The woes of V10 M5/M6 adverts!

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After some years away (a previous E60 M5 owner) ive been looking around recently for some M6's to look at with a view to getting one.

During my hours of browsing adds etc one thing really has become frustratingly clear. So many of these cars advertised have a woeful lack of information about important issues. You find yourself trapped in a ground hog day situation sending the same sets of questions to umpteen different adverts time and time again - half of which you don't even get a reply too. Maybe last time when i bought my first M5 i was just lucky to find one quite quickly? - it certainly didn't seem this bad or frustrating the first time around.

Have others encountered this? I mean surely people who own these cars already must realise that the more information provided on issues like clutch, vanos, etc etc will actually save them time. I mean its not like selling a £500 Astra is it!!

There are of course a few exceptions to the above, but the vast majority of adds (even on high end priced cars) is frankly woeful!

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80quattro said:

I work for a sports car specialist, and whilst we advertise our cars with lots of detailed photos and service history, we deliberately do not advertise number of owners, as we want people to call us rather than just browse our adverts.

Number of owners isn't really what i was referring too - more details of important items or work within the service history. Most adds contain little or no info.

Not unless of course people just don't even consider this and buy one anyway! (and i am sure more than few probably do.)

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Wills2 said:

For some strange reason people seem to think they can judge a cars condition by looking at the number of owners and they get hung about it having 6 owners over a 10 year period without having the slightest clue how they have looked after it. Hence the specialist prefers to not add that bit of info and get you to come and see the car instead to judge its condition. (which is common sense and any serious buyer would want to do that)

But people put themselves in straight jackets by drawing up a list of must haves, must be less than XXk miles, must be less than X owners etc....when all that matters is the condition/price of the car.

I do kind of agree with that - its easy to fixate on all these different issues as must haves.

Ultimately its always a compromise to some degree. A proper in person inspection and test drive is just as important as what an advert does (or doesn't) say.

I guess basic and poorly written ads just make the searching process really tiresome....