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Message: <blockquote data-quote="E34EuroTouring" data-source="post: 74810" data-attributes="member: 1026">Actually, one of the things to check if the milage is actually true, is to check the thickness of the brake rotors. Front and back. Usually, if it is till the stock rotors, the wear will be about 1/2 (ie 4mm worn, 4mm to go) if it is 50 thousand KM. This item , the first owner is unlikely to change if the car is 2001 unless, the car has over 150K KMs on it.If you have only 1-2 mm of brake rotors left, the milage is close to 80-100K km. This is a good "rule of thumb" measure.Generally the M54 is a good and stong engine that can handle 300K kms without much problems if maintained properly.I have reservations abut cars from Japan becuase it is known that Japanese tends to run their BMWs like crazy until the warranty runs out and then sell or export them!. This way, internal hard-wearing cannot be determined so easily. And the trouble with BMWs and all European engines is that, it can run perfectly and suddenly, one major component fails and you have a big problem in your hands. Check the conditiion of the V-belts as well. These will last and unlikely to be replaced with 50K km, so its wear characteristics can be read from the belt using a strong flash-light. Of course, you need to know, how to read the wear based on KMs. Check for small cracks or minor tears from the groves of the V-belt internal lines..Good luck.</blockquote>