rev up your engines today I'm gonna answer the question why do people buy
these BMWs even knowing that they become endless money pits
okay the sharp looking cars no doubt in that to handle really well and this
particular one it's 2008 335i puts out over 300 horsepower cuz it's
got twin turbos two turbochargers on check this out underneath the hood
underneath all this plastic crap there's a six cylinder engine with two
turbochargers that puts out 301 horsepower they really go
there's no argument they drive fast they handle really well
they're also endless money pits okay we'll start out with this car the first
owner paid forty four thousand five hundred dollars for it and then it's
forty five thousand miles of owning a car spent over ten thousand dollars on
maintenance if you notice this baby no longer has that run flat tires
it came with run-flat tires guess what every time you hit a big bump in a
pothole and there's tons of out here you spent it would end up cracking the very
expensive aluminum wheels if that had to be replaced it road like crap now the
handle perfectly fine but you bought a car like this for handling speed and ride
comfort the owner now you put on these normal tires not to run flat and truth
be told it rides a lot better but then again that was after the original dollar
spent a ton of money on wheels as they cracked and broke you don't pay that
kind of money for a car and expect the wheels to crack I just look at the
original wheels of 1994 Celica now I have hit stuff and sometimes they bent
some but I'd bend them back again I never bought a rim for any of my cars
now getting 301 horsepower out of this straight six-cylinder engine
turbochargers are on it it's got a very fancy fuel injection system but
unfortunately on BMWs that stuff breaks all the time look at the working room or should
I say lack of working room there's very little working room on these vehicles
and everything is plastic not just the covers all these plastic hoses
going to the radiator and to the turbochargers that stuff
cracks as they age so you might think oh it's just plastic a plastic is cheap
well in this case it may be cheaply built but it's not cheaply priced plus
some of the stuff if it breaks on the bottom side of the engine you got to
take half the car off to get to it if you can even see where the leak is in
the first place these things become endless repair nightmares as they age no
my customer here is the second owner the original owner paid forty four thousand
five hundred dollars for the car that spent ten grand in repairs maintenance the
first forty five thousand miles and ownership well my customer bought it
with forty five thousand dollars on it for $13,500 look at the money the
original guy lost oh I'd be sweating bullets losing that kind of money in a
stupid car even he said he's thinking about getting rid of it
because he's had to spend thousands on repairs in the twenty thousand miles of
these driven the car so why do people buy well it's the lure of the BMW
that's why they're beautiful looking they're fast
they drive really nice when they are working well there's another reason
people buy and watch this looks like a hardtop but voila it magically hides
itself away takes a few seconds but it's rather ingenious I must give them that
look at that not what do you have a beautiful convertible you know they've
all that nonsense of the ride top blowing in the wind when it's up and
leakin you got a full metal roof and then when you get bored with that guess
what what's your other button it puts yourself back up as you can see it
doesn't take all that much time it is a good idea that the car stopped when you
do it though you know what the wind blow and it
packed all the ingenious Germans now of course all that technology comes at a
price and the price is where it breaks where you start throwing out
thousand-dollar bills left right insider to fix the thing and being modern German
technology yes they do break I guess their theory is if you gotta ask how
much it costs to fix the roof no it does have a good transmission six-speed
german-made automatic same over seven million variants of it for
various cars it is a good transmission I unfortunately can't get in any modern
cars because they stopped making that unit in 2014
six years ago they stopped making those units but those six-speed ZF
transmissions were pretty good units as much economy as you're gonna get out of
a 301 horsepower dual turbo engines most people aren't gonna get that great gas
mileage driving it soon cuz they're gonna be driving it fast this one is
rated at 17 miles a gallon in the city but you're not gonna get that when I had
one for a week I averaged about seven miles a gallon anything I would drive it
at hard mind you but hey with those dual turbos and 301 horsepower if you like
putting your pedal to the metal you can get horrible gas mileage so I can
understand why people buy them at least emotionally kind of like the apple in
the Garden of Eden tempting but if you take a bite of this BMW Apple odds are
your universe is going to turn into an endless money pit universe in a
relatively short period of time if not right away
assuming you're buying a used one with some mileage on it so in the case of
this beautiful BMW hardtop yet convertible be careful what you wish for
you might get it, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair
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