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$13500ono.. wow. Would rather the Blue one on here and $9500 to spend. Must be early 2000's Alpine prices.

All goodies have arrived 🙂

I test drove a RWD 330d when I was in the market, actually feels faster in some situations than the 335d because of the power delivery/boost with the bigger single turbo. The x-drive is not too intrusive, just a bit of extra fuel use and the bigger turning circle in town - and potentially service costs. The DSC is quite permissive in sport / sport +, can feel the power shuffling to the front and pulling you out of the corner on a wet road.

Have HEL ones on mine, they're nicely made.

No idea sorry, I've never used them. Pretty premium price!

I used Stoptech from Turner, looks like they're on back order, Goodridge is also fine.

Interesting theyve gone back to H&Rs, mine are eibachs.

Oh, so one pictured is not stock?

Bypass valves that open when you put it into sports mode. Any Customer that wants a muffler delete on an X6M deserves to get that garbage.

Obviously I am heavily biased because I: 1) Own the car 2) Have a 540i with 378,000km, Boxster with 230,000km and W8 Passat with 249,000km. But I quite like high mileage cars, and I typically judge a car based on how it drives, looks and its paper trail, rather than the number in the cluster. There are obviously limits to this tactic depending on the car and its value; e.g: A higher mileage, older M car I would not buy solely on how it drives/looks, I would want to see work/checks done to rod-bearings, subframe, SMG pump etc (depending on what car it is). But within this logic, I find a lot of higher mileage cars have had high quality, and regular maintenance done for them to achieve the mileage they have, and are often more mechanically sound than some "low ks" examples. When I bought the 130i, the “rational” thought process was; these are meant to be relatively reliable, this one is roughly half the price of a low ks auto LCI, it drives nicely, but even if something catastrophic were to happen, I could sell the wheels, catalytic converters and scrap the rest to recuperate at least $2K, so there’s not really a tonne of financial risk. I felt it was far outweighed by the performance, refinement, quality, sound and stylish looks the 130i provides. I also think since most 130i examples are from Japan, they are all lower ks, so we aren’t used to seeing ones with 200,000km+ on them, whereas a large amount of E46s/E39s/E60s are north of 200,000km, 250,000km and even 300,000km in some instances. N52 has no direct injection, no high pressure fuel pump, no turbos, and is a 3.0L Straight Six making 265hp - so its not overly stressed. The transmission I believe is a ZF box and is also meant to be quite reliable. I think its more the electrics of an E87 which tend to be problematic - which I feel is more prone to effect cars of any mileage, than strictly higher ks ones. But anyway, that's my 2 cents worth as an owner of 1 month - happy for the floor to be opened to 130i owners as there are quite a few here who can provide far better insights and opinion than I can. Don't hold back, give your honest thoughts!

I don't 100% trust this to follow me to the UK in one piece so thought I would guage any interest here. Owes me $530. Beautiful piece, only test fitted. Push in coil type. Probably fits M52TU aswell.

X6M exhaust... 😂

Saw that one @Bennyboy...he/she is also playing the arbitrage game, that one was 40k at a dealer when imported a couple of months ago, and the reserve might be 50 with a 40k starting price. This on the other hand is quite attractive (albeit twice the price of the 330d above) https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/340i/listing/4031040353