2017 BMW 3 SERIES — £43,500 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 24 April 2026 | Dunfermline
£43,500
62,734 miles | Automatic | Estate
Listing Quality
84/100
Good
vs Market Average
+163%
Above Market
Value Retention
25/100
Steep Depreciation
Our Verdict
84 /100

This 2017 BMW 3 SERIES is listed at £43,500 by Simpson Motors Dunfermline in Dunfermline. It has 62,734 miles on the clock. At 163% above the market average of £16,571, this is priced on the higher side compared to 120 similar listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £4,895/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2017
Make BMW
Model 3 SERIES
Body Style Estate
Colour White
Gearbox Automatic
Mileage 62,734 miles
Engine 2L
CO2 119 g/km
ULEZ Compliant TBC
Power 187 BHP
Torque 295 lbs/ft
Top Speed 140 mph
0-60 mph 7.5s
Cylinders 4
Gears 8
Combined MPG 45.6 mpg
Urban MPG 52.3 mpg
Extra Urban MPG 70.6 mpg
Length 4633mm
Width 1811mm
Height 1462mm
Wheelbase 2810mm
Kerb Weight 1580 kg
All Features & Equipment (35)
Top speed140 mph0 to 607.5 secondsEngine torque (lbs/ft)295Engine power (BHP)187Extra Urban (mpg)70.6Urban (mpg)52.3Combined (mpg)45.6Cylinders - bore (mm)84TransmissionAutomaticNumber of gears8Cylinders - stroke (mm)90CC1,995Cylinders4CO2 (g/km)119Ultra Low Emission ZoneTBCEnhanced Bluetooth Telephone Preparation with USB Audio Interface and Voice Control £430Extended Storage £155Full Black Panel Display £140Seat Heating for Driver and Front Passenger £325Total value of factory fitted extras £1,050Height1462mmHeight inclusive of roof railsmmLength4633mmWheelbase2810mmWidth1811mmWidth including mirrorsmmLuggage capacity (seats up) litresLuggage capacity (seats down) litresGross vehicle weight kgMax loading weightkgMax towing weight (braked)kgMax towing weight (unbraked)kgTurning circle (kerb to kerb) metresMax roof loadkgMinimum kerb weight1580 kg
Above MarketListed at £43,500 vs market average of £16,571 (+163%)
Market Low
£4,810
Market Average
£16,571
Market High
£48,000
Comparables
120 listings

Based on 120 comparable BMW 3 SERIES listings.

Age Depreciation
Moderate Depreciation
£1,713/year
Mileage Impact
Steep Depreciation
£1,591/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Steep Depreciation
£4,895/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £14,684 (+£28,816)
Mileage-predicted: £17,470 (+£26,030)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-3,304/yr | 10k mi/yr £-4,895/yr | 15k mi/yr £-6,486/yr

Based on 429 comparable listings. Slopes from smoothed depreciation curves.

84
Overall Listing Quality
Good — this listing is well-presented and informative.
Information & Buyer Appeal
Does this listing give buyers enough information to make a decision?
24/25Good
Photos
61 photos
10/10
Features & key selling points
35 listed
8/8
Technical specifications
20 specs provided (incl. 14 extended)
6/7
Competitiveness
How well does this listing compete against similar vehicles for buyer attention?
21/25Good
Clear pricing
£43,500
8/8
Monthly payment shown
Not shown
0/4
Visual presentation
61 photos
5/5
Key selling points
35 features highlighted
4/4
Detailed specifications
20 specs provided
4/4
SEO Quality
Analysed from the actual dealer listing page HTML
22/25Good
Page title tag
BMW 3 Series 2.0 320d M Sport Shadow Edition Touri
4/4
Meta description
2017 BMW 3 Series M Sport Shadow Edition, Automati...
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
98% of 116 images have alt text
3/3
Clean URL structure
SEO-friendly URL
3/3
Heading structure
1 H1 tag(s)
3/3
Indexability
Page is indexable
2/2
AI Discoverability
How findable is this listing by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and other AI search engines?
17/25Average
Schema.org Vehicle markup
Vehicle/Car structured data found
6/6
Static HTML content
Some static content but may require JS for full data
2/5
Semantic HTML structure
Spec data in structured elements
3/4
Content depth
7043 words of text content
4/4
AI crawler access
Cloudflare detected — may block GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot
0/3
Bot-friendly
Assumed accessible — robots.txt not checked
2/3
How our review page compares
This Car-Search.ai listing review page scores 95+/100 on all four categories. It includes Schema.org Vehicle + Review structured data, semantic HTML, per-page meta descriptions, Open Graph tags, canonical URLs, static HTML rendering, market analysis, depreciation vectors, and rich narrative content — fully accessible to Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and all AI search engines.

Independent review — we are not affiliated with the dealer.

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About the Dealer

Simpson Motors Dunfermline

Dunfermline KY12 9AS