BMW and M Power Owners

hlxbravo said:
Whilst I am on, can anyone shed any light on the service requirements of a '65 plate 320d Tourer, approx. 28000 miles, as this is what I require the email address for. As I had been told a price for my service by the call centre weeks ago when I booked it in, only to drop it off earlier to find it was literally 4.5 times as much. Needless to say I walked out. Seriously contemplating going to an indy but not sure if they can reset the requirements on the cars system.
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It sounds like the car is due it's second oil service - this is the most major service the car gets unfortunately. If this it the case its due oil, air filter, fuel filter and various checks.

Dis86 said:
The car literally tells you what servicing is required.
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No it doesn't - it tells you that it requires an 'oil service'. The iDrive makes absolutely no mention of the additional requirements of a 2nd oil service whilst you can work out what it needs from iDrive history you need to be familiar with the servicing regime to do so.

It's very easy to see why people think they need just an oil service and then get a shock when they find it needs rather more.
 
[TW]Fox said:
It didn't. It'd tell you when an oil service was due but it wouldn't tell you that it was a major oil service. You had to deduce it yourself..
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Yeah but the information to do so was there within the idrive system.
Or the manual.
 
Kaka said:
You could try this address:

[email protected]
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Did you come up with that all by yourself ? Wow....I am impressed :rolleyes:

[TW]Fox said:
It sounds like the car is due it's second oil service - this is the most major service the car gets unfortunately. If this it the case its due oil, air filter, fuel filter and various checks.
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Thanks for that Fox, I hope it is the most major service it can have, cos somehow or other lady from Sytner Leicester, (call centre??) told me this service would be £130, even after I gave her the car registration, so I booked it in for tomorrow, went to drop it off tonight and you can imagine my surprise when Liz from Oldbury Sytner told me it would be £596 ! When I questioned my original price, she claimed this is the major service and the £250 I paid last year would have been the minor....so where the hell does the £130 even come from ? She also told me that they can only give a price once they plug the key into that desktop box they have. So how did the woman in Leicester give me a price at all, when I was in Wolverhampton. :confused:
 
On my F30 is the exterior door/weather strip that is on the top of the door against the glass is it just friction fitted?

The front passenger door strip keeps lifting up from the door handle side.

I've sort of lifted it about 1cm but didn't want to go any further in case I break it. Also what can cause it to lift up like that?
 
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[TW]Fox said:
It sounds like the car is due it's second oil service - this is the most major service the car gets unfortunately. If this it the case its due oil, air filter, fuel filter and various checks.



No it doesn't - it tells you that it requires an 'oil service'. The iDrive makes absolutely no mention of the additional requirements of a 2nd oil service whilst you can work out what it needs from iDrive history you need to be familiar with the servicing regime to do so.

It's very easy to see why people think they need just an oil service and then get a shock when they find it needs rather more.
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Surely they could improve idrive to give clearer information about what the service requirements are.. Yesterday I went to Rybrook Warwick and got the surprise of a £600 bill for this major service which I hadn't anticipated, my fault I know for not doing the research on servicing schedule but it would have been nice if Idrive included all the filters as a separate indicator.
 
leoncuprar said:
Surely they could improve idrive to give clearer information about what the service requirements are.. Yesterday I went to Rybrook Warwick and got the surprise of a £600 bill for this major service which I hadn't anticipated, my fault I know for not doing the research on servicing schedule but it would have been nice if Idrive included all the filters as a separate indicator.
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See I'm still sure that info was there. If not then it must be in the service book.
Out of curiosity I checked and it's definitely within the manual for my current car! All fluids, belts, plugs, filters individually listed with their maintenance schedules.
 
I went to the Rybrook Wolverhampton website and they have the option to input your registration and mileage, underneath it then states "show prices".....I am then presented with a comprehensive list of various service levels, asking me to choose which ones I want.... How the hell are we supposed to know what needs doing apart from the basic £177 oil change :rolleyes:.
So blooming confusing.
 
hlxbravo said:
I went to the Rybrook Wolverhampton website and they have the option to input your registration and mileage, underneath it then states "show prices".....I am then presented with a comprehensive list of various service levels, asking me to choose which ones I want.... How the hell are we supposed to know what needs doing apart from the basic £177 oil change :rolleyes:.
So blooming confusing.
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Agreed.. maybe the car could dial home to BMW, they then phone and explain what needs doing, give a price and book the service time accordingly.
 
My partner has decided her 5 door 118d Sport isn’t big enough for her elderly parents to fit in the back of when they come to visit* (they live in Cyprus and come for around 10weeks!) she’s pretty set on an f30 320D Sport with the 8 speed automatic and we’ve found this one....

https://usedcars.bmw.co.uk/vehicle/201807058153386?quoteref=fc468ce0-7d12-4e0a-bebe-7109db431ac7

Apart from no Xeons (from what I can tell) it seems to have a pretty good spec, she’s pretty set on it and we’ve been offered a part ex on the 118d that’s giving us a ballpark figure to change of £3k.

She’s test driving it this morning as only I had my license on me yesterday - liked it much more than the 118 tbh, the gearbox transforms the drive imo.

Just wondered what the consensus of Motors was?

Pro’s...

Better spec than her 1 Series - pro Nav instead of business, heated seats, leather, auto, bigger in the back, better performance - and economy going by its OBC.

Cons...

More money, her current car is a 65, this is a 15, hers has done 11k this one 25k, hers has the balance of a service package whereas I don’t think this one has one...

*I did point out the 3 was bigger when she got her car but hey ho! :D
 
That is a pretty high price for a pre LCI, non xenon, non M sport 320d. :(
The halogen headlights are incredibly poor, I would not touch a 3 series with them unless it was sold at a significant discount. This is not. With the announcement of the new 3 series, prices for the old ones are dropping quite a bit. You can get a sub 60k mile (for the cheaper warranty) well equipped 330d for that budget, so I would really try again!
 
it is difficult to see how that car represents a good buy. The spec is very poor and the 3 Series isn't exactly hugely bigger in the back than the 1 Series?

It seems your insistence to always buy these cars locally means you end up with these poor spec cars. The BMW AUC site is national, there is a huge selection of cars out there.
 
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