Whats my 94 5 Series Touring worth???

[gazzab]

Hi - cant find many advertised presently so cant price it.
I have owned it for nrly 6 yrs.
It is a 525iSE in non-metallic dark green. Normal SE Touring stuff eg twin sunroof, manual, cloth...
Done about £100k miles with fsh (non BMW for quite a while now).
I need to decide whether to service it and fix a couple of lx niggles on rear tailgate before selling.
Totally 100% reliable and drives really well.
Cant justify 2 estate cars plus the tvr and with a landrover on the way.
I guess about £2K as it is and maybe a little more if I get it serviced and fix the minor lx issue.

[mmm-five]

£2k sounds about right, assuming the twin sun-roofs are working fine (as they cost a bomb to fix/replace). It's a bit below average mileage for the year so you could add £250 for that. As for £2250 and accept no less than £1750 (unless you're desperate to be rid).

[derin100]

Sounds about right...unfortunately!

My wife has a 1995 525i Auto Touring about 120K miles,FSH,Oxford Metallic with sand leather interior, no sunroof but A/C.
I had reckoned it would probably be worth £2.5K top-whack...so we're better off keeping it! Too useful a car to sell for so little money.

[gazzab]

I am sure it is worth £2K but it is one of those cars that seems worth so much more ie so big, in such excellent order, so useful, comfortable, a good drive etc.....

[goatboy]

Excellent news for me I bought a 540i touring 6sp manual with 100k on it for £500 . It looks like the double sunroof would not be worth replacing then given what I paid for the car. The guy I bought the car from was a work colleague that wanted to get rid of quickly so I think he did me a big favour on the price.Last sentence added in case you think I was trying to sabotage your sale which I wasn't . Good luck with the sale.

[jamesk]

Do the tourings have a big premium over the saloons in general? Only asking as I am in the same boat about my '96 E34 540i auto. Only done 60k and a FBMWSH but the market is so hard to gauge I have no clue what I'd get for it. They are awesome cars but with 2 more recent models now the E39 range is depressing the E34 market.

Good luck with the sale - let us know what it makes

[gazzab]

Not sure I will sell it - to be honest it is like a new car still in so many ways. I need to service it and sort a couple of lx niggles on rear tailgate .... That will probably cost a few hundred and so the car is then only worth £1500 to me. At that price I will just keep it !! Very useful back up family car and means I dont have to drive the cerb in horrid weather.

[derin100]

My sentiments entirely! These cars are just too good to giveaway for peanuts just because they're a 'old'. Let's face it a 10 year old BMW of today is generally a far better made car than say a BMW of 20 years ago...yet the majority of the car buying public still 'think' in 'old-fashioned terms'?

I remember my first BMW...a 1974 2002tii...bought in 1982 so only 8 years old, with only 70K miles on the clock. The thing had loads of rust; loads of mechanical issues ie. it truly was rightly considered an 'old car' then...even at only 8 years old. Take an 8 year old BMW with 70K on the clock now...if reasonably well looked after it should still be a very nice sound car?

We'd both be silly to let these Tourings go for what the market would give us these days unless you absolutely had to?

Jamesk...you'd be really, really silly to let your 540i with only 60K on the clock to go for the sort of money the market would give you...especially if it's not a Touring! Even though it'll will have an M60 engine in place by now if it hasn't developed 'Nikasil' problems it's unlikely too now that sulphur contents in fuel are universally low.

>> Edited by derin100 on Thursday 5th January 17:11

[jamesk]

Derin I agree. The car has been basically faultless for the nearly 4 years I have had it. Funnily enough I am "supposed" to be getting an A6 avant for the growing kids and their junk but I am seriously considering getting an E39 540 and keeping the E34 as my backup. I would never have bought one until I got a deal off a colleague for the E34 but now I have I would buy another without hesitation.

Tempted to look for a 530d as well as I hear good things about those. There's life in the old girl yet though!