Dealer car - is this dangerous?

[The Surveyor]

If you tried to return a leased BMW M5 back to them with a tyre like that, you would be charged for the tyre without question.

Just apply their own rules back to them.

[daemon]

The Surveyor said:

If you tried to return a leased BMW M5 back to them with a tyre like that, you would be charged for the tyre without question.

Just apply their own rules back to them.

Bmw dealers don't lease cars.

[philmots]

I fail to see how you didn't notice that before you bought!

[Farlig]

sorin1987 said:

I have a similar on my bimmer. Nothing happened so far after 2k miles.

It's a Bee Emm... not a bimmer

[jamoor]

Personally I wonder how that even happened.

[BigLion]

I didn't eyeball the whole car as it's from a dealer and I have confidence in their back up so was probably more relaxed than I should have been - but they are looking into it and I think they'll probably end up changing both front.

[GTIAlex]

Always the drivers responsibility to check the condition of the car before driving.

Leaving a dealer without looking a car over is just stupid really but I'm sure BMW will sort it out to stop you posting on their facebook page or whatever people do these days to get out of their own stupidity.

[ambuletz]

I wouldn't worry about it, we're all gonna die eventually.

[The Surveyor]

daemon said:

The Surveyor said:

If you tried to return a leased BMW M5 back to them with a tyre like that, you would be charged for the tyre without question.

Just apply their own rules back to them.

Bmw dealers don't lease cars.

Ok.... apply the rules that 'BMW Contract Hire' apply when you return a contract hire BMW as outlined here:-

https://www.bmw.co.uk/en_GB/topics/financial-servi...

better

[BigLion]

GTIAlex said:

Always the drivers responsibility to check the condition of the car before driving.

Leaving a dealer without looking a car over is just stupid really but I'm sure BMW will sort it out to stop you posting on their facebook page or whatever people do these days to get out of their own stupidity.

I didn't leave the dealer without looking though.

[Yipper]

The damage is cosmetic. Tyre will be fine.

But it is "suspicious" that a big chunk has flaked off the tyre-rim without marking the alloy-rim. Suspect the dealer has been swapping tyres between various cars to get rid of them.

[rockford22]

I had a much worse version of this on my AUC Z4.

Two tyres with huge chunks missing from the side wall. How did I not spot this at purchase? The tyres had been reversed so the outer wall was inside (I noticed due to the "This wall inside" warning being visible when I cleaned the car a few days after purchase).

BMW argued as safe and refused to replace. A short argument with someone in Sales and I had 2 new tyres fitted FOC.

[ecsrobin]

I had a small cut on a tyre when I purchased it (similar situation) dealer not fussed in a walk around (dead battery on collection and not cleaned either) but said anything wrong get back to him after the weekend.

Got home to notice this when cleaning the scuffed alloy (that wasn't present on my first viewing of the car)




Took it to the local tyre fitters and they said that it was likely caused from driving it onto the ramps for MOT (blue scuff on alloy)

They put it on the tyre machine whilst I watched for this to happen as soon as they took the tyre off:



I was very relieved to have taken the time to get it checked, I called the dealer who was happy to get it changed although they wanted to pay for a cheap tyre, fortunately the tyre fitter was a nice chap who explained he only had a matching tyre in stock to what I had fitted.

So get it checked.

[RWD cossie wil]

Sidewall damage is never good, however it does beg the question of how it happened?

On a separate note, how are you finding the M5? I'm seriously considering an F10 M5 for my daily driver....

[TooMany2cvs]

ecsrobin said:

Got home to notice this when cleaning the scuffed alloy (that wasn't present on my first viewing of the car)

It's a 10yo tyre anyway. No great loss.

[HoHoHo]

RWD cossie wil said:

Sidewall damage is never good, however it does beg the question of how it happened?

On a separate note, how are you finding the M5? I'm seriously considering an F10 M5 for my daily driver....

I ran one for three years and 32,000 miles

I can assure you, you will not find a better daily for the money.

[daemon]

The Surveyor said:

daemon said:

The Surveyor said:

If you tried to return a leased BMW M5 back to them with a tyre like that, you would be charged for the tyre without question.

Just apply their own rules back to them.

Bmw dealers don't lease cars.

Ok.... apply the rules that 'BMW Contract Hire' apply when you return a contract hire BMW as outlined here:-

https://www.bmw.co.uk/en_GB/topics/financial-servi...

better

My point being that you dont return the car to the BMW dealer as its not their car, thus its not "their rules" to turn back on them and you might look a bit silly for implying such. They've nothing to do with the returned car.

[ecsrobin]

TooMany2cvs said:

ecsrobin said:

Got home to notice this when cleaning the scuffed alloy (that wasn't present on my first viewing of the car)

It's a 10yo tyre anyway. No great loss.

It was 4 years at the time of purchase. The point was get it checked.

[HustleRussell]

ecsrobin said:

TooMany2cvs said:

ecsrobin said:

Got home to notice this when cleaning the scuffed alloy (that wasn't present on my first viewing of the car)

It's a 10yo tyre anyway. No great loss.

It was 4 years at the time of purchase. The point was get it checked.

To be honest I don't see any way that cut could've been inflicted short of a deliberately wielded sharp blade.

[hyphen]

BigLion said:

It has the same tyre shine gloss as the rest of the tyre so happened prior to delivery and also alloy is unmarked...and the car has been provided with 12 months MOT.

I had the same from a used car from a main dealer. Their view was 'if it passes the mot' that they were doing then their position was that they wouldn't change, it passed.

I had already haggled hard so was fine with it. If I had been paying full price than would have been a deal breaker.