Hi all,
Only had my girl a year and in that year I've had.....
Car had been sat around a month or so before I found her. Took it from the dealership (not BMW) for a test drive. Parked it back at the showroom, loved it, but went to activate roof for a second time and the battery was flat. Told dealership. Picked it up couple of days later, no problems. Two days later, leaving work and handbrake fault came up, read the z4 forum, read a post saying they found out that their flat battery caused a software issue and that battery needed to be replaced and firmware upgraded. Told this to dealership as I had a three month warranty. They looked at me like I was stupid. Surprise surprise dealership cannot find fault, they send the car to BMW .... Next door
. Car comes back from BMW with a new battery and upgraded software. Didn't cost me anything other than time, wife was pleased.
Decided to buy a 5l bottle of carwash and popped it in the boot. Got home, made a mental note to get it out the car, forgot. Too many hoppy beers. A week later open the boot to store shopping to find an empty 5l bottle of carwash and wet boot carpet. Looked under the movable boot cover, all roof motor swimming in carwash, sponge contraption that holds roof motor in place is sodden and disintegrating. Cleaned out all the carwash, learned a valuable lesson. Didn't tell the wife.
A week later....
Left work on a hot sunny day, all day looking forward to dropping the top and enjoying the drive home, but no! Roof motor valve faulty, caused my roof to jam open, wouldn't lock and into position or move at all and the door windows wouldn't close because the roof wouldn't open or close. Thankfully it was summer, so I only had a very nervous night knowing my car was insecure, and not worried about rain, sleet or snow. £200 diagnostics and emergency repair from Summerhayes BMW specialist but still cheaper than BMW, and in the middle of the covid-19 lockdown so nowhere was open, Summerhayes were still working by focusing on helping us frontline staff. Oh, and they secured my roof motor that was rattling around the space under the boot. Wife wasn't best pleased
Two rear tyres, runflats, £200 a corner fitted. Also informed of a crack in an alloy. Z4 forum told me it was a design fault from BMW and the runflat technology. Z4 forum said change to non runflats, I didn't pay attention and Tyre specialist talked me in to runflats stating insurance issues, car handling problems, traction control issues and stability control problems. said watch tyre pressure, crack may get bigger leading in deflation and needing welding. Missus went batshit
two weeks later.... MOT failure, 2 Front tyres, switched to nonrunflats on the front, keeping runflats on the back, car handles like its on a skating ring. Wife more than a little annoyed.
Yesterday, driving home, tyre pressure light comes on. Head straight to the nearest air pump at Tesco. Front tyres fine, rear offside need a few psi, nearside rear, cracked alloy wheel, wouldn't inflate, not only that, I couldn't get a tyre pressure reading on the machine, could only be the valve for the tyre that's faulty. Now I need to have a new tyre fitted and valve and have no faith in welding the crack as I have read on here that it will only crack again, the alloy metal and design means it will be inevitable, so now I'm looking at £1000 for new aftermarket rims and tyres.
So this is BMW huh??
Or am I just unlucky? I submit this question to the reader, persuade me that I haven't spent £14000 on a pile of sh*t!
Toyota Celica 5th Gen, best car I ever had
Only had my girl a year and in that year I've had.....
Car had been sat around a month or so before I found her. Took it from the dealership (not BMW) for a test drive. Parked it back at the showroom, loved it, but went to activate roof for a second time and the battery was flat. Told dealership. Picked it up couple of days later, no problems. Two days later, leaving work and handbrake fault came up, read the z4 forum, read a post saying they found out that their flat battery caused a software issue and that battery needed to be replaced and firmware upgraded. Told this to dealership as I had a three month warranty. They looked at me like I was stupid. Surprise surprise dealership cannot find fault, they send the car to BMW .... Next door
. Car comes back from BMW with a new battery and upgraded software. Didn't cost me anything other than time, wife was pleased.Decided to buy a 5l bottle of carwash and popped it in the boot. Got home, made a mental note to get it out the car, forgot. Too many hoppy beers. A week later open the boot to store shopping to find an empty 5l bottle of carwash and wet boot carpet. Looked under the movable boot cover, all roof motor swimming in carwash, sponge contraption that holds roof motor in place is sodden and disintegrating. Cleaned out all the carwash, learned a valuable lesson. Didn't tell the wife.
A week later....
Left work on a hot sunny day, all day looking forward to dropping the top and enjoying the drive home, but no! Roof motor valve faulty, caused my roof to jam open, wouldn't lock and into position or move at all and the door windows wouldn't close because the roof wouldn't open or close. Thankfully it was summer, so I only had a very nervous night knowing my car was insecure, and not worried about rain, sleet or snow. £200 diagnostics and emergency repair from Summerhayes BMW specialist but still cheaper than BMW, and in the middle of the covid-19 lockdown so nowhere was open, Summerhayes were still working by focusing on helping us frontline staff. Oh, and they secured my roof motor that was rattling around the space under the boot. Wife wasn't best pleased
Two rear tyres, runflats, £200 a corner fitted. Also informed of a crack in an alloy. Z4 forum told me it was a design fault from BMW and the runflat technology. Z4 forum said change to non runflats, I didn't pay attention and Tyre specialist talked me in to runflats stating insurance issues, car handling problems, traction control issues and stability control problems. said watch tyre pressure, crack may get bigger leading in deflation and needing welding. Missus went batshit
two weeks later.... MOT failure, 2 Front tyres, switched to nonrunflats on the front, keeping runflats on the back, car handles like its on a skating ring. Wife more than a little annoyed.
Yesterday, driving home, tyre pressure light comes on. Head straight to the nearest air pump at Tesco. Front tyres fine, rear offside need a few psi, nearside rear, cracked alloy wheel, wouldn't inflate, not only that, I couldn't get a tyre pressure reading on the machine, could only be the valve for the tyre that's faulty. Now I need to have a new tyre fitted and valve and have no faith in welding the crack as I have read on here that it will only crack again, the alloy metal and design means it will be inevitable, so now I'm looking at £1000 for new aftermarket rims and tyres.
So this is BMW huh??
Or am I just unlucky? I submit this question to the reader, persuade me that I haven't spent £14000 on a pile of sh*t!
Toyota Celica 5th Gen, best car I ever had
North West Surrey
