Motor Plan

[Nukleuz]

We should really have a sticky for this topic.... probably the most asked question on the forum. :YesNo::hammerhead:

 

[Marcel83]

ok so the plan expires :
1. what aftermarket warranty is advisable
2. where is a decent place to have cabby maintained

 

[WIDEOPN-X5]

My father has an 2014 X5 50d, and he calculated it to be cheaper to pay for services himself, than extending his motorplan, taking into account with one full turbo replacement (three turbo's)

His car has 115 000km on the car currently

raise:raise: I thought I did serious mileage:biglol:

The thing is that high mileage "low year" vehicles are actually a good buy. I would rather buy a car that has has a life of startup, warm up, drive and freeway speeds for an hour and stop, as its daily life than a car that has had a life of Mom's taxi / shopping car which is get in start drive 5k's stop engine off for 15min, start drive 8ks stop 45min start drive you get the picture:=):

With the "Mom's Taxi" type car, the fluids never get to operating temperature, the brakes take a pounding all in the nature of stop start motoring. In a comparison remember, both cars illustrated above are going to be serviced the same way if on MP. In my opinion, the Mom's Taxi should have oil changes twice as often at least (particularly diesel variants).

I owned a 2010 320d E90 (135kw motor - is that LCI??) which I did extend the MP on. It cost be R27k odd (if memory serves) and I didn't get that value out in terms of service costs. And my luck was such that just after the MP expired the second time, I popped a front shock. BMW quoted R20k for the replacement (both front shocks) and I changed all 4 for R6800. (Bilsteins from a Spares guy in Newcastle)

IMHO, if you have the cash available to extend the MP, rather put that cash into an investment account and use it to service the vehicle. What I do is "ring fence" my tax rebates I get on my travel allowance and use that money for servicing.

Good luck with the decision.:=):

 

[zaleonardz]

I cannot emphasize how much I agree with WideOpn.

Its the 3 year old cars with 40k on the clock only used by Granny to go to church on Tuesday night that end up costing you a fortune.

High mileage vehicles , especially entry level exec cars, like a 320 or so, usually, belong to a company, who expense their fleet costs.

I have a client at has a 8 year service life on delivery vehicles, and those do run anything from 50 to 500km a day, serviced religiously, if it squeeks it gets fixed.

Crux is, pay list for new and get trouble free motoring for 4 to 5 years, while loosing 60% of your initial investment, or buy at half of new, and pay for maintenance..

Think of it this way, we are the ONLY country in the world with BMW Motorplan, yes other countries have similar plans on a sliding scale, but you do NOT get BMW 'MOTORPLAN' in the US or Europe.

It was a marketing invention on BMW SA in the late 80's (if my facts are correct) and they have not had the balls to drop to the sliding scale as introduced by other manufacturers world wide.

And all the other manufacturers followed this.

We are also one of the few countries that consider service life of a vehicle between 100 to 200,000km

 

[pimpassdaddy]

Motor plan extention is a personal thing... Like we said, if it's time only, go for it. If time and mileage, it's not always worth it.

I spent R7k to extend my 325's motor plan. Not even a month after extending it, the diff died. R38k later... I had a new diff.

It's luck of the draw... Depends how lucky u feel.

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