do any of you BMW owners ever have major reliability issues? Audi owners?
I was in a meeting with a contact who owns a just out of warranty 335i coupe and he is going through hell with reliability issues. He’s a senior guy at a major bank and he’s had the car in for the fuel pump 3 times and spent thousands on it. Then that didnt fix it so BMW swapped out an injectors ($1000 repair somehow) and that didnt fix it… so it was in yesterday again for wastegate issues…
all i could think was damn… i’ll stick with my 15 - 19 year old japanaese cars that i drive like a complete retard and yet when they do break it costs a few bucks to fix.
he hit 116,000 km’s on an 07… so yeah if yours are that new then i would hope you havent had any issues yet.
Still, for a 2007 BMW it shouldnt have complicated issues like that after 3 years with regular maintenance unmodified… and if it did it should be something that can be diagnosed and fixed readily… if the dealer gets it wrong twice then something is wrong.
fuck it why not buy a civic and put 10 turbos on it and make like 9 million whp? i mean shit you can even have a ton of cash to spare.
bottom line after driving one is that the gto is a pile of shit when it comes to build quality and interior amenities, stuff was falliing off and whatnot in the 15 minutes we were driving it. yeah you can make a fast car a lot cheaper but the daily driving expierence in any one of the bmw’s in question will be far better than your suggestion angry rick.
Any issues I’ve had were well taken care of by BMW, I was never without a car to drive, nor have I paid a penny (I’m around 55K miles). The wastegates do rattle, but a newer Procede should fix that (it did for jeller)
At the end of the day consider your budget, not just for buying the car, but also maintaining it. (Tires can get pretty pricy when you can’t rotate them and kill them every season) Also, I could see driving a BMW in the winter, but not a P-car (so for 6 months you’re not enjoying your car payment). Your comment about insurance being more on and M car makes it sound like you are pushing your budget to begin with, so stick with the 335. Last but not least, a diff would be nice in a 335, but I wouldn’t sweat it, unless you track a lot.
I know a guy that bought a new 7 series a while back that was such a POS I think they eventually gave him a different car.
Nothing like a $98000 POS that can not be fixed. lol
all of the 335i that I’ve driven have been on crappy tires and all of the E46M3s have been on good tires… this plus the more aggressive suspension of the M3 made it much more of a drivers car. I suspect that if you put a nice suspension + tires onto a 335 it will come alive and drive more like I would want.
still, for right now I’d want a 335 for a street car but the E46M3 for a 50/50 street and track car… neither for anything more motor-sports related.
you can get a decent enough 996 for mid 20s these days and I’d love to scoop one and throw a suspension in it and go camp out at the glen for the summer.
EXACTLY why I got back into the MR2 for a DD. I loved my S60 R, I really did, and it was fantastic to me for the year I owned it, basically perfect. But at some point, it will need something, and that something will likley cost a lot more than the same part/s on the near 20 year old jap box I’m running around in now…
Uhmm… the HPF kit is $14k for the kit, plus about three days for install, plus popping your motor on the baby-intercooled/non-meth kit. You are better off dumping $20k for the right kit, but then you have just spent as much on one as the actual purchase price of your car.
not putting buck-one into a decent performing car that isnt a total rot-bag and driivng it for a couple years is radical… especially since they’re already fully depreciated and you sell them for basically what you paid for them or more 2-3 years later if you’ve mantained it well… i just doubled up on my 01 maxima after just a few months.
fucking new cars… man, i couldnt bring myself to do it again any time soon.
