What is the CIA report and where can you get it?

[Kidjo]

Hi everyone, new member, first post,

I've been reading the forums for a bit and there is often mention of a CIA report for buyers of pre-owned BMW's,

I've searched the forums and Googled, can anyone please give me more information on this?

Looking to purchase pre-owned, 2012 F30 320i with 39000 Kms for 270k from dealer. It is an ex-rental model with all the accessories, sat-nav / PDC / BlueTooth etc

Thanks!



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[Executer]

Welcome to the fanatics family.

Contact any dealer, with the VIN they would be able to give you the report in question

 

[Jakkals_F30]

CIA report tells you if the car has been in any form of accident or has any comments on the motorplan.

And as said above take the VIN to a dealer and ask them for full service history and CIA report. :thumbs:

 

[Nastaliq]

The system the dealer use, is actually called Motorplan CIA, its a BMW AG application.

On here, you can find when your car was built, which ship it shipped on from where. All the specified options at build from the factory, the owners details, dealership bought from specified as well as well as MP start and end kms.
The system maintains a record of every MP claim submitted(even if this was rejected by BMW). So every oil change is reflected, every tensioner, every squeak fixed......you get the idea.

They do not give this information out to customers for obvious reasons, like a guy trying to prove that they do replace M3 engines, will get another M3 owners history that shows M3 engine replacement and then ask BMW why they are refusing his a replacement.

You need to be good friends with the dealer or a service advisor to get screenprints. I even know a buddy who managed to get the SA to give him an excel extract of his service history when his MP expired.

On the purchase of the car you mentioned I see you are after a 2012 F30.

May I suggest you try Zeda car sales. I have seen decent mileage F30s for competitive prices. Try them, and let me know what you found. They have a website, just google it (I don't know the forum policy on posting links to commercial websites)

 

[Executer]

I would NEVER buy a car from Zeda.

All Ex Avis fleet gets pushed through Zeda. And NOTHING revs like a rental....

 

[Nastaliq]

that's true that these are ex-rental cars, although a friend of mine bought a polo a few years back that was like brand new, he still has it, and it has not given him any hassles.

IT seems that these things are inspected and serviced more regularly because of the rentals on them. additionally, many of them have never seen a backseat passenger, or stuff in the boot.

there are pros and cons to buying these rental cars, but the point is a valid one.

 

[SeeReverse]

My first car, a Chico, was also an ex Avis car. Cant say it gave me any problems for the 100k I had it. But I agree, rental cars are driven exceptionally hard.

 

[Kish2604]

Personal opinion is if you drive a car like baby for the first half of its life then give it horns after changing owner then you will be loosing a lot of sleep, however tear the guts out of it everyday,all day and she will run like a charm... You just got to teach it whose boss...

Maybe that's why we refer to cars as "she"...:roflol:

 

[Kidjo]

Thanks Nastaliq, am looking around,

Regarding the ex-rental discussion, I have bought from pre-owned (pre-rental and not) and luckily so far no issues,

Will hopefully post some pics of soon!