I was looking through the maintenance log today on this car and thought it would be interesting to share its story. I bought this car brand new in August 2018 from Pacific BMW in Glendale when I had a small fleet of cars I was running on Turo. I was friends with the sales guy, and he comically asked when we were running the numbers, "Could you put 300 miles on it this weekend?" Sure, I said, but why?
His reply was, "If you do that, I can sell it as a demo instead and give you 0.9% financing on the loan." I think BMW's rate at the time was 2.9%- oh how nice even that was. So a quick weekend trip down to San Diego to see the parents, even though I technically hadn't even bought the car, and returned the following Monday to finalize the deal.
Soon after, it went live on the Turo platform, where it stayed for precisely two years and 45k miles. I also used it for some personal road trips to SF, Vegas, Valle de Guadalupe wine country in Mexico, and so on. Based on the GPS tracker it spent the majority of its life in the canyons of LA with its renters- I would imagine not being treated gingerly especially being a 6-spd manual.
The last rental was returned with front flat spotted tires and a slipping clutch, who knows what that person got into but I was super fortunate to have BMW warranty a new clutch and flywheel, literally the paperwork from the dealer said "leaking flywheel!" That's BS but hey I will take it
Then I sold the car to a friend at wholesale, in retrospect too cheap, and I have helped them maintain it. Impressively the only fault it had is the plastic charge pipe for the turbo cracking and needing to be replaced, a very well-known issue as the plastic gets brittle over time. I genuinely am curious to see how it continues to go, I presume the cooling system will sooner than later need replacement as all that plastic ages- very common for BMWs.
His reply was, "If you do that, I can sell it as a demo instead and give you 0.9% financing on the loan." I think BMW's rate at the time was 2.9%- oh how nice even that was. So a quick weekend trip down to San Diego to see the parents, even though I technically hadn't even bought the car, and returned the following Monday to finalize the deal.
Soon after, it went live on the Turo platform, where it stayed for precisely two years and 45k miles. I also used it for some personal road trips to SF, Vegas, Valle de Guadalupe wine country in Mexico, and so on. Based on the GPS tracker it spent the majority of its life in the canyons of LA with its renters- I would imagine not being treated gingerly especially being a 6-spd manual.
The last rental was returned with front flat spotted tires and a slipping clutch, who knows what that person got into but I was super fortunate to have BMW warranty a new clutch and flywheel, literally the paperwork from the dealer said "leaking flywheel!" That's BS but hey I will take it
Then I sold the car to a friend at wholesale, in retrospect too cheap, and I have helped them maintain it. Impressively the only fault it had is the plastic charge pipe for the turbo cracking and needing to be replaced, a very well-known issue as the plastic gets brittle over time. I genuinely am curious to see how it continues to go, I presume the cooling system will sooner than later need replacement as all that plastic ages- very common for BMWs.
Don't go below 80 mph in the fast lane when she is at the wheel haha.
