Potential 2007 4.8 purchase - but what's the catch?

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Originally Posted by rrich49132

Either buy a CPO car that has under 50K miles and pay to extend the maintenance to 6 yrs and 100K and let the CPO take care of any covered repairs.


dish out big money for maintenance ....

I think the "maintenance bogeyman" drives many to an expensive and needless purchase of the 'maintenance plan'.

Look, you are buying a CPO- which means brake pads MUST be over 50%. Minimum. Ideally they were just changed, so maybe 95%. You may in fact never need a brake job the whole time you own the car.

So what your MP buys you is 3 oil changes, a few filters, and a brake flush. Wiper blades. and maybe a handy from the receptionist.

People seem to just lump "car expenses" into one big bad bin, and just don't do the math... They say, "I want it all covered". Fine, but BMW exploits this with the maintenance plan.

A bmw dealer, and BMW posters here, will scare you with "just a brake job alone could be $2 or 3000". Maybe true but you are getting way screwed- nobody should pay that for brakes.

There is nothing magic about BMW brakes at a BMW dealer.

And I focus my discussion on brakes because besides that, there is NOTHING expensive or extensive in the scheduled maintenance....

FYI

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