Years and Mileage - daily drivers - future values -

[Steenos]

Bought my 2007 M Coupe on 3/3 with only 40,600 miles. Now I have 45k miles. Hah. I just can't stop driving it. It's too much fun!

[elwesso]

07 Coupe with 52k miles. Got it with 49k, and I anticipate about 5-7k per year.

[Jroc]

07 - z4mc - 68k miles

[ricanbandit]

Good to see so many "high mileage" M's running about. I have a friend that has about 145k miles on his M3 S54 and it still pulls HARD!

[drbvac]

German cars properly maintained and not abused regularly go well over 250K The thing that will kill many is rust and accidents !!!

[elwesso]

Originally Posted by drbvac

German cars properly maintained and not abused regularly go well over 250K The thing that will kill many is rust and accidents !!!

Indeed, although should be less of a problem with our coupes and roadsters since they aren't really good for winter driving..

I used to have an E28, and almost always the drivetrain outlasted the chassis... I know of quite a few when I was more active in that community that had 300k+ that had to be taken off the road because the strut towers rusted out....

[Vanne]

2007 Mcoupe, 130K miles... great car, super tight.

[Z4dugh]

2006 Z4MR 21,700 mi

summer use only

[CarCar]

2004 Z4 2.5i 5sp base 172,000 miles.

[DRedman45]

07 m coupe with 53k miles...semi daily, but starting to move towards more weekend ride.

Originally Posted by ricanbandit

Good to see so many "high mileage" M's running about. I have a friend that has about 145k miles on his M3 S54 and it still pulls HARD!

there are tons of high mileage e46 m3's...some guys have been running superchargers for over 100k miles without issue....the s54 is a great motor(most bmw 6's are) as long as long as you treat it right

[z4mcoupe]

2008 Z4MC - DD in the spring and summer - 35K miles

[Rekla]

2007 MC with 19,200 miles

[garto87]

2006 M Roadster - 96k, only abnormal maintenance was a cracked diff seal (damn Newport construction crews stranding me in a driveway with a 5 inch lip).

Still runs like it did at 28k miles.

[jrainlay]

07 Z4MC - 22,000 miles

[E86Z]

06 3.0si coupe 52k miles driven 4 seasons including canadian winters

[drbvac]

Well here are some stats:

2006 - highest 96,000 low, 11,500 avg 49,200
2007 highest 130,000 low 3400 avg 47,200
2008 highest 55,000 low 2400 avg 35,300

As I said when we started , 15,000 per year is average, the 2014 models are out for some brands so these cars are from 8 to 6 years old

[MZHammer]

06 M Roadie, less than 25k miles. Mostly weekends, in good weather and maybe once or twice a month to work and back. Bought it in August 2010 with @ 18k miles on it.

[StickMon]

06 M Roadie, 85k miles. Daily driver, 20-25k per year.
Bought in Feb 2011 with 38k miles. Expect to get 200-250k miles out of it.

Hey, when you drive as much as I do, you have to love what you drive.

[Z4inAZ]

"Keeping miles off your car to make it more valuable for the next owner is like not having sex with your girlfriend to make her more valuable to her next boyfriend."

The number of low mileage cars here baffles me... paticularly M's. I have owned M models my whole life and drive the daylight out of em! Thats what they are meant for! Ive never had any problem reselling any of them for fair market price... I have also never had problems buying these low-mileage weekend M cars for market price - because that is really what they sell for.

[itdnwiwbp]

Interesting rant...can't say I bothered to read it all. I'm glad you benefit from the fact that I personally cannot drive my M as much as I'd like to. Sorry to disappoint you...or help you...I'm not sure which. Let me know when you decide, I guess. Or don't. Now back to daydreaming about being able to drive my car as much as you think I should while I'm at work...

Edit: To clarify,the above rant (which is no longer a rant) has been significantly edited.

[StickMon]

Whew.
I now feel blessed that I have to drive 70 miles round trip to work 4 days a week, and 300 miles round trip a couple or 3 times a month to our tracking station in the Mojave.
Heading up there for a late night spacecraft track tomorrow.
Nothing like roaring across the desert at 2:00 AM.

[Z4inAZ]

StickMon, you should feel blessed! Everyone who gets to drive one of these fantastic machines should feel that way. Really you are blessed, for a myriad of reasons, so enjoy yourself! Life is short - too short to be parking up a fantastic driver's car like a Z4M.

Originally Posted by itdnwiwbp

Interesting rant...can't say I bothered to read it all. I'm glad you benefit from the fact that I personally cannot drive my M as much as I'd like to. Sorry to disappoint you...or help you...I'm not sure which. Let me know when you decide, I guess. Or don't. Now back to daydreaming about being able to drive my car as much as you think I should while I'm at work...

Hey now, I made an exception to people living in bad climates! And I dont think its right to be insulted if you didnt even bother to read my whole post... not that I blame you, I wouldnt have read it all myself

Im not asking people to drive their cars in the snow, that would be miserable and not great for the car. I am making a plea to those of you who have these cars, in nice climates, just sitting in the garage - to get out and drive them.

If you really CANT drive the car for certain months out of the year, so be it! If you are daily driving a smart car because you want to keep the miles off your Z4 so in 10 years when you go to sell it, its worth $2000 more than the other $8000 dollar Z4Ms, then that is silly! Just drive it! Thats what I am trying to say.

Yes there are other factors at hand here, but overwhelmingly it seems these cars are weekend toys more than anything else. If I can make one person get outside and drive their car then to me it is mission accomplished.