BMW and M Power Owners

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Phoned a BMW garage next to my office to view a 530d they have in stock. Within 30 mins they sent me over a video of the car, with the salesman going round it, showing the options etc. A nice touch!
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Cool, isn't it!? Seems to be the new BMW thing; the last 3 dealerships I've spoken to have done this, pretty good stuff.
 
panthro said:
Phoned a BMW garage next to my office to view a 530d they have in stock. Within 30 mins they sent me over a video of the car, with the salesman going round it, showing the options etc. A nice touch!
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Basher said:
Cool, isn't it!? Seems to be the new BMW thing; the last 3 dealerships I've spoken to have done this, pretty good stuff.
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The mechanics do something similar when they have your car for MOT... I had a video of the whole car, using a pinhole type flex-cam to inspect the brake pads without taking the wheels off and more...
 
Swiss prices are up for the M2... base price of 69,900 CHF

Base price of M4 Coupe is 90,900 CHF

So for the UK, that puts the base price of the M2 at about £43,750-44,000

It includes a lot of options that I would like added to an M235i...

Would add another 7000 CHF worth of options though... M-DCT included (awesome box, even if I seem to be preferring manual).
 
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It's beautiful but £1600 a year for warranty is barking - if its next owner can afford to take the depreciation hit on it over a couple of years they don't need to worry about warranty
 
Had the alternator replaced on my E46 330i by Kwik Fit (long story) about 3 weeks ago.

After about 10 days, the car starts squeaking when cold. It gets progressively worse. I fitted new idler and tensioner pulleys on Wednesday, which did precisely nothing. Had my mechanic neighbour look at it, stethoscoped it and both agreed that the alternator bearings or something else internal to the alternator is somewhat knackered.

The car's at Kwik Fit and being checked over this AM (left it last night to cool down so it would perform this morning). The service manager seemed to try to brush it off as something else without having listened to it, but the only other thing I think it could be is the water pump, but that was new last year (and the noise is coming from the alternator). I hope the garage doesn't think they've got some unwitting idiot here...
 
Battery light on, drove a bit, more warning lights on, drove a bit, car misfiring, pulled over in middle of nowhere about 70 miles from home. Was pretty sure it was alternator (sod's law), battery would have been too simple. Googled garages local to where I was, and just in view on the crest of the road I was on was a Kwikfit.

To be fair I was expecting to be screwed over, but I've never had anyone go so far out of their way to help me out (the mechanic followed me down the road with a booster pack to jump my car with and contacted lots of local suppliers etc to source the part). This was a Saturday, early afternoon, and they managed to source a replacement, fit it and get me on my way in about 90 mins. I hadn't yet got around to arranging breakdown cover. :o

The car's now at a different garage, local to me. Not sure they have the same service ethic as the first garage though...
 
Well that didn't work.

I phoned the garage Thursday, and was fobbed off over the phone. I'm an engineer, I know how things work, it's my job. I know the bearing is squeaking because it's knackered. He tried to tell me over the phone before even seeing the car that if it was the alternator, it'd do it all the time. I told him that that's not true, as when the bearing warms up, the clearances decrease and the thing stops vibrating (squeaking). I took the car in yesterday as stated above. They looked at it today, and gave me the following load of crap:

1) "It's not the alternator, either the belt or tensioner.". I said the belt was a year old (it is) and the tensioners are brand new (not cheap ones).

2) The manager (I assume he is the manager, he seemed in charge yesterday) then said the guy he usually has in to work on 'rotating components/belt drive' is off for personal reasons. In fact for a week. He basically tried to sell me the story that you need to be qualified to work on an alternator/belt tensioners/drive belts in order to do the job, and that as his man for this is out sick, it can't be done.

I'm going to be writing an email to someone higher up the food chain, telling them my feelings and taking my car to another branch for another go as the Three Bridges branch is clearly full of Crawley College idiots that barely scraped their NVQ motor vehicle level 2.

I'm fuming right now.
 
Bought a '91 318is as a second car/weekend car. It's a lot of fun :p

I am the third owner - the first had it until a couple of years ago and they kept a full service history.

133,000 Miles which isn't too shabby for nearly 25 years.

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Mtech Wheel and Trip Computer :cool:

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M42B18. Nice free revving twincam engine - needs a clean though.

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Going away from Audi A5 & moving into a F32 next week.
I have been looking at prices for all weather floor mats & the price from BMW is shocking.
I have had a good look on BMW forums etc & there is no definitive answer.
Can someone point me in the right direction for OEM quality without the price tag pls

Thanks
 
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