BMW Owners OT

get a second hand rover with a jaguar engine, 147 mph in a rover is fast enough. knocking on wood, ill probably crash it before it breaks

Your wife gets it from my perspective. SWMBO drives a Lexus and my sentiments are right in line with your wife's. But then again, I'm not a fan of slush box transmissions either 😎

We lease our two Mercedes but we recently had to replace my tires at around 24000 mile on my GLE 350 plus rear brakes and replace the two rear tires on my wife's little convertible...can't remember what its called.

My biggest beef with my Mercedes is the horrible smell from the AC system which is a known problem with Mercedes. They won't do anything about it and when I asked my salesperson about it he suggested that I cut the AC off 2 minutes before turning the car off. I told him I didn't pay XXXXX $ to override their sh!tty AC defect and that after leasing 3 cars from him in 4 years, I'll look elsewhere when the leases are up.

agreed- a $50,000 truck is cheaper to own than a $30,000 German sedan. period.

Edit- I've had it longer than I originally thought:

I have loved the E550 but I just did the math. We have spent $350 a month in maintenance and tires in the 60 months we have had it. 3/4 of that was covered under the $4000 extended warranty and I didn't roll that cost in to the total. so it would really be more like $410 a month. Yikes.

It has been all the fancy stuff that has been the issue. Air ride suspension, active air bag bolsters in the seats (totally unnecessary but i still love these- they squeeze you tight when you hit the gas and they hug you in on the direction you turn. Faster the turn, the more the support) , $300 tires, $300 batteries that go out every year because of all the electronics on board (and there are 2 of them). It's never ending but the motor and tranny have 110,000 miles and runs like a bat out of hell. Never touched either for maintenance.

Wow!

I have that engine in my 2011 F150. It’s been great, but will be selling it before I have any major issues. Mileage keeps drifting downward too.

And German steel as well. Lokks like there was a slight knee adjustment just before impact to get closer to a center-line point of impact. Tragic.

huh? It is a 1999 300E turbo charged diesel that runs like a top and is a helluva open road machine! At under 66K miles that diesel is a mere puppy. I have kept it up quite nicely and in spite of being 20 years old you wouldn't know it. At my age I really doubt I will sell it as it has little trade-in value.

Wow, I was a heavy tobacco user and when I quit the only thing I could afford was a MM. 😜

They know that you have money stashed somewhere.

Mrs 3969s last car was a 2009 C300 4Matic. Not a bad car but got to be costly about the 90,000 mark. We test drove a new Mercedes and it rode like a road wagon and the cabin noise was horrible enough to cross it off the list. We then drioce a Lexus. Drive was good, road noise good but the room in the cabin sucked. She ended up with a Kia Stinger. This car is crazy quick, quiet cabin and roomy with a crazy amount of electronic features.

This thread has given me a strong stomachache.... 😯

I miss my Saabs. '86 900 Turbo, 210,000 miles, destroyed by someone running a red light (not me). '88 900 Turbo Convertible, 165,000 miles (a few problems with this girl). '01 9-3 Convertible, 147,000 miles, running like a top but sold Her as parts were getting scarce.

My '92 Toyota pickup (purchased new) got 215,000 miles, destroyed by someone running a stop sign (again, not me), no major maintenance. My current '09 Tacoma just turned over 60,000 miles, and the only expensive bill was my recent 60K Scheduled maintenance, $1,100 (with a 15% coupon, which for once, they sent me right before the maintenance, not right after!)

Oh, one other interesting tidbit about my '09 Taco: summer of '17, the dealership I bought it from offered to buy it back for $4,000 less than I paid for it, 8 years prior!! And this wasn't a "trade-in-for-a-new-model", they wanted to buy it from me straight up! Plus, my mailman has asked me about buying it, twice now. No fancy software or screens here, either....

Well said by you and the same in principle by others. Besides my forementioned '99 MB I also have a cherry '95 Corvette with only 16k miles. Every time I get a wild hair up my *ss about trading or selling that vet I recall the horrible stories by some neighors who bought a 2016 and a 2017. Both gave over $70k and had nothing but many expensive "computer" driven real and false issues. One neighor coined the term "raped twice by GM and then by *******.