Need help choosing an F10

[Cole668]

Hello all,

I am looking at two 2012 and I am looking for some advice.

Car 1
45k km
Has night vision
CPO is $3300 but salesman already said he'd knock $1500 off and I could probably get him to go to $2k off
Salesman told me they just put new front tires on it, which leads me to believe it was driven fault hard.

Car 2
56k KM
CPO included already but haven't talked to him about any price discount

The asking price for car 2 is $1000 more than car 1 and other than night vision, the cars are identically optioned.

I appreciate and comments/suggestions/warnings to run away from both.

Thanks!

[phil_]

I think you'll have a hard time finding an M5 that hasn't been driven hard. In the mileage your looking at I would expect someone to be on their 3rd set of tires. So don't worry about the fronts being used.

Get the service history of both, make sure you're not buying a lemon.

CPO is the way to go. When things do break it's expensive.

Have the disks / brakes checked for exact usage. A brake job on these is north of $3k in Canada. Could be an additional bargaining point. If they're due now is the time to negotiate a cheaper price. Same goes for tires. I generally get tires at cost when buying a car.

[Cole668]

Good advice, Phil.

I have already gotten the vehicle history report, neither of which show any accidents although one of them lists a couple "service" entries by BMW but no other information while the other only lists registration entries. I am waiting for the BMW service records from the dealerships.

And yes, I will certainly be getting a CPO warranty. The one salesman said it could be extended for an additional year, for a total of three so I assume it will be the same for both.

I'm also still waiting to hear about the brakes and tires.

[phil_]

I think the salesman is mistaken on the 3 year CPO. Unless something has changed very recently that was only available on non M models.

Good luck with the purchase.