The car is a 1998. I have all the manuals including the radio booklet and service books and a printout of motor plan work carried out. It belonged to a lawyer who had to sell it since he needed cash for a property. The mileage is quite high, I just clocked 200k today but all the invoices kept indicate the car has been well maintained to date and I would rather have a high mileage car than a garage queen with potential problems from standing. The most expensive singular piece of work was the left control arm that cost 15k and was done last year by the seller. The car has been maintained by Mech Five by the previous owner.
Thus far I have serviced the car with SMG BMW and insisted that I was present in their workshop when they changed the oil and vanos filters (heard horror stories about them). I now plan to use Garage 808 for future maintenance work. Future plans are modest, replace "yellow" headlights with Osram extreme blues (they actually shine ice white) and keep the car as standard as possible.