“I might not even want to make you an offer,” the car flipper tells the owner of a black BMW 5 Series that is parked outside a house with its hood up. “I don’t really want to buy it, but I’ll make you an offer. But it’s not gonna be a good offer.” The asking price, given a moment earlier, was $3,500.

The flipper is @tyautoinvestments, and the 138 second video, posted on September 8, 2026, carries the on screen title “FLIPPING THE CHEAPEST BMW… *HUGE PROFIT*.” It opens on the ending, a handshake in a parking lot with “$5,000” in green across the frame, then cuts back to the start.

He tells the camera on the walk up that he is going to lowball. At the car he says, “Let’s check the leaks,” and what he sees with the hood up becomes his opening argument. “Your engine smoking pretty bad, huh?” he asks. The owner answers, “Yeah, I don’t know about that.” The flipper presses: “You didn’t notice a bunch of smoke coming out the hood?” The answer is “No.”

Then he asks for what he calls a “just want it gone type price.” The reply in the captions is “Thirty five hundred.” After the speech about not really wanting the car comes his figure: “I’m thinking five hundred dollars.” The owner repeats it as a question, “500?” They land one step higher. “Six hundred dollars,” the flipper says.

The next day the BMW is parked in a driveway and he is back on camera. “Welcome back. So this is the project this time,” he says, and then admits the limit of his own skills: “I have no idea how to work on BMWs.”

So he phones a mechanic and reads off the list. “I have a 5 series BMW and there’s a lot of issues. It has a check engine light and it has a drivetrain malfunction light. And then it has really bad oil leak.”

At the shop he asks, “For this BMW, what did we end up fixing?” The caption burned into the frame over the man standing at the car’s front fender reads “IT’S RUNNING PERFECT.”

The cosmetic work follows, labeled step by step on screen. “POWER WASH SOAP” appears as the front end is sprayed down with the hood open. “VACUUM” comes next, then “TIRE FOAM” over an aerosol can held up in front of the clean car.

The video marks the next scene “3 days later.” The line that opens it is “my price is 5,000,” with a reminder that the figure had already been agreed by message. The next captions read “5,000. Awesome,” and then the flipper’s question, “Do you have the money with you guys?” The handover moves indoors to a counter in a waiting room, where the bills are laid out and counted. “I profited over $2,000 flipping this BMW,” he says to close.

If you are the one selling a car with smoke under the hood and warning lights on the dash, this video shows the other side of the table. The owner’s number went from $3,500 to $600 in a handful of lines. Before you list, pay a mechanic to tell you what the smoke is. The flipper did that the day after he bought the car, and it was “running perfect” when he sold it.

Recognize the opener. “I don’t really want to buy it” followed by an offer is a negotiating position. The sale at the end of the same video runs the other way: the $5,000 was agreed by message before anyone met, and it is the figure repeated at the handover. Settle your price in writing before a buyer is standing at the car.

If you are the one buying, his inspection is the part to copy. Hood up, look for leaks, look for smoke, and ask the owner what they have noticed. The list he read to the mechanic the next day had three items: a check engine light, a drivetrain malfunction light and a bad oil leak. Make your own list at the car, before you name a number.

Know who will fix the car before you pay for it. He says outright that he cannot work on this brand, and his first move as the new owner was a call to someone who can.

Clean it before you show it. Soap, vacuum and tire foam were the three labeled steps between the repair and the sale, and by his own account the same car that drew a $600 offer with its engine smoking changed hands for $5,000 once it ran and shone.