I looked but didn't find one; thinking about a 128. Probably auto since it'll be my extra car for the drivers in the family as well as a bit of fun driver. Any horrors? Any suggestions?
I looked but didn't find one; thinking about a 128. Probably auto since it'll be my extra car for the drivers in the family as well as a bit of fun driver. Any horrors? Any suggestions?
I am intrigued by the 128i and there was some recent chatter in this thread.
Suggestions? Sure: don't buy an automatic.
Seriously, they're fun, fairly simple cars; probably the last BMWs that one might call simple with a straight face. As usual, buy the best one you can find, and expect to put money into it. It's very similar to the E9x 3-series, so there's a fair bit of interchange. Not bad to work on. Similarly sized to an E30, with worse visibility but better interior flexibility (the rear seats fold). If you can find one with the sports package you'll get much - much - better seats.
I've had mine for a while, and there are a few other owners here. If you have specific questions, ask away.
Driven5 said:
Perfect, thank you !
It was this or the S197 Mustang that we ended up with. I love the N52, and that chassis is lovely. Two issues -- no limited slip (not the end of the world), and limited room for tires up front. But absolutely "right sized".
The one I found and am looking at is an automatic, it's reasonably cheap with 130k on the odo. Anyone know of a sub 10k manual in good condition? This one is $7k
Here you go: https://www.excautogroup.com/details/used-2009-bmw-1-series/77701545
That's a near-clone of my car. Being an M-Sport manual, I don't expect it to last long.
Perfect, thank you
Stinky, I had two to go look at yesterday. First one was a blue auto msport with 147k and as we pulled up a fellow with a big smile was wheeling it out of the parking lot with temp tags. Doh! The one posted above is 2+ hours from me so I called to make sure it was still there and it wasn't.
I'll keep looking, think this is the way I want to go
We have a 2010 128i M-sport 6-speed with all the boot-ons, other than a power adder. Coilovers, intake, headers, exhaust and a bunch of very expensive BMW Motorsport carbon parts. We bought it with pretty much everything already installed.
The car is awesome. I've owned a lot of BMWs and this is one of my favorites. Certainly not the fastest but maybe the most fun!
Test drove two this week, neither were particularly nice but it did firm it up that this is the car I'm looking for. Thanks all!
In reply to chandler :
When you find one that looks promising, don't wait. There are so few manual 128is (relatively speaking) that they seem to sell very quickly. Not saying you should buy the first one you come across obviously, but there seem to be at least as many WTB ads as FS ads for manual 128is on 1Addicts.
Add in the M-Sport package and the number drops quickly from the already small pool.
02Pilot said:In reply to chandler :
When you find one that looks promising, don't wait. There are so few manual 128is (relatively speaking) that they seem to sell very quickly. Not saying you should buy the first one you come across obviously, but there seem to be at least as many WTB ads as FS ads for manual 128is on 1Addicts.
I saw that, the wtb ads outstrip the for sale ads. The Msport cars are few and far between.
These are so rare without a moonroof, I don't fit otherwise.
Saw this one on clist yesterday
https://pensacola.craigslist.org/ctd/d/pensacola-2009-bmw-128i/7350501320.html
Dang, that's a long way.
2010, sport, not M
Hot damn!
I'm pretty stoked, it drives like a dream. The others I drove all had "something" I didn't like or felt like I was going to be working on it the next weekend.
now, to find a set of LMs and a trunk lip.
Tan seats rather than black seems classy.
That's an unusual color combo. Sort of reminiscent of the 80s/90s cars. Did you get any service history? Is it modified at all?
It had zippo for records, it was run through carmax and an employee purchased it. It promptly needed a power steering pump which set him back $1k at a shop so he unloaded it saying he couldn't afford that kind of ownership. He had a Volvo S60 R so I think he couldn't afford 2 of those types of ownership. No mods that I can find beside the black grills which is an acquired taste.
It was a three year lease to 50k then sold through BMW select and that owner had it to 150,000 when it came to me through the aforementioned route. It was reasonable so I'm figuring on dropping some money on maintenance if BMW can't provide the history. I've had good luck with BMW dealers sharing that info in the past. The color is what nailed it for me, also when I ran the options the black out trim, m sport suspension and little else helped.
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