Z4M-2006 said:
Of course...
It's hard to know if they have done it or not...
It will take around 4 hrs and the engine has to be stone cold..
Trust in your local Indy that knows what the S54 is all about..
My indy will photograph the whole process and give you a before/after valve clearance sheet if you mention your worries. I don't ask any more and he just gives me a verbal report.
What I was finding in my last few visits to BMW dealers (remember, I was doing 2 or 3 scheduled service visits a year for 5 years, plus a few warranty visits), was that all the little 'reports' you used to get as part of the service/inspection (brake pad/disc wear, tyre wear, valve clearances, bodywork report, etc.) were no longer being offered, and you have to remind them - both when you dropped it off and before you picked it up - that you needed these reports for your documentation history.
If they can't provide them, then I assumed it wasn't done and would get my indy to double-check.
Of course this still doesn't mean they've actually done it as they can probably knock up a fake one in minutes. But at least it shows you're not a gullible punter who knows nothing about the car or service requirements.
It can both ways though - as one dealer (when I had my sticking caliper NSF (isn't it always) done under warranty) told me my rears were below the legal limit and would I like them to fit a new pair at £320 (each). I said thanks for the info, but unless they can match LoveTyres around the corner (£320 for the pair) then I'd take it to LoveTyres instead. Booked tyres with LoveTyres for the next day and got a phone call later in the morning asking whether it was definitely the rears I wanted as there was 4mm across the tread - except for a bit of feathering on the inside edge.
The other thing that happened at the same dealership was that when they thought it was the customer paying for the seized caliper, they insisted that both calipers, both discs (due to the scoring caused by the seized caliper) and all 4 pads HAD to be replaced to maintain equal braking performance. They didn't mention anything else when I said it was under a Mondial warranty, but when I went to pick it I was told that only the one caliper had been covered by warranty and they wanted the rest from me. I was about to argue about them doing unauthorised work, but they were only asking me to pay for the pads. Didn't realise until I went to the car that this meant they hadn't replaced the OSF caliper or the discs :x
It's not a one-off occurrence with dealers - it seems to be a systematic, money-grabbing, corner-cutting, penny-pinching, conspiracy :wkr:
I'm glad I'm out of the warranty period now, and no longer have to jump through expensive hoops for sub-standard work.
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