How many miles do you put into your car before you say, the mileage is X and I need to get a new car? Do you drive your car to the ground? Do you say when my car hits so many miles, I’ll get a new one? Do you just just keep fixing what is broken and full steam ahead?
My friend had an X5 with I want to say either 250k or maybe 300k before he finally broke down and retired the bucket for a newer one. I don’t remember how the old his car was but he does drive a lot. For reference, he bought a 2022 X5 and already has over 80K miles. Again, he drives a lot of work. The only reason he even bought a new one was because his mechanic refused to continue to work on his old car, LOL.
I have a 2018 and I’m coming up to 80K probably by the end of year. Still runs great with no issues aside the regular maintenance needed. Sometimes I think I want to trade it in for a new one, then I say no, I’m run this bad boy into the ground.
Just got me thinking what every other BMW owner does when you begin to get into the high mileage.
For me it’s until they become unreliable. For example:
2006 X3 with M54B30 motor. Purchased 7 years ago with 122k miles and now have 201k miles. Never brokendown on the side of the road, never refused to start and never had to be towed. Spent about $8-9k to keep it immaculately maintained and everything in good repair/working. Have no plan to get rid of it anytime soon.
2013 X5 xDrive35i. Purchased 1 year ago with 108k miles. Now at 126k miles. It has spent the majority of the last 4 months at the dealership for a misfire issue. I’ve had to bring it back now 3 times and spent about $6k on this problem. Outside of that I’ve spent an additional $3k or so on maintenance and repairs. It’s had to be towed twice. It had to be left at work once for a repair (worked at a repair shop at the time, otherwise it would’ve been towed 3 times). It’s been at the dealership for almost a month now with 3 mechanics trying to figure out wtf is wrong with it. They suspect it’s the engine wiring harness for the coil packs and ECM, and the ECM itself are both bad. After replacing the high pressure fuel pump, vacuum pump, all injectors, all plugs and coils packs (both twice), doing an oil change (fuel mixed with oil due to stuck open injectors, stuck because fuel pump disintegrated and sent bits of shrapnel throughout fuel system), testing the compression, checking for car on buildup and a list of other things I’m done with it and planning on replacing it as soon as I can afford to. (Just moved from US to Germany and financially recovering from that, some health issues, car repairs, house repairs, vet bill for cat repairs…it’s been a rough 6 months). I’ll probably be replacing it in about a year with a brand new X5 xDrive40i or the newest lowest mileage Lexus GX460 I can find (unfortunately they’ll have been replaced with the GX550 by the time of can afford one).