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Originally Posted by Rev Engineer
Vegas_x5 mentioned that $12k is a lot. That could be good news as I would love to spend less, but I've searched through cars.com, traderonline, carsoup, craigslist, and I'm not finding them much cheaper. I have access to manheim.com and it's reporting an average of $9.5k with 115k miles. That is the average cost for a dealer buying at auction - model year 2001. If I get lucky, I might be able to match that with a private party. I would also be more than happy to go out of state, but coordinating PPI and trusting it is much more difficult. Also, I have a dealer friend who could buy at-auction for me, but that would require buying one sight-unseen. I'd rather spend a could grand extra and be able to have a shop do a PPI.
If anyone knows of a good x5 in their area for around 10-12k, please let me know.
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Here's the first one I found on CL - 02 84k super clean desert car for $12.9k
2002 BMW X5 3.0i Sport Utility
Here's at that's even at a BMW dealer in Scottsdale 01 with 114k for $9k
BMW North Scottsdale - Photo Viewer
Clean 02 with 85k $10.9k
BMW X5 WAY UNDER BOOK
Those took less than 30 seconds to find. I found many more in the SW region for $9-$12k. They may be harder to find up where you live but I think it's worth it to look outside your area to find a nice clean X. Even if you are mechanically inclined, it's not fun to constantly be working on your ride to keep it reliable. Find something in the 60-80k miles region and save yourself a lot of work and busted knuckles (although in this mileage region you will still have a fair share of DIYs to do).