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[Nick1994]

^Oh my god, what a total piece of [censored]

 

[4WD]

And folks have their shorts bunched up over touch screens ...

 

[MCompact]

Originally Posted By: Nick1994
^Oh my god, what a total piece of [censored]


I know; I desperately wish I had bought a practical FWD transport pod instead of my Club Sport- it probably would have been much more fun to autocross and to drive at HPDEs.
Alas, fate dealt me a losing hand...

 

[Nick1994]

Originally Posted By: MCompact
Originally Posted By: Nick1994
^Oh my god, what a total piece of [censored]


I know; I desperately wish I had bought a practical FWD transport pod instead of my Club Sport- it probably would have been much more fun to autocross and to drive at HPDEs.
Alas, fate dealt me a losing hand...

You've posted your repairs for yours before, and it hasn't been bad at all.

That particular car is a total piece of [censored] for needing all that work, sorry.

Sometimes there's good ones and sometimes there's bad ones. I'm not bashing BMW, just that particular car.

 

[MCompact]

Originally Posted By: Nick1994
Originally Posted By: MCompact
Originally Posted By: Nick1994
^Oh my god, what a total piece of [censored]


I know; I desperately wish I had bought a practical FWD transport pod instead of my Club Sport- it probably would have been much more fun to autocross and to drive at HPDEs.
Alas, fate dealt me a losing hand...

You've posted your repairs for yours before, and it hasn't been bad at all.

That particular car is a total piece of [censored] for needing all that work, sorry.

Sometimes there's good ones and sometimes there's bad ones. I'm not bashing BMW, just that particular car.


Got it; I apologize for being too quick to post a snarky reply. I suspect that a lot of the issues were due to the car being exposed to a steady diet of salt in MN.

 

[Nick1994]

Yeah I kind of like BMWs in general.

Now VW... that's a whole other story lol.

Unless it's an air cooled VW.

 

[4WD]

There is another Zara Spook walked like a dog - click, click, ----------- !!!!

 

[SatinSilver]

Here's an 08 128 for only $7900 with 140k miles. The Carfax doesn't have any out of the ordinary repairs to it. Of the German cars I'd choose a BMW first for reliability.

http://www.drivejoyce.com/VehicleDetails/used-2008-BMW-128i-Convertible-Avon-OH/2853642743

 

[Jarlaxle]

Originally Posted By: Nick1994
^Oh my god, what a total piece of [censored]


No kidding. I don't think my F350 needed tbat much work in 366,000 hard miles!

 

[Jarlaxle]

Update: still going.

2 days AFTER getting inspected (nice timing), it threw a CEL. Code comes up as an O2 sensor. I figure Bosch was the OE vendor...any reason NOT to use a Denso?

 

[MCompact]

Bosch is OE; I've heard that some later BMWs had issues with Densos, but I wouldn't hesitate to use them on an M42/M44. I would definitely get sensors with the connector attached and not mess with the ones that need to be spliced into the OE connector.