...so I bought this!



I moved back to Portland from NYC a couple weeks ago, and, nice as it was for 10 months not having to worry about/pay for cars, continuing that just wasn't going to be realistic given where I live and work now. Started looking around and saw they had 0.9% through BMW Financial, and that one of the larger of our two local dealers actually had a strippy(ish) 2011 135i in inventory.

I figured they'd be more than willing to haggle on price with me since it was a manual transmission car, and of course the end of the month. $500 over invoice and 0.9% for 60 months with nothing down (except title and registration fees.) was the deal I wanted, and that's what I ended up with. No sales tax in Oregon which is SWEET when you go to buy a new car.

Options aren't too crazy. M-sport package, Assist/Bluetooth, Harmon Kardon, heated seats, Titanium silver (pretty retarded they charge extra for metallic colors IMO...) and the no charge value package added black leather and Ipod/USB hookup. It's got the aluminum trim on the inside which I wasn't thrilled with but, meh.

Hopefully this newer N55 engine proves more reliable with the HPFP particularly. That really kept me away from considering the 2008-10 models used or whatever, but I don't think there has been too many to speak of yet, if any.

 

N55 uses the same fuel pump as the N54. already reported failures on N55. good luck though.

 

Nice! Congrats

 

Nice pickup. Friend of mine's got one, they're pretty effing quick. Looks like you got a good deal too

I could never willingly survive not having access to a car, though.

 

Congrats Brandon! Looks hawt! I bet you can't wait till break-in period is over so you can give it.

Any mods planned yet?

 

Congrats and welcome back to P-Town. You've returned just in time for the rain!!!

Where did you take that picture? Looks like either Nike or Intel.

 

congrats!

 

Nice pick up! That's a really great looking car

 

Yeah only time will tell. Didn't BMW at least address the issue by putting a special warranty on those fuel pumps for a whopping 10 years or something?

 

Thanks! I'm trying to go easy on it till I get more comfortable with the clutch and shifter, and to let the engine run in a bit. I'm not gonna wail on it for at least 1000 miles or so.

As for mods, maybe a cat-back exhaust at some point. I'm a fan of leaving the nuts and bolts alone on a nice car these days though and just keeping it clean.

 

PCC Rock Creek.

Nice to be back but yeah, I forgot how rainy and gloomy it can be around here.

 

nice pickup could you post more pics of the inside plzzz

 

The 1-series has grown on me. Not a fan of the color combo, I like the lemon interior especially, but this is very easy to keep clean

Good luck with the HPFP

 

There's a lemon interior option?

 

Nice pickup! I like these but they are too small for my fat ass.....

 

Nice pick up. Most important is M sport. Lemon is nice but hard to keep clean.

 

nice pick-up!!! another one for bimmerzine...

 

yeah 10 yr /120k miles. not really addressing the issue though since they're still failing. good morning america recently did a story on the bmw fuel pump failures.

 

Welcome to Bimmerzine, where you can brag on your 1, 3, 5, 6, or 7-series with no fear!

Seriously, that's a nice little car. I'm sure that will be fun to toss around once it's broken in. Congrats!

 

Nice car! I like the wheels and the interior colors!

 

Can't tell....are the seats in that pic white?

 

Yeah, kinda like an off white color.

 

They'd probably never have one on a dealer lot, but yeah you can order it.

 

Conrats!!!

 

Congrats! I'm a huge fan of the 1-series.

 

Nice pick up...if I lived in NYC, I'd almost miss the "not driving".