My old man has an 02 plate 5 series (which I drive more than him I think ), 40k's worth of kit and the bag of wank is in for repair every bloody week!! I was just driving down the road and it cut out pulling into my (steep) drive, and believe me it's not even worth thinking of pushing an 1800kg car!

People say old Fords are unreliable, but this has been in and out of the garage for the last 2 months as it keeps cutting out!!! (Having changed 2 fuel pumps and god knows what else) It's had about 3 new headlights from leaking and breaking (and another one has just filled up tonight..), the 18" optional alloys corroded away after 1 year, switches fall apart, the seat collapsed (and neither of us are heavy!), it runs out of fuel when it's on 1/4 of a tank (150 miles left on the trip), the speedo is 12% out from the GPS.. need I go on?!!

Oh and the dealership who replaced the alloys fitted one of the 10" wide alloys on the front and a 9" on the rear, but managed to get the tyres the right way round So the mechanics don't have a clue either!

We've had it from new and it's never been in a crash or anything to make any untoward gremlins!!!

Rant over, never buy a BMW!

 

my old h reg 5 series hasnt let me down at all

 

Makes the cossies sound good.

Not normally like bmw's Phil.



Dave.

 

neither has my old e34 ben...

Get on to customer services at BMW GB in bracknell...

or just buy a new one

 

I just can't belive the dealership got the wheels so wrong!they put a 225 on a 10" wide wheel and a 265 on the 9" wide one!!! How the hell did they not spot that?? It looked like a bloody balloon!!!!!

 

fookin hell mate - i would write a ;etter to watchdog and bmw uk.

 

which dealership phil?

alex

 

these people in the garage suppose to be top mechanics too


Dave.

 

P.S. it only came back from the last 'fix' this morning and now they are on the way to pick it back up

But on the plus side I got to go speed bump jumping in a 54 plate 307 SW yesterday

 

arr nothing to do with the guys I teach then

 

Alex, it was from Radford BMW in Stafford.

 

eh how come my reply is above yours phill?!?

alex

 

No idea mate.. looks like PF has that problem again with the clock rubbish!! Noticed it quite a bit over the last few days.

 

weird...

anyway...

try another dealership. Sadly not all are as good as they should be, thats the problem with francises!

alex

 

my bmw hasnt let me down but then again i have told peaple i would never own another one.

the sooner i get my r.s on the road the better.

 

oh.... right m8, i had a beemer, for 11 years, a few years down the line, it started to cut out when it wanted too, When going along etc, jumping then die then it would be alright. Then it would go for ages and be fine, then one day parked up somewhere, came back out, and the fooker wouldn't start, just spinning over. So later on i got my m8 to toe me home, pushed it to the outside of my house, and my Gypsy m8 at the time, said whas wrong with it mike? i said dunno aint looked at it yet, so he said turn it over, i did, and he said watch this, he layed down and booted the fuel tank once. I tried it again, and the Fooking thing started, i was like WTF?????????? he laughed.


So i assumed it was the fuel pump, so i bought a new one, and smashed the old one open, didn't look like there was anything wrong with it either. Anyway, months down the line, it started again, the car would cut out and not start, boot the tank job done. So one day i investigated, you only had to touch the multiplug on the top of the pump, and the pump would stop as quick as you could blink, and if you kept playing with the plug, wiggling it back and fourth, the car did cut out, the plug inside had gone all black where it was arching, okay when cold, but soon as the plug got warm, the trouble would start. So i chopped it off and soldered them to the pump, was okay for ever after and still is to this day. That plug caused me nearly 3 years of shite.

Sorry for the long story but ive been out on the Pisssss

 

Great story mate I reckon that the fuel sender has gone (again if they actually bothered to fix it when they said they did) and it has ran out of derv with 1/4 tank left on the guage.

It's weird, most times it cuts out the glowplug light comes on then a second or two later it missfires then it's gone!!!

 

the minute you started to get these probs you should have rejected the car and left it on the forecourt and handed the keys over to the dealer principal and speak to the man at the top!!!!
worked for me!!!!

 

Did you have to hire a Megane to go to TOTB3 bacuase the BMW was "off the road" ???

 

its just typical bmw tbh ,


its nothing new , its just covered up very well , there not reliable at all , bmw have one of the highest return to base warranty problems going , they have cars constantly coming in for breakdown repairs

 

both my beemers didnt need a thing doing to them other than putting fuel in. Most reliable cars I ever had, the E36 being 100k miles. The Focus we recently bought with 14k miles is now on its second visit to the garage for warranty work

 

phil ive seen your drive and like fook am i pushing any car up that

 

Andy. Did you get the grating noise fixed the last time you posted about it? Hang in htere with the ST i had weeks of going in and out of the garage (mainly poor mechanics repairing it) but recently *andy touches wood LOL* its been great

 

smoke about in the dads E36 diesel touring - never let him, or me down, brilliant on fuel when i can be bothered to diesel it up - superb motor, boring to drive tho

 

I have to say my old 88 M3 has been fine until today. After leaving it for a month at Heathrow while I was abroard it now seems to stutter, it's not ignition I am sure as it doesn't drop onto three or anything and i replaced the coil, leads, cap and arm not so long ago. I reckon this could be a fuel pump issue.

I have to say though all in all I love my BMW!!!

 

BMW,s are shit! i had and 96 N plate 850csi 5.6 V12 that blew its engine with only 80k on the clock and fsh cost me 11.5k to replace it and the coonts at cusomer services are only interestered in trying to cover up for the dealers fuck ups, they didnt pay a penny towards the repair i will never own another bmw ..ever

buy a jap car if you want reliability

 

what I said above was wrong, its actually the third visit, not the second

probs with it before going in:

CAT heatshield hanging off (not a warranty job to replace apparently)
grating noise from dash guages
battery light intermittently flickering
not convinced ECU software is up to date
vibrating pedal which has been fixed still vibrates

after coming out:
pedal appears a lot better
new CAT heatshield I demanded under warranty finally fixed under warranty
grating noise still there
not sure about battery light*
not sure about ECU software upgrade*
(*only drove it for first time today)

 

My dads engine in his M5 "somehow" blew up after losing a shed load of power v fast. It was out of warranty but was put into dealership. told us it would be 12.5k to sort so phoned customer services very annoyed "dont worry Mr Rodger we will speak to the dealership and see what the problem is."
Phonecall 1 hour later to tell us the engine was in a crate on a truck on the way to airport in Germany all paid for by BMW - we had to pay only labour at 1.5k or something stupid!