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Originally Posted by JasonTDude
It's posts like this that makes me question the decision to keep this car beyond warranty  The car would sell for 40 grand give or take and a repair bill that is more than 25% of its value is insane. |
Well as the dealer indicated, this would be the cost without insurance, and this incident sounds pretty severe -- assuming it's legit in the first place. But this is accident-level repairs, not maintenance or even typical repairs. Those are always expensive, especially when performed at a dealer, but they're also typically offset by insurance. If you end up selling your M3 for $40K and adding another $30K or so to purchase a new M3, that's not exactly cheaper. Sure you have a new car out of the deal, but I seriously doubt you'd end up ahead on money overall, or even value per dollar overall. In most situations buying a new M3 would leave you with a monthly payment that would easily be as much as a typical M3 repair bill, and the latter would definitely NOT occur every month.