Anybody in Chicago area want to check out a 335i for me?

E.D. · 06-02-2008, 06:09 PM

My first post here, so a short introduction:
I'm looking into buying a used BMW 335i sedan because we want to do some weekend skiing upcoming winter and our Lotus Elise doesn't really excel in either storage space or performance in snowy circumstances.

Originally I was planning to buy in October, but hell, a couple of months shouldn't make too much of a difference, the BMW should be a blast

. So I found a possible interesting used 335i at Luxury Motors in Chicago. http://www.cars.com/go/search/detail...eadExists=true

Not around the corner for me because I live in NYC.

So is somebody willing to do a global check out of this car for me to see if it's looks/drives OK? Because I don't really feel like flying over to Chicago based on only car salesmen-talk how perfect the car is, I don't know this company at all. Also a 335i owner can compare how the car drives with his/her own 335i, and I can't since I don't own one. Maybe a bit unusual request, but if you don't try you sure won't win.

Enrico

cipher5 · 06-03-2008, 10:03 AM

Luxury Motors sucks. I would not buy from them.

UdubBadger · 06-03-2008, 11:40 AM

+1

i heard they sell lemons or at least cars that have been fucked up, which is why they are so cheap.

E.D. · 06-03-2008, 03:37 PM

Thanks for warning, I'll pass on this one, was already wondering why they were cheaper than other dealers.

ltfadl · 06-03-2008, 04:44 PM

yeah i heard some bad things about them as well, stay away.

J BONE · 06-03-2008, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by cipher5

Luxury Motors sucks. I would not buy from them.

Heard the same thing. Nobody buys from them!

scribbler11 · 06-04-2008, 09:40 AM

They are shady, there is no doubt. But I see plenty of their cars on the road.

Chitown-Irish · 06-05-2008, 07:32 AM

I purchased my car from Luxury Motors (Ohare) and you definitely have to be a cautious buyer. After buying it I found out it had been a BMW buy-back and that BMW would never qualify it as a CPO. This info was not given to me when I bought the car. 20-20 hindsight I should have ran the VIN through a BMW service check but it was a great price and I had great luck with used cars in the past (not from here but with other dealers). I did do a CARFAX check but that is another story, IMHO their reports are not to be taken as gospel.

The car only had 2.5K miles on it when I purchased it, I did have to bring it in for service because the passenger seat wouldn't move back or forth. Turned out to be that the fuse box assembly had either not been properly installed from the factory or on a previous service by the previous owner.

I now have 15.5K miles and have not seen the service dept other than an oil change. So it appears to me that the service dept at my local dealer is better than the previous owners service dept in NJ.

If you buy from them do not expect a great customer experience such as no walk-through, manuals may be missing (mine were), parts removed (my car was missing front license plate bracket so they removed one from another car to put on mine) and high sales pressure. All they want to do is sell you the car, after the sale is made it's like you don't exist.

On the other hand I had been there a month earlier looking at an E90 330Xi, they let me keep the car over the weekend for an extended test drive and was glad they did because I had always wanted the sports seats and turns out I don't like them, after riding in them for an extended period of time I found them to be very uncomfortable (plus the car had a non-functioning taillight on the passenger side).

So there are deals to be found at Luxury Motors but be very careful and do your homework. For me I think I lucked out, I have a great car with more options then if I had bought new for a purchase price then of $40k which was many $ dollars less than other cars with less options.

J BONE · 06-05-2008, 08:40 AM

^ Great write up. Bottom line... do your homework anywhere you buy a car.

Cryokid · 06-05-2008, 10:43 PM

I'm a repeat buyer at Luxury Motors. Bought my 330 CIC with about 6500 miles on it. Absolutely no problems with the car. Traded it for an M3 that they located specially for me that had only 1700 miles on it. It was perfect! Traded that in for a 545 that ended up having bad run flats. Luxury motors had no problems allowing me to pick any tire set from other 545's on the lot and changed them over for me. I then bought an X5 4.8is for my wife from them again with about 7,000 miles. No problems. Finally, my daughter bought a G35 from them. It took them a year to get me a copy of the manual. All and all, I have had good luck with the cars and after all they are covered by BMW, so any problems have been fixed at my dealer.

I don't know how much money I've saved over buying at my current dealer, but it's been 10's of thousands of dollars. My suggestion is to make sure your happy with the car and get everything agreed to before you sign. They have always done what they said they would.

I bought my E93 new because there were no cars equiped the way I wanted it, so I had to pay the long dollar.

I work about 25 minutes from the dealer and would be happy to check out the car for you. Are you still interested? Have you considered a sedan with 4 wheel drive. They're a lot of fun.

UdubBadger · 06-05-2008, 11:53 PM

hmmmmm

oh well

E.D. · 06-06-2008, 04:44 PM

Thx everybody for input, car is already sold so no need for looking. Thx for offer cryokid!

karizma · 06-17-2008, 07:42 PM

i've lived in chicago my whole life and can tell you, there is probably 1 person happy with luxury motors happy for every 10 that has bought from there..90% of their cars are no good, they have some good ones in the lot at times, but i've heard wayyyyy too many horror stories, and experienced many myself ( i test drove an 04 z4 3.0i that shut down on the test drive, blanked out completely. I drove a clk500 in which the navi broke during the test drive. )

avoid them at all costs. they have something like 50+ pending law suits.

06-02-2008, 06:09 PM	#1
E.D. New Member 0 Rep 15 Posts Drives: '06 Lotus Elise, '07 BMW 335i Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: NYC iTrader: (0)	Anybody in Chicago area want to check out a 335i for me? My first post here, so a short introduction: I'm looking into buying a used BMW 335i sedan because we want to do some weekend skiing upcoming winter and our Lotus Elise doesn't really excel in either storage space or performance in snowy circumstances. Originally I was planning to buy in October, but hell, a couple of months shouldn't make too much of a difference, the BMW should be a blast. So I found a possible interesting used 335i at Luxury Motors in Chicago. http://www.cars.com/go/search/detail...eadExists=true Not around the corner for me because I live in NYC. So is somebody willing to do a global check out of this car for me to see if it's looks/drives OK? Because I don't really feel like flying over to Chicago based on only car salesmen-talk how perfect the car is, I don't know this company at all. Also a 335i owner can compare how the car drives with his/her own 335i, and I can't since I don't own one. Maybe a bit unusual request, but if you don't try you sure won't win. Enrico
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06-03-2008, 10:03 AM	#2
cipher5 565 Rep 3,472 Posts Drives: 2020 Donington Grey X3M Comp Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Chicago, IL iTrader: (12)	Luxury Motors sucks. I would not buy from them.
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06-03-2008, 11:40 AM	#3
UdubBadger Banned 670 Rep 24,685 Posts Drives: '04 330i ZHP Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Chicago Burbs iTrader: (22) Garage List 2004 BMW 330i ZHP [9.50] 2011 135i [7.46] 2008 328xi [8.76]	+1 i heard they sell lemons or at least cars that have been fucked up, which is why they are so cheap.
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06-03-2008, 03:37 PM	#4
E.D. New Member 0 Rep 15 Posts Drives: '06 Lotus Elise, '07 BMW 335i Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: NYC iTrader: (0)	Thanks for warning, I'll pass on this one, was already wondering why they were cheaper than other dealers.
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06-03-2008, 04:44 PM	#5
ltfadl Tony @ CSTuning 3 Rep 70 Posts Drives: E36 325is, E30 330 turbo Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Chicago iTrader: (0)	yeah i heard some bad things about them as well, stay away.
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06-04-2008, 09:40 AM	#7
scribbler11 Second Lieutenant 11 Rep 228 Posts Drives: 08' 335i Coupe Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Miami iTrader: (1)	They are shady, there is no doubt. But I see plenty of their cars on the road.
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06-05-2008, 07:32 AM	#8
Chitown-Irish Second Lieutenant 15 Rep 292 Posts Drives: 11 X3 xDrive35i Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Orland Park, IL iTrader: (0)	I purchased my car from Luxury Motors (Ohare) and you definitely have to be a cautious buyer. After buying it I found out it had been a BMW buy-back and that BMW would never qualify it as a CPO. This info was not given to me when I bought the car. 20-20 hindsight I should have ran the VIN through a BMW service check but it was a great price and I had great luck with used cars in the past (not from here but with other dealers). I did do a CARFAX check but that is another story, IMHO their reports are not to be taken as gospel. The car only had 2.5K miles on it when I purchased it, I did have to bring it in for service because the passenger seat wouldn't move back or forth. Turned out to be that the fuse box assembly had either not been properly installed from the factory or on a previous service by the previous owner. I now have 15.5K miles and have not seen the service dept other than an oil change. So it appears to me that the service dept at my local dealer is better than the previous owners service dept in NJ. If you buy from them do not expect a great customer experience such as no walk-through, manuals may be missing (mine were), parts removed (my car was missing front license plate bracket so they removed one from another car to put on mine) and high sales pressure. All they want to do is sell you the car, after the sale is made it's like you don't exist. On the other hand I had been there a month earlier looking at an E90 330Xi, they let me keep the car over the weekend for an extended test drive and was glad they did because I had always wanted the sports seats and turns out I don't like them, after riding in them for an extended period of time I found them to be very uncomfortable (plus the car had a non-functioning taillight on the passenger side). So there are deals to be found at Luxury Motors but be very careful and do your homework. For me I think I lucked out, I have a great car with more options then if I had bought new for a purchase price then of $40k which was many $ dollars less than other cars with less options. __________________ 2011 X3 xDrive35i F25 (CPO) Space Grey/Black Leather, Packages: Premium, Cold Weather, BMW Apps, Sirius and Technology. BMW CCA Member (WindyCity Chapter). Former cars: 06 750i E65 (CPO) 07 E90 335i (bought used but had problematic iDrive so sold it to get 7-series) Last edited by Chitown-Irish; 06-06-2008 at 07:59 AM..
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J BONE The Boss 113 Rep 4,948 Posts Drives: %E2%80%9816 F15 X6 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Illinois iTrader: (12) Garage List 2008 E92 335xi [9.00]	^ Great write up. Bottom line... do your homework anywhere you buy a car. __________________ 2016 F16 X6 2015 F15 X5- Retired 2013 F10 535xi- Retired 2011 E92 M3- Retired 2011 E90 335- Retired 2008 E92 335- Retired
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06-05-2008, 10:43 PM	#10
Cryokid Private 0 Rep 85 Posts Drives: 2008 E93 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Naperville, IL iTrader: (0)	I've bought 5 cars from Luxury Motors and had no complaints I'm a repeat buyer at Luxury Motors. Bought my 330 CIC with about 6500 miles on it. Absolutely no problems with the car. Traded it for an M3 that they located specially for me that had only 1700 miles on it. It was perfect! Traded that in for a 545 that ended up having bad run flats. Luxury motors had no problems allowing me to pick any tire set from other 545's on the lot and changed them over for me. I then bought an X5 4.8is for my wife from them again with about 7,000 miles. No problems. Finally, my daughter bought a G35 from them. It took them a year to get me a copy of the manual. All and all, I have had good luck with the cars and after all they are covered by BMW, so any problems have been fixed at my dealer. I don't know how much money I've saved over buying at my current dealer, but it's been 10's of thousands of dollars. My suggestion is to make sure your happy with the car and get everything agreed to before you sign. They have always done what they said they would. I bought my E93 new because there were no cars equiped the way I wanted it, so I had to pay the long dollar. I work about 25 minutes from the dealer and would be happy to check out the car for you. Are you still interested? Have you considered a sedan with 4 wheel drive. They're a lot of fun. __________________ Alpine White 335 Convertible With: Saddle, Light Poplar, Cold Weather, Premium, Sports, Step, Active Steering, Paddle, Comfort, Park Distance, Nav, Satellite, Logic 7, iPod/USB, HD Radio, SR-7 Radar/Laser Detector w/shifters
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UdubBadger Banned 670 Rep 24,685 Posts Drives: '04 330i ZHP Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Chicago Burbs iTrader: (22) Garage List 2004 BMW 330i ZHP [9.50] 2011 135i [7.46] 2008 328xi [8.76]	hmmmmm oh well
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06-06-2008, 04:44 PM	#12
E.D. New Member 0 Rep 15 Posts Drives: '06 Lotus Elise, '07 BMW 335i Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: NYC iTrader: (0)	Thx everybody for input, car is already sold so no need for looking. Thx for offer cryokid!
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06-17-2008, 07:42 PM	#13
karizma Private First Class 9 Rep 157 Posts Drives: 2008 335i cpe, 6spd, mont/sadl Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: chicago, il iTrader: (0)	i've lived in chicago my whole life and can tell you, there is probably 1 person happy with luxury motors happy for every 10 that has bought from there..90% of their cars are no good, they have some good ones in the lot at times, but i've heard wayyyyy too many horror stories, and experienced many myself ( i test drove an 04 z4 3.0i that shut down on the test drive, blanked out completely. I drove a clk500 in which the navi broke during the test drive. ) avoid them at all costs. they have something like 50+ pending law suits.
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