Crappy BMW Build Quality!

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Bah !

"Mr Incredible strikes again" as my girlfriend said to me! - it appears I don't know my own strength! :o

Why?

I manage to completely snap off the drivers door handle on my e38 7 Series.

Lesson for the day is not to try to open your door before you unlock it.....

Not plastic as I first thought, but, made of metal! :eek:

Yet, I've managed to tear the thing clean off! :o
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About £70 for a fitted replacement, so I'm told.

Years of Fords & Vauxhalls with plastic door handles and no problems, give me something well built, and I break it!
 
JRS said:
Heh. Is this the fantastic German car build quality that is apparently so much better than that of my 22 year old Oldsmobile according to Killa_ken?

:)
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Wasnt your car not working and sitting in your drive way a few weeks back? :p
 
To be fair it does look like the handle is die cast out of that very brittle "monkey metal" that car manufacturers seem to love. Certainly doesn't look like a very robust design anyway.
 
Dogbreath said:
To be fair it does look like the handle is die cast out of that very brittle "monkey metal" that car manufacturers seem to love. Certainly doesn't look like a very robust design anyway.
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Not only that,but the bit that takes all the strain is the (what looks like <1cmx2mm) of monkey metal at either end
 
That's the sort of thing you expect from something like a metro city, not a bmw. Indeed that's exactly like what I did to my first car many years ago (see above 998cc metro reference :eek: ), just ripped the metal handle right off the car whilst trying to open the door hehe. Quality materials :p
 
Zip said:
Wasnt your car not working and sitting in your drive way a few weeks back? :p
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It's yet to be disabled by much. I think I had the battery disconnected while I was working on the electrics, if that counts. Oh, tell a lie - battery killed itself in July, being an Acme El-Cheapo unit rather than the Delco that I've replaced it with.

NickXX said:
Lol, pwned :D
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If you say so....personally I still think I'm entitled to feel a bit smug about her considering I only paid £460, no matter what shape she's in. The £ per lb ratio is pretty damn good :D
 
NeilMick said:
If you rely on a car to get women you really do have something to worry about. :p
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Just what i was thinking, i drove around in a 1993 Citroen Xantia 1.9TD for a while and it never seemed to be an issue from that point of view, it was a complete shed, women really dont care.
 
pinkaardvark said:
I bet the skirt pulled to £ spent ratio is a different story though. Driving around in a shed is all well and fine if you want to purvey the image of a steenkin student empty pocketed straw chewing yokel :)
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Thankfully, every girl (a whole four....) I've been on a date with since getting the car has liked it.

Worryingly though, they all liked the Seicento more....and they called it cute....
 
NeilMick said:
If you rely on a car to get women you really do have something to worry about. :p
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Well being shacked up for a 9 year stretch and only recently getting parole i'm probably not qualified to comment. But I'd rather pick up a fit bit of skirt in a nice BMW than a £50 shed. Never mind 0-60 time.. knickers round ankles time would be a lot improved in a classier ride.

*waits for deluge of posts saying I've had Kate Moss in the back of my 20 yr old transit* :)
 
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