BMW 120i M Sport Hatch 2007

[Vince70]

My first car was a 1967/68 1300gt which was in ermine white with a lotus cortina green coloured stripe down the side and my father bought it off his mates father for £50 for me with 6 months tax and test in 1985 and the old boy had it for years..

 

I remember having trouble getting some parts for it as I was told that the GT didn't come out till much later but it was the genuine article and had a lovely silver 6 dial dash and a steering wheel which was the size of a bus wheel embossed with GT and the mighty twin choke Webber carb plus a 4 branch manifold to give it about 75bhp.. Those were the days.

 

I would hate to think what it would be worth now and can't go to a classic ford show as i would look so miserable as sin when I see the prices these old bangers go for now..lol

 

The last one I sold was a mint little automatic mk2 Escort with a years mot back in early 2000 which I couldn't give away and back then the RWD escort was getting a rare sight on the roads..

 

I ended up selling it to my aunt for £150 who kept it for 5 years and it ended up being used when she sold it by a guy who used it for a pinto conversion (because of the large gearbox tunnel) only for it to be crashed a month or so later .

[twosmoke300]

I really don't get the whole bmw run flat thing . Sure on a bini where the lazy designer forgot to put a spare wheel space in but I was working on a 520d estate last week that didn't have a spare . Massive hole there for one tho . So bmw compromise the ride on a near luxury car to save pence .

[bigfella2]

I really don't get the whole bmw run flat thing . Sure on a bini where the lazy designer forgot to put a spare wheel space in but I was working on a 520d estate last week that didn't have a spare . Massive hole there for one tho . So bmw compromise the ride on a near luxury car to save pence .

It's so the robbing barstewards can charge it as an optional extra and not give it to you for free.

[twosmoke300]

If only they put that money into wiring looms , wiper linkages and crank pulleys that last more than 70 k !

[Lacquer Peel]

When the majority of people who buy* new cars keep them for 3 years max, what is point making components durable?

[Cavcraft]

Because these horrible cars are then bought by the sort of shiny suited twat who frequents race meetings and shitty wine bars. Probably cost more on finance than they did new.

[HH-R]

That's an interesting thought, I wonder what the actual purchase price of a car is over its lifetime vs list price, taking into account finance when new and tick when bought 2nd hand?

[Cavcraft]

When my lad bought his new car, I was weighing up a second hand FIAT 500 that would have cost more in finance.'

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

2007 120i. 2 litre N46 engine. Timing chain, Vanos, VVT motor. 6 speed box and diff all okay. No rust issues, electrics all okay. ABS light can come on but a new ABS block is only* £200 new from BMW.

 

Not a bad car. 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Not the same model, but my two penneth worth - they're shit. Fiancée wanted one after some knob in a white Tranny wrote her old Golf off. She was set to buy a 2007 118d with an N47 engine and then told me she'd paid a deposit. The internet very quickly informed me of MASSIVE issues with snapping timing chains, due to the crankshaft pulley having a sharp profile to the leading edges for about 18 months of production. BMW never did a factory recall either, so masses of owners are getting shafted with massive rebuild costs to their supposed premium vehicles. The best bit? They fitted the engine back to front, so the timing chain is buried in the bulkhead. Engine out job to check the bastard. Oh, and it doesn't have an oil dipstick. Apparently the dashboard tells you if the oil is low, so it's all ok *

Needless to say, I got her deposit back for her, and she went out and bought something non Berlin Motor Works.

Totally poo cars. Seriously.

[RoadworkUK]

Not the same model, but my two penneth worth .... a 2007 118d with an N47 engine....

Totally poo cars. Seriously.

 

So assuming we're not talking about a 120i with a 118d engine in it for some reason, we might be OK.

[Taff]

 Oh, and it doesn't have an oil dipstick. Apparently the dashboard tells you if the oil is low, so it's all ok *

Needless to say, I got her deposit back for her, and she went out and bought something non Berlin Motor Works.

Totally poo cars. Seriously.

 

I had forgotten about the lack of a dipstick.

 

I was giving one of mine big licks up the M5 one day when the low oil warning came on. My inner grease monkey tells me that 90mph on an engine that's (apparently) low on oil is a BAD THING but it's a company car so WCPGW?

 

Anyway, stopped at the services (Halesowen, I seem to recall) and established that the car needed the most expensive oil in the Midlands. But it was going on the company credit card, so it's not a problem. Bought the oil for nigh-on £40 only to discover that the light had since gone out. Oh well.

 

That was the only issue I had in 4 years of thrashing it about. Living with one wouldn't bother me, there are far needier cars out there.

 

Find one with a Harman Kardon in it for extra win

[garbaldy]

They still had dipsticks on 07 cars though, at least the 3 series saloons did and I always thought they where same car still sporting its boot.

Either way after buying a similar sized car half the price with double the space inside I don't think I would have another of Bavaria's finest

[NorfolkNWeigh]

My 3.0 dizzler has a dipstick and little picture thing in the I-crash screen, according to the handbook you should only top up the oil when the screen tells you to and it will then need 1 litre to bring back up to level.

This seems ridiculous and I check mine on the dipstick every week ,putting in a cup full as it needs it , the thought of running it until it needs a litre doesn't appeal. The graph on the picture does seem accurate though,even when the engines running,how does it do that?

[New POD]

 

 

Avoid any fitted with runflats like the plague, always seemed to get punctured either that or the sensors were shit. Possibly both.

 

 

 

Does the tyres pressure sensing work in the same way as the MINI ?

 

If it does it uses the wheel speed sensors to detect one wheel traveling faster than the others, due to about a 5 psi change reducing the rolling circumference. 

 

Effectively they get the tyres pressure monitoring for free (ish) from the ABS system.

 

So either dodgy wheel sensors, or old tyres on corroded rims which tend to leak a bit.  - Ours went down about 2 psi a week, until we had 2 new (non run-flat) replacements.