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There are a few good reasons to wait and a few reasons to buy now, rather than later:
If I wait (say a year as you propose), the mf will surely be lower and I will have the oppurtunity to purchase the car via ED next July (my wife and I are planning to go to Europe for our vacation anyway). The selling price of the car would be approximately $2100 less (give or take a small price increase around January '06 and for model year '07 if I'm picking it up in July).
The flipside of waiting are: I rack up 20K miles per year. So figure 5 oil changes not bad about $50 each. I provide my own Castrol 5w30 Syntec and they charge me about $18 to change the oil and filter at the Honda dealer (they also provice loaners :shades: ) Figure at least 2 alignments (maybe more if I can't avoid one of the craters we call pot holes) at $79.99. I'm also going to have to have the timing belt changed (read: MAJOR $ERVICE) when the odometer hits 60K (it could last longer, but when the car has a 7400RPM redline you don't want to chance it. I'm also going to have to put new tires on next spring when I take the snow tires off the car. The Potenza RE92s are showing their age (they were garbage from day one). I can also get a decent amount for my Prelude if I sell it now. I'm sure Some college kid will snap it up before he/she goes back to school. It will only depreciate more within the next year.
The biggest reason of all is that you never know if you're going to be around next year. I lost a good friend on 9/11 (amazing father of 4 and a wonderful husband), had one of my best friends drop dead of a heart attack at the age of 27 (he was perfectly healthy), and some guy was killed about a half a block from where I work because he refused to buy a bum some cigarettes (stabbed in the neck while pumping gas).
Thanks for complementing the Prelude It is pretty awesome :shades:
Sorry for the long post!
2001 Prelude Type SH, 2022 Highlander XLE AWD, 2022 Wrangler Sahara 4Xe, 2023 Toyota Tacoma SR 4WD
Are you saying that the price of E90 will come down next year? or that the 2006 model will be cheaper because the 2007 model will be coming out? Interested in your thought process, since I am in a similar situation. I have a perfectly fine car, and can wait a year or so, but these E90 are soooo pretty...and waiting will be hard.
Thinking of ED spring/summer of 2006.
That's the exact reason I'd hold off. MF of 25 is pretty high.
If I wait (say a year as you propose), the mf will surely be lower and I will have the oppurtunity to purchase the car via ED next July (my wife and I are planning to go to Europe for our vacation anyway). The selling price of the car would be approximately $2100 less (give or take a small price increase around January '06 and for model year '07 if I'm picking it up in July).
Some college kid will snap it up before he/she goes back to school. It will only depreciate more within the next year.
At this point, the worst is past you on depreciation (years 1-3). I doubt you'll have any trouble moving your vehicle.
Thanks for complementing the Prelude It is pretty awesome
Always had a soft spot for that car. Super fun and not appreciated nearly enough. Regardless, do what makes you happy...I just see $500 for a 325i a month and I feel a little queasy.
Plano: did you make the UDE? I wondered if very many E90's showed.
DL
Went to the Autocross. Had a blast. They had Audi's, G35's, & 330s all lined up. We got to drive them all, hard. Guess which one came out ahead. My friend got a 330 up to around 130. So much for the 30/40 mph theory. They do make you sign your life away.
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This is something people commonly state but the transport cost is exactly the same as picking your car up at the dealership: $695.
DL
see if your dealer could throw in the mats for you upon arrival. i have read at other forums that dealers have given free accessories when they came to pick up the car to their clients. i saw that these gifts ranged from polo shirts to key chains to mats
mike.
"Uh.... there are no floor mats in this car.. What do you mean it doesn't come with mats? (insert number here) $*&#@*&# dollars, and it doesn't even come with floormats? You've got to be kidding!!"
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id call your salesperson and see if he would throw them in. i mean your shellling out $40,000+ on a car the least they could do is throw in some mats.
blueguydotcom: My somewhat low optioned 325i isn't sitting on a dealer's lot and will have to be ordered. My salesman told me to expect it to come in early October. Maybe the mf will drop by then. This guy doesn't mess with me :P and will give me the lower mf. I called him the day before we were supposed to take delivery of my Mom's 530iA and "reminded" him that the mf dropped from the time we ordered the car. You also got a super cheap lease deal on your ZHP when you put down the MSD. What would your lease payment be if you didn't put down the MSD? Just curious.
dl7265: You're not the only one. We're just the only 2 who admit it :surprise:
2001 Prelude Type SH, 2022 Highlander XLE AWD, 2022 Wrangler Sahara 4Xe, 2023 Toyota Tacoma SR 4WD
The MF was originally 0.0013. I bought it down to 0.0003. So it would have been $557 a month instead of the 485 a month I pay.
Turn in my ZHP May of 06 and get my MSDs back....sort of a downpayment on my next car.
You would think..........
Doesn't always work that way unfortunately. Some times you run in to a dealer who is "doing you a favor" by selling you a car..............
Anyway, thank you all for listening, for your suggestions, and advice.
2001 Prelude Type SH, 2022 Highlander XLE AWD, 2022 Wrangler Sahara 4Xe, 2023 Toyota Tacoma SR 4WD
So that dealer is marking it up by .0004. You could negotiate for the base MF.
Yes, it costs as much as an ipod.... but I am talking about maximum sound quality..... ALSO, when you record onto the IPOD, go to preferences and choose WAV. This copies the song, bit for bit.... and retains the purest sound from the cd... you lose a little space on your ipod... but who really needs 5000 songs on their ipod.... I'd sacrificed the space for sound quality every time.
In addition, Monster Cable has come out with icruze..... a product that enables true integration of the ipod... and even has a display so you can see the songs....
I am really pissed that BMW didn't include true ipod integration in the 2006 330i... they always seem to mess something up...
Did you see the cupholders.. that protrude from the dash board.... my wife can barely reach hers.... and she has to buy a small cup of coffee and dump 1/2 of it onto the ground before she puts the 1/2 cup into the holder.... there's an idea... call them "1/2 of a cup, holders"
As an owner of many BMW's you will become very friendly with the techs.... but I got used to that.
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Not true, uncompressed data from a CD would be 650 megabytes-a 25 year old format doesn't have that built into it, about 50-60 albums on a 40 GB iPod. Try the AIFF or Apple Lossless, superior formats.
Also, the stated max. of song storage is stated at a fairly high sampling rate- I don't know what though. I changed mine to 96 kb. To me 128 is overkill.
...Then there is hearing the engine above 4k for an even better tune:)
Pros: Tight handling but when requested the car can be docile and luxurious. Fun exhaust (that also quiets down when not pressed). Eager, high revving engine...keep it over 4k rpm and it's a blast. Super fun on twisties and long drives, great mileage on long drives even averaging 95 mph.
Cons: Engine stutters at 4k rpm and BMW hasn't been able to fix this (returning for trip no. 4 on this issue Tuesday), electric locks/key fob will stop working for no apparent reason, chassis/interior bits squeaking/flexing a lot over uneven pavement, six speed's notchy and slow to respond. Ignition coils went out (fixed) and e-brake arrived from the factory broken (fixed).
Would I lease it again? Probably. Planning on a break from BMW though when it goes back.
I will be taking ED in September and have already charted out some mountain twisties and less traveled autobahns where the electronically speedlimit usually has the null sign posted. I probably wont travel more than 100 mph as I am not accustomed to fast driving, but I love having my rpms in the higher end of the spectrum when coming out of a turn.
I was also talking to a dealer today that says anyone putting in only 93-Oct gasoline in is wasting money. They deliver their cars with 87, and the dealers no that the premium is just not needed? Any truth to this?
--- about to put an order together for a 330i cold weather and idrive/nav only. I know what your saying, but I need the nav for my work! Jet Black, black letherette (I also like the letherette enough to save the money, had it in my '03 330i)
let me know about the ipods,
and thanks,
djocks
Horsepower in the new 3 is 215 for the 325i and 255 for the 330i. In the IS it will be low 200s for the IS250 and low 300s for the IS350. Horsepower is not everything. You should drive both cars, if you have the luxury of time. Base prices will be about the same, IS250 = 325i and IS350 = 330i. I recently saw the IS pricing in the current edition of Automobile magazine.
By the way, which magazine says that Lexus is unreliable and BMW has better reliability? That doesn't sound right. Lexus has been ranked at or near the top for reliability year after year. The same cannot be said for BMW, though I believe that the 3-Series is considered to be the most reliable of any BMW model. That said, we are all taking our chances with the first year run of any new model, be it the new 3 or the new IS.
Also - the car comes equipped with 18". There's no reason that my winter tires couldn't be mounted on 17"s (or, for that matter, 16"s), is there?
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I’ve “heard” that the “old” GS and IS did not have as good reliability as the LS & ES; though it still was pretty good probably close to the BMW
I think this is because people, for the most part, that purchase an IS and GS would want to drive it. When you rev an engine past 2000 rpm it won’t last as long.
My old analogy of the couch comes into play here give a couch to a frat house, or a geriatrics facility and the same couch will have different “reliability”.