Typically, no. At the moment, yes I believe so. IIRC someone posted in this forum about the dealer contacting them asking if they could buy it back.
Makes sense - just looking around on pistonheads and AT, feels like a lot of older stuff is commanding more money than last time I was looking.
I'm assuming bmw? I find it ridiculous that all cars don't have folding seats as standard. If cheaper brands can do it, no excuses for premium ones not being able to.
My Jaguar XF didn't have folding rears but did have everything BUT the trigger. I jerryrigged some single core flex to make it work. My XE on the other hand was essentially welded up right. Super annoying and actually one of the main reasons I got rid as silly stuff like a broom or pince of timber from Wickes wouldn't fit
It obviously makes that much of a difference that modern bmws have folding seats then
. Just checked my e92 m3, upto 20k so not too shabby.Definitely, I sold a nearly new BMW 320 a few years ago direct back to the local main dealer after inheriting it. (It was miles from me down in Taunton, they even picked it up from the house down there and just transferred the money. They paid trade book value for it which was fine).
Yeah 320 saloon - I'd never even considered that not all cars can fold the back seats down when I got it, so didn't even think to check!
E46 or 92? I've got an e92 and I think the coupe had it standard, but was an optional on the saloon. Making something optional like that tells me it's nothing to do with strength and all about milking the customer, didn't they charge for carplay recently?
Not just that but the coupé has essentially a rear hatchback, so the luggage compartment isn’t separate from the passenger compartment anyway. With the saloon (which is E90 FYI @theone8181) it takes the removal of the rear bulkhead to achieve the same linking of the passenger and luggage compartments. Like I said, it’s not about milking the customer, it’s about choosing the better aspects of a sealed saloon passenger compartment over the compromised, “twice in three year” usage case of folding seats.
I covered this earlier I think possibly in another thread but the issue here is that 5-10 years ago diesel was massively more popular due to the CO2 clampdown, especially so in bigger cars like estates etc. So there is a much much smaller range of petrol cars available and hence prices are relatively more expensive. In fact if you take a given make, model and trim level of car, and compare petrol and diesel engines with the same power output, you'll typically find the diesel is more expensive list price by perhaps £2k but when buying used, the petrol will often be more expensive due to being rarer and the general distaste for diesel these days.
I knew it was e90, but my point is that isn't it standard to have folding seats on all 3 series now? Implying that if it was so much better they'd still offer it as an option?
The F30 didn’t have them as standard either. The G20 does, but given BMWs current styling choices, their decision to make the 1-Series FWD, and the general company direction, I’m not surprised the current management prioritise getting more people to sign up to badge-renting finance terms rather than their original priorities and ethos.
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