2009 BMW 5 SERIES — £3,000 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 29 April 2026 | Barnsley
£3,000
97,000 miles | Diesel | Manual | Saloon
Listing Quality
92/100
Good
vs Market Average
-54%
Below Market
Value Retention
25/100
Steep Depreciation
Our Verdict
92 /100

This 2009 BMW 5 SERIES is listed at £3,000 by Motor Store in Barnsley. It has 97,000 miles on the clock. At 54% below the market average of £6,518, this looks competitively priced based on 7 comparable listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £4,255/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2009
Make BMW
Model 5 SERIES
Body Style Saloon
Colour Grey
Fuel Type Diesel
Gearbox Manual
Mileage 97,000 miles
Engine 3L
Seats 5
CO2 165 g/km
Euro Status Euro 4
ULEZ Compliant Non Compliant
Monthly Payment £88.5/mo
Power 194 BHP
Torque 295 lbs/ft
Top Speed 147 mph
0-60 mph 7.6s
Cylinders 6
Gears 6
Combined MPG 45.6 mpg
Urban MPG 34.4 mpg
Extra Urban MPG 56.5 mpg
Length 4841mm
Width 1846mm
Height 1468mm
Wheelbase 2888mm
Kerb Weight 1580 kg
Highlights
Huge value PX to clearLovely looking carDrives superbNice spec2 Keys + HPI Clear
All Features & Equipment (56)
Huge value PX to clearLovely looking carDrives superbNice spec2 Keys + HPI ClearElectric folding & Auto dimming door mirrors £244Electric Tilt&Slide Glass Sunroof £908Heated Front Seats £306Space Grey £654Total value of factory fitted extras £2,113Top speed147 mph0 to 607.6 secondsEngine torque (lbs/ft)295Engine power (BHP)194Extra Urban (mpg)56.5Urban (mpg)34.4Combined (mpg)45.6Cylinders - bore (mm)84TransmissionManualNumber of gears6Cylinders - stroke (mm)90CC2,993Cylinders6CO2 (g/km)165Standard Euro emissionsEuro 4Ultra Low Emission ZoneNon Compliant3Spoke Multifunction Leather Steering WheelBrushed Aluminium Trim when with nasca & exclusive LeatherChrome Exterior TrimDark Poplar Wood Trim when with nasca & exclusive LeatherDelete smokers PackHigh gloss Anthracite bamboo Interior Trim with nasca & exclusive LeatherHigh gloss Black InteriorHigh gloss Grey InteriorLight Poplar Wood Trim when with nasca & exclusive LeatherModel designation deletionPart Electric adjust Front SeatsSmokers PackThrough load System with ski bag17in Alloy Wheels - Light V Spoke Style - 23617in Star Spoke Alloy Wheels- Style 243RunFlat TyresHeight1468mmHeight inclusive of roof railsmmLength4841mmWheelbase2888mmWidth1846mmWidth including mirrorsmmLuggage capacity (seats up) litresLuggage capacity (seats down) litresNumber of seats5Gross vehicle weight kgMax loading weightkgTurning circle (kerb to kerb) metresMax roof loadkgMinimum kerb weight1580 kg
Below MarketListed at £3,000 vs market average of £6,518 (-54%)
Market Low
£5,295
Market Average
£6,518
Market High
£7,500
Comparables
7 listings

Based on 7 comparable BMW 5 SERIES listings.

Age Depreciation
Slow Depreciation
£797/year
Mileage Impact
Steep Depreciation
£1,729/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Steep Depreciation
£4,255/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £5,486 (£-2,486)
Mileage-predicted: £13,189 (£-10,189)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-2,526/yr | 10k mi/yr £-4,255/yr | 15k mi/yr £-5,983/yr

Based on 144 comparable listings. Slopes from smoothed depreciation curves.

92
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?
25/25Good
Photos
23 photos
10/10
Features & key selling points
61 listed
8/8
Technical specifications
22 specs provided (incl. 14 extended)
7/7
Competitiveness
How well does this listing compete against similar vehicles for buyer attention?
25/25Good
Clear pricing
£3,000
8/8
Monthly payment shown
£88.5/mo
4/4
Visual presentation
23 photos
5/5
Key selling points
61 features highlighted
4/4
Detailed specifications
22 specs provided
4/4
SEO Quality
Analysed from the actual dealer listing page HTML
22/25Good
Page title tag
BMW 5 Series 3.0 525d SE Business Edition Saloon 4
4/4
Meta description
2009 BMW 5 Series SE Business Edition, Manual, In ...
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
90% of 40 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?
20/25Good
Schema.org Vehicle markup
Vehicle/Car structured data found
6/6
Static HTML content
Vehicle data present in static HTML
5/5
Semantic HTML structure
Spec data in structured elements
3/4
Content depth
6236 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.

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