SOLD WITHDRAWN Z4 E86 coupe 3.0si, great spec

[Spock1189]

Hi, my car is for sale! Loved it for best part of 7 years but circumstances change.

Car is in (midnight?) blue and pretty much stock apart from some new exhaust tips and wiper blades. 99500 miles approx and with decent service history. Passed MOT in march with no advisories. Located in Bedfordshire.

For pics and full details please visit my ad on gumtree:

Update 06/05: decided not to advertise here any more after reading the string of negative and somewhat abusive comments below. If you have a genuine interest in the car please feel free to PM me, but I'm not staying to endure the trolls.

[Pondrew]

Welcome to the forum for a plug for your free ad!

BTW your car is at least £2k overpriced from the details on the Gumtree ad.

[Mr Tidy]

First off welcome to the forum, even if you do seem to be about to leave!

Yours looks like a great car, but I'll try to be more polite. Anyway I see its value being in 4 figures, not 5.

[Pondrew]

but I'll try to be more polite.

I wasn't impolite, Iain, just blunt. There is a subtle difference, apparently.

[Special Kay]

strong money for a car/mileage in the current market.

[Pondrew]

strong money for a car/mileage in the current market.

Maybe it's the unique 'sport' button, which adjusts the clutch control as well as the steering?

The "I elected not to pay to refurbish the wheels and will leave that to the next owner" really did it for me! Class.

[Big Bad Boris]

This is similar to the post I just made about a roof issue. Again a first post should not be allowed to be a for sale ad. this dude is not joining the forum, just using it for free advertising. Maybe after signing up, making a basic introduction, there should be say a month before you can post any kind of for sale ad or link…..probably too difficult to police but I do find it irritating.

Alternatively in cases such as this there should be a fee for the advert / plug that can go towards the upkeep of the forum?

Feel obliged to add, while we are sticking the boot in… is this really worth £3k more than my recently sold 66,000 mile E89 30i, errr no. Although mine did only have a normal sport button and probably lost value due to the immaculate wheels

[Zedebee]

Another erroneous claim to rarity based on howmanyleft data. There are nearly 2000 E86 coupes on the UK roads.

[RMB]

Sport mode just makes the throttle more sensitive no?
Also I thought DSC was just on or off? I know heated seats are 3 mode including off!
Steering wheel misaligned is a bit of a red flag is it not?

[pvr]

Nobody picked on the driver seat yet?

[raymond.harper]

Nobody picked on the driver seat yet?

Don't think this is the forum for that sort of thing!

[Fred Smith]

Another erroneous claim to rarity based on howmanyleft data. There are nearly 2000 E86 coupes on the UK roads.

This has been bugging me since I started looking a few months back.

Oft quoted is the howmanyleft "260 coupes" (and I think there is at least one more similar site that says the same thing).

Yet on here I've seen that link to 2000 VINs / coupes.

How confident are you that it is the 2000 figure that is right, and not the 260 figure?

Based on how rarely I see them 260 seems plausible... on the other hand if there are only 260 left then at least 20-25% of them have been on the market in the last couple of months, which seems a rather high proportion!

I really want to know the truth... and for me to know the truth I want to know why people trust the 2000 and not the 260!!!

[Special Kay]

strong money for a car/mileage in the current market.

Maybe it's the unique 'sport' button, which adjusts the clutch control as well as the steering?

The "I elected not to pay to refurbish the wheels and will leave that to the next owner" really did it for me! Class.

I think I share the same sentiments, especially regarding the alloys. If I was in the market for a coupe, In my opinion I would expect a car within the 'Top' price bracket to have paid attention to maintenance to reflect the price offered. The attention to detail to differentiate it from the from the herd. Zero known issues. Showing preventative maintenance, i.e the waterpump replacement, suspension overhaul etc would fill me as a buyer with confidence, that the owners have shown the car some degree of 'love' over the years.
Openly expecting the buyer to foot the bill for 'minor' window, steering and wheel issues screams neglect to me, and I personally would think carefully if I wanted to pursue. Just reminds me of a quote from a film 'I once knew a girl called Pandora. Never got to see her box though'.
But, as mentioned above, this is just my humble opinion, no malice or offence is expressed to the seller or his car.

[Fred Smith]

I think I share the same sentiments, especially regarding the alloys. If I was in the market for a coupe, In my opinion I would expect a car within the 'Top' price bracket to have paid attention to maintenance to reflect the price offered. The attention to detail to differentiate it from the from the herd. Zero known issues. Showing preventative maintenance, i.e the waterpump replacement, suspension overhaul etc would fill me as a buyer with confidence, that the owners have shown the car some degree of 'love' over the years.
Openly expecting the buyer to foot the bill for 'minor' window, steering and wheel issues screams neglect to me, and I personally would think carefully if I wanted to pursue. Just reminds me of a quote from a film 'I once knew a girl called Pandora. Never got to see her box though'.
But, as mentioned above, this is just my humble opinion, no malice or offence is expressed to the seller or his car.

It's pretty hard to really get your head around what prices on the Coupes are, but based on what I have seen over the last few months -

It is possible to buy a non-M coupe with an MOT and not too bad for under £4k, and some people pay up to around £18k for the best examples.

Realistically I believe that £5k to £11k or so is the range for most E86s which are MOT'd and with no significant immediate issues. I regard a significant issue as anything affecting the engine or passing the next MOT, or non-trivial dings, or wheels that urgently need a refurb. To be £5k it would need to be 130k miles or more with a few issues like headlight jets not working, or wheels which are ok but well past their best, or seats needing TLC. To be £11k it would need to be under 100k and pretty much no issues.

If any are genuinely worth over £12k then they are very good order, well under 100k miles and probably another selling point or two (for example insanely low miles or really nice rare colour)

There are loads on the market in the £8k to £11k range which are decent, but nothing special. Good condition and not too many miles... but not great condition or low miles. I'm not sure the extent to which they eventually sell for close to asking, and the extent to which most remain unsold until the price gets dropped or the seller accepts a very low offer.

Then of course you have things like colour which can make a difference, autos which seem to be much cheaper, and location (up north the prices seem lower than down south).

[Zedebee]

Another erroneous claim to rarity based on howmanyleft data. There are nearly 2000 E86 coupes on the UK roads.

This has been bugging me since I started looking a few months back.

Oft quoted is the howmanyleft "260 coupes" (and I think there is at least one more similar site that says the same thing).

Yet on here I've seen that link to 2000 VINs / coupes.

How confident are you that it is the 2000 figure that is right, and not the 260 figure?

Based on how rarely I see them 260 seems plausible... on the other hand if there are only 260 left then at least 20-25% of them have been on the market in the last couple of months, which seems a rather high proportion!

I really want to know the truth... and for me to know the truth I want to know why people trust the 2000 and not the 260!!!

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