What a BMW looks like after 190k - Pics

[Malt_Vinegar]

Good Afternoon OCUK peeps

My BMW took its odometer over 190k today, one step closer to the big 200k! So, it was treated to new tyres a clean and something else new. Can anyone guess what it is?

Now, the dilema, do i sell it now, or just drive it till it no longer makes economical sense?

 

[Wryel]

Wipers?

My Golf is at a nearly as impressive 170k, up for sale as soon as I pull my finger out...

 

[iain.turner]

Exhaust.
And keep it man!

 

[Jez]

Unless you are bored with it i'd drive it until it dies. Looks absolutely great btw

Btw do you have an o2 xda exec? Think i might have seen you on a thatcham train a week or 2 back.

 

[Replicant]

New plates?

Sell it now and you'd be lucky to get £1000, what would you buy to replace it that isn't a heap.

 

[Dangerous]

Lights?

 

[Oblivious]

Second new plates. Id keep it personally too. Can always sell bits off if it dies, and still make a bit.

 

[cleanbluesky]

Respray?

 

[Malt_Vinegar]

Unless you are bored with it i'd drive it until it dies. Looks absolutely great btw

Btw do you have an o2 xda exec? Think i might have seen you on a thatcham train a week or 2 back.

lol, i have an M5000 (same thing) but its possible, i get the train to and from work when i forgot to get petrol the night before, lol

You should have said hi!



Lights were one of the first things i did, apart from the rears which i didnt get hold of till a few months ago.

The plates i put on about 8 months ago..

Re-spray - I love you - but wrong!

Wipers - Did them about 10k ago, still going strong.

Exhaust - Damn you man, spot on!

 

[andi]

Looks lovely, I wouldn't bother selling it, you won't get much for it, so its not like you'll lose much if you keep running it. Not worth the hassle if your still happy with it.

Out of interest, how much of it has done 190k and not been replaced?

 

[Scania]

Looking superb mate, I often wish (from a financial point of view) that I'd kept my 318i and ran that until 200k (175k when it went) that e34 looks superb.


Otherwise, you have a fine e34, keep it, run it into the ground, you'll find it has a while to run yet.... (I know of 300k+ e34's )

Edit , did'nt realise the exhaust was new.....

 

[PeterNem]

Looks in top condition mate.

I'd keep running it if I were you as what you'd get for selling it wouldn't buy you anything half as nice.

 

[Malt_Vinegar]

Looks lovely, I wouldn't bother selling it, you won't get much for it, so its not like you'll lose much if you keep running it. Not worth the hassle if your still happy with it.

Out of interest, how much of it has done 190k and not been replaced?

Everything, is original afaik, apart from consumables (pads/discs) the waterpump was resplaced about 500 miles ago (38 quid), Spoiler, which it didnt have before.

 

[Jez]

lol, i have an M5000 (same thing) but its possible, i get the train to and from work when i forgot to get petrol the night before, lol

You should have said hi!

I was literally walking off the train when i thought i saw you - i think it was you remembering back to video's you have posted. You were on the phone too so bursting in would have been a little rude.

 

[Dangerous]

Your car is 14 years old with 190k? haha mine is under 3 years with 132k

 

[Malt_Vinegar]

I was literally walking off the train when i thought i saw you - i think it was you remembering back to video's you have posted. You were on the phone too so bursting in would have been a little rude.

Sounds like me, spend far too much time on my mobile.

Fair enough, well you have my permission to interrupt me whenever, from now on

Would be nice to meet yet another OCUKer

 

[Malt_Vinegar]

Your car is 14 years old with 190k? haha mine is under 3 years with 132k

Serious milage!!! Anything gone wrong in that time?

 

[Dangerous]

Serious milage!!! Anything gone wrong in that time?

1 oil light switch!

 

[Brwmogazos]

212500 miles is what my fathers e28 Beemer has done.Its in great shape man for an 82 model.

Their engines never die.Only changed the piston rings.The mechanic was amased with the lag of wear of the motor.No the cylinders are not oval shaped yet...so only 4 piston rings were changed (518model)+i should add that the beemer was always overloaded in trips + pulling a more than a ton motorboart every summer+

 

[Malt_Vinegar]

1 oil light switch!

Christ, that much?