New to us '10 AW 535i M-sport Intro

[Jdesign]

Nice score!

[RobZR]

snap said:

I enjoyed reading that. Looks like you gotta unload that Red E34 now for a reasonable price (pleaaaase!!!!)

A Sliver E38 and an E34 will be unloaded but not the Calypso your thinking off.

The fleet is getting a bit large at the moment with 2 E34's,  MZ3,  E38, E46, now an E60 and "the Big Red Bus".

[Earl]

So what's this other e34?

[RobZR]

Hellrot 540i/6 I drove back from Monterey in '07 she has 205k on the clock runs like a top but has typical hellrot clearcoat failure and is rusting around the edges. Doors,trunk lid, wheel well corners. Been waffling on selling it for 2yrs. Since Calypso is to nice to drive through the winter.

[i_love_cars]

Good read, and yet another successful cross-country journey for a car with a roundel on it. I always chuckle when I see how many people talk about BMW reliability and how you "can't trust those cars to travel anywhere"

[Daggerty]

i_love_cars said:

Good read, and yet another successful cross-country journey for a car with a roundel on it. I always chuckle when I see how many people talk about BMW reliability and how you "can't trust those cars to travel anywhere" 

They are so unreliable and expensive to fix.

[Daggerty]

I drove out to San Francisco but not back. I feel like the drive back would be so depressing. Going from nice terrain to corn fields.

[RobZR]

Daggerty said:

i_love_cars said:

Good read, and yet another successful cross-country journey for a car with a roundel on it. I always chuckle when I see how many people talk about BMW reliability and how you "can't trust those cars to travel anywhere" 

Daggerty said:

They are so unreliable and expensive to fix.

Have done this 6 times now. I'm only 50/50 on reliability. I had one alternator fail. Had to replace it in an AutoZone parking lot, Limped home another alternator with bad bearings, and had a thermostat stick open on another. All just on the trip back. For non car folks that would be terrible.

[RobZR]

Daggerty said:

I drove out to San Francisco but not back. I feel like the drive back would be so depressing. Going from nice terrain to corn fields.

It's actually nice to tie off the wheel set the cruise and zone out through Iowa and Illinois. After 25+ hrs driving.

[i_love_cars]

RobZR said:

Have done this 6 times now. I'm only 50/50 on reliability. I had one alternator fail. Had to replace it in an AutoZone parking lot, Limped home another alternator with bad bearings, and had a thermostat stick open on another. All just on the trip back. For non car folks that would be terrible. 

agreed in terms of being disastrous to non-car people, but to me something like an alternator failing in some way shape or form has nothing to do with BMW. That's something at risk for any car with any decent amount of mileage on it.