You knew what you were getting into when you bought a Bimmer instead of a Honda.
Please, they’re super reliable cars! I haven’t needed to fill the blinker fluid on mine even once since getting it
If you're neglecting blinker fluid, you're sitting on a ticking time bomb. PLEASE take it to the most-expensive import specialist mechanic ASAP, for your own safety!
Sorry, best I can do is collect crates of boxes of parts, and claim I'm learning German
My 98 bmw with 210k miles when I sold it was the most dead reliable car I've ever owned! Bmw i6 engines are legendary, as long as you get the ones that still have a steel cable from the throttle peddle to the throttle valve. Once u got a potentiometer with 6 wires that go to the ECU which then suggests what the electronic throttle body does, is where the reliability sort of ended LOL.
It's an e46, it doesn't cost shit to keep running provided you don't take it to a shop to get work done on it. Unless of course you get an M3, in which case the exact amount to keep it running is "way too much".
I know it's not that crazy but these moments always amaze me:
Never in my life had I heard BMW's being called bimmers/beemers,
And this is the second time I see it today.
Its not uncommon in America
Its also not uncommon outside of America
Laughs in doesn't own a car
You'd be homebound or relying on ubers if you lived where I am.
I'm glad that I don't. Where I live a car is a luxury and not a necessity.
But I don't and I can't even really afford a car the way I set my life up
Owning a car is such a con. Between car payments, the price of fuel, insurance, upkeep, parking charges, I'm glad I live in a city with good public transit. I feel bad for people who have to rely on a car.
It’s not that I love my bike. It’s that I love the hundreds of unplayed indie games I bought on Steam more than I would love a car.
BMW - well there's your problem!
In France, every BMW driver is a massive asshole that cannot drive properly. I should make statistics about this.
It's not all that different in Germany.
Nor in the US. Though the bar is lower here, admittedly.
There is no border for that issue, it’s universal, the only reason anyone would buy a BMW in the first place is because they’re already a stupid asshole.
It’s like the square and quadrilateral thing. Not every stupid asshole has a BMW, but everyone who has a BMW is a stupid asshole.
Bavarian Money Wasters
Ooohhhh e46 estate 😍
Long live the long roof!
What did you expect for buying a fucking BMW.
I am going to laugh if OP didn't pick a BMW for a reason and it was just the first car image to come up when they made the meme.
Yeah, I drive a Mazda.
It means you cannot afford that car and should either get an appropriate one or none.
Depreciation is the biggest loss for newish cars, but maintaince, fuel, tires, insurance costs come up quickly, often averaging 5-7K/year.
In much of America, not having a car means not being able to get to work or buy food.
If you can't afford a car, you might be able to afford operating costs for a used japanese motorcycle.
As a European with very decent public transit and bicycle options, I feel like an idiot for getting a Mazda 3 half a year ago. I really should have tried to make do with a nice cargo bike. Could’ve been hundred of Euros going into my ETF instead of payments, insurance and so on.
Oh well, at least I don’t anticipate a lot of trouble from my Mazda.
I'm a retired Brit living in the middle of the Welsh Marches, 10 miles from the nearest town. There is no public transport. Having a car is vital out here and I dread the day my 13-year-old Tiguan gives up the ghost.
Simply buy a 20 year old honda.
Diesel or petrol? Skyactive diesel engines w/turbo needs one long drive a week to burn the particle filter if you do many short drives
I can afford my car, it'd cost me 5-7k a year if I had to rebuild the transmission every year. Mostly I get by on <3k a year all in since it's depreciated and my insurance is like 20 EUR a month and I do my own repairs. This with a notorious German money pit that will be celebrating its 20th next year.
However
I'd still take the motorcycle if I could. Seems way more fun. But now I've got a 2 year old so that plan's on pause for several years. I had a nice older Ducati Monster picked out before I got coaxed into this, which I was fully expecting to not be very sensible lol
Eh? My Honda Civic just had to have its struts replaced, and that was a $1000 expense which was difficult to cope with and would have been impossible were I not working three different jobs. If I wanted working AC, which I have never had in the vehicle, I’d need to spend like ~2k every year because the model has a defective condenser (and in Trump’s America, warranties are suggestions)
At some point you have to recognize that many Americans cannot afford any vehicle. Unfortunately the U.S. is not designed for people who don’t have vehicles.
While my car was in the shop yesterday, I looked at my options for getting to work, which is about seven miles from my house. There was a bus route, which would have taken at least a full hour compared to my usual 15 minute drive, and there was Uber/lyft, which would have cost me about a third of the money I’d make at work.
If god forbid, something happened to my car, I’d have to take a loan out for something I could not afford, because I have to be able to get to work to survive and pay for the damn car!
Stop measuring your self-worth by the car you drive -> Buy ancient Toyota or Honda -> Save $800/mo in car payment, $300/mo full-coverage insurance -> Pay for the occasional repairs -> Profit.
Or, keep paying out the nose for a status symbol that you use for an hour or two a day to be seen by strangers who will think you're an asshole who can't drive or park regardless of how shiny the badge is on your hood.
Like the guy in the 100k BMW is gonna stop to think about depreciating assets... C'MON!
Like the guy in the 500k BMW is gonna stop to think about depreciating assets... C'MON!
Me in my $1300 lancer wagon 2007 laughing in duct tape and safety hazards
Woo...the BMW E46 Kombi is one of my favorites.
ZIS IS TOURING
Between my wife and I and our oldest daughter we spent over $4k on maintenance in just the last month.
And this is why you want to promote bicycles. Most car trips are under 3 miles which is easily doable on a bicycle, even easier on an electric bicycle.
Maintenance costs? Like double digit costs per year per bike, if that. I bought a new bike and had zero maintenance costs for 2 years now
No one rides bicycles where I live. NO ONE. You will die.
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