BMW Recall notice

[soulpatch]

As taken from the BBC news website

"German luxury car maker BMW has recalled 164,000 of its X5 off-road models, because they could have a fault in their brake systems"

Well then why couldnt they recall all the other BMW models and fix the fault in their indicator systems!!!

[M@H]

that made me smile....

[corozin]

But what about:
a) The permenantly fused-on foglight?
b) Upgrade all round to bigger mirrors?
c) And the steering rack fault which means they are incapable of pulling into the inside lane on motorways?

[DennisTheMenace]

You forgot the nonfunctioning indicators

[m-five]

corozin said: But what about:
a) The permenantly fused-on foglight?

But surely that recall should be for all Fords, Saxo's, 106's, and Clio's as well.

BTW I drive a BMW (without the fog lights on, 'cause I don't think they are bright enough - need at least 1000w) and I can't get into the inside lane because the Drive-Assist™ doesn't like the tramlines caused by trucks and lesser cars

[m-five]

DennisTheMenace said: You forgot the nonfunctioning indicators

You don't need indicators when you only use one lane, stupid

Also if we decide to turn and you are behind, then surely you can see us turning, hence it is your problem if you do not anticipate this

>> Edited to add smilies!

>> Edited by m-five on Saturday 1st February 14:34

[joust]

soul_patch - thanks a million for posting that, I hadn't noticed it.

The X5's in for its service on Monday - looks like it'll be just in time.

Thanks again.

J

[soulpatch]

Happy to help.

Just make sure you get those indicators fixed.

Mind you, we Vectra drivers cannot park to save our lives so we aint perfect either!

[joust]

soulpatch said:Just make sure you get those indicators fixed.
Mind you, we Vectra drivers cannot park to save our lives so we aint perfect either!

[prancing]

No No No... You only get working indicators on the "IS" models. At least I think that means Indicator Stalks.

:goingtohidenow:

[DIGGA]

How releived am I that I resisted the X5 and bought a (proper 4x4) Range Rover on Saturday.

And it has fully functioning mirrors, steering, and switch on/offable fog lamps!

Edited to add: It's nice to hear a reliability topic that's not related to TVR.

>> Edited by DIGGA on Tuesday 4th February 11:08

[joust]

DIGGA said: How releived am I that I resisted the X5 and bought a (proper 4x4) Range Rover on Saturday.
And it has fully functioning mirrors, steering, and switch on/offable fog lamps!

I presume you read this lot before you did??? here - all 11 of them!!! Oh - it happens to include an ABS failure and steering failure recall

RR's have had their fair share of recalls (as has pretty much every car)

J

>> Edited by joust on Tuesday 4th February 12:12

>> Edited by joust on Tuesday 4th February 12:13

[Beano500]

Haven't we all overlooked the windscreen problem?

At very least there should be stickers fitted, as you would see with mirrors, which say:

"The bumper in front is actually as close as it appears"

[andymadmak]

You'd have thought they'd have fixed the brakes by now too. I always feel sorry for BMW drivers who are simply unable to stop in time when the come upon a queue of traffic and end up right at the front of the queue, politely trying to join at that point.

Andy 400se

[joust]

andymadmak said: You'd have thought they'd have fixed the brakes by now too. I always feel sorry for BMW drivers who are simply unable to stop in time when the come upon a queue of traffic and end up right at the front of the queue, politely trying to join at that point.
Andy 400se

Nah - that's AQS - Anti Queuing System

[clanger]

Digga pleased you bought a proper 4x4 and not one of those pseudo SUV - Top choice.

Weren't all of the BMW 'Minis?' recalled??

Teutonic Engineering at its very best

[joust]

*yawn*

My ***** had less reacalls than yours.

*sigh*

[clanger]

double 'yawn' - no it hasn't - my Disco has never had a recall!! - mind u it is overengineered to hell -180k in 4 years never let me down. Oh yes, last year had to tow horsebox out of field for X5 owner who couldn't manage the conditions Yep the X5 can whoop the arse off the Disco on the motorway but there again didn't buy the Disco for that!!

[DIGGA]

joust said:
I presume you read this lot before you did??? RR's have had their fair share of recalls (as has pretty much every car)

J

No, but thanks for the info! Having scanned the list, I'm releived to see that my car (late 2000) doesn;t apply to many of them. So either they'd figured out how to build RRs properly by then, or the faults/recalls haven't yet appeared.

Clanger - call me a jingoistic biggot if you will, but I do get immense satisfaction from buying British made cars, especially when (like the RR or Griff) they are some of the best vehicles in their class. Added to that, the '2nd generation' (as LR now like to refer to them) are secondhand bargains IMHO at the moment (and I couldn;t possibly afford a new one!) especially compared to X5 prices.

That said, I was very tempted by the X5 as it is, for most people, a very good compromise between 4x4 and performance.



>> Edited by DIGGA on Wednesday 5th February 11:00

[clanger]

Digga, yep I like to buy Brit if am able - hence vehicles I own (apart from missus's Subaru). X5 is a fine motor but doesn't do the things particularly well that I need - I spend lots of time using the Disco actually off-road and pulling trailers and horseboxes..