BMW and M Power Owners

Ev0 said:
Should bring it down to about £200 then? What does 7 litres of Castrol run to, about £70?

And to think I was peeved that the hourly rate at the garage I use went up at my last service to £40 an hour (ok I know it's not a dealer :p).
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7 litres of oil should be around £50 if Housey get's it from ECP - £80 cheaper than BMW want.

The microfilter is about £75 for the part so £90 inc fitting isn't too ridiculous (well, paying £75 for a filter is ridiculous, but...)

With you supplying the oil, it should cost you about £270 for the service. It depends on how bothered you are, but I think you could do better on the price than that.

Have you called up many dealers? When i got my service, i called up as many dealers as i could find and they all came back with very different prices.

I managed to also find a dealer who said that they would match any independent garage's price within 10 miles - which is how i got a major service on my car for £350. Which included 6 high powered spark plugs (£17 each), oil filter, microfilter, in depth vehicle check and air filter.

I can't believe they can justify charging £349 for an oil filter, some oil and a microfilter.
 
Thought I might aswell post these here as well as the 'Show us your motors' thread:

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Liampope said:
Seriously nice!! Did you pick yours up looking that good, or have you been busy?

Want... your... wheels... :(
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You can have the wheels, but you'll have to pry them from my cold, dead hands first. :p :D

I bought the car from the first owner. He looked after it fine in mechanical terms (lots of receipts), just the bodywork needs attention. It had been treated to supermarket carpark washes if it was lucky and if not, automatic car washes :mad:. It needs a good machine polish. There is one ding on one door (minor), a small crack on the rear bumper, and one which I did on the front bumper after a ninja concrete block appeared from nowhere when I was parking it a few weeks back. The interior is good though, and in general, it looks bloody good after a good session with some Autoglym products.

The only rust is from a couple of untreated stonechips on the bonnet near the kidneys, and a small patch of bubbling behind the fuel flap.

Blackhawk47 said:
Fox will be nursing a semi when he comes back from holiday. :D
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I thought it was quiet - haven't seen him around here for the last few days. :p
 
danza said:
and a small patch of bubbling behind the fuel flap.
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This is a common issue on the E39, but thankfully easy to rectify if you get it soon enough.

On the whole these cars are pretty good, but they are sadly getting to that age where rot does become an issue (sills, front wings, boot, behind the rear bumper etc).
 
Cheers, looks much nicer. :)

Had a new windscreen fitted a couple of hours ago - the previous one was 112000 miles old, and boy did it look it!
 
naefeart said:
This is a common issue on the E39, but thankfully easy to rectify if you get it soon enough.
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Mine has this too. It's a crap design - the bottom 'floor' of the fuel filler area actually slopes down/inwards so water pools in there. What's the easy rectification - a rub down and paint touch-up?

danza said:
It had been treated to supermarket carpark washes if it was lucky and if not, automatic car washes :mad:. It needs a good machine polish.
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Wow - so lets get this straight...

'Description of terrible paint'

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Gotta love Autoglym! Looks mint in those pics :)
 
Autoglym stuff really does help, but it is swirled to buggery and it does bug me somewhat unless it's just been polished.
 
I paid £341 in the end. Didn't have time to source my own oil as I was out the UK, as I am now and just went ahead with the filter too as £90 is nowt really and pointless cutting corners. Next service is 2,200 miles(!!!!) as the compooota is telling me I need new REAR pads yet I have 28000 miles left on the fronts. WTF?
 
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