Used car philosophy

[alphabimmer]

Originally Posted by 94csi

I bought my 06 4.8IS about a year ago at this point with 25k on it. My advice would be to get a warranty with it. They typically price warranties off of the miles on the car (more than year). Since the miles are low the cost really isn't that bad. So far I have had over $10,000 worth (at dealer prices) work done on the truck utilizing my warranty. Its nice to be able to be really picky about stuff and have it all fixed

Wow over 10k of work is a lot for a car with 25k miles. The BMW in question is also a 4.8is. Im curious, did you have any engine work done on it? I'll definitely look into the warranty.. that sounds like a great idea. I'm going to take a look at the BMW tomorrow, see if I like it, and how it runs and sounds.


Thank you all for your good feedback
Cheers

[94csi]

Originally Posted by alphabimmer

Wow over 10k of work is a lot for a car with 25k miles. The BMW in question is also a 4.8is. Im curious, did you have any engine work done on it? I'll definitely look into the warranty.. that sounds like a great idea. I'm going to take a look at the BMW tomorrow, see if I like it, and how it runs and sounds.


Thank you all for your good feedback
Cheers

No real money in the engine other then an alternator. I did pay to have all the fluids replaced (all of them since I wanted to start fresh). Warranty paid for both front axels to be replaced for torn cv boots, also the entire air suspension (bags, module, compressor etc) and a new nav system. At the moment I am scheduling it to go back in (hood wont release and the tire pressure light is on AGAIN....)

[PropellerHead]

Originally Posted by 94csi

the tire pressure light is on AGAIN....)

That thing is so fiddly and sensitive, I find myself just manually resetting it at least once every couple months. Takes less than 5 seconds at any startup. It's also completely useless on the E53. I'd like to find a way to disable it all together.

[94csi]

Originally Posted by PropellerHead

That thing is so fiddly and sensitive, I find myself just manually resetting it at least once every couple months. Takes less than 5 seconds at any startup. It's also completely useless on the E53. I'd like to find a way to disable it all together.

To think that at one point I was considering adding a tire pressure monitoring system to my 540i... That would have been dumb lol. At this point I hate it, the tires are at a safe pressure and work fine

[g300d]

In my case the tire warning system works great. Mine is the one that uses the wheel sensors to monitor rotation, not the ones that monitor air pressure in the tire.

All the times that it triggered only one was a false alarm. The rest alerted me to leaking tires before they became undriveable on.

[crystalworks]

Originally Posted by PropellerHead

That thing is so fiddly and sensitive, I find myself just manually resetting it at least once every couple months. Takes less than 5 seconds at any startup. It's also completely useless on the E53. I'd like to find a way to disable it all together.

Funny, I enjoy having it. Only time I had false alarms was on my road trip bringing it back from California. I attributed that to the increased temps from being on the road for 18 hours straight...

As mentioned, it's an easy manual reset at startup and I would rather be alerted falsely every few months if it gets it right that one time a year and saves me a tire. Especially with the cost of the wide rubber.

[PropellerHead]

Originally Posted by crystalworks

Funny, I enjoy having it. Only time I had false alarms was on my road trip bringing it back from California. I attributed that to the increased temps from being on the road for 18 hours straight...

Fair. In fact, given that I've driven 8-10 hours a day for at least a few weeks at a time in the past two years, I may find myself simply more susceptible to actual variations in tire pressure than the average use case. Now that I think about it, temperature variations from places like Southern Arizona to Pike's Peak and Winter's wrath to southern Florida probably don't help much either.

I'll have to pay closer attention to whether it happens when I just tool around home.