Do I buy the dealer paint protection ??

The gap insurance and tyre insurance are worthwhile IMO
But not from the dealer
I paid £140 for four years gap insurance
I pay £6.80 every month for tyre insurance (£10 excess) only ever used it once though.
 
As said, don't pay for the paint protection - as said, such products only really work at their best on a properly prepared car (clean paint, no swirls etc) and the dealer just hasn't the time to do it. In fact, they'll probably add swirls when washing it in preparation for the application!

Any decent detailer can do a full detail and paint correction for several hundred points (£200 isn) and will do a much better job - and you'll have the knowledge thats its been done right, and they will probably give you tips as well.

Where are you based? I'm sure people can recommend someone (I can, but he's in Bristol, although does travel).

Tyre insurance....pure insurance policy and only you know your attitude toward that.

GAP insurance - I like it, but never at dealer prices. We have paid for it twice at the dealer, at £499 a time!!!! Since then I found ala.co.uk and got better cover for half the price. They say it will pay out the difference between what you paid and what the insurance pay out...but this figure is capped. The dealer policies I saw were to £10k. My Z4 was £32k new, and on a 4yr pcp with guaranteed future value of £12.5k. So I took the attitude that if I wrote it off near the end of the 4 years, I would need £20k back (assuming insurance paid £12.5k. And as I'm now getting rid of the Z4, the remaining policy can be put on my wife's new car.
 
chester2000 said:
I'm in the process of buying a 2010 E89 35i and the dealer has just sent me a list of optionals extras:

Shortfall Insurance - £355

tyre insurance over 3 years with 5 claims for Punctures - £399

The other product we have which 90% of our customers take is Aglaze paint protection and interior protection (scotch guard). This is £399 and well worth having on your new purchase. I can do this for £300 if you wish to have it for your new car.

I know the first 2 are just insurances so could probably find cheaper (or just not bother). but do I opt for the paint protection ??
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If you like the AGlaze product you can buy the top kit from them direct for £80. If you're not afraid of a bit of elbow grease you can save £££ (a lesson for me there). Oddly, despite it having a 5 yr warranty it does say to reapply every 6 mths to a year.
 
To add to the common weight of feeling - take the car to a well regarded Detailer- you will get much better value for Money IMHO.
 
Yep totally agree with everything said here.

I'm based between Swindon and Bristol so plenty of detailers I'm sure. I used to use a local chap till he became too busy and started to rush his jobs.

ryanwhite19...i'm tempted with your offer :wink:

I've thought about getting a polisher in the past but have been frightened about making paintwork worse and creating more swirls !!
 
Thats weird. Im in chippenham whereabouts are you ? I could show you how to use one and all the kit etc if you wanted to get one yourself ?
 
I'm in Chippenham too ! :thumbsup:

Cool, I might give you a shout when I pick the car up (hopefully this week) and the weather finally stops raining !!
 
chester2000 said:
Yep totally agree with everything said here.

I'm based between Swindon and Bristol so plenty of detailers I'm sure. I used to use a local chap till he became too busy and started to rush his jobs.

ryanwhite19...i'm tempted with your offer :wink:

I've thought about getting a polisher in the past but have been frightened about making paintwork worse and creating more swirls !!
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If you do go down the detailer route, then I highly recommend Zaff at Project Karma - http://www.project-karma.co.uk/ in Bristol area. He has a passion for what he does and that is reflected in his work. I heard about him from a recommendation on another forum and have used him several times. If you look on the Detailing page, the white Z4 is mine! And on the Valeting page, the white 1'er is Debs.
 
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