to hear that. They seem to getting a pretty big following off the back of Joe Achilles and TRL.

Their prices for some stuff seems high (e.g. the springs especially with no alignment included). I’m planning on just enjoy my car with maybe the odd very easily reversible tweak. It’s easy to get dragged into it needing this and that.