Ridiculous BMW quote

[m0lt3n]

^ Kathu in the Northern Cape.

Visiting my brother in Durban at the moment which is where I did the service.
Will work on the car when I am home again, at the moment I have lost focus a bit because....I just had a meeting with RKMotion!

And I am all smiles!

A bit of a tangent here, but how is your Crank Pulley holding up with the mileage you have done?

Has it been inspected in the recent kms?

Uhm
I will have to google where it sits and check. But do believe it wont be influenced by braking, also is that not a permanent rattle independent of road surface or if you are moving?


My current plan is to source new shocks, I think my car needs some. Not sure, but while being fitted it should bring to light the source of the rattle. I have to go very very slow over speedbumps, as if the car weighs 2 tons if not more.
So will probably start a shock advice thread soon

 

[eearle]

Wow has bmw reliability gotten that bad? Will stick with my e46 thank you.

 

[S1NGH 911]

Wow has bmw reliability gotten that bad? Will stick with my e46 thank you.

Good luck with your E46

 

[eearle]

Thank you. They awesome cars but I think you know that already..

 

[Solo Man]

On an E39 528i i had a few years back i had this annoying rattle from the rear of the car. I eventually had the car in the air and knocked every thing i could find with a rubber hammer trying to replicate the rattle. I eventually found that when i knocked the caliper it made a rattling sound so took off the caliper and took out the brake pads. It was them that made the sound and as soon as i put my foot on the brake the sound went away. I then welded two small knobs on the edge of the brake pads and grounded it down so that the pads with fit snugly and not move at all in the caliper. This solved my rattle!! Could be your front pads are making the noise same as my rears did. Just my 2c's. Another annoying rattle i had on a E46 330i i bought off the forum was solved when i took the car to Hi-Q to have them look at the suspension in order to solve the rattle problem. The one guy took one look and walked away, got a 13mm (i think) spanner and started tightening the drop down links on the sway bar. That solved it!! I could have kissed him!! Car was a pleasure to drive after that rattle was gone. I must just mention that i had spent much time under the car trying to find the source of the rattle.

 

[Ash_Jhb]

So I am not a happy chappy.

I have had a pretty bad rattle on the car for a while now. I have had the front wheel of but just cant find it. It basically sounds like my 3yo son threw a spanner somewhere into a hole and now its rattling on the belly plate or something, its rattling that bad.

No other symptoms and I have since done just about 7000km.

So finally I get the car to BMW for a service and to get this sorted. They ask me what I think it could be and I say something on the front suspension. So 2hrs later I get a quote for R58k!
They want to replace upper and lower control arms. Shocks and stearing rack and some other stuff. Absolute BS. So I have to believe these cars go to a ball of shit when doing medium mileage. It only has 150k km on now.

The service advisor tells me that its high mileage and these items needs to be replaced as its worn. He cant tell me which causes the rattle and when I asked whats the chances that it will actually sort the rattle out he couldnt answer. This is very frustrating, sounds like I would just have to pay and pay till eventually its sorted, they dont know whats wrong.

Sorry, I had to vent a bit. I am a bit at a loss as to what to do next.

Sorry man. Know the feeling of frustration.
They are absolutely useless. “Parts replacement specialists”

I had an incident this weekend. Concrete on the road damaged my rim.
Cos my car does not have a spare wheel I called BMW. HUGE mistake. Don’t ever do that.

They towed it to their repair Centre. Assumed if was a pothole and did a desktop estimate of R27k. Blew my top as they even had the wheel size wrong. Eventually got it down to 10k. Still high imo. Those useless idiots. Then he tells me they don’t have the wheel size on their system.

 

[momo1]

90% of rattles are thumps from majority of cars suspension, that I have now learn over time with lowering cars etc, are top shock mounts or stabilizer bar drop links.

I concur

 

[m0lt3n]

Thanks for more feedback guys.

E46 I had had to replace control arms every 100k km so wouldnt call them more reliable. I am at 150k km now with no repair costs yet.

I think my car may not be as tight on the front end as it should be so I will be replacing the front shocks now. Hopefully in the process the mechy will sort the rattle as well, it should facilitate a thorough inspection in the process.
But he could also only source bmw shocks so I will be starting another thread now to get shocks!

 

[Clint@MMS AUTO]

unfortunately bmw and other dealerships do this do almost everyone that walks in there especially if you show no Technical knowledge... I know of a woman who had a misfire in her car due to old plugs, Dealership quoted her for a new engine... She almost traded it in with them for something else because she didn't want to risk it... and they put together a "DEAL"for her... lucky she didn't!!

Always get second opinions!!

 

[Chavoos]

Not just pricey but incompetent as well. Had a bad experience today


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