Author Topic: "Pass on the '91 318i" - Epinions.com user review (Read 5399 times)

JP 91iS · « **on:** November 13, 2008, 12:58:54 AM »

I thought this was funny. This woman was sold a lemon from a used car lot and writes her life story with it. She doesn't think the m42 was so great

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Excerpt from her review:

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Horror on the Highway
One lovely Fall Friday (I had owned the car approx. 90 days), I decided to drive to Cape Cod from Boston to visit my family for a weekend. I'm cruising down the highway at a nice speed, listening to music and loudly singing along, when all of a sudden I hear a clicking sound. Think of the sound that a pebble makes if it rattles around in your undercarriage for a minute. I figured it was a pebble. I was wrong. I heard the sound again, a little louder this time. I'm thinking, "hmmm, there sure are a lot of pebbles on this highway!"

The full story here

RED IS 91 · « **Reply #1 on:** November 13, 2008, 11:24:16 AM »

She would have done the same thing to some other car .......... and wrote bad things about it . She should have gotten one like her fiance which they both like but she was too cheap .

EN318isPDX · « **Reply #2 on:** November 13, 2008, 12:23:12 PM »

83k and blew the water pump into pieces? Sounds like a lack of maintenance

roundel318 · « **Reply #3 on:** November 13, 2008, 03:54:36 PM »

Or a lack of something...... :p
brains or sex, take your pick?

JP 91iS · « **Reply #4 on:** November 13, 2008, 07:06:43 PM »

Well I don't think she was too cheap and what she was lacking definitely wasn't money - she spent $12,800 on purchase and major repairs! Fuck, you know what I could do to my car with that kind of money to invest...

strad · « **Reply #5 on:** November 14, 2008, 10:24:29 AM »

It's important to remember she bought this car from a dealer, and it was 8 years ago, when the car was "only" nine years old, not 17. Generally, people who buy cars from dealers expect peace of mind and few problems in exchange for paying a premium for the car in question. I'd be a bit upset too if I bought a car from the dealer and it immediately started having the problems this woman experienced.

In fact, if you browse copart, you'll see "franchise trade-in" cars being sold at auction there. These are cars that the dealer has received in trade and does not want to stand behind -- they just want to take their money and leave the problems (and they probably know it has a serious issue) to you. It's an easy way out of liability for them.

All that being said, it was rather foolish of her to buy a car without a sufficient warranty for her needs (or if it did have a warranty, it was really foolish of her to not stick the dealer with the cost of repairs.)

gearheadE30 · « **Reply #6 on:** November 16, 2008, 10:59:48 AM »

Good lord that is a lot of money for a 318i!

1991 E30 M42 · « **Reply #7 on:** November 16, 2008, 11:42:52 PM »

she bought a BMW from a VW dealership, two completely different beasts

EN318isPDX · « **Reply #8 on:** November 17, 2008, 05:42:36 PM »

why would you buy a used car from a place you know that doesn't service it?

peerless · « **Reply #9 on:** November 18, 2008, 12:56:05 PM »

colin86325 · « **Reply #10 on:** November 18, 2008, 10:14:06 PM »

LOL, reminds me of my $800 318iS experience. I knew the engine was fucked up and planned on rebuilding it once I limped it back to Peerless's place. But my engine exploded in a spectacular fiery fashion. I wish I had video of it--people 1/4 mile back saw the flames and 2 vehicles stopped to check, and also tell me that it was the coolest thing they'd seen.

BTW, this car is my daily driver. It just needed a new engine.

iamcreepingdeath · « **Reply #11 on:** November 24, 2008, 05:41:47 PM »

It blows my mind as to how much money this lady kept pouring into her 318.