BMW Shopping help lol 530d / 525d? Touring? UPDATE - Got one, love it!!!!!!
 

I've had help off of here before buying a car so thought I'd ask again, I am after a 530d idealy but funds are massive!

I have £4500 spare in cash and my daily Subaru Impreza to trade in against one, or sell etc...

Scoobys are selling between 1500 and 2000, should push for 2K on mine as it's mint and has the nice STi alloys etc, it's a 51 non turbo model, bug eye, will add pic's.

Any one know of any one selling? already asked for a deal on one in for sale area but no joy :(

Thanks, Kev.

Early E60 or late E39?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2007-57-BM...item3a7a209149

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-530d-M...item2a2436eaf9

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-530D-M...item25761b1bd1

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2004-BMW-5...item2a2437665a

Plenty about!

E60, the newer shape, idealy I'd like to speand 5K as I have missed out on a few at that price recently, due to having to wait a while to buy one.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2004-BMW-5...item1c2b1182d3

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2003-BMW-5...item1c2c1cb8ca

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2004-54-BM...item27ca10c00a

Miles wont be a problem as long as they have been looked after!

Didn't realise how much these had come down :shocked:

Thanks Foxy :king:


Yeah a lot of car for the money now.

i've just bought mine

530d m sport (2008 rego) lovely cars!! Certainly do shift abit!

I recently hired a 520D SE and didnt have a great feeling towards it at first as i had an E36 years ago and dials etc are still unchanged so didnt look to appealing inside. But always loved the E60 5 Series, and when driving it, knew i'd be looking for one soon.

I fancy a 530D M Sport when i return home for a daily, lot of car for the cash!

Keep us informed Minirotty if you get one.

when i got my e39 in november the E60s were about 7k for a ropey one!

if youre buying a 5k e60 make sure it aint a pile of poop

i spent just under 5k on a late e39 and that wasnt over the odds!

sports obviously sell for more...

Been working over time trying to get a good px deal on mine against a 530d

Am knackered, i hate searching for new cars lol

The markets dropped now, theres hundreds for around 5K

Car selling market moves fast these days.

Missed out on a lovely 530d manual in black today, was 2nd in order to buy if first didnt arrive, but he did :(

Still looking.

Are 525d's any good? not driven a 525d.

Also can't decide manual or auto lol

Also some tourings are looking nice!

Would have to be a touring if it were my money,
Great for camping

maybe doing a deal on a nice tourer, but it's in Cornwall, not figured out details yet lol

Tempted by that, 139K but sadly no history with it, but love the look of it lol HPI clear etc though.

Just done antother check, is cat D. :(

Looks stunning that Kev

how much is it im after a 330d m sport but like the look of that cat ds dont bother me ive had numerous

£5000 mate, got tonight to decide weather to go meet him half way for it.


The no history and cat D is a put off tho.

thats cheap woudnt meet him halfway though he might rob you facelift model for that money or does he seem a genuine guy

Wouldn't be going alone ;)

Probably the history was handed into the ins company after it got written off to get a better payout.
Could you not pm Carlo to run a few checks via the computer to see if it had any dealer history?
Could be a bit late now I suppose.
Looks lovely though.

I have PM'd him datails mate, not aranged to meet untill tomorrow afternoon so hopefully he'll be able to help out.

It does look such a nice car.


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thats a hell of a motor for £5k.
cat D wouldn't bother me in the slightest at that price. I wonder if you can get the details of where it was repaired and exactly what work was carried out

i was going to buy that one before i bought mine lol. only things that stopped me were no history and also the fact i would ruin the cream in about a week.

just checked my ebay, they were after 5750 when i was interested and they were willing to pick me up from newquay airport. seem a decent seller tbf

Lots of car for the money but IMO anything at the price range you are looking at (ie the absolute bottom of the market) is not gonna be 100% right.

Dealer history as said is easy enough to check. Its also manual so less desirable.

On the plus side they are great cars, generally dont go wrong, cheap to run, cheap to maintain, comfortable and perform very well. I assume you know the 525, 530 and 535 are all actually 3.0 litre engined in different states of tune.

I think you are making a great choice of car BUT spend a little more to weed out the rubbish.

I would say hat it was damage at the front end as its an SE with the sport front bumper.

Watch out for he alloys as well as there a lot of non BMW copies around and ALL of the inc genuine are prone o flat spots and cracks.

They look like genuine BM wheels.

And its Sport rear bumper aswell.

Cat D wouldnt bother me, look what folk do when restoring cars, cut all sorts of shit out and weld in new panels that isnt done to factory spec, they'res a lad doin a van in the project section and hes cut it from the pillars etc to rebuild it, looks great work, but a car with some damage repaired properly wouldnt bother me if its done right!

These arnt exactly small cars, so not likely to fold up.

I have just bought an E60 530d M-Sport Auto 2005 with all the options, wide screen nav, leather, 19" rims, 100k ect ect.....

There are alot of cars out there but finding the spec/milage ect that i wanted with decent miles was the tough part.

There are plenty out there with loads of miles and basic options but i was picky.

I got it!!!

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Over 300+ round trip to deal on the car, best deal I have ever done too.

Love it, the drive home was great, even funny that people on motorway think you're old bill.

Are you home yet?
Get some pics up mate.




Must have posted the same time as you......

Think you had a great buy there fella.
I've repaired over a hundered cars and in all honesty can say that beemers are one of the toughest out there,strong as hell,I'd guess there was nothing more than light panel stuff on them,don't forget the front ends gonna be the thick end of £2000 from a dealer with rad pack, clips,lights,fog lamps etc so take painting,labour,re gassing aircon etc it soon adds up and could easily write something off without recieving much of a hit.
Starting to think about these myself now,I was having ideas of a focus st but these do seem ridiculous value.

Mate, a few of my freinds have Foci ST's and after only driving this home, long journey but still, I wouldn't swap it for any of there ST's mate.

It's a great car for my needs, if I was single, I may have had the ST, but I have a wife, two kids, and two rotties lol these ull suit me right.

nice buy, good luck keeping that cream cream with 2 dogs lol. get yourself a dog guard as the one that comes built in is complete chuff. my staffy jumped between it and the window lol. jealous of your wheels though

Ordered a black mat for the back with black side covers, well my mates mum did it for me whilst we was driving home lol

Wheels are nice and also good as it's not on run flats, test drove one on run flats and was a horrible noisey drive with road noise.

Glad you got it mate hell of a car for the money hope the Info helped :grin:

It did carlo, massively appreciated too! thanks again pal.

No bother mate anytime