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I am seeking advice from the knowledgeable people frequenting this board, and, perhaps people in "the trade". The conveyance i am seeking to purchase is likely to be a BMW 745. Please give me a guide to acquisition prices, so i am armed with information, before i part with my hard earned salary. My allotted budget is likely to be within the boundary of GBP16,000.
My earnest gratitude for your assistance.
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  • jeannieblue
    jeannieblue Posts: 4,761 Forumite
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    John_Brown wrote: »
    I am seeking advice from the knowledgeable people frequenting this board, and, perhaps people in "the trade". The conveyance i am seeking to purchase is likely to be a BMW 745. Please give me a guide to acquisition prices, so i am armed with information, before i part with my hard earned salary. My allotted budget is likely to be within the boundary of GBP16,000.
    My earnest gratitude for your assistance.

    Recommend that you do a search on autotrader and see if there are any vehicles that you are interested in. In turn, you should get a rough idea of the prices that they are going for, but also be aware that it is a buyers market at the moment and take this into account.
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  • Hintza
    Hintza Posts: 19,420 Forumite
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    Plus engines of that size should be going for peanuts. The only problem is what you see in Autotrader are the wishfull thinking prices folk hope to acheive. What you want to be doing is trying to determine real world prices.

    I would be trying to find where the lease companies are shifting 1-3 year old models (probably at auction) and seeing what they achieve.

    This might help:-

    http://www.british-car-auctions.co.uk/Default.aspx?page=2537
  • I'd give yourself around £1000 a year as an annual servicing budget, which won't include tyres - some models will have 19" wheels - tyres for that will be expensive.

    Great car though - have you also considered an S-class?
  • Hintza
    Hintza Posts: 19,420 Forumite
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    Just a couple of points. There don't appear to be many 745 around. You will probably be looking at the 730D or the 750.

    If it was me I would be looking at cars advertised around £20k and be trying to get 20% - 25% off. Might not work but it will give you an indication of how hard they can be squeezed.
  • John_Brown wrote: »
    I am seeking advice from the knowledgeable people frequenting this board, and, perhaps people in "the trade". The conveyance i am seeking to purchase is likely to be a BMW 745. Please give me a guide to acquisition prices, so i am armed with information, before i part with my hard earned salary. My allotted budget is likely to be within the boundary of GBP16,000.
    My earnest gratitude for your assistance.

    :rotfl:
    Why does one not frequent a handful of vendors who peddle the afore mentioned conveyance, either online or in person. This should enable one to determine the mean disbursement required to procure said vehicle. Furnished with this data one can then barter with impudence.

    Hopefully you can bag your new smoker for under 16large, given the !!!!!! state of the economy. Happy hunting.
  • LMAO!

    I thought this post was from one of them people who email you asking for your bank details and that you will recieve 50% of the funds...
  • try pistonheads usually a few on there for sale and at realistic prices
    remember it is nice to be important
    but more important to be nice ;)
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