Its up to what your willing to deal w/ in regards to maintenance. Your mileage is past the point where the suspension, trans and cooling system issues are gonna start giving their biggest problems. For me, I've often considered trading off BMW performance and handling in exchange for less stress and more reliable vehicles. Its gotten more and more disheartening over the years reading about even brand new/newish BMW's having problems even when they're only 20k into their life. Its just up to what your willing tolerate and your willingness to keep putting money into it. There are days I love them and I just tell myself that I've got a 3 $50-60k MSRP'ed vehicles for only $18k each, but sometimes when I'm working on them makes me wanna push them off the cliff when something breaks.

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