• I just called the place selling the 52k mile M5 Touring:

    Me - Hi, could you talk me through the maintenance history of the car please - things like the clutch, brakes, VANOS system?
    Salesman - It's got all the stamps in the book
    Me - I'm sorry?
    Salesman - That's all I've got, the service book and the stamps in it
    Me - So no details of what work the car has had over the past ten years?
    Salesman - You can call the BMW garages it's been to?
    Me - Thanks

    They've got it up for 27k, with absolutely no information other than it's had it's oil/filters/plugs changed on schedule

  • if you give me the last seven digits of the chassis number I can look up what it had under warranty on Wednesday, otherwise it is a case of ringing each individual dealer :(

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