Reply With QuoteAgain, I drove this one the day after Thanksgiving. Its what you'd expect for a low mileage example. Expansion tank is good, belts good, FCABS good, no VANOS noises, brakes good, tire wear even but probably needs tires (summer Michelins are well worn in rear, fronts showing dry rot down inside the tread), all electronic features inside functioned as they should. The bad was just cosmetic -- rear bumper has multiple scrapes and needs to be repainted, small dent on the filler piece between rear bumper and license plate, "C" pillar material inside is coming loose and needs reglue or replacement, inside a little dirty and outside paint badly needs a detailing. I did not find any evidence of any paintwork, believe it will clean up nicely, the rubber on the shadowline trim in the tight corner is still pliable. I did a check with BMW N.A., it had only been in for maintenance once, an oil change around 8K miles. The original owner was a local marina owner, residue from his sticker is on the trunk, believe this was his wife's car as there is evidence of a car seat being in the rear and the seat memory position was for a short person.
I initially offered $17.5K for the car, we did the dance and they countered with $20K. My next offer was $18K, they countered with $19.5K. The salesman said we were close but I sat at $18K since I calculated it needed about $2.5K put into it for bumper, tires, and other clean-up, plus it should have a Service II since its been in the humidity of the beach for 4 years. I left a $100 refundable deposit to hold it over the weekend while I thought about it, Monday I called them and said no thanks please refund my deposit. Then it disappeared from their website a couple of days later.
About 2 weeks later, I called the sales manager I was dealing with that day to get my deposit refunded. Found out it was his last day, he told me he had found a better situation closer to his home. We talked about the car selling the week after I saw it. Then the week before Xmas my son noticed it online again but it had moved from their Ford dealership website to their Toyota website. Don't know if someone had trouble getting financing or what. The 2 dealerships are collocated and the day I went to see it, they were playing games and hiding the car from each other.
AW appears to be a rare color, if it only had the alcantara. This should be a good one for someone who is willing to go into it realizing that they need to add a little bit of money and clean-up right up front to have a very nice car.
Bruce
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