Re: URGENT! Please Advise!! Should I buy this 740i e38 for sale?? Opinions

What are the prices the rest of you 740 owners paid for your used 7 series?
Lets hear about your cars. What year? How Much? How many miles? What
options? Thanks again guys! Keep it coming.

"Alistair J Murray" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Mark Amero wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > I understand that this particular model year had a block issue.
>
> I had an E38 740i with its original Nikasil block M60 to ~185,000 miles
> without problems, saw it running around and still looking shiny a month
> or two back a month or two back.
>
> Here in the UK high sulphur fuel is a thing of the past and the view is
> that any problem blocks will have shown up - bad idle, down on power -
> or died by now.
>
> If the leakdown test happened after high sulphur fuel was withdrawn I'd
> not worry. Springs and bushes were the only non service parts mine ever
> needed, look out for dead pixels in the dash and a/c displays though.
>
> The price is higher than it would be in Scotland but there is no market
> for s/h big cars here.
>
> They're great cars and last well, hope you get a good 'un! :)
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