Buying a BMW? My 4 Tips Help You Buy a Reliable BMW

hi everybody its mark with exotic our play place back at you today to help you understand when you're shopping for a BMW how you can reduce or eliminate the risk and how you can maximize your overall reliability and enjoyment of your used or new car BMW purchase but before we get started everybody just gonna throw this out there down in the description below there is a link to my online store if you want to buy you know some shirts and hats and things and you want to just support the channel be my guest down below there's a link it'll take you right to the store and there's some great selections there to choose from but let's get rolling so if you're trying to understand how you can safely buy a BMW understand that you want to buy a reliable vehicle there is an acronym that I like to throw out there for you guys remember these four key words and of course in short it means risk so if you could remember the acronym risk because a bad car is a bad risk so of course that's an easy acronym to remember just remember risk soul at the beginning of risk starts with an R and that R means research research research and when I say that what we are really getting to is understand the bad actors learn about the cars that are historically problematic cars that have had a history of issues maybe fire related issues maybe notoriously unreliable engines that the press has got ahold of understand the bad actors and understand that you do not want a part of that unless there's something specific about that car that you are willing to accept the responsibility risk on it if you're willing to accept the second rate reliability because of some performance related topic or maybe you like the way the car sounds or looks that's okay you need to recognize that you need to do the research and understand where the problem actors are and learn which cars to avoid so we move along in the acronym and I is the next letter of the acronym and that really boils down to inspections so you've been searching around you found the car that you want to buy and it might be used it might be new but hypothetically the car is used now because it's used you don't know where it's been it's had a lot of miles it's been down a lot of roads has a lot of experiences and you should really understand what some of those experiences that that car has had and there's a result you really need to be diligent in doing these inspections because it could have been abused it could have been misused it could have been neglected and an inspection will flush that out so what you need to get really understand is if it's a if it's a private sale you need to ask that person that if it's ok to take that car to an a service center a BMW service center or a strongly recommended independent shop if that person that independent owner says no that's red flag number one that to me is time to run don't walk away run away from the deal they're hiding something because anybody who's reputable or is willing to make a deal on good faith will allow you to take that car to a shop to have it tsardom serviced and inspected now what if the car is a used car at a dealer if it's a dealer vehicle often the dealers will have a full set of they may not have service records but they'll have an inspection record a lot of times if dealers take used vehicles in on trade they'll run it through their shop they'll do some quick checks on it ok the brakes are at this much the tires have this much wear left the exhaust sounds good the car Road tests very well you know the wipers work everything electrically functions largely what a dealer is going to be inspecting for is safety related things things that force them to ensure that the vehicle is safe to draw they're not going to necessarily do a leak down check or a compression check or you know do a lot of those things that really tell a story about the general health of the car in most cases dealers will not do that they'll sell you on the fact that they run it through the shop and do a full inspection but in reality a lot of those inspections are more of the fact that yeah the tires are good the brakes are good ball joints so the car's not gonna veer off the road the mirrors are good and lights are working those are all great things to understand but also understand this they are also not necessarily going to give it a real thorough mechanical inspection some will say they do and others will actually do it but understand that it never hurts to take it to an independent shop even if you're buying it from a dealer so the third part of this acronym is s and S stands for satisfy your curiosity and when I mean that so now you're looking at a car you've been searching for quite some time you come across an owner of a car you say for example I know I've been shopping for some 335 s that's the car that I'm likely going to buy next so you're finding the car you narrowed down and local classifieds you find the car that you want to buy you start asking the questions you must ask questions don't take the first thing at face value understand the history of the car based on what the owners telling you satisfy that curiosity by asking those questions the why are you selling it what has it been through has it been through an accident are you the original owner do you have service records these are all really good things that you need to ask that previous owner to make sure that you're satisfied with the condition of that car now maybe you're buying new this will satisfy your curiosity goes for other things too it's not just buying a used car what if you're buying a new car you should be asking the questions of the new car dealer as well about some of the features and elements maybe you don't want the full package deal because a lot of times when you get a car packaged up it includes a lot of options lot of which maybe you didn't even want in the first place but uh understand options he options equate to complexity and complexity adds to reliability concerns maybe skip out on that panoramic sunroof Hubble does carbon ceramic discs maybe you don't need them maybe you're not tracking the car but ask the questions are those parts in the package that you're buying do you need that or understand where the dealer got the car how long is the carbon sitting there is that a late model for that year or they bring it in the next generation and you might be getting into sort of the old stock just ask all the questions be satisfied satisfy your curiosity about what you're buying what that car means is that old stock is at new stock either way satisfy your curiosity and the fourth part of the acronym is k4 keep it simple so you want to keep things simple and in essence if you're looking for reliability and you're not looking for a racecar you want something that's going to perform well sure that's why you're buying a BMW but do you need every last little piece of technical gizmo equipment do you need every last piece of horsepower that you can derive out of these cars maybe your car is going to be primarily utilized as a daily driver maybe you don't need that M car because M cars again as we talk about reliability aren't necessarily the most reliable car in any of the BMW lineups so maybe you don't need that maybe you don't need that high-revving engine like the old infamous e60 m5 that revs 280 300 rpm do you need that car to drive daily maybe you're ok with a 550 instead that's you know 80% of the performance but half of the troubles and hassles that you would get with the M car do you need all that stuff do you need every last power option do you need things like gesture control sure they're novel but I mean again these are things that can and will likely fail at some time if you want them and you need to have them out and they're on your wish list by all means but if you're searching for reliability keep it simple I don't know how many of you guys out there remember the old crank windows you know what there's still a few cars on the road that have manually cranked windows that don't even have powered windows associated with them that is simple that is one less thing that will fail now I'm not saying go buy your new BMW with crank windows of course not I don't even think you can order them that way all I'm saying is if you do not need all the extra added complexities maybe stay away from that so in short everybody that is my acronym for risk research research research inspections satisfy your curiosity and keeping it simple that is the short way to remember how you want to start to pursue your new or used BMW purchase if you are concerned about a reliable buy so everybody I really hope you enjoyed the video thanks again for coming by I just wanted to share a little bit of that with you that's a great way to summarize things a great way to remember up here what is the best way to kind of keep the thought process about what are the steps that you need to take make sure you give it a 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Length: 10min 45sec (645 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 30 2018