Took the M3 to BMW - Not Happy
 

I took my M3 into BMW tunbridge wells yesterday,they diagnosed a clutch slave cylinder clutch position sensor,its an SMG
All being taken care of by the garage i brought the car from only 3 days ago.
So i went to collect the car tonight after work, all very helpfull and informative.
I got into my car started it and took a few minutes to set the seat position up and then noticed i had zero fuel, light on and trip showing 4 miles remaining.
I had put £30 in the car minutes before dropping it off with them.
Which had showed about 115 miles on the fuel computer.
I went back in and demanded explanations to why my car had done over 100 miles and i had been left with zero fuel.
They register the mileage when the car is booked in, so i proved that they had actually done 97 miles in it.
This is way way to many miles for any road test.
To cut a long story short they compensated me for £20 of fuel, big deal.
They said it was road tested by there collection driver, i told them i beleived it had been used to run customers to and fro.
I said i will not be using them again and will be writing a letter of complaint.
I had to take it to main dealer as i had just purchased the car.
It will be taken to Munic Legends from now on, they have a fantastic reputation.
And yes i am expecting one of you to tell me i should have brought another scoob:beer:

Munich Legends always have some lovely motors on display, i walk past it on my 5 minute trot from work to the pub :mrgreen:

sorry to hear your dealerships being such a bunch of tossers!

Should of bought another scoob. Who in their right mind would want one of those unreliable German bits of ****enhousen? :ninja:

Mate, I think they are ****ing shocking, you can tell them in your complaint that the have lost another customer on the back of it. Bunch of spakkers. :evil:

97 miles :-o:-o piss takers































oh and you should have got another scoob :kicknuts:

Steve
I would strongly recomend you take yours to Munic Legends, I was so impressed with them when i went over there.
I will be getting an oil service done on mine soon, its only done 1,800 miles but over a period of 10 months.

Shouldn't that be 1,897 :getmecoat:

Should of brought a Scoob :doubleup:

Priceless :mrgreen:

Not good useing your car like that. It take's the piss big time. Oh & you should have bought an Evo ;-)

There are a lot of conflicting opinions about munich legends.....I have generally had good visits (bought two cars and numerous servicing/repairs done) but they aren't cheap and will always 'find' something else that needs doing. There recent spuce up to their premises is probably on the back of my payments over the years!:angst:

You are right they are not cheap but are a little less than main dealer.
I will give them a go and see how i get on.
Thank you for your response.
Out of interest what did you use to take there.


Oh and by the way all you guys are so funny.Should have brought a scoob. !! tuh:santagrin:

No!!!!!

you know what you should have done:grin:


















you should have got a good M3:cry:
:whistle:

We had the same with Nationwide Auto Centres.
My wifes AudiTT 3.2 Quattro was seen driving up the High Street one Saturday, roof down, music blaring with some young chav giving it the cold elbow!.

They totally fukced the cars paintwork and I threatened them with court. It's now in SPR Coachworks having a £ 5K respray :)

You should have bought a Wagon......................

I have had 3 e30 m3's, 2 215 bhp and one very special hartge h35 (which had been modified to 3.6 and 350 horses, rose jointed susp, 850 brakes, really shifted on track) 2 325i's, lastly was an e36 M3.....I was severely a bmw nut back then.....now its scoobs;-)

I can not believe your bad luck with this car.If it was me i would be back to the Garage i got it from sticking it where the sun don't shine.Then i would buy a scoob.

Thats not good news about BMW but personally i wouldnt go near Munich Legends, i used to own an M5 3.8 and i knew a few people who had used them and got stitched, i also know someone who bought an E24 M6 after a full ML inspection before sale that had terminal rot!!!.
Personally i would take any M Power car to Phil Crouch....

http://www.m5board.com/vbulletin/e34...h-legends.html

What about Leda Engineering in Hastings
A bit of a back street dive but many many people in the area use him for BMW servicing and repairs.
His labour rates are dirt cheap too....

I know Ray Monroe very well, he's got a good set up down there and i would use him for certain things, if you want a stamp in the book though for servicing id want to use a MPower Specialist, CPC Aka Phil Crouch! or Darren at Darjac racing.

2nd that Ray is fantastic with the BMW's :agreed:

F1 All British Team
 

Two brit world champs in the same British team. Sparks will fly. Will be good to watch though. :drive:

My mate had his e36 328i seviced and the rear diff level checked.
£900 later he brought it to my house, we looked at the diff and the level hadn't been touched it was low! At Munich Legends.

or bavarian motorsports ;) thats where i work my boss steve use to race bmws etc (i can stand the tanks lol)

take it you went to coopers crowman? sounds about right if you did :paranoid:

sell it and get an rb320:cath:

Ray did all the work on my Bmw's realy know's his stuff.

This is worth knowing for sure. :mrgreen:

Good feedback guys,just goes to show its sure worth asking.
Tone,yes it was coopers.
I was very tempted to get a RB320 but i have my good old classic to play in, the bmw is something for work with some comfort.
Me and Worzel had a little drive back from Surrey RR yesterday and the M3 kept me smiling all the way.Oh and Worzels scoob sounds like a Tornando jet.:mrgreen:

http://www.cpcpe.com/page002.html

If you want your E46 to be tip top....

My mate Kris was going to take his E36 M3 Individual to Bexley Motor Works for a Inspection 1 service 'til i advised him to take it to Phil.
Basically Phil did the valve clearances for him free of charge which is usually a inspection 2 job.
Oh and he also machine polished the whole car for him (my mate doesnt understand the concept of polish!) and valeted the thing inside and out, again all free of charge!.
Oh and did i mention he also fits the S54 lump into TVR's??....

Quality mate E30 m3's i almost traded my cossie for a johny chiccota edition, not spelt like that i know, but you know what i mean.
Still so badly want one.

Tandino
I am currently running a project up around watford, so not far from chorley wood, i will be popping in to see what they are all about.
Thanks for the info.

I think you will be more than impressed!,
My pal was blown away by their enthusiasm, Phil was showing him round the exotica they were working on.
Let me know what you think of the place :doubleup:

Charlie at SRR mentioned Chorley Wood, must be the same person. I only got half of that conversation :wave:

Another Vote for Ray and Leda. Used him on all my BMW's. He always has time for you, and many a time just drove up there to pick his brains to help diagnose a problem for me to fix. Last time I went to him Chandlers BMW Eastbourne were on the phone to him asking for advise.!

His base of operation lets him down, but never judge a book by its cover as they say.