How many miles will a BMW 5 series 530D do?

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

That's how much they charge per hour. You are either wealthy enough to own and run a BMW, or you drive a French car.

Wear your BMW service charges with honour!

[DodgyAgent]

I traded it for a Zafira, which is essentially another Astra in disguise.

When did you see through it?

[sasguru]

That's how much they charge per hour. You are either gullible enough to own and run a BMW, or you drive a French car.

Wear your BMW service charges like the cretin you are!

FTFY.

[sasguru]

When did you see through it?

POTD

[Mich the Tester]

POTD

No, a close second to this;

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...ml#post1769761

[tranceporter]

Called up Rochdale Williams (Next to that garage place). Charge £225 + VAT. isn't that a bit excessive!

That a bit on the higher side, but some bloke paid another garage to have my VXR8 inspected, and that cost his £200, because the garage charged him 3 hours labour. They also came back with 32 points needing attention, on a scale of 1 to 10, with about 10 points deemed important. Which also means that I saved money on inspection, and I am only paying for parts and labour..lol. Get it inspected mate. And since they are asking for £275, ask them to make a price list for the "deemed" repairs.

[bless 'em all]

Off road? really? i wouldn't have thought either car was built for that.

I've been in my mates C6 - it really is like a magic carpet, not sure if has the old hydro-pneumatic suspension though as on the DS. Didn't go on motorway, but on urban crappy potholed roads its great.

I've got a 2.0d C5 with the Hydractive suspension. It'll automatically adjust the cars ride-height depending on the road surface.

When it gets up to speed on the motorway the ride-height drops to decrease the drag.

I've really noticed the difference in comfort the last couple of days cos I'm driving the garages courtesy car .....

[OwlHoot]

I used to think you were being funny then I realised you're just batty i.e. sort of "single woman with cats batty".
Why on earth woukd you bring a 2CV into the conversation? Anyway a 2CV happens to be better than some of the post war cars BMW produced

Ooh, now that's a touched nerve "catty" reply if ever I saw one.

So can we assume Sas or a person close to him is a sometime or even current owner of - wait for it - a Citroen 2CV ?

P.S. I was replying to someone who had mentioned Citroëns, and his hatred of French cars, and was reliving my acute trauma of once having been in a 2CV while it was moving - It's better to talk about these things, and not try and bottle them up!

[Churchill]

This is one:

BMW 5 SERIES 525d SE 4dr Auto 2.5 (FULL LEATHER+FULL HISTORY) 2004

I'd actually prefer the 325 for the economy.

I recently bought a very nice AMG spec Merc C250 CDI - I'm going to run it into the ground.

Look at Mercs rather than BMWs.

[darmstadt]

I recently bought a very nice AMG spec Merc C250 CDI - I'm going to run it into the ground.

Look at Mercs rather than BMWs.

Nah, my last real AMG the engine blew up after 30,000km whereas the BMW, now 5 years old has done 200,000km and not been in the garage once but I think its now the time to buy a new one so off to the dealers on Monday to look at a car which has the following specs:

6 cylinder
3 litre
410hp
600Nm torque
8 speed gearbox
0-100km in 4.2 seconds
305km/h top whack
7.6 litres/100km
177 g/km Co2 emissions
Raspberry Pink with green leather interior

Would have ordered it earlier but the taxman stiffed me