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Originally Posted by BMWrules7
Let's say the 2014 7 has 14 miles on the clock. It just arrived from the vpc.
Dealer goes to move the car into the showroom and it refuses to start.
Now, service gets involved. They get it started and drive it 1 mile.
The dealer, now told the car is fine, goes to move the car into the showroom.
It fails to start.
Now, the damn thing has 15 miles on the clock.
Service tows the car and gets a myriad of faults.
The tech opens a puma case. Germany remotely diagnosis a failed injector.
The tech gets the injector and as he is changing it, he over torques a bolt and it strips.
Then, as he is trying to drill the bolt out, his phone vibrates. As the tech answers his phone, he spills his coffee all over the left engine management control board that was opened up due to previous trouble shooting.
Anyway, the tech wipes the board down quickly, but in his haste he yanked out all of the control cables to get the coffee soaked board out so he can dry it.
Well, the engine was still powered on, so his diagnostic equipment is lit up like a Christmas tree.
Now, he shuts everything down, dries off the board, re-seats it, fixes the stripped bolt, and completed the injector repair and turns the car over to sales.
30 days later, the car is out on a 1 mile short test drive with a prospective buyer. Suddenly, half way into the test drive, the car sputters and issues a drive train malfunction.
Back to service. By now the car has 17 miles on the odometer.
Service resets and can't find any fault.
This time, a different tech is working on the car. He is unaware that coffee was spilled on one of the engine management controllers.
His fault guide tells him to reseat all the connectors. All is well.
During the next test drive, the car won't start. Now this vehicle is getting a reputation from the sales team as the devil car.
No sales guys want to demo the car since customers end up walking away from the dealership.
A year goes by. The car has less than 20 miles on the clock.
This time a new hire is interested in buying the car. The car starts, but suddenly the cooling hose pops off the same engine management controller due to an loose clamp.
This scares the prospective new hire buyer away.
The car sits....
Until, finally, the OP arrives to see this same beautiful NEW 2014 7! It starts!!' Woo hoo!
All that's left is to negotiate the deal (now June of 2016) on this sweet new 2014!
That's what makes it suspicious.
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That's a pretty deep conspiracy theory!
No but really it's probably more of an option thing or a color combo. Or it's possible it could have sat under a tree and just looks terrible and potential buyers don't like to see a 100k car with dust, sap, leaves, and just overall lot rot. I don't disagree it's worth in between 70-75k but the likely hood of all that stuff listed above is a bit much. Most people don't really want to "settle" when it comes to color or options on this level of a vehicle so most 7er's are ordered. Or at least that has been my experience.