Alpina B5 Touring market price?

alpni · Post by **alpni** » Sat Aug 09, 2014 11:00 pm

Good evening gents (and ladies!)

Long time lurker on here and reaching out to the community for some advice.

I am having thoughts of selling my b5 touring (previously owned by Heuer). I have owned the car for nigh on three years and quite honestly it has been the greatest car I have ever owned.

My question is pricing the car so any feedback would be much appreciated. Car has 80k miles and has full and I mean full BMW history.

I must confess I am quite torn over this decision and no firm decision has been made yet...

So what do we think?

simon13 · Post by **simon13** » Sat Aug 09, 2014 11:15 pm

why do you want to sell?

alpni · Post by **alpni** » Sat Aug 09, 2014 11:22 pm

Combination of two young children, spending lots of time working away ultimately means the car is becoming a bit of a garage queen, which seems a shame, so these horrible thoughts have popped into my head....

simon13 · Post by **simon13** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 12:02 am

i see, i'd still keep it myself. What colour is it?

Hodge · Post by **Hodge** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 9:03 am

I may be wrong but is it this one

http://www.thealpinaregister.com/photos/B5/-/estate/10

Cheers

simon13 · Post by **simon13** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 9:25 am

tasty

Hodge · Post by **Hodge** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 9:33 am

Jacoda sold his recently asking Â£22k and that sold very quickly, but with BMW warranty and a new engine

http://thealpinaregister.com/forums/vie ... hp?t=14766

Hope that helps you price it, very rare though

Cheers

E24man · Post by **E24man** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 1:24 pm

alpni · Post by **alpni** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 2:42 pm

Thank you for all the replies gents and yes Hodge that's the one. Really is a special car and replacing it will be nigh on impossible for the money.

E24man, that was one of my concerns when I bought it but it had a new supercharger installed whilst in Heuer's ownership and quite honestly it has performed impeccably since.

Like is say, not convinced I want to sell hence the very tentative enquiry.

ali · Post by **ali** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 4:57 pm

Does it still have a warranty ion place to cover 'charger failure?
B5 Wagon would do me nicely

alpni · Post by **alpni** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 8:58 pm

No warranty in place currently, however, as the car has full BMW history and under their mileage threshold I am relatively sure the warranty can be reinstated via Mondial.

jamesa · Post by **jamesa** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 9:52 pm

ali-bumble wrote:Does it still have a warranty ion place to cover 'charger failure?
B5 Wagon would do me nicely

Read my mind ... me too

simon13 · Post by **simon13** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 11:06 pm

and me i wanty!

Isn't charge failures almost entirely down to the use off 550i oil filters when the correct one is the 545i upon which the car and engine are based? Therefore making it a BMW mistake on the whole rather than the customers faults

ali · Post by **ali** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 11:37 pm

simon13 wrote:and me i wanty!

Isn't charge failures almost entirely down to the use off 550i oil filters when the correct one is the 545i upon which the car and engine are based? Therefore making it a BMW mistake on the whole rather than the customers faults

Possilbly although I don't know a great deal about the charger failure rate or causes.
What I do know is that the B5 is becoming an affordable proposition these days for people like me that do low miles sub 5k per year.
The 550 used the Alpina 4.8i lump didn't it based on the older M62 4.4 V8?

simon13 · Post by **simon13** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 11:55 pm

that i cannot tell you, but i doubt it in my mind as by this stage valvetronic was being used on the v8 engines and the older 4.8 engine used in the B10V8s and X5's is just single vanos on each bank?

550 is 4.8 but a different engine i think one of BMW's own