Disaster

krusty said:
There must be a reason that a car that has done 60000 miles sells for about 1/3 of it's value when new.
Having to pay for expensive things like this is how things balance out ... otherwise no-one would ever buy a new car.

It's just equilibrium at work:
* when they are new, nothing much goes wrong (and if it does, it's under warranty), ... but they depreciate like crazy.
* when they get older, they depreciate less, but more bits fail, and servicing/parts starts getting expensive.
Either way, you pay.
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Very true, there's no such thing as a cheap car!
 
buypartsbuy do cats for my z4 for £150 each. i fitted one from these guys to my focus and it was fine
eurocarparts are about 250 each so i guess there is some difference but even so you get the idea

the lambda sensors i would buy new. they are cheap as chips these days and for their cost i wouldn't touch a 2nd hand one with a barge pole. its not worth the hassle for cost new.
the last one i bought was for my westy after i replaced the exhaust and couldn't get the sensor out of the old exhaust. i paid £8 from eurocarparts via their ebay store.

i would take your car to an indie like the guys have suggested. OR or 3K take it to the likes of JP exhausts in macclesfield and get them to do you a total custom stainless job!
 
Maniac said:
If it was not a condition of my insured warranty,
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Are you sure it is, I thought EU legislation had stopped all that restricted practices nonsense, certainly DIDNT apply to my BMW insured warrenty and I even had an email from them to confirm it. Work just has to be done to manufacturers standards and my Indy used OEM parts

Norman
 
Hows the car running? If its fine then what fuel are you using? I had this problem with mine when I used supermarket fuel, changed to shell and stuck some redx in and lo and behold no more problems :thumbsup: Apparently these sensors are very sensitive and crap fuel can set them off :roll:
 
...... there's a technical term for quotes like that and its "utter bollocks"

Lamda sensors can be bought new from Bosch for about 90 quid a pop and cats for below 400 .......

seriously, pop into Kwik Fit for a quote, its not even a job they can screw up.
 
I get this on my 2.0 as well but only when I fill up with 'supermarket' fuel. Just buy a code reader off EBay for £30 and cancel the light.
If it comes back within a day or so then you have a problem, if it doesn't then you've saved yourself £3616 which you could always donate to the Z4 forum bar bill at the next meet, I'm sure a few of us would turn up... :wink:

Above all never, ever, ever believe what the 'stealers' (BMW dealers) tell you; they're hurting at the moment and if they can con some money out of someone, they will.
 
domsz4 said:
teamemmenracing said:
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seriously, pop into Kwik Fit for a quote, its not even a job they can screw up.
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steady on .... lets not get hasty here...
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Kwik fit cannot even fit a tyre with marking the alloy. I told the person on the desk i had left the centre cap key on the seat for him. He still decided to use a screwdrive FFS :headbang: got the alloy repaired and sent them the bill. Which they paid
 
teamemmenracing said:
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Kwik fit cannot even fit a tyre with marking the alloy. I told the person on the desk i had left the centre cap key on the seat for him. He still decided to use a screwdrive FFS :headbang: got the alloy repaired and sent them the bill. Which they paid
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Slightly off topic but same here. They ended up with a bill for £190 in my case, which they (or more likely the tyre fitter himself ) paid in cash.

The worst part was that they tried to hide the damage from me by kindly putting the wheel in the boot of the car upside down. I didn't find that damage until a couple of days later when I was putting it back on wife's car. Luckily it was obvious that the wheel hadn't been fitted so they were in no position to deny that they'd caused the damage.
 
I had Formula One trash one of my alloys fitting a tyre. The manager's comment was that 'all beemer alloys were made of monkey metal'. Took me a few months but I got a cheque out of them for the new wheel but it still left a bad taste.

BeemerMad said:
domsz4 said:
teamemmenracing said:
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seriously, pop into Kwik Fit for a quote, its not even a job they can screw up.
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steady on .... lets not get hasty here...
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Kwik fit cannot even fit a tyre with marking the alloy. I told the person on the desk i had left the centre cap key on the seat for him. He still decided to use a screwdrive FFS :headbang: got the alloy repaired and sent them the bill. Which they paid
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