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Its all about warranty claims.

Jesus, if my car burnt a litre every thousand ks I'd scrap it. You'd need to top it up a a couple of sumps worth of oil between changes!

If its "burning oil" its not just magically turning it into clean air, unless you mean its leaking it and burning externally (which is also a big possibility with those engines). I hate the be the bad news bear, but those engines are well known to just be junk. Search this forum and its been brought up countless times. It wasnt a high point for BMW. The V8s of that era were kinda trash too and riddled with serious issues. In comparison, their 6 cylinder engines, although not as reliable as the older ones, were damn near bullet proof in comparison. Unless you're specifically wedded to that car, if its going as good as it can, i'd probably try to sell it.

Congratulations, you have discovered another extremely common trait of those engines. Its easy to tell what engine is in that generation of BMW when they pull away from an intersection. If it leaves a cloud of blue smoke, its a 4 cylinder.

Woohoo, clown shoe! Interesting cars, so ugly they're cool, with bit of a cult following. The interior just kinda matches the wild exterior design, you wouldnt want a boring interior.

There is no tightening it. If the chain is making noise, it likely needs the chain, guides and tensioner replaced. Unfortunately those engines are known for issues with the timing chain (amongst other things).

Painting the reverse lamps is a... decision.

its been around for ages and been discussed here before https://auctions.webbs.co.nz/lot-details/index/catalog/502/lot/121802/1993-BMW-M5

Actually, dont even get me started on how sh*t it is that the seller is using the pre-import inspection photos from over a year ago. Its not hard to take some actual photos of the car. Thats car dealer levels of lazy.

for $30k why wouldnt you clean the jizz off the back seat, and have the bumper repainted?

Called it 😁

Swifts have terrible boot space for the segment, we could barely fit the weeks supermarket shop in mine. Compared to a van, yeah the Ti is impractical, but otherwise its got heaps of space.

Duff ABS sensor or other ABS issue would be my guess. TPMS was measured by the wheel speed sensors on the older BMWs, so i presume the F20 is the same. Gonna have to scan it.

coloured park lights and angel eye rings piss me off so much. Blatantly illegal, very obvious, owners DGAF and nothing happens to them. I use cold white leds as park lights and get told to remove them by an officer at a checkpoint, and then fail a wof because of them.