I've been doing some phoning today and this offer really is fantastic. For comparison, I telephoned my local dealer and they want £399 for Inspection II, while Scothall only want £265! My local one couldn't even believe they were offering it for that!
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Need to get Sytner to do this, good find for all southern Beemer owners 
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What do you need doing, and what was the price, if you don't mind me asking?
Heater blower fan, £310.
Might be the heater blower he referred to earlier in the thread.
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[TW]Fox;11680526 said:
Change it yourself and save the labour costs?
It's not a simple task as it involves the removal of the dashboard. Part itself is £140ish.
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[TW]Fox;11680809 said:
Ah, gotcha.
The difficulty of the job varies from car to car, but to be fair I'd say that given the cost of the part the dealer is only charging approximately 2 hours labour. If that's the case I doubt it's a complicated job and would do it myself (although if you don't own a set of tools this isn't possible).
Whats the advantage of that?
If you really want to do that, I guess someone with autologic could help you.My local BMW Dealer (Coopers @ Chelmsford) have quoted £125 per hour labour rate
Madness! I only want the DME upgraded to the latest software!
No harder than fitting a 7" touchscreen in the dash?
But yours is on the dash, not in it, so you have no idea.
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[TW]Fox;11680932 said:
It's more to do with the materials BMW chose to use, rather than some magical ability their fitters possess. You could handle a job like this, I reckon.
I can see where Fox is coming from.
He probably could handle it, but he doesn't need to have to. I would estimate it to take a whole day for Fox to do it, and then any troubles after that he has to fix. That could include taking the dash back off and a whole load of other hassle.
If he goes to BMW and it doesn't come back perfect, he just walks back in to the dealership and tells them to sort it.
For lots of stuff the cost of paying BM to do it doesn't make sense. For stripping trim, especially a dash.. I think unless you're really comfortable with it, just leave it to someone else!
Eh?
What does this mean?
I know how complex a central screen mount can be.
It requires the central console to be removed.
The Air con unit moved.
Its not a quick job by any standards.