Colin
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Originally posted by Joe
Jambo (and Colingus to a point), would you say you were a bit nieve by buying a £30k+ car for under half price and not expecting crazy bills?
No beef, coz I love ya man. Serious question...........
Mine was 52k new...........
Mines not costing money so to speak, ive just got no faith in BMW/Mini aftersales!! 
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sand-eel
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Originally posted by deano87
I know an alternator might do a bit more work on an M3 due to all the computers and stuff, but you just shouldn't/wouldn't expect it on an M3. My 97k mile Corsa hasn't had it changed yet. My 12v hasn't had many problems considering the work it has done and its age mind.
It's just shit.
[Edited on 12-10-2009 by deano87]
The alternators on bmws have air ducting to cool them, it gets uber hot under there, probably causing them to wear faster than other smaller engined cars, generating less heat.
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Ojc
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Originally posted by Joe
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Originally posted by deano87
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Originally posted by Joe
Jambo (and Colingus to a point), would you say you were a bit nieve by buying a £30k+ car for under half price and not expecting crazy bills?
No beef, coz I love ya man. Serious question...........
Dad did buy his for £30k and had problems.
Figure that one out
Should have got an Astra VXR, at least it would have been fast round the Nurburgring 
I did tell him, nobody listens, they want German so they can have excellent service from their dealers and brilliant reliablity.....oh wait....
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Ian W
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Lost all the brake fluid on my S3 driving down a national speed limit when the PAS pipe rubbed through a brake line - not good 
Be thankfull you found out when you were not moving 
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Colin
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Ian I was driving at the time, on a pretty twisty nat speed limit road. Braked on a sharp bend to about maybe 20% duty of my brakes!!
Anyway,
Jury is in now, they've been & gone. It WAS indeed a loose bleed nipple!! They have taken my car away to check the rest of it out & have left me a rather 'nifty' mini.
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pow
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Take the car elsewhere (mates or whatever) and get ya tools out, get that PAs pump off
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Ojc
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Tenner says that breaks down before you get the M3 back.
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Colin
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Pump on the R56 is different to the R53 else I would!! 
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Ian W
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quote:
Originally posted by Colin
Ian I was driving at the time, on a pretty twisty nat speed limit road. Braked on a sharp bend to about maybe 20% duty of my brakes!!
We have both experienced the loss of brakes then Not something I want to repeat
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Colin
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Originally posted by Ojc
Tenner says that breaks down before you get the M3 back.
What......that would mean driving it!!
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Colin
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Originally posted by Ian W
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Originally posted by Colin
Ian I was driving at the time, on a pretty twisty nat speed limit road. Braked on a sharp bend to about maybe 20% duty of my brakes!!
We have both experienced the loss of brakes then Not something I want to repeat
Yeah....pretty scary tbh. Frightening thing for me is I was giving it a naughty blast the day before almost up to top end....imagine if they had failed then!! Not a nice though!!
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Fad
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Like Joe said it was almost a 50k car and its fully loaded and tuned how can you expect it to not
A) Break on occasion
b) cost money to fix.
Its all very well people harking on about should of got this and that but at the end of the day whether it be a Focus or an Astra I am sure there are issues that happen you dont hear about.
If the M3 was such a bad car and the Astra VXR was better then BMW wouldnt of sold loads world wide and most of them wouldnt have moon miles on them also.
Ok Jambo and Colin have been unfortunate but thats luck of the draw. I'm sure it all becomes worth it when the smash the loud pedal.
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Ojc
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WTF are you going on about Fad
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ed
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Note to Jambo, get a helicoil in your headlight. You don't need to replace it 
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Colin
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Ive not been unfortunate tbh, some tools forgot to tighten the bleed nipple on my brake service. Theres nothing wrong with mine except someone doing a dogs dinner of a job
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Colin
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Ok my faiths just been restored in BMW
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Kano
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Originally posted by Colin
Ok my faiths just been restored in BMW
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pow
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The service manager gave you a blowie?
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Colin
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Their investigation reveals that the car needs a new bleed nip. Whether thats been due to them at fault or part failure is unknown. However due to the nature of the incident, the fact that work has recently been carried out in that area and how it could have been much worse under different circumstances they are prepared to give me a gesture of goodwill.
Goodwill gesture - next service on the house.
Next service is due in 2k miles - Inspection II. £1k service. Im easilly bought!!
Thats more than fair though, I dont want to be an arse, im happy at that.
Jades car is also to be taken in & 'something worked out'.
Good result I think, im still here, cars not damaged, Ive just saved a stack of money!!
Think I might keep it now!!
[Edited on 13-10-2009 by Colin]
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sand-eel
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free insp 2 .....
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Fad
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Fuck a free inspection 2....get that in writing mate if I were you... 
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AndyKent
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Result, can't complain about that!
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Kano
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Sounds pretty decent of them.. JUst make sure when they service it they do the proper service and not a basic one..
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nik
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Free Inspection II = Bastard  Had mine done recently along with new front discs/pads and tyres 
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Colin
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I didnt expect that tbh!!
They must value my custom more than I thought.
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