Are used USED Euro Turbo SUVs cool at all?

How reliable are those engines?

They arnt. Pcv lines, oil drain lines, injectors, coil packs etc

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Which is why you can buy a car that stickered for close to 100k in 2011 for under 20k now. It’s rolling around about to be mechanically totalled at any minute.

This was an especially bad example, but the mechanic really does tear all of them apart.

lol

edit: lol 2

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Yeah, like I said, his was a particularly bad example. :joy:

I love in the first video where Ninja goes, ā€œAs long as people keep buying these I’ll always have a jobā€.

Bmw did do a massive warranty extension on a bunch of parts but their mostly aged out by now.

not sure if you can view that link.

im obsessed with terrible investments.

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That engine is the biggest POS ever. I would never tell anyone a first gen s63 is a good motor cuz I’d be lying. I would only get a 2014+ x5m. The engine has a complete 50+% change/update of parts.

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bump again:

or this one:

all down 70% or more from original sticker. i feel like this gen of X5M will be worth buying and keeping for a decade even with maintenance… vs. buying a newer one for more than double the price and still being out of warranty soon.

can’t stop thinking about it.

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Just do it already, lol

i’m literally sitting here looking at manual M6’s and 911 GTS’s too tho!!!

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pick two then lol

Changed thread title too.

Basically, a software upgrade evens out the power difference between the two. The delta in that vide is about $90k EU. It’s about $50k CAD now between these boys.

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This is why I now have zero interest in cars. This is the new goal:

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Do both

A used X5M sounds like a maintenance nightmare.

yes, i also have 2 other out-of-warranty, high mileage, BMW M-cars that i’ve daily-driven for over a decade…

it’s like buying expensive shoes. it’s a bad idea if you wear them all the time, you’ll wear them out. But if you KEEP BUYING more and split your use of them between several you end up using them each much less and distrbute the maintenence over time between them.

this is not good financial advice, but it is GREAT life-advice :slight_smile:

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