As above, anything considered.
Cheers.
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As above, anything considered.
Cheers.
Would also consider a 335 e92, petrol or diesel must be msport though
What about an e93? Nice low mileage one on DoneDeal!
The blue one? I've been debating it over for a week now but I cant stand convertibles and I know it'd bug me every time I looked at it!
Quick cars are gone very thin on the ground these days.
How about 630i? I might need change soon.
Cheers for the offer but really only after a V8 6er, Iv just sold a 325 and have a 330 so iv enough beemer straight 6s at the moment :D
This SMG one could be interesting - shockingly shit add/pics (mileage/history dependant of course). Not bothering to show mileage usually indicates starship mileage imho.
https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sal...-sale/21221002
Different wheels front left & right worth querying...:confused:
There something very fishy about that car. Add is obviously shocking. It was up a little while ago with a paragraph about how done deal had the reg wrong and not to mind the info in the listing, it's now back up with that paragraph removed and only the one sentence in about it. Plus he has the reg blocked our in the pics yet listed in the add??
It's about the worst colour combo available and I really don't see the point in an SMG box in that kind of car either.
As you an tell I'm not a fan of it :D thanks for the reply though. Between the terrible selection of nice quick cars on the market and the huge uncertainty about bringing one in from the UK with the mess they have themselves in I'm really shy of ideas at the moment.
Ideally I'm hoping someone with a well looked after example is debating selling and this thread could be the the nudge they need to sell. The stuff advertised at the moment is really poor quality. I looked at that black one advertised at 6k the other day and the condition of it was absolutely shocking.
And not even blocked well - you can see through the black he tried to cover over it with. Bizarre!Quote:
Originally Posted by JordanCoupe
Best of luck with the search. You thought about importing from the UK? Not sure what VRT would be like on these though.
Vrt is actually not too bad around 1600 off the top of my head.
Those clowns in parliament have me nervous though. There's a few too many mutterings of import duties ext if they do crash out before you actually register the car and GET dates are slow at the minute for that very reason, I'm holding off to see do they get another extension to the end of May
Assume you’ve seen this one:
http://www.carzone.ie/used-cars/bmw/...01902285399938
Nice low mileage and would look the business if you changed the wheels.
Unfortunately that’s the one I looked at the other day, drives lovely but the interior is awful and the bodywork just needed too much work, the crowd selling it in fairness know what they have and took a very substantial chunk of the price but it needs a lot more than just wheels :(
Righto after a pretty fruitless search and finally listening to some people who are far more clued in with beemers than me iv dropped the idea of an e63.
My new hard found ideal car is an e92 335i. There’s none for sale here so iv been looking in the uk. Gonna give it a week or so before I get moving on a uk car in the hopes that one pops up in Ireland. To that end does anybody know someone who may be tempted to sell one?
Given the whole Brexit thing, I wouldn't spend to much time searching for a unicorn here.
They either get kicked out next week or get an extension so I reckon iv got a little bit of time or else I’m already too late :L
Are they really that rare here though? I really can’t see where the hell all the quick cars have gone. I’m hopping there gone the way of the e46 m3 in that they do exist in the country just lads aren’t pushed on selling them and don’t want the hassle of going to the open market with them.
The 2008 on co2 tax rules have fucked over every car enthusiast in the country. When was the last time you saw a post July 2008 Impreza STi or an Evo 10+ for example ? I drove a relatives VXR Insignia recently up north and it's a very quick car in a straight line and not a total basket case in the corners in fairness. They're not a bad car to have given the relatively low used prices, but when I looked at the tax rate - €2,350 per annum - go way to fuck.....
The only people paying that (reluctantly willing to) are those buying new €100,000+ cars - the new M5's, the GTR's, AMG's, RS6's, anything performance oriented with a V8 petrol really etc.
I'll stick to the bikes for the speed fixes thanks....:)
To be fair there are still options for high-performance cars that don't shaft you on tax - the Golf R for example is only Band D I think (€570) and the M4 is Band F (€1,200). But beyond that if you're the kind of buyer who is looking at something that falls in the top tax band (new M5, GTR, etc. as Big H says) then I don't think the difference of €500 or so between the top rates of pre- and post-2008 tax rules is going to make much difference to you. The likes of the e92 M3 is in a weird category of cars that is otherwise potentially an affordable car for a lot of people, but just gets hit hard by the post-2008 tax rules.
One good thing about the shift in focus from n/a to turbo in recent years is that we're seeing comparable or better performance from cars with significantly reduced running costs.
That said, in general motor tax rates in Ireland are obscene even compared to the UK. When you combine it with insurance and VRT, it makes you realise there are a lot of cars that would be considered "affordable" if you lived in the UK but simply aren't if you live here.
Not sure I would agree on the running costs, turbos are expensive and I wonder how reliable they actually are!
The one flipside of course is that high tax (2.5+ litre pre 2008) cars are generally dirt cheap here in Ireland - in many cases, you couldn't buy, let alone import from the UK cheaper.Quote:
Originally Posted by CitizenKane
The one other aspect that hasn't be mentioned yet is that with the (long overdue) VRT rebate coming into effect, there's plenty of performance stuff being exported. What happens post Brexit is anyones guess of course....:confused:
quite expensive to keep it running very well ..... probably same as some M cars , if not more expensive , but at least no rust and no stupid engineering boot floor cracks ..... injectors , fuel pumps, sensors, turbos, oil leaks ,and everything else as any other cars ....Quote:
Originally Posted by 318 iS Cosmos
Bump on this, still on the hunt for a 335i.
Msport preferably but open to anything.
Couple of potential 645i's now for sale.
Lovely looking low mileage example in Mayo - https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sal...lour-/21623282
SMG box one available in Dublin - https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sal...mptax/21592324
Still turned off the idea of the E63's ?
I was in the process of organising a viewing for that mayo car when a nice 335i popped up for very reasonable money.
Higher mileage than I was planning but seemed a very genuine seller and looks like a well looked after car so I've bought it.
Thanks for all the help here lads.