4.6is with only 12,000 miles!

Sapphirexae · #1 02-11-2015, 07:08 PM

Niiiiice!!! If that were Estoril or Imola, I might just be tempted. Looks like it has all options, e.g.: Nav, Comfort Seats, etc.

THE VEIN · #2 02-12-2015, 10:41 AM

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Niiiiice!!! If that were Estoril or Imola, I might just be tempted. Looks like it has all options, e.g.: Nav, Comfort Seats, etc.

yea and 3rd row seats lol but personally I would stay away from a car with such low mileage

lhordmclain · #3 02-12-2015, 11:03 AM

Personally, I believe it is harder on a vehicle not being driven.
Something is not adding up here, unless the single owner have lambo's, bugatti's, ferrari's or tons of toys for the big boys- There is a possibility

but low!

Smart buyer(s) will have to rely on their trusted BMW Master Mechanic/ Experienced German Car (Indy or Dealership) for a thorough inspection. And also accepting the fact that there are things to replace (maintenance/preventive maintenance)- age of the vehicle.

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personally I would stay away from a car with such low mileage

PropellerHead · #4 02-12-2015, 11:05 AM

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yea and 3rd row seats lol but personally I would stay away from a car with such low mileage

I have had a great experience with my '04 that I bought with only 11k. It was 7 years old. I replaced the cooling system and hoses out of caution, but everything else has been normal X5 ownership stuff.

edogg · #5 02-12-2015, 05:02 PM

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yea and 3rd row seats lol but personally I would stay away from a car with such low mileage

Agreed - I'd be cautious of a car with really low mileage like that. There are only 2 likely scenarios:

1) The owner made lots of short trips and had a short commute. Cars like to be warmed up and run for a bit. Maybe the guy lives 2 miles from work and the car never gets fully warmed before he shuts it off. That's hard on an engine...

2) This was the owner's "fun" car, which sits a lot. Cars don't like to sit. And the owner ran the snot out of it having fun.

That said, if the car has been well maintained with regular fluid changes based on time rather than mileage and hasn't been "run hard and put away wet", then this could be a great find.

Jungerishere · #6 02-13-2015, 04:15 PM

Or the owner was in prison all this time and recently released. He drove the car hard because it is his fun car which he missed very much when in prison. He realized from sitting so long that all of the seals have failed and he decided to sell.

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Agreed - I'd be cautious of a car with really low mileage like that. There are only 2 likely scenarios:

1) The owner made lots of short trips and had a short commute. Cars like to be warmed up and run for a bit. Maybe the guy lives 2 miles from work and the car never gets fully warmed before he shuts it off. That's hard on an engine...

2) This was the owner's "fun" car, which sits a lot. Cars don't like to sit. And the owner ran the snot out of it having fun.

That said, if the car has been well maintained with regular fluid changes based on time rather than mileage and hasn't been "run hard and put away wet", then this could be a great find.

Jungerishere · #7 02-13-2015, 04:12 PM

I agree that not driving the car isn’t good for the car but how much damage it causes due to not driving the car is bit exaggerated. Ferrari owners keep their Ferraris as garage queen for most of its life so most have very low miles but they don’t have issues with all the seals failing. And I wouldn’t hesitate on purchasing F40 or Enzo with only 2k miles if I had the money.

I have few cars that spends most of it life in storage and have very low miles. None of them have single leak. Car is low mileage once...

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yea and 3rd row seats lol but personally I would stay away from a car with such low mileage

THE VEIN · #8 02-13-2015, 05:48 PM

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I agree that not driving the car isn’t good for the car but how much damage it causes due to not driving the car is bit exaggerated. Ferrari owners keep their Ferraris as garage queen for most of its life so most have very low miles but they don’t have issues with all the seals failing. And I wouldn’t hesitate on purchasing F40 or Enzo with only 2k miles if I had the money.

I have few cars that spends most of it life in storage and have very low miles. None of them have single leak. Car is low mileage once...

31 miles in 10 years is not really my idea of a garage queen... his son has probably driving the car back and forth in the garage or up the driveway

edogg · #9 02-13-2015, 06:50 PM

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I agree that not driving the car isn’t good for the car but how much damage it causes due to not driving the car is bit exaggerated. Ferrari owners keep their Ferraris as garage queen for most of its life so most have very low miles but they don’t have issues with all the seals failing. And I wouldn’t hesitate on purchasing F40 or Enzo with only 2k miles if I had the money.

I have few cars that spends most of it life in storage and have very low miles. None of them have single leak. Car is low mileage once...

My dad is a street rodder and only takes his rods out when it's not raining, which in Seattle is about 3 months out of the year.

He recently had some serious engine troubles in his '39 which turned out to be from the engine sitting while the car was being built and also sitting in the garage when the car was completed. Various seals had failed and there was some surface rust in the cylinder walls. He wound up needing to rebuild a Chevy 350 which had just been rebuilt a couple years prior because of it.

So now, even in the winter, he fires up all his cars to let them idle to full temperature. Then revs the engines for a little bit so that they run a little more. It's not as good as driving, but better than just plain sitting.