BMW M5's At A Well Know Garage

[pistonuser]

Hi Guys,

Cheap M5 at a well known establishments, any one seen them?

Seem pretty cheap compared to all the rest. 63 plate at £32,500!!

[DM9297]

They seem to be getting a few news ones in every couple of days (and have been for the last few weeks). I think they're ex-lease vehicles acquired through BCA.

[pistonuser]

anyone seen them in the flesh?

[IATM]

very cheap and even with the poor rep I would go and see them if they had them with 20's. cheaper ones have 19s.
As others have said, ex lease deal cars, bound to be fine.

do your usual checks

[Shaoxter]

They've been mentioned on a couple of recent F10 M5 threads. Don't recall anyone actually having gone to see one, just the usual chat about their bad rep. When the evenings start lightening up I might pop down there and have a nose around after work.

But at £32k for an LCI, what's the worst that could happen??

[MWM3]

There is now a couple of AUC cars now starting with £29,XXX. At least you will get a years AUC warranty with these.

[jonah35]

There's an estoril blue approved one from BMW at £28k. Assuming you get it for £27k all prepped with warranty and checked over then that, to me, should mean a private sale of a similar car should be c.£23-24k.

What it does show is that BMW are more realistic than other sellers.

Why buy from a back street dealer?

[CSLchappie]

jonah35 said:

There's an estoril blue approved one from BMW at £28k. Assuming you get it for £27k all prepped with warranty and checked over then that, to me, should mean a private sale of a similar car should be c.£23-24k.

What it does show is that BMW are more realistic than other sellers.

Why buy from a back street dealer?

That car has been advertised for a few months now, they've only just knocked 4K off the previous price and I think it was higher when it first went on the market, I suspect they want rid before the quarter end but I'm not sure you'd get much more off.

If it was less than an hours drive away from me I'd be calling them first thing today and putting a holding deposit on it, aside from the high mileage it has everything I'd want from an f10 and at £28k is a steal compared to everything else on the market at the moment.

[Shaoxter]

jonah35 said:

There's an estoril blue approved one from BMW at £28k.

Wow that's an absolute bargain, nice spec too.
And only 11 miles from me

[cosworth330]

Shaoxter said:

Wow that's an absolute bargain, nice spec too.
And only 11 miles from me

It is considering their are 2 E60's priced at £28,000 and £26,500 on the BMW AUC site.

I don't think it would put me off moving from my E60 to the F10 as the F10 is the all round better car but the V8 TT doesn't sound anywhere near as good as the V10. Been listening to all sorts of exhausts on the V8 and although it sounds good it's not a patch on the V10 sound in my view. It wouldn't stop me buying one though as I'm sure it's better in every other department.
Some of the specs on these cars are amazing, Arden at Maidstone have a Silverstone one for £39,995 with a massive spec. What annoys me about all these newer cars is the dark tinted rear side windows and back window option that most people had fitted, I think it looks horrible but most seem to have it. It must be my age lol !

[Shaoxter]

cosworth330 said:

I don't think it would put me off moving from my E60 to the F10 as the F10 is the all round better car but the V8 TT doesn't sound anywhere near as good as the V10. Been listening to all sorts of exhausts on the V8 and although it sounds good it's not a patch on the V10 sound in my view. It wouldn't stop me buying one though as I'm sure it's better in every other department.

Sat inside one at the Brands day last year - sounded OK I thought but obviously nothing like the V10. Actually sounded much better from the outside!

p.s. that £28k car was sold yesterday!

[IATM]

Shaoxter said:

cosworth330 said:

I don't think it would put me off moving from my E60 to the F10 as the F10 is the all round better car but the V8 TT doesn't sound anywhere near as good as the V10. Been listening to all sorts of exhausts on the V8 and although it sounds good it's not a patch on the V10 sound in my view. It wouldn't stop me buying one though as I'm sure it's better in every other department.

Sat inside one at the Brands day last year - sounded OK I thought but obviously nothing like the V10. Actually sounded much better from the outside!

p.s. that £28k car was sold yesterday!

What was the millage on it?

[Shaoxter]

54k:
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...

[cosworth330]

It was either 54k or 61k miles can't remember, it's not on there now, early 2011 Monte Carlo blue.

[Alex-niw3g]

cosworth330 said:

Some of the specs on these cars are amazing, Arden at Maidstone have a Silverstone one for £39,995 with a massive spec. What annoys me about all these newer cars is the dark tinted rear side windows and back window option that most people had fitted, I think it looks horrible but most seem to have it. It must be my age lol !

Long time lurker on here but have read your post and thought I'd give a heads up incase either you or anyone else on here is considering this car at Arden. I put a deposit on it as soon as it was listed on their site to replace an LE500 E92 M3 I bought from them in September (which has been a running joke of issues itself).
The car finally arrived and I went to view and drive it on the 14th of this month. Wheels had just been refurbed but the car itself was in very poor condition, big deep scratch on the bootlid, scratches all over the trim inside and creaks and rattles on the test drive like you wouldn't believe.
I asked for my deposit back as soon as I returned from the drive and am still waiting for it!
I will NEVER buy another car from Arden. I have since purchased a high spec Sakhir Orange LCI model from Barons Farnborough and the difference in the way I was dealt with there was eye opening.