BMW and M Power Owners

MacRS4 said:
My M3 (E92) struggled with this hugely, and it was a massive PITA. I'd have to take the front-wheel and wheel lining off to be able to get access to the gunked up part of the tank. I used to use BMW fluid too and still had to clean it repeatedly.

Charged me about a ton the first time, but I was watching what they did and it's not too tricky.
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Once you removed the gunk, did you put any cleaner through it?

Strange that it kept getting gunked up
 
MacRS4 said:
My M3 (E92) struggled with this hugely, and it was a massive PITA. I'd have to take the front-wheel and wheel lining off to be able to get access to the gunked up part of the tank. I used to use BMW fluid too and still had to clean it repeatedly.

Charged me about a ton the first time, but I was watching what they did and it's not too tricky.

EDIT see what I mean. Why this is B&W is beyond me aha.
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Wow that looks like a lot of effort to do! I don’t understand why this is so common on bmw for the screwnwash tank to fill up with gunk. This hasn’t happened to any of my other cars and my 1997 mondeo still has its screen wash coming out perfectly fine after all these years. I know the bmw is more advanced but something must be wrong with their design for it to be so common
 
I've not experienced it on any of my (*counts fingers*) 4 BMWs since then, but have stuck to using BMW fluid. Saying that, I put about 120K on that M3 in 3-4 years (perfect car for it tbh...erm) whereas since then I've probably only done 4-5k/year.
 
Bet europe still gets 530d? They got the 340hp 540d and we didn't ... it was the one i wanted to replace 535d.
The 2.0L diesel is great in smaller cars but a fully loaded 520d Touring with 4 bikes on the roof or pulling a caravan? Nah.
 
Just had a call from bmw to say they’ve broken something on my car while fixing the window washers. Such an inconvenience for me and I don’t have a courtesy car as they said it would be fixed today. Just my luck lol
 
Andy Pandy said:
Just had a call from bmw to say they’ve broken something on my car while fixing the window washers. Such an inconvenience for me and I don’t have a courtesy car as they said it would be fixed today. Just my luck lol
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it's not uncommon, there is a risk of the wheel-well lining being damaged as that's where they enter to wash out the gunk
when i had mine done, the cs agent did say that if that happened, it would be an added expense on top of the £££ i'd have paid for the windscreen washer gunk removal
 
I've usually popped the washer nozzles off the bonnet too, to disconnect them& no return valves from the supply, so that you expose some of the tube and pump water through to get the tubing cleared out,
didn't do the pita one going to the touring boot last time which still seemed to flow.
 
Hi there

Out of curiosity does anyone on the forum own an E30 325i Sport, the one with LSD and close ratio box?
 
I’ve just done something rather rash…
I’ve bought another Z4.

A BMW Z4 Coupe E86 ‘57 plate 3.0SI Sport, manual in sapphire black with black leather.
89,000 miles full BMW history.
Standard car apart from black kidney grills (Bit gansta’ for me - I will fit the standard chrome ones).
Most powerful car I’ve owned by a long chalk.
I will post pics when I’ve given it a bit of a fettle!
Excited…
 
Looking for some advice, took my 1 series in for service and recall work at the local BMW dealer. After doing the program control unit recall the sat nav screen went blank.

The dealer handed the car back originally saying that it was not there fault. After some questions by me they admitted that they are at fault and they have offered to replace the screen but they would expect me to cover around 50% at £930. The dealership is saying a old fault was stored in the cars computer originating from the screen and the recall has forced this fault to be present again.

I have contacted BMW UK customer service, and they are not interested as the car is over 3 years old with no extended warranty.

I don't see why I should be out of pocket to get me in the same position before the car was handed over to them. I did offer to purchase a used screen for around £300 if they covered the cost but this was rejected by them.

I am being unreasonably to expect the dealership to replace the screen at no cost to me?
 
LoNeStaR* said:
Looking for some advice, took my 1 series in for service and recall work at the local BMW dealer. After doing the program control unit recall the sat nav screen went blank.

The dealer handed the car back originally saying that it was not there fault. After some questions by me they admitted that they are at fault and they have offered to replace the screen but they would expect me to cover around 50% at £930. The dealership is saying a old fault was stored in the cars computer originating from the screen and the recall has forced this fault to be present again.

I have contacted BMW UK customer service, and they are not interested as the car is over 3 years old with no extended warranty.

I don't see why I should be out of pocket to get me in the same position before the car was handed over to them. I did offer to purchase a used screen for around £300 if they covered the cost but this was rejected by them.

I am being unreasonably to expect the dealership to replace the screen at no cost to me?
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That is nuts.
 
LoNeStaR* said:
The dealer handed the car back originally saying that it was not there fault. After some questions by me they admitted that they are at fault and they have offered to replace the screen but they would expect me to cover around 50% at £930. The dealership is saying a old fault was stored in the cars computer originating from the screen and the recall has forced this fault to be present again.
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Something doesn't add up, each car is read prior to anything happening to it at BMW dealers. If there was this 'old fault', ISTA would have picked up on it straight away and they should have informed you of it and how it might affect the work they're doing. Sounds like they're trying to swindle out of it to me.
 
ChrisD. said:
Something doesn't add up, each car is read prior to anything happening to it at BMW dealers. If there was this 'old fault', ISTA would have picked up on it straight away and they should have informed you of it and how it might affect the work they're doing. Sounds like they're trying to swindle out of it to me.
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Yes this is what I can't understand either, the tech should have stopped the recall work and informed me what the possible outcome could be if he continued. I didn't get any information about the screen until I went to pick up the car and was told it was in no way any fault caused by them.
 
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probably depends what the error code was ? if it said idrive/ccc reset for unknown issue that is symptomatic of impending hardware failure,
but a firmware upgrade, might thermally stress system, which has been rumored to accelerate that failure, what do you expect dealer to do.
 
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