2012 BMW 1 Series prices under £5,000

There are 63 used 2012 BMW 1 Series cars for sale under £5,000 from UK dealers on AskCar, as of 7 November 2026. Typical asking price £4,000 (the median: half cost less, half cost more). The cheapest is £1,000. The middle half are priced between £3,300 and £4,400. Median mileage: about 106,000 miles.

Dealers lowered the asking price on more than a quarter of 2012 BMW 1 Series cars under £5,000: 18 of the 63 in the 14 days to 7 November 2026.

AskCar lists 7,559 used BMW 1 Series across the UK, from 2,750 dealerships.

As of 7 November 2026, AskCar lists 601,018 cars and vans from 12,892 UK dealerships, read daily from dealer websites: over 99% of UK dealer used car adverts. No dealer pays to be listed.

2012 BMW 1 Series cars for sale now under £5,000, page 1 of 2

This page picks out up to 10 cars in each of these groups: best value, cheapest, lowest mileage, recently reduced and newly advertised. A car in more than one group is listed in full once. The groups pick only from cars with photos and an AskCar estimate, priced at £500 or more and no more than 25% under that estimate. 48 of the 57 cars listed here meet these rules. Page 2 lists every other 2012 BMW 1 Series car, cheapest first, including the 9 the groups do not pick from.

The AskCar estimate is our expected asking price for that one car, from its model, age, mileage and specification, using the 7,184 priced BMW 1 Series adverts on AskCar as of 7 November 2026. The figures on this page describe the cars advertised, not a valuation of every 2012 BMW 1 Series.

Each car: year, make, model, engine and trim, power, gearbox, fuel, body, doors, colour; mileage; price and its changes; how the price compares with the AskCar estimate; emissions standard and ULEZ compliance where it holds; MOT; dealer and town; AskCar page. Each car's AskCar page has its full price history and cheaper cars like it.

This list leaves out 6 cars whose advertised mileage is lower than the mileage recorded at their last MOT test.

Best value 2012 BMW 1 Series: priced furthest below the AskCar estimate

These 10 are priced 15% to 24% under their AskCar estimate. Their asking prices run from £2,250 to £5,000.

Cheapest 2012 BMW 1 Series: the lowest asking prices

These 10 are priced £2,250 to £3,320. They have covered 96,000 to 152,314 miles.

Lowest-mileage 2012 BMW 1 Series

These 10 have covered 53,000 to 78,000 miles. Their asking prices run from £4,250 to £5,000.

Recently reduced 2012 BMW 1 Series: the biggest price reductions in the 14 days to 7 November 2026

The dealer lowered the asking price on each of these 10 in the 14 days to 7 November 2026. Their reductions since AskCar first saw them run from £200 to £1,000.

Newly advertised 2012 BMW 1 Series: first seen by AskCar in the 7 days to 7 November 2026

These 3 are the most recently advertised. Cars first seen on the same day are listed cheapest first.

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