Here’s Why I’ll Die Before I Buy a BMW

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 videos, remember to ring that Bell

Channel: Scotty Kilmer

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Id: 40fKEBwXQ7k

Length: 6min 5sec (365 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 23 2019

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[u/PepeTheMemeDealer]

Correct. You won’t live long enough to get to the signing.