Tempted by a B10

stats007 · Post by **stats007** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:02 pm

Does anyone take Scots seriously?

Tinker · Post by **Tinker** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:07 pm

nealpina wrote: I am not being funny, I would like to say thanks for correcting me about the D10, cheers

You are more that welcome

I only discovered that recently when I got mine ... makes sense when you think of it as facelift 530d was upped in power, so should the Alpina version. The torque increase is more important, it goes from loads to shit loads ...

nealpina · Post by **nealpina** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:14 pm

Chas wrote:
stats007 wrote:Ahh I didn't realise he was Scottish .
Which means I don't take myself too seriously - and neither should anyone else

I know that my post has been deleted. I believe that I did word it carefully as I did not mean any malice towards Chas, or towards anyone else

nealpina · Post by **nealpina** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:15 pm

Tinker wrote:
nealpina wrote: I am not being funny, I would like to say thanks for correcting me about the D10, cheers
You are more that welcome I only discovered that recently when I got mine ... makes sense when you think of it as facelift 530d was upped in power, so should the Alpina version. The torque increase is more important, it goes from loads to shit loads ...

Whatâ€™s your fuel economy like? Do you have a manual of Switch-tronic? As it is a diesel and a big car, is it a joy to drive and do you feel any turbo lag? Also how does it compare to your B8?

Tinker · Post by **Tinker** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 10:39 am

nealpina wrote: Whatâ€™s your fuel economy like? Do you have a manual of Switch-tronic? As it is a diesel and a big car, is it a joy to drive and do you feel any turbo lag? Also how does it compare to your B8?

I am oicking the car up at the end of the month, from memory fuel economy is very good, 40s and above, I have the manual, and would not consider switch-tronic in the diesel (and I'm not sure I'm the only one, manuals rarely come up for sale!).

Tell you what, why don't you come over and try them both out ... the D10 is a real racing car revs up to over 5000rpm!

nealpina · Post by **nealpina** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:44 pm

That is a tempting offer, you live in France?

Tinker · Post by **Tinker** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:47 pm

nealpina wrote:That is a tempting offer, you live in France?

Yeap South West not far from Biarritz.

nealpina · Post by **nealpina** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:09 pm

When I have an holiday in the South of France I will let you know

As it is over 500 miles

Chas · Post by **Chas** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:19 pm

Tinker wrote:Yeap South West not far from Biarritz.

Lucky man! We drove (B6 Touring) down to Pau four years ago on holiday and came back via Biarritz and Sarlat. Lovely part of the world.

stats007 · Post by **stats007** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:53 am

Found what I think might be a nice car

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What are the scheduled service intervals for a B10 V8? It has 43k miles and is almost 8 years old, yet appears to only have had 4 services?

The VIN is WAPBA46L10HF40802 - can I speak to any BMW dealer to confirm the history?

The Maserati is up for sale at any rate

chad5k1 · Post by **chad5k1** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 7:42 pm

Hi Stats

If it's on the service indicator this wouldn't be an issue.
You should pop your maser in the for sale section on the maser forum too, there is a chap on there looking for a nero 4200 i think.

Ian J · Post by **Ian J** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 8:01 am

Blimey, a post by stats007 followed by one from chad5ki. Am I in the right place or is the Maserati forum

The service intervals vary dependant on your style of driving and 11,000 miles per service is reasonable. When I bought my B10 a year ago it was serviced and now a year and 7,500 miles later it still has two lights left to go

stats007 · Post by **stats007** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 9:56 am

Hi chaps!

Getting used to yearly service intervals! The Mercs had an ASSYST system which I suppose is similar to the BMW INSP system whereby the car tells you when it wants servicing. Looks like it was all done to schedule.

Anyway going to pass on this one. The auction price went too high and the colour wasn't exactly what I was after.

ALPB1033 · Post by **ALPB1033** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 1:12 pm

Stats,
The service interval should fall between 12-15k miles. Actually that depends how you drive the car. If you do a lot of high speed short distance travel, then it will fall sort of this. Anyway you can have one service indicator light off between 2-3k for E39 B10.