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• Something interesting for £7k ? 21 Mar 2019 (Forum)
  In my head any car that gets 30mpg or better is a winning proposition. As engine technology has moved on since Saab created my engine it looks, on paper, like BMW can get well in excess of 250hp from their 3.0 litre six and still get 35mpg. So most likely candidate is BMW E92 330i, post 2008 when the new gearbox was available. I quite like the Audi A5, the 2.0l TFSI engine would appear to be pretty good, but what about the gearbox ?
• BMW X3 M Sport X Drive Auto - Parrot Kit affecting Rear Reverse Camera 19 May 2017 (Forum)
  Hi there Any advice would be much appreciated on this. I bought a 2012 X3 M Sport Xdrive Auto a few months ago. It was advertised as having Bluetooth...
• Any - Best & Worst Engineered Cars 8 Dec 2016 (Forum)
  For my thinking, having now owned an Outback for 9 months I have to say that £ for £ it is the best engneerd car I have owned (even better than BMW & MB) and it is cear to me why you see websites conatining stories of people doing 400K to 500K miles in them without too much bother. After that it has got to be Honda, Mazda and Toyota/Lexus.
• BMW 320D - Car wash damage 2016 13 May 2016 (Forum)
  Hi all. I've looked at the old thread on this but can't see a definitive answer for the next steps so here is what happened to me. I...
• BMW 5 Series E39 - Won't start when hot 29 Aug 2014 (Forum)
  Hi everyone, I'm new to this, although I have looked at this and other sites. I may be able to offer you a valuble solution to this difficult problem...
• BMW 5 Series E60 530d 2004 - Water leaking into passenger side front footwell 19 Dec 2013 (Forum)
  I noticed a damp smell in the car yesterday. I checked under all the floor mats and found the front passenger side carpet quite damp but luckily not waterlogged....
• BMW 328Ci Auto 1999 (v reg) / 45,900 miles - Car valuation 20 Jan 2012 (Forum)
  Hi I was in a non-fault accident and my car is apparently Cat C The albany assistance  are writing off my car and said their 'independant engineer'...
• 1994 BMW E36 M3 - White smoke (over fuelling?) 22 May 2010 (Forum)
  Hey guys, Right my car starts fine and seems to idle and run ok until she starts warming up (roughly around the end of the red bar), when she seems a...
• BMW 7-Series E38 (1994 - 2001) - 00 2.8 What would cause a car to lean to one side 25 Jan 2010 (Forum)
  What could cause a car to lean down on the offside? Broken spring? but all 4 springs are new - previously both springs on drivers / offside had broken...
• New car for dogs and children - advice ? 3 Oct 2009 (Forum)
  I have been on the web all day & have had enough. My wife wants a new car & I/we cant decide on what to get. She has a BMW 118i & wants something bigger, we have two dogs & two kids. I have a transit connect which I said she can use at any time, but this did not go down to well. The choices so far are: Mitsubishi outlander: Looks nice, has all the toys.
• BMW 3-Series E46 (1998 - 2005) - PartEx Options for changing 2 cars at once 9 Apr 2009 (Forum)
  Car 1 - N reg Micra - Parker's guide price = £300 Car 2 - 52 Reg 330D with 140K - Glass guide price £3600 Finances willing, my wife and I want to be able...
• BMW 5-Series E39 (1996 - 2003) - 5 Series - Which engine and spec 1 Mar 2009 (Forum)
  Hi All My trusty and economical mazda 626 is nearing retirement age. After covering 160k uneventful (but slightly boring) miles, I'm looking for something...
• MG - MGs leave Longbridge for dealers 12 Sep 2008 (Forum)
  As well as producing cars, it was used as a munitions factory during both world wars and began production of the iconic Mini in 1959. It also produced the popular Metro and Rover 200 models before the Rover company was bought by BMW in 1994. BMW subsequently sold the firm to the Phoenix Consortium, under whom it went into administration in 2005. The collapse in 2005 led to the loss of about 6,000 jobs.
• Auction Brokers 12 Aug 2008 (Forum)
  Hi All I wanted to start a post on experiences using auction brokers. I used snipped a few years ago to get a BMW 5 series. he was on 7% commission back then. The car i got was really well used, in black which i had specifically excluded when talking to him, and had lots of other issues like badly scuffed wheels, no service book and no V5 - which i had to get duplicates for.
• Which company currently impresses most ? 13 Oct 2007 (Forum)
  But just putting your loyalty aside for a moment - which of all the car companies currently in business impresses you most. For me I think it is BMW. IMO they have been brave enough to challenge previous design thinking and whilst many have not gone as far as BMW nearly everyone is moving away from the curves and adding more striking lines and creases etc.
• A mysterious problem - BMW 25 Nov 2006 (Forum)
  The car ? 2003, 318Ci This morning (1 o?clock in the morning) driving down the M1 from London, the engine dies just after J9 - was in 4th gear, 40mph....
• New car dilemma 14 Oct 2006 (Forum)
  (even 3 year old new model Accords are coming in for this money now!) On the other hand they're boring old Mondeos and Vectras! I could however get a 1998 BMW 7 series (728i) for about 4 or 5 grand with full BMWSH. Okay, it only does about 28mpg and would have a mileage close to 100K, but what a lot of very special car for the money! My intention would be to keep the car for 3 years and so by my reckoning the BMW would be cheaper over the term with the lower purchase price and the lower depriciation despite the increased mpg plus it would be a lovely big, safe car to waft about in The sensible bit of me feels a bit nervy about buying something like a 7 series though.....decisions decisions!
• Clever cars being dumb 3 Dec 2004 (Forum)
  One from the risks digest: BMW series 5 disables Dynamic Stability Control and ABS > Mon, 8 Nov 2004 23:59:42 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time) After two accidents involving police cars of Berlin, Germany, at first the drivers were blamed and appointed to a security training.
• BMW - service (well Mini anyway) 19 Mar 2003 (Forum)
  SWMBO took her Mini to a local dealer for first service under TLC package. This is the dealer experience. She phoned last week, line was engaged but she...
• Help. 5 Nov 2002 (Forum)
  I have a BMW 5 series 96 old model, and when I bought the car it had nasty metric wheels, so I contacted the local BMW dealer to get some new alloy wheels. Now I know that the old shape 5 (known as e34) has very slightly smaller wheel hubs than the newer shape (known as e39).