2007 BMW316 96K miles, am I buying trouble??

zack01

Looking for a bit of advice here guys, I found a beautiful silver 316SE BMW saloon, in great nick, ex company car, 1 lady driver, only problem is it had 96K miles on it.It has the full service history etc but am I buying into trouble here, putting it on finance so I don't want to be paying back the car along with repairs I may have to fix due to the high mileage.
Any advice here would be really appreciated
thanks in advance

Mr Benevolent

Not really, but a 316 is a bit weedy - all style and no substance so to speak. Get a 320i, you won't regret it.

billymitchell

What confab said. I bought a 2005 320d with about similar mileage on it, and it hasnt given me an jip!! (yet)

Owen

Lovely car if you live somewhere with no hills. If you have hills anywhere near to you, you'd better get a good run at them. Like a mile or two. The engine is completely gutless.

bazz26

I drove one of these once and could not believe how sluggish it was. You really need to plan your overtaking well in advance if driving one of these, it made my 1.6d S40 feel quick when I got back into it. :eek:

My advice would be to find either a 318i or 320d instead.

R.O.R

PaintDoctor wrote: »

Lovely car if you live somewhere with no hills. If you have hills anywhere near to you, you'd better get a good run at them. Like a mile or two. The engine is completely gutless.

Delivered a new one to a customer in 2006, and it's one of the worst cars I've driven - and I've driven some steaming heaps. Gutless is understating that engine a bit.

I drove an 08ED version recently and it wasn't as bad as I feared, the extra 10bhp (I think) seemed to make a fair difference. Still wouldn't buy one as I was test driving that after it came back out of the garage for the 4th time before it went back to the driver (been in again since too).

L-M

I drove a base spec (inside anyway) and by god it's a horrible drive. Horrible seats, horrible steering wheel and horribly horribly slow.

My '90 316i feels much quicker, and it's 25 bhp less.

Buy a 320d or 320i (depending on your circumstances) but don't buy the 1.6.

johnos1984

Is that engine any better in the 1-Series, it seems its the only one in any Irish 1-Series

btkm8unsl0w5r4

To my shame I actually owned on of these a e90 316i from new. The wife was commuting big miles at the time and the Rx-8 was too thirsty. She liked it.

Crap engine for that car. Really slow, sluggish, underpowered. Cant overtake anything and the fuel consumption sucked cause you were constantly revving the bollox out of it trying to make some progress. Traded it in 6 months later. Hopeless, avoid, not a real BMW, crappy, shoddy..........

Have driven a 116i as a loaner from the dealer, not too bad, the lighter car make all the difference.

AVOID the 316, no BMW engineer ever imagined a engine as puney as this is that car,, must invent time travel and go back and save the huge mistake.....

PS Check out this milage, cause its sooooooo slow if you started a drive in 2007 and never stopped to this day that POS would still not have driven 96k.......

giant_midget

zack01 wrote: »

Looking for a bit of advice here guys, I found a beautiful silver 316SE BMW saloon, in great nick, ex company car, 1 lady driver, only problem is it had 96K miles on it.It has the full service history etc but am I buying into trouble here, putting it on finance so I don't want to be paying back the car along with repairs I may have to fix due to the high mileage.
Any advice here would be really appreciated
thanks in advance

Go for the diesel Zack..The petrol 316SE will break your heart. All looks and no go.
With the diesel one you won't look back and mileage will not be an issue.

Mr Benevolent

jesusinaglanza wrote: »

Go for the diesel Zack..The petrol 316SE will break your heart. All looks and no go.
With the diesel one you won't look back and mileage will not be an issue.

They seem to go through turbos like Pringles though.

L-M

Confab wrote: »

They seem to go through turbos like Pringles though.

Used to...

Apparently (from my recent readings of BMW's) they modified or changed the turbo in 05 and it seems to be holding up well.