New owner here in UK

Stevesas12 · 10-03-2020, 04:36 PM

Hi everyone, I'm now the proud owner of my first ever BMW, a 1M Coupe in Valencia Orange after swapping my 968 Sport & EVO 8 for it.
Love the car, & I find is a good cross between the two cars I gave up.

nachob · 10-03-2020, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Stevesas12

Hi everyone, I'm now the proud owner of my first ever BMW, a 1M Coupe in Valencia Orange after swapping my 968 Sport & EVO 8 for it.
Love the car, & I find is a good cross between the two cars I gave up.

Welcome!!!

PRTSB1M · 10-03-2020, 10:15 PM

Welcome and congrats on your one of 450

CarJunkie · 10-03-2020, 11:17 PM

Welcome!

nachob · 10-04-2020, 12:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Stevesas12

Hi everyone, I'm now the proud owner of my first ever BMW, a 1M Coupe in Valencia Orange after swapping my 968 Sport & EVO 8 for it.
Love the car, & I find is a good cross between the two cars I gave up.

Give my best to Chris Harris if you run into him!

: )

eeghie · 10-04-2020, 03:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Stevesas12

Hi everyone, I'm now the proud owner of my first ever BMW, a 1M Coupe in Valencia Orange after swapping my 968 Sport & EVO 8 for it.
Love the car, & I find is a good cross between the two cars I gave up.

Welcome, interested in your comparison between handling, incl steering response, of the 968 (with or without M030 option) and the 1m.

godzilla-1 · 10-04-2020, 05:53 AM

Congrats on the best purchase of your life.
I'm in UK, near to London and have had my car since 2013.
She's a keeper!!!

Tornado1M · 10-05-2020, 09:44 PM

Welcome and congrats!!!

Stevesas12 · 10-07-2020, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by nachob

Welcome!!!

Stevesas12 · 10-07-2020, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by UN1CORM

Welcome and congrats on your one of 450

Stevesas12 · 10-07-2020, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by eeghie

Welcome, interested in your comparison between handling, incl steering response, of the 968 (with or without M030 option) and the 1m.

I would say the 968 has slower steering (wasn't MO30) it was a UK only 968 Sport, so same suspension as Club Sport. The 968 has better ride quality over uneven surfaces, & soaks up bumps with less bounce than the 1M.
The 1m's steering is almost as quick as the EVO 8, but not quite as direct feeling. I have driven nothing as close to go kart feel as the EVO.

Stevesas12 · 10-07-2020, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by godzilla-1

Congrats on the best purchase of your life.
I'm in UK, near to London and have had my car since 2013.
She's a keeper!!!

Excellent to know your close by. Would love to have a meet up & chat cars sometime.
Really can't see me ever selling this car now. The last of a proper drivers car maybe.

Stevesas12 · 10-07-2020, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by nachob

Give my best to Chris Harris if you run into him!

: )

Stevesas12 · 10-07-2020, 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by godzilla-1

Congrats on the best purchase of your life.
I'm in UK, near to London and have had my car since 2013.
She's a keeper!!!

Be interested to know where you have had yours serviced over the years? Do you go with specialists or dealers? Also a two year service or every year?

I noticed mine had an oil service a month before I bought it at Sytner BMW where they used Shell Ultra 0w30 which they now do in all cars.

FIRSTM · 10-07-2020, 03:40 PM

congrats and welcome to the family

FIRSTM · 10-07-2020, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Stevesas12

Be interested to know where you have had yours serviced over the years? Do you go with specialists or dealers? Also a two year service or every year?

I noticed mine had an oil service a month before I bought it at Sytner BMW where they used Shell Ultra 0w30 which they now do in all cars.

There are loads of diy for you here in the forum, and lots of info on the 1M, so lots of materials for you to read, hope it will help you on your ownership experience.

https://www.1addicts.com/forums/showthread.php?t=620282

godzilla-1 · 10-08-2020, 03:43 AM

It's a 2 year service interval, I have stayed with my local main dealer for each service but I only let them do the oil service so that it gets the main dealer stamp in the service book. I then buy any other required service parts from them at the same time so that all the parts are on the receipt. I then fit everything else including plugs myself.
Drop me a pm with your number and we can plan a meet up.

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godzilla-1 Private First Class 66 Rep 159 Posts Drives: 1M Coupe Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: essex iTrader: (0)	It's a 2 year service interval, I have stayed with my local main dealer for each service but I only let them do the oil service so that it gets the main dealer stamp in the service book. I then buy any other required service parts from them at the same time so that all the parts are on the receipt. I then fit everything else including plugs myself. Drop me a pm with your number and we can plan a meet up.
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