RSNUT!

i think its stupid the price of running costs for these cars, the parts should depreciate as much as the cars has... but they dont if anything the parts get increased every year! i remember looking up a new engine for one of these £45,000 with a £10,000 surcharge..

Chip

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WTF?
How would that work?

I'd like a new set of tyres for my 2011 M5 please.
Certainly sir, that will be 1200 quid.

and now I'd like some exactly the same for my 2005 M5 please
Certainly sir, that will be 400 quid.

James @ M Developments.

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i want one sooo bad

thing is i was really seriously thinking and looking to buy one a year ago, and im damm glad i didnt, as i would have been paying 30k

danneth

would make for cheap cosworth ownership

Chip

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Everyone with an escos would be getting their mate with a saph to buy new parts for them

Ima Racing

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...great cars, still fetching ok money if fbmwsh, fuel is a bitch on them though I am actually selling mine as i now want a 360 ..will loose money for sure but then so does most aspects of living lol.

tee-rex

Very capable car indeed just marred by the gearbox slow to change i have done a lot of work on these and the older e39 m5's. good ones are very realiable but steer clear of poorly maintained ones they will leave you broke and some, however if you are good with spanners they are not as bad as you might think to work on, personally i would go for the e39 m5 sleeper car of the decade imo.

Ima Racing

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tee rex......its a sequential box, of course slow speed driving is sluggish but on setting 11 and full chat its blistering, and that how one is meant to be driven

Mike Rainbird

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Next time I'm there, I'll ask the German bint that wanted her photo taken with me if that is right .



As Chip says, for insurance purposes they short shift at 7k (revs to 8250), so I'd be surprised that the engines lasted only that long (as that is only 2740 miles) and when I spoke to her, I'm sure she said that it was the brakes, tyres and suspension bushes that had to be replaced around that figure, but not engine and transmission....

Ima Racing

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Mike are u smiling because the bloke behind has a finger in your ring?

RSNUT!

see there u go trying to be a smart arse... i said parts although i suppose a tyre would fall under that category, i meant Parts as in turbos.. injectors... etc...

Chip

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Sorry but compared to someone who is appearing to be a total retard, its actually hard NOT to look like a smart arse, just tieing my shoelaces would make me look like a rocket scientist next to your logic!


How is that any different to the tyres example?

Should a set of injectors for a 2005 M5 cost less than a 1/3rd of the price of a totally identical set for a 2011 set then?
How fucking angry would you be at the price you got charged on a 2011 car when you wanted to buy parts if you knew that they were selling exactly the same parts to other people for 1/3rd of the price just cause their car was older?

Not to mention if you went in with a nice condition white car and the bloke next to you had a scratched up brown one of the same year and all his parts were cheaper cause his car had depreciated more cause it was a crap colour and hadnt been looked after and had done lots of miles

Imagine trying to write the software that does the parts pricing

What a fucking ridiculous idea

DanCossie

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Not really being a smart arse is it????
The parts still cost the same to make so why would they charge less as its for older cars

Chip

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Would be piss funny to watch though.

Customer: I need a new catalytic convertor for my 2004 fiesta
Parts guy: Certainly sir, based on your cars market value that will be 205 quid
Customer: Shit, I only have 200 on me, hang on.

*Customer goes and keys his own car

Parts guy: That'll be 150 quid now
Customer: and a can of spray paint please

1.9 xr2 on 40's

i quite like the colour, with beemers its a challenge to get one that wont been seen every 10 mins (whatever the spec level)

all silve then all black now all white, dont see bm's in other colours to that

RS Grant

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Given the scenario of depreciating parts; I'm sure bits for a 1995 Ford Escort would be cheap enough to stomach anyway mate, although admittedly not as cheap as a 1988 Ford Sierra, they'd likely be comically cheap.

Proper LOL @ parts being subject to depreciation!!

...end of the day, if you buy a £65-70k car for full list price then you're prepared for the running costs (fuel, insurance, replacement parts) of such a car.

People can buy these cars for almost 1/4 the original selling price these days, but, they need to realise that it still made up of the same components that it was when it was brand new and so will have exactly the same (or higher given the way the world works..) running costs that it did when new.


Cheers,
Grant

rs-tuner

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And limited to 8 mins no faster.

Jim Galbally

RS-Grant,

try explaining that to my girlfriend when she's moaning at me for spending money keeping my M3 running right

Stu @ M Developments

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danneth

genuinely funny for you

tee-rex

I was at bruntingthorpe in 05 the same day as tiff needell was giving an E60 m5 a fair hard time talked to him about the car his comments were brilliant engine, slightly dodgy looks, pretty damn good handling for the size of the car, and a gearbox built for the autobahn not a race track, with 100 horsepower more than an e39 m5 he lapped a tenth of a second slower than an E39 i have owned and driven both on 25 odd track days imo he was pretty much spot on.

Psycho Warren

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i wonder how much the value of these will drop when petrol hits stupid prices?

pee vee

Ripped jeans!? were you in Bros?

PAUL V

Fuel Down by 1p i am happy love mine, but think about it this way you only lose money when you sell it and i don't plan on selling any time soon