When to buy a used bmw
Buying a BMW? My 4 Tips Help You Buy a Reliable BMW
hi everybody its mark with exotic our
play place back at you today to help you
understand when you're shopping for a
BMW how you can reduce or eliminate the
risk and how you can maximize your
overall reliability and enjoyment of
your used or new car BMW purchase but
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you're trying to understand how you can
safely buy a BMW understand that you
want to buy a reliable vehicle there is
an acronym that I like to throw out
there for you guys remember these four
key words and of course in short it
means risk so if you could remember the
acronym risk because a bad car is a bad
risk so of course that's an easy acronym
to remember just remember risk soul at
the beginning of risk starts with an R
and that R means research research
research and when I say that what we are
really getting to is understand the bad
actors learn about the cars that are
historically problematic cars that have
had a history of issues maybe fire
related issues maybe notoriously
unreliable engines that the press has
got ahold of understand the bad actors
and understand that you do not want a
part of that unless there's something
specific about that car that you are
willing to accept the responsibility
risk on it if you're willing to accept
the second rate reliability because of
some performance related topic or maybe
you like the way the car sounds or looks
that's okay
you need to recognize that you need to
do the research and understand where the
problem actors are and learn which cars
to avoid so we move along in the acronym
and I is the next letter of the acronym
and that really boils down to
inspections so you've been searching
around you found the car that you want
to buy and it might be used it might be
new but hypothetically the car is used
now because it's used you don't know
where it's been
it's had a lot of miles it's been down a
lot of roads has a lot of experiences
and you should really understand what
some of those experiences that that car
has had and there's a result you really
need to be diligent in doing these
inspections because it could have been
abused it could have been misused it
could have been neglected and an
inspection will flush that out so what
you need to get really understand is if
it's a if it's a private sale you need
to ask that person that if it's ok to
take that car to an a service center a
BMW service center or a strongly
recommended independent shop if that
person that independent owner says no
that's red flag number one that to me is
time to run don't walk away run away
from the deal they're hiding something
because anybody who's reputable or is
willing to make a deal on good faith
will allow you to take that car to a
shop to have it tsardom serviced and
inspected now what if the car is a used
car at a dealer if it's a dealer vehicle
often the dealers will have a full set
of they may not have service records but
they'll have an inspection record a lot
of times if dealers take used vehicles
in on trade they'll run it through their
shop they'll do some quick checks on it
ok the brakes are at this much the tires
have this much wear left the exhaust
sounds good the car Road tests very well
you know the wipers work everything
electrically functions largely what a
dealer is going to be inspecting for is
safety related things things that force
them to ensure that the vehicle is safe
to draw
they're not going to necessarily do a
leak down check or a compression check
or you know do a lot of those things
that really tell a story about the
general health of the car in most cases
dealers will not do that they'll sell
you on the fact that they run it through
the shop and do a full inspection but in
reality a lot of those inspections are
more of the fact that yeah the tires are
good the brakes are good ball joints so
the car's not gonna veer off the road
the mirrors are good and lights are
working those are all great things to
understand but also understand this they
are also not necessarily going to give
it a real thorough mechanical inspection
some will say they do and others will
actually do it but understand that it
never hurts to take it to an independent
shop even if you're buying it from a
dealer so the third part of this acronym
is s and S stands for satisfy your
curiosity and when I mean that so now
you're looking at a car you've been
searching for quite some time you come
across an owner of a car you say for
example I know I've been shopping for
some 335 s that's the car that I'm
likely going to buy next so you're
finding the car you narrowed down and
local classifieds you find the car that
you want to buy you start asking the
questions you must ask questions don't
take the first thing at face value
understand the history of the car based
on what the owners telling you satisfy
that curiosity by asking those questions
the why are you selling it what has it
been through has it been through an
accident are you the original owner do
you have service records these are all
really good things that you need to ask
that previous owner to make sure that
you're satisfied with the condition of
that car now maybe you're buying new
this will satisfy your curiosity goes
for other things too it's not just
buying a used car
what if you're buying a new car you
should be asking the questions of the
new car dealer as well about some of the
features and elements maybe you don't
want the full package deal because a lot
of times when you get a car packaged up
it includes a lot of options
lot of which maybe you didn't even want
in the first place but uh understand
options he options equate to complexity
and complexity adds to reliability
concerns maybe skip out on that
panoramic sunroof Hubble does carbon
ceramic discs maybe you don't need them
maybe you're not tracking the car but
ask the questions are those parts in the
package that you're buying do you need
that or understand where the dealer got
the car how long is the carbon sitting
there is that a late model for that year
or they bring it in the next generation
and you might be getting into sort of
the old stock just ask all the questions
be satisfied satisfy your curiosity
about what you're buying what that car
means is that old stock is at new stock
either way satisfy your curiosity and
the fourth part of the acronym is k4
keep it simple so you want to keep
things simple and in essence if you're
looking for reliability and you're not
looking for a racecar you want something
that's going to perform well sure that's
why you're buying a BMW but do you need
every last little piece of technical
gizmo equipment do you need every last
piece of horsepower that you can derive
out of these cars maybe your car is
going to be primarily utilized as a
daily driver maybe you don't need that M
car because M cars again as we talk
about reliability aren't necessarily the
most reliable car in any of the BMW
lineups so maybe you don't need that
maybe you don't need that high-revving
engine like the old infamous e60 m5 that
revs 280 300 rpm do you need that car to
drive daily maybe you're ok with a 550
instead that's you know 80% of the
performance but half of the troubles and
hassles that you would get with the M
car do you need all that stuff do you
need every last power option do you need
things like gesture control sure they're
novel but I mean again these are things
that can and will likely fail at some
time if you want them and you need to
have them out and they're on your wish
list by all means but if you're
searching for reliability keep it simple
I don't know how many of you guys
out there remember the old crank windows
you know what there's still a few cars
on the road that have manually cranked
windows that don't even have powered
windows associated with them that is
simple that is one less thing that will
fail now I'm not saying go buy your new
BMW with crank windows of course not I
don't even think you can order them that
way all I'm saying is if you do not need
all the extra added complexities maybe
stay away from that
so in short everybody that is my acronym
for risk research research research
inspections satisfy your curiosity and
keeping it simple that is the short way
to remember how you want to start to
pursue your new or used BMW purchase if
you are concerned about a reliable buy
so everybody I really hope you enjoyed
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that with you that's a great way to
summarize things a great way to remember
up here what is the best way to kind of
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