|
Post by Tim on Jul 26, 2017 12:54:23 GMT
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 13:03:29 GMT
It looked alright until I got to the interior pics!
|
|
|
Post by Tim on Jul 26, 2017 13:04:36 GMT
I looked further along the list of cars and there are some, clearly ex-demo, cars for £49k. Ok they might have a few more options on them but in 2 or 3 years time they're not going to be worth £15k more than the one above.
Plus red appears to be coming back into fashion so you can't really hold that against it.
I also spotted one for sale with Mike Brewer Motors............ Guvnor!
|
|
|
Post by Tim on Jul 26, 2017 13:24:09 GMT
It looked alright until I got to the interior pics!
It's not that bad, I much prefer that to the slightly off-white one that a lot of them have - is it called Oyster?
|
|
|
Post by michael on Jul 26, 2017 13:32:50 GMT
That's the same colour combination as my 156. I don't like the wheels but they can be changed on an otherwise very appealing car.
|
|
|
Post by racingteatray on Jul 26, 2017 13:51:04 GMT
I like Melborne Red on Tourings.
Broadspeed quotes £8k off a 340i Touring, so I imagine you could wangle something very close to that for a 340i Touring specced to your liking and not pre-registered.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 16:02:41 GMT
I like the outside colour in combo with the grey wheels, but those baby shit brown seats are 'orrid.
|
|
|
Post by Martin on Jul 26, 2017 17:50:18 GMT
Not a great spec. Non M Sport wheels, basic Nav etc. As Racing posted, you'd be much better off ordering a new one to your spec/taste.
|
|
|
Post by racingteatray on Jul 26, 2017 18:04:51 GMT
I like the outside colour in combo with the grey wheels, but those baby shit brown seats are 'orrid. I'll have you know it's called "Saddle Brown" and I have it in my car...
|
|
|
Post by michael on Jul 26, 2017 18:48:27 GMT
Is the colour representative of the picture? Looked a bit blue to me...
|
|
|
Post by Sav on Jul 26, 2017 21:39:46 GMT
No black panel display, either - its an odd spec. You can find 340i's of similar price with the right options.
|
|
|
Post by racingteatray on Jul 26, 2017 23:12:59 GMT
Is the colour representative of the picture? Looked a bit blue to me... Very droll
|
|
|
Post by PetrolEd on Jul 27, 2017 9:55:24 GMT
Best colour outside, best colour inside, apart from the wheels I like it. Need the better shat nav though. I used the missus 3 series to go up to Liverpool yesterday and it refused to acknowledge the existence of the M6 Toll. Oh and it gave me chronic pain at the top of my hamstring due to the weird offset driving position.
|
|
|
Post by Martin on Jul 27, 2017 10:02:09 GMT
Is 'avoid toll roads' selected in the route options?
|
|
|
Post by Tim on Jul 27, 2017 10:13:48 GMT
I've got the same satnav in my car and it's fine. The only reason I'd rather have had the bigger screen is so that it can display full song titles rather than cutting them off halfway through.....
I'm not keen on the wheels either and would choose a different colour combo if I were starting from scratch, I just linked the car because it appears to have such a massive discount off the list price.
As I said earlier there are ex-demos, that presumably have loads of options, at £49k but they really don't loo like such good value - after all if looking at the 340 you're buying a 3 litre turbo motor here, not an upgraded satnav.
|
|
|
Post by Martin on Jul 27, 2017 10:27:17 GMT
The best thing about the Professional Nav is real time traffic, I'd hate to be without it. The Business Nav is actually pretty good, I had it for a week in a Spanish hire car and was happy enough despite being used to the better system. Business Nav used to be 2D only which was a bit rubbish, but the other than live traffic, the only problem with it is that it's smaller than the housing which looks a bit cheap.
I think the new Professional Nav has lost the traffic flow colours, which would be backwards step, but I'm not sure?
The first option I'd tick on a 3 Series is memory seats as the manual adjustment would drive me mad.
You could get a better spec 6 month old 440i GC for just over £30k. Wouldn't that be a better option?
|
|
|
Post by Tim on Jul 27, 2017 12:50:18 GMT
In about 12k miles we've only used the nav once for a trip into deepest Edinburgh, somewhere we could've got to easily enough without the nav to be honest.
If you were in the market then, yes, the 440 GC would probably be a better choice as long as a hatch was enough.
Anyway, this was just an idle look at larger engine petrol cars, following on from my occasional search through the list of V6 engine Alfas. My suggestion to Mrs Tim last week of getting a Focus RS (we want at least one car with 4wd now) to replace the 320 was met with utter disdain so this isn't a purchase that's going to be made.
|
|
|
Post by PetrolEd on Jul 27, 2017 14:08:11 GMT
I really wanted an RS but when I sat in one the seat was set ridiculously high for some reason. I know I bang on about it but a car seat needs to be on the floor, felt like I was in an office chair.
|
|
|
Post by Martin on Jul 27, 2017 14:40:36 GMT
I use my Sat Nav every day / trip because of the live traffic, which has saved me hours of sitting in traffic. My commute is along the A45 past Northampton and a couple of junctions up the M1, the A45 in particular has regular accidents and long delays.
|
|
|
Post by racingteatray on Jul 27, 2017 23:25:08 GMT
Don't know about the latest LCI versions, but the pro nav in my GC, which is recent enough to have the tile-based menu system and it has the traffic flow colours even when you have no route inputted, which are indeed very useful.
|
|
|
Post by Martin on Jul 28, 2017 6:14:20 GMT
That's good then, as yours is still the latest system.
|
|
|
Post by Roadsterstu on Jul 28, 2017 8:46:45 GMT
Not massively keen on the interior colours but I rather like the red/grey wheels combo. Wonder why...
|
|
|
Post by alf on Aug 1, 2017 10:24:41 GMT
Don't know about the latest LCI versions, but the pro nav in my GC, which is recent enough to have the tile-based menu system and it has the traffic flow colours even when you have no route inputted, which are indeed very useful. Glad you chaps are still liking our traffic so much! I saw a 340i Touring the other day in grey and really liked it - not sure if the styling has been updated or not, or indeed if it was a new one or not, but it looked good. I love the split pipes in the 340i and 335d models...
|
|
|
Post by racingteatray on Aug 1, 2017 11:48:15 GMT
335d doesn't get split pipes in this generation oddly enough...only the 435i/440i have them.
|
|
|
Post by johnc on Aug 1, 2017 15:02:57 GMT
335d doesn't get split pipes in this generation oddly enough...only the 435i/440i have them. That was a significant annoyance for me - but not quite enough to make me not buy it.
|
|
|
Post by racingteatray on Aug 1, 2017 15:14:13 GMT
As a Londoner, it was a no-brainer to pick a 40i over a 35d - apart from the fact of not doing a high enough annual mileage to really reap the cost benefits, you already get whacked for a diesel-only parking surcharge by Westminster council and I reckon it's only a matter of time before the Mayor introduces some sort of general surcharge for using diesel vehicles in central London.
But obviously that's quite circumstance-specific.
|
|
|
Post by johnc on Aug 2, 2017 6:48:01 GMT
I have another Corporate golf invitation today so I'll go and do my 50 mile round trip on 1 gallon - that's the trade off I suppose. However my next car will definitely be 440i, M4, C63 or similar - I simply can't go into my later years with the regret of not having owned a recent 6 or 8 cylinder car before they are killed off forever.
The last 6 cylinder petrol I owned was an E300-24V
|
|
|
Post by Roadrunner on Aug 2, 2017 7:25:21 GMT
|
|
|
Post by michael on Aug 2, 2017 8:33:55 GMT
I do sometimes wonder whether I should do my bit in reducing diesel emissions You'd be a bastard if you didn't, think of the children.
|
|
|
Post by Roadrunner on Aug 2, 2017 8:46:53 GMT
I do sometimes wonder whether I should do my bit in reducing diesel emissions You'd be a bastard if you didn't, think of the children. Exactly. I owe it to them.
|
|