Got myself a 1988/89 9000i, 330000 km on the clock, that is 210000+ miles for you yanks. The car has to replace the top engine mount, which the dealer agreed to do if I bought the parts. The dealer supplied and fitted a new generator. The engine still runs beatifully, with a nice growl when I push it (and I will be pushing more with the new mount in place), the interior seems like the car has run somewhere around 50000 km, and the whole car has just as much of a solid feel to it as almost any new car.
I got powered windows, mirrors and steel sunroof, heated seats, mirrors and rear window, cruise control, the small driving computer (DCU1) with voltage and gas mileage, RDS cassetteradio (will be replaced with cd-player), 4 speakers, 5-speed manual transmission, a 2,0 liter fuel injected 16 valve
130hp/177nm engine, and so on. The only things missing are leather seats, which I can gladly do without on icy winterdays and hot summerdays, aircondition, which would have been expensive to maintain and probably malfunctioning by now, and ABS, which anyway prohibits efficient braking ;) Oh, and a turbo would be nice, but I'm an unemployed student, so occasionally I have to spend money on things like... food.This of course being Norway and me being stupid enough to shop from a dealer, the car cost an arm and a leg, but I live far away from everything, and i don't have a lot to choose from. Anyway, I don't think I could find a better car for the sum I paid in my region.
Anyone wanna challenge my mileage, of which I have so far contributed the whole of 100km?
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