Is it really expensive to maintain a BMW?

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Jun 26, 2019 31 Comments

Planing to buy a BMW X2. BMW owner, how much does it cost for you to maintain it per year? Thanks!

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    More than a Tesla. Why would you buy an ICE car? You are putting over 1 pound of waste CO2 into the air per mile driven. Recycling is dead, it all goes in the same trash now. The only way to reduce your environmental footprint is electric car and solar.
    Jun 26, 2019 4
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    Bought my 2011 335i new. It has just over 100k now. Had to replace a radiator and fix a pretty serious oil leak. Each one about $2k to repair. Worth every dollar. When you drive a BMW you measure smiles per mile, not dollars.
    Jun 26, 2019 3
  • Yea they are surprisingly expense once they hit 100k miles.

    Every time the fucking engine light goes off it is a minimum of $1000 of bullshit at even an independent mechanic.
    Jun 26, 2019 0
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    Buy Mercedes instead
    Jun 26, 2019 4
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    There are many BMW models, some more reliable than others, and each car you get will have its own Achilles Heel. The newest X2s have a turbocharged inline-4 which is a pretty reasonable jack-of-all-trades engine, and it's the second generation of turbo 4's that BMW has been producing. They first started toying with turbo technology in the N54 way back in 2006ish, so they've pretty much ironed out all the kinks and reliability issues that plagued their forced induction motors. The engine in the X2 isn't incredibly high-strung either (especially if you don't opt for the M35i variant), which further suggests that it should hold its own over long-term use and should easily cross the 100k mile threshold.

    The brand itself isn't holistically unreliable, it's just that they tend to push the envelope of engine technology with some of their cars and those models experience reliability issues as any new-tech guinea pig car would.

    Basic service (oil, filters, spark plugs) isn't too exorbitant, especially if you go the independent mechanic route rather than opening your wallet to the stealership's service department. The X2 should be a fairly sturdy example of the benefits of iterative German engineering.
    Jun 27, 2019 0