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£450 PCM for a brand new 600 BHP all wheel drive BMW sounds pretty cheap to me.

I would have thought a figure closer to £800.

Did you pay a large deposit?

2001 Omega 2.6 with AR25 and rear brake pipes off. Can I move selector from P to N just by pressing the brake pedal (ignition on), so does the system recognise hydraulic pressure somewhere or is there just a microswitch somewhere? I know there is a yellow clip under the cover to do this but just want to save time.

Ah yes, back to Hitler BS again

https://youtu.be/3dr38L20yNk?feature=shared

Hello guys, my Omega developed strange temp gauge behaving few days ago. Temp raises from cold start without a problem, holds steady 85 deg as always on motorway for entire trip to work - 45 miles long and even when I stop at red light when I arrive into town. But when I take off from stop, twmp gaige drops a few degrees and then comes back to 85. Wayer pump was done a year and a half ago, together with belts and pulleys. Ibposted a link to short youtube video of mine for you to see what I mean.
Thanks in advanceStan

So would I . 

Trump just sends others to do the fighting, like ICE agents in Minnesota, and kill / murder those he thinks are opposed to his twisted ways! 

Now wasn't there another dictator in Germany who did that?

Well how would I inform the reader of the type of alloy if I didn't post a picture?

I didn't say the thing was for sale, I didn't say I wanted to sell it or what I wanted for it in return, no price was mentioned.

I wanted advice on whether there was a market for it, exactly as you say, yet you took it down and called it an advert. How do people discuss stuff on forums like this if moderators are so strict?

Ridiculous.

If you are not selling them, I will have them FOC, just paying for the postage!

Sounds like a very capable motor, Mark. I wouldn't say £450 a month is cheap, but for what you're getting it's certainly good value. Enjoy 👍

Only cheaper if you go bangernomics and run something very old, but these days I don't have the time to maintain things and spend a weekend sorting out a car.

Even then, if you do big miles you'd struggle I think. Obviously don't know what your lease is, but for us, we pay £550 ish pcm to do 25k/yr (4yr lease). Running a banger we'd spend:

£343 per month in diesel (40mpg)
  £20 per month for tax
  £20 for servicing (2.5 regular services per year, plus belts, water pumps etc - this is a DIY price and I'm not convinced you wouldn't spend more when things wear out)
  £45 for insurance (the galaxy currently costs £39, so added a bit as its only insured for 10k/yr)
  £15 for tyres (assuming a full set every 40k at £70 a corner)
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£443 just to run an old car

The only extra costs on the ev are electricity (2.3p/mile for me - excluding any freebies from work) =£49pcm to do 25k/yr.

So, over 4yrs and 100,000 miles the banger would have to be purchased and any problems/failures fixed for £156 per month. I'd say this was very unlikely to work out in favour of the banger, particularly as something in the £1-2k bracket probably wouldn't give you the 40mpg average you'd need to keep the fuel cost down and would probably need a big chunk spending on it to bring it up to snuff.

Even if it did *just* work out financially, you have to want to lie under the car, fix all the problems etc to save what amounts to a few quid a month, vs driving round in a brand new car with someone on the end of the phone to fix any issues for you.

This was exactly my thoughts, plus on this side it's a brand new car

Ok, I give in, it's cheap