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Originally Posted by glend
Watch the Car Wizards Utube channel, out of warranty BMWs are the most unreliable cars on the road (or more often not on the road). They are built to expire as soon as the warranty expires, they want you to buy a new one). Engine construction is not designed for longevity, cheap plastic parts, heads put together with adhesive, etc etc. You can spend thousands fixing something, only to spend thousands more months later, and the parts, if you can find them, are horrendously expensive and wait listed.
Btw, Mercedes have the same issues.
Now having said that, if you do have a well maintained 1980s decade BMW or Mercedes, they are gems, but you will never find parts. When those manufacturers changed over from building well engineered cars built to last, to status symbol commodities for the wealthy, engineering excellent was replaced by short-term pose value.
What do I drive these days, a low kilometre 2015 Renault Megane GT Premium, a real gem that I was lucky to acquire off of a NSW Police Commander ( it was his wife's lease car and hardly driven). Handles much better than my old Porsche, and is unlikely to be vandalised when in a car Park. With only 40,000kms, I reckon it's my last internal combustion engine car - electrics are the future.
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Hmmmm..... This was not your run of the mill, South African built 3series....
This had a hand built 3 litre engine that pushed it easily to 260kph at Queensland Raceway...
I sold it to a friend who drives it as hard as I did and it now has 300,000 klms on it with only oil changes and plugs... Never had a mechanical malfunction.... But I'll grant you that parts weren't cheap... Pistons would have been $1k each, but then I never needed to buy any