[quote="Sky Bear"] Glad to hear you are sorted with the disposal. I did not realise that the new data laws would have the effect of not allowing old invoices to go with a car. Do you know if that can be waived by the seller as I have always liked to buy a vehicle with such history and sell...

Just to update now the car is no longer my problem the Reg is YP07HKX. HERE IT IS FOR SALE!!! https://www.mallyvillecarsales.co.uk/used-cars/bmw-x5-4-8-48i-se-5dr-willenhall-201805046194319 Under new data protection rules all documents that carry personal details can’t be passed on with the car so i...

Guys As many of you will know I've had a torrid time with my car and today is my last full day of ownership as all being well it gets traded in tomorrow. I have mixed feelings about this as I love driving the car but it has been such an expensive pain in the arse that it has just pushed me too far a...

[quote="graemeX5"] Hi Sorry to hear it's still waiting to be fixed. I would get it back and give it a few weeks and then if okay hang on to it, or if it's still out of favour with you then trade it in as sometimes you wonder what next. Graeme [/quote] That was my thoughts initially but I h...

Well another week has passed and the car is still not back so that is a month without it so far this time. still it has some way to go to beat the 7 weeks it was in the sealers last time. All the parts are apparently on their way but even if they arrived today there is a weeks worth of work to do on...

I know I am still in shock it would have been cheaper just to give me a new car from the used network

I couldn’t imagine a manufacturer like fiat doing something like this the answer would just have been Vaffanculo!

So I have news....... it seems as though the reason for the delay is that I have now reached the value limit of the warranty  :blink: as the total cost of the repairs with the Diff and engine work exceed the purchase price of the car which is a bummer. :'( However as BMW customer services had taken ...

[quote="Horizon"] The thing is you loose confidence in a motor that gives you endless troubles, I'm a service engineer and see certain machines that are serviced on time, live in a perfect environment and give nothing but trouble. On the other hand I see machines that live in awfull condit...

I have a 2007 4.8i e70 with 73K miles in black that I will be selling soon if that is of interest to you?

Not in any particular rush they are just sat covered up in my shed so are not in the way

NOW SOLD!!! Set of original 19" Alloys 213 style fitted with Vredestein Wintrac 4 Xtreme Tyres - 6mm+ tread on these all round 255/50R19  285/45R19 I bought these last year from here but never fitted them to the car as the bloody thing is always broken so though it only fair to give people on h...

Another 10 days on and still no sign of getting it back it is still in bits at the dealers waiting for the BMW insured warranty to authorise the work. So I will be lucky to get it back for Easter with the amount of work that needs doing and that is if the warrenty coughs up. BMW customer services ar...

So the latest is the oil leak is not from the sump it seams that one of the heads has mysteriously warped and the oil is coming from there. So it’s both heads off again to go and get skimmed and no guarantees that they won’t warp again. Also no new heads are available new from BMW. So by the looks o...

So to update the dealer has confirmed that the rear diff is toast, in all my years of motoring this is the first time I have ever had a diff fail on me I could sort of understand it if the car had been to the moon and back but it has just over 70K on the clock. Unfortunately though the car is still ...

I have had 3.0 Z4 as a dry weather toy for 5 years now, every time i jump in and drive it i forget just how much fun it is to drive (although the M sport suspension is a bit jiggly on poor roads) When i bought it I checked out the Boxster S the drive was great but the maintenance costs and known eng...