BMW Warranty Work
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I have a 335i (N54) and at the weekend it started playing up (terrible idle and eventually stalls itself)
I scanned the codes and it confirmed the problem as high pressure fuel system and a misfire.
Looking back through the history I found it was replaced at 55260 miles on the 5th november 2014 on extended warranty.
I'm now on 57126 miles, 11 months later and it probably needs a new pump.
I spoke to my local BMW garage and they told me that warranty work is not covered under warranty.
My question is that this can't be correct. How can BMW not offer warranty on a part that only lasts 11 months and 1800 miles?
Is there any sales of goods or other legislation I can use?
Does anyone have any email addresses or know of anyone I can contact from BMW UK to get this resolved?
I scanned the codes and it confirmed the problem as high pressure fuel system and a misfire.
Looking back through the history I found it was replaced at 55260 miles on the 5th november 2014 on extended warranty.
I'm now on 57126 miles, 11 months later and it probably needs a new pump.
I spoke to my local BMW garage and they told me that warranty work is not covered under warranty.
My question is that this can't be correct. How can BMW not offer warranty on a part that only lasts 11 months and 1800 miles?
Is there any sales of goods or other legislation I can use?
Does anyone have any email addresses or know of anyone I can contact from BMW UK to get this resolved?
sumo69 said:
I was led to believe that this is a good reason to have an excess on the BMW Mondial warranty - if you make a money contribution to the repair its covered by contract law and thus has to have the normal warranty on parts (2 years I think).
No payment then no warranty on the replaced part (unless the car is still under warranty and you have a further successful claim).
David
The Previous owner paid an excess of £100 on the previous claim ( I have both copies of the invoice and the CC receipt from the £100 paid excess.No payment then no warranty on the replaced part (unless the car is still under warranty and you have a further successful claim).
David
Sheepshanks said:
I think "probably needs a new pump" is a fairly bold conclusion. Even if it's true, maybe there's some other issue that has caused it to fail.
Did you own the car when the pump was first replaced?
The error codes that were generated point directly towards the HPFP, as do all the comments from other owners that have had the issue.Did you own the car when the pump was first replaced?
I didn't. I bought the car in Feb of this year. The 1st pump was at 13k, the second around 30k and the 3rd was at 55k last year.
Monty Python said:
That's quite good to have buy I didn't buy from a dealer and I think that is new cars only?Well the car was dropped off yesterday and will be looked at tomorrow at the latest.
Once they have diagnosed the issue I'll see what happens.
The service advisor has a copy of the invoice that was generated with the last HPFP replacement and all the details I've got.
Hopefully if they won't cover the entire cost, they may do some as a good will
Once they have diagnosed the issue I'll see what happens.
The service advisor has a copy of the invoice that was generated with the last HPFP replacement and all the details I've got.
Hopefully if they won't cover the entire cost, they may do some as a good will
Smuler said:
I would expect the part replaced FOC as it has not lasted a reasonable time.
I could understand this dealer being reluctant to do labour free of charge, but if necessary get onto BMW customer services.
I expect the same. The reality is that it probably won't happen.I could understand this dealer being reluctant to do labour free of charge, but if necessary get onto BMW customer services.
The plan is to escalate to managers until I get somewhere and then pursue with BMW uk. If it is in-fact the pump
hornetrider said:
4 HPFPs in 57k miles?! Ay jiwawa that's pretty piss poor.
Yeah. Some cars go their entire life without needing one. Others like to eat them.American N54s are worse due to the high ethanol content of their fuel
bmwmike said:
Ouch.. watching this with interest. Guess that's why the bmw warranty quote for my HPFP equipped 3 year old n53 f10 was 900 quid!
Surely after all this time a HPFP shold be more resilient. Perhaps as someone else said, something on the car is making them fail. Or just bad luck. Bmw should contribute IMO.
I'm led to believe it's a design flaw and bad luck. As above some don't suffer. Others do.Surely after all this time a HPFP shold be more resilient. Perhaps as someone else said, something on the car is making them fail. Or just bad luck. Bmw should contribute IMO.
Small update.
BMW have diagnosed it (well guessed) at the following
Either a combination, single or all the following:
6 new plugs
6 new coils
6 injectors
Fuel pressure sensor
HPFP
So basically they charged me £80 to tell me what I already know causes a misfire and because the codes are just "misfire cylinder x" they don't really help.
BMW have diagnosed it (well guessed) at the following
Either a combination, single or all the following:
6 new plugs
6 new coils
6 injectors
Fuel pressure sensor
HPFP
So basically they charged me £80 to tell me what I already know causes a misfire and because the codes are just "misfire cylinder x" they don't really help.
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