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Originally Posted by jkoral

One disadvantage of CarMax (and Carvana) is BMW Ultimate Care (3 years/36,000 miles) is not transferable to subsequent owners -- it's only transferable if the vehicle was sold by an authorized BMW Center.

I knew this and still bought my 2025 430i xDrive Gran Coupe from Carvana last fall. First experience with Carvana or CarMax (except I sold a car to CarMax 5 years ago when they offered more than my BMW dealer for trade-in).

The door to door experience is one of the nicest features (and not dealing with a salesman). For small surcharge, delivered to driveway and took my trade-in (2022 X3), but my preference would be buying at the dealer. I just couldn't find a spec close to what I wanted within 1000 miles. And with the trade-in, not worthwhile for shipping both ways.

Got the PPI from my BMW independent within the first 7 days and decided to keep it.

Note: Be sure to pull the build sheet for the VIN. Even BMW dealer CPO cars can be ZRD - Daily Rental (all the CPO cars I were considering were ZRD, which was something new I learned) -- didn't want a loaner, but still bought it.

This is my first BMW that's had Ultimate Care included in the purchase (thanks previous owner for the handoff! ). I haven't had a need to use it yet since I'm only just over 3 Months into ownership. That said, after living with my '04 M3 for just under 4 years prior to selling last summer, I'd have to crunch numbers before letting that slip by as part of a deal. I'm sure your specific situation made more sense to skip it, but damn is it nice not having to worry about consumables for a change.

The Carvana sales model looks really good on paper especially from a convenience stand point, but I've heard nothing but horror stories in dealing with them post purchase. It sounds like yours was fairly smooth overall and I'm sure there's plenty of other success stories out there, but I just can't for the life of me give up buying a BMW direct from the source or an approved dealer. I've done too many outside of the dealer network and they've all (but 1) had some kind of drama attached to them that's been my problem to deal with as a result. My 335 was the exception, I picked that up from a Toyota dealer that had it on trade for a Prius from an older lady that babied the shit out of it. If she knew what it became afterwards, she probably would've lost her mind.