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2 GKC said:
Just been quoted £380 + VAT and fitting for a remote locking amplifier and c£1k for a new iDrive unit. Time for a new car. Shame, 330i, on 114k, and that's it done for me.
Before you go making any rash decisions, you can pick up a diversity antenna for £50-150 on ebay.CCC idrive is about £300 for a new unit, or parts to do a full CIC retrofit (unit, screen, controller & trim) are about £500.
or there are peopoe that can probably fix it, ie: https://mca.electricmura.ro/en/blog-bmw-ccc-idrive...https://www.revtronic.com/product/bmw-ccc-failure-... and http://bm-idrive-repairs.com/
Depending on where you are in the country, there will be plenty of PHers that can help you out, and/or the guides on e90post will help you out re: DIY.
Diversity antenna diy: https://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=64...
Thanks all, will check out the links. It was Clayton Cars in Bristol - one of the main BMW specialists in Bristol. Charged me £144 to tell me it was all knackered too 
There are a few other issues with the car too - awful vibration under brakes at 50-60 mph plus, the fuel breather problem and the glass boot latch is playing up. Also needs a service. Need to do a bit of research.....
There are a few other issues with the car too - awful vibration under brakes at 50-60 mph plus, the fuel breather problem and the glass boot latch is playing up. Also needs a service. Need to do a bit of research.....
If you're handy with the spanners, you should be able to sort most of this quite easily.
As these cars age it tends to pay dividends to do a little work yourself. A new switch can be fitted to the back glass, and the wiper pivot re-greased whilst you're in there. The Remote locking amp is one that's suited to the DIY, too.
Things like the brakes is something you need to be sure about if you want to DIY it. I reckon you'll most likely need a new set of discs and pads.
The fuel tank breather is the main one though really, which needs a specialist to do. Otherwise you should be able to sort some of these issues for not mega money.
As these cars age it tends to pay dividends to do a little work yourself. A new switch can be fitted to the back glass, and the wiper pivot re-greased whilst you're in there. The Remote locking amp is one that's suited to the DIY, too.
Things like the brakes is something you need to be sure about if you want to DIY it. I reckon you'll most likely need a new set of discs and pads.
The fuel tank breather is the main one though really, which needs a specialist to do. Otherwise you should be able to sort some of these issues for not mega money.
ferrisbueller said:
The fuel tank hose is 100% a job for a garage IMO. Not only because of the difficulty in access and execution but also the risk in damaging the tank connector in the process. My advice would be to make that all someone else's problem!
Hard to disagree. Shame to scrap it though. 330i auto SE 112k and pretty immaculate. What do you reckon with all those problems? £500?2 GKC said:
ferrisbueller said:
The fuel tank hose is 100% a job for a garage IMO. Not only because of the difficulty in access and execution but also the risk in damaging the tank connector in the process. My advice would be to make that all someone else's problem!
Hard to disagree. Shame to scrap it though. 330i auto SE 112k and pretty immaculate. What do you reckon with all those problems? £500?The fuel breather hose, fitted, cost me under £200. If it needs discs and pads I would go OEM discs, having had numerous issues with the Brembo aftermarket parts. Front discs cost me £125-ish from Cotswolds. Pads were under £50 and an hour to fit them, so under £250 all in. So there's £450.
From the above you have an element of choice as to how much you spend but an aftermarket module plus an android unit could be £500. You maybe staring down the barrel of £1000 to sort it all but the other thing is, what would you replace it with and how much could that cost you? I always think it's better the devil you know with cars once you've had them a while and finding something to take its place is tricky.
2 GKC said:
Hard to disagree. Shame to scrap it though. 330i auto SE 112k and pretty immaculate. What do you reckon with all those problems? £500?
Im pretty sure if you advertised it for 500 quid you'd have a small queue of people offering you money straight away lol.Re: the fuel tank vent, just fill it 3/4 full, it doesnt leak then
Sir_Dave said:
2 GKC said:
Hard to disagree. Shame to scrap it though. 330i auto SE 112k and pretty immaculate. What do you reckon with all those problems? £500?
Im pretty sure if you advertised it for 500 quid you'd have a small queue of people offering you money straight away lol.Re: the fuel tank vent, just fill it 3/4 full, it doesnt leak then
Sir_Dave said:
Im pretty sure if you advertised it for 500 quid you'd have a small queue of people offering you money straight away lol.
Re: the fuel tank vent, just fill it 3/4 full, it doesnt leak then
I do 100 miles most days in it and rarely get more than 325 miles to a tank, so it has to be filled up each time or I'd spend half my life in the petrol station. Thanks for the input guys, I'll keep you posted. Must confess to having just looked at V90 leases Re: the fuel tank vent, just fill it 3/4 full, it doesnt leak then
Me too. Albeit you can get more than 3/4 in!
Had mine done but it wasn't cheap. I can't recall how much but it was worth having it done. It's not really money lost tbh as full sorted cars seem to fetch more than ones with alist of the standard jobs, as you'd expect.
It's a bit like selling your house just because one of the rooms needs redecorating.
Had mine done but it wasn't cheap. I can't recall how much but it was worth having it done. It's not really money lost tbh as full sorted cars seem to fetch more than ones with alist of the standard jobs, as you'd expect.
It's a bit like selling your house just because one of the rooms needs redecorating.
No offense intended but I think some people really are better off suckering up to a pcp and running cars under warranty. Unless willing to get stuck in even periodically and swing a spanner or run some diagnostics it can't be financially healthy to run an older car when at the mercy of "specialists" at £120 a diagnostic pop.
I've done very little spannering on mine and yet it's still incredibly light on costs. Biggest bills I've had were the year I got hte suspension refreshed at c£1500 fitted. Then the waterpump went 2 mo later.
If you assume about £2000 for the year that's still only £167/mo. Could get close to that on a lease or PCP for something of the size, pace and enjoyment. Most years it's cost me significantly less than that, probably under £100/mo.
If you assume about £2000 for the year that's still only £167/mo. Could get close to that on a lease or PCP for something of the size, pace and enjoyment. Most years it's cost me significantly less than that, probably under £100/mo.
The leaking fuel breather, I did change mine on a sloped driveway with just a couple of jacks and axle stands. It is a bit of effort going through removing exhaust, prop, handbrake cables, and finally the fuel tank (people say you can just lower the tank a bit, but I couldn't manage that. Someone else drilled a hole inside their car to get at the breather pipe connector - I completely understand why.
A new pipe is about £45 iirc, when I bought mine I got given a new fuel breather pipe, but it probably took me a year to get around to actually changing it!
Stupid thing is, its one of the easiest bit of preventative maintenance ever to stop it happening, jack up your car, take off wheel, pull out arch liner, put protective sleeving/conduit (there's a proper bmw part number for it) over breather pipe. Job jobbed.
A new pipe is about £45 iirc, when I bought mine I got given a new fuel breather pipe, but it probably took me a year to get around to actually changing it!
Stupid thing is, its one of the easiest bit of preventative maintenance ever to stop it happening, jack up your car, take off wheel, pull out arch liner, put protective sleeving/conduit (there's a proper bmw part number for it) over breather pipe. Job jobbed.
2 GKC said:
Hard to disagree. Shame to scrap it though. 330i auto SE 112k and pretty immaculate. What do you reckon with all those problems? £500?
PM me some details will you?I would give you a grand for it.
To be fair, that would be a bit of a gamble, breather pipe £300, brakes all round would be £400, sort nav would be around £500-1000 depending on what needs doing and then any other niggles.
I reckon 112k SE auto would need to be around £3k advertised depending on year and what spec?
But please, do send me a message, I might pay more depending on details, would need it dropping off at Hinton, just outside Bristol.
I sold my 330i today.
I really didn't want to, but no where to park it was a pain. I was thinking of leaving it at my parents, but the reality was it seemed silly to do so. But I would have one that I could do the work myself over a few weekends that would cost me a couple of grand or so and leave that there.
Edited by gizlaroc on Friday 7th February 17:52
bmwmike said:
No offense intended but I think some people really are better off suckering up to a pcp and running cars under warranty. Unless willing to get stuck in even periodically and swing a spanner or run some diagnostics it can't be financially healthy to run an older car when at the mercy of "specialists" at £120 a diagnostic pop.
None taken. It’s my daily driver though and I have no experience of spannering cars so I’m not about to start taking it to bits as much as I might like to. I’ve run it for two years because I love it not because of any particular decision about saving money. Over the 28k miles I’ve done in it, it hasn’t proved the most robust car~it’s thrown up a shed load more issues in that mileage than my previous E46 328ci did from 100k to 180k in my tenure. If/when it goes up for sale, I’ll be sure to put the link here first
2 GKC said:
bmwmike said:
No offense intended but I think some people really are better off suckering up to a pcp and running cars under warranty. Unless willing to get stuck in even periodically and swing a spanner or run some diagnostics it can't be financially healthy to run an older car when at the mercy of "specialists" at £120 a diagnostic pop.
None taken. It’s my daily driver though and I have no experience of spannering cars so I’m not about to start taking it to bits as much as I might like to. I’ve run it for two years because I love it not because of any particular decision about saving money. Over the 28k miles I’ve done in it, it hasn’t proved the most robust car~it’s thrown up a shed load more issues in that mileage than my previous E46 328ci did from 100k to 180k in my tenure. If/when it goes up for sale, I’ll be sure to put the link here first
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