BMW and M Power Owners
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Only 1 of my cars was everywhere new enough to have warranty, and yet none of them have ever had things like starters or alternators fail even numerous years later.
The engineers must be doing a rubbish job if their design brief is to make them fail after the warranty expires.
Can you explain how you would design something to only last a certain amount of time, or even why you would put the time and effort and cost into engineering deliberate failure into a vehicle.
You will be surprised how much time and effort will be put into ensuring that existing components can be used under new operating conditions. After all, it means you don't have to change manufacturing processes or even re-homologate new parts.
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Probably confusing “design for failure” with “not designed to last as long”
They’re subtly different but one is an intent to get an item to fail after X amount of time - hugely costly, and the other is going “seems to last an average of X hours of operation, that’ll do” attitude.
I think there’s an essence of that, but also, we must also not forget the fact that newer components have much stricter tolerances, as required by the higher performing parts, which means it is much easier for a component to go out of tolerance and, hence, fail.
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This is it, cost cutting everywhere which affects longevity and durability.
I should have worded it better... The quality of materials inside alone have dropped in quality, compare a 90s/00s car to a modern equivalent.
Yup. Why are they still using plastic impellers on water pumps?You would be surprised how little development is done in the automotive world if things don't need changing
I never bought one in the end, but when I did my research I came across this. Seems like the cheap ones are good enough..
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I bought the VXScan ENET WiFi from the rainforest place a couple of years ago. This was based on recommendations from an M340 owners group I'm on.
Works perfectly with BimmerCode and BimmerLink. Was about £30 iirc.
I have a Carly which I still use occasionally for my E85 Z4, but it's pretty basic stuff - generally I'll use it to read a basic fault code then Google it. When I initially bought the Carly I used it to code a few nice options on the Zed like open/close the soft top from the key fob and a couple of other bits and bobs. But yeah, they are pretty crap
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Thinking about getting rid of my F87 M2 and buying a leggy M340i as a daily instead. Any particularly desirable options I should look out for? Anything to avoid with these?
Should be pretty decent i'd imagine, being quite new & b58 powered. Not sure if it's a downgrade or not, as it isn't a "proper" M car.
I'll be looking at cars around £30-33k, which seems to be approx a 2020-21 with ~50k on it. Potentially going to go approved used but not a deal breaker.
Should be pretty decent i'd imagine, being quite new & b58 powered. Not sure if it's a downgrade or not, as it isn't a "proper" M car.
I'll be looking at cars around £30-33k, which seems to be approx a 2020-21 with ~50k on it. Potentially going to go approved used but not a deal breaker.
Just ordered one of these for my G20 3 Series, are they easy to use?
Yeah, it's all pretty self explanatory. Plenty of guides etc on YT.