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New Sun 4 Jul 10 19:03 
 BMW - E-bay again - MD
Loook at th speeling here.

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New Sun 4 Jul 10 19:21 
 BMW - E-bay again - Iffy
It's done a million miles, it's 10-years-old and it's a V8 petrol auto which will use a gallon to get to the next lamp post.

Auction ended - no bids.

No one wants it.

Now there's a surprise.

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New Sun 4 Jul 10 19:50 
 BMW - E-bay again - R.P.
In fairness it wears its 200k well - interior in particular, lot of money for a gas guzzler, probably worth about 2k max - paying that you could use it for a year and sell its component parts off.....very very nice car in its time though.
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New Sun 4 Jul 10 19:56 
 BMW - E-bay again - Iffy
PU,

I know you have personal experience of these, which is more than I do.

It's the last BMW in the range you would want to be given the M-sport treatment - the selling point for an old bus of this size has to be big and comfy.

A standard one in the same condition is probably worth more.

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New Sun 4 Jul 10 19:59 
 BMW - E-bay again - R.P.
M Sport thing is rather blingy but no doubt appeal to a certain kind of customer...:-)
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New Sun 4 Jul 10 20:50 
 BMW - E-bay again - -
All that guff and admits putting a set of Fullrun tyres on it, that'll be an entertaining drive in the wet.

Is £400 paint protection a deluxe version of the much lauded (by fading celebs) £299.99 dealer stuff.

didn't read it all, lost the will to live halfway through.
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New Sun 4 Jul 10 20:53 
 BMW - E-bay again - Iffy
...didn't read it all, lost the will to live halfway through...

Most people will have done the same, studies have shown.

In circumstances such as these, less is more.
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New Sun 4 Jul 10 22:54 
 BMW - E-bay again - bathtub tom
I found I was moving further back from the screen as the font got larger.

>>FRONT HEADLAMP WASHERS

Pity about that, I might've been interested if the rear headlamps had washers as well. ;>)
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New Sun 4 Jul 10 23:13 
 BMW - E-bay again - paulb
Thing that I noticed was the intervals between services - >20k and anything up to 18 months - is that really normal for these? If not, it's not something I'd be making a big fuss about in the seller's position.
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New Mon 5 Jul 10 01:28 
 BMW - E-bay again - Skoda
Oi you lot, that's my pride and joy ;-)

My impression is it's written by someone who knows their stuff, in a way to deliberately come across as being enthusiastic but maybe not quite so smart / clued up.

I'd wager that's so that they can play dumb about the bits that aren't right.

@paulb - the servicing intervals are pretty long :-(
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New Tue 6 Jul 10 08:10 
 BMW - E-bay again - IJWS14
He is giving a guarantee . .

"NOR WILL YOU BE STUNG WITH ANY MECHANICAL PROBLEMS"

The car has cost an average of £1k per year in servicing from new, probably does not include tyres.

You really have to want it, and there are plenty of 3 series diesels that have the same badge.
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New Tue 6 Jul 10 10:38 
 BMW - E-bay again - Skoda
>> there are plenty of 3 series diesels that have the same badge

Different league! ;-)
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